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British Cinema
Top 500 films from United Kingdom (out of 6,255 in catalog), ranked by TMDB rating.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Director↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| The Experiencer | 1,977 | Michael Kohler | Fantasy, Mystery | 10 | 14 | English | After taking a wrong turn, a young man somehow falls into a mysterious cave and becomes hopelessly lost. As he searches for a way out, the journey he experiences forces him to confront the deepest parts of himself. |
| Roof Culture Asia | 2,017 | Unknown | Documentary | 9.4 | 13 | English | Team Storror showcase Parkour on a stage never before seen - the rooftops of Asian megacities. The film follows team Storror on their exploration into what drives them to push the sport to such extremes, and the battles that face them when trying to shoot a feature film totally guerilla. RCA delves into the mental and physical preparation Parkour athletes have to undertake to make impossible 'leaps of faith', possible. |
| 73 Cows | 2,018 | Alex Lockwood | Documentary | 9 | 11 | English | A beef farmer struggles with his conscience every time he takes his cows to slaughter, and so sets about doing something extraordinary. |
| Inside the Ku Klux Klan | 2,015 | Daniel Vernon | Documentary | 9 | 11 | English | Dan Vernon journeys into the heart of America's most notorious supremacist group, with access to a modern day Missouri chapter: The Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. |
| Godzilla, King of the Monsters | 1,998 | Unknown | Documentary, TV Movie | 9 | 10 | English | Documentary focusing on the Japanese Godzilla, featuring interviews with such people as Director Jun Fukuda, the wide of the late Ishiro Honda and Alex Cox. This documentary incorporates footage from rare shows like "Ultra Q" and films like "King Kong Escapes". |
| Operation Thai Cave Rescue | 2,018 | Unknown | Documentary | 8.9 | 28 | English | Thai cave Rescue documents the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from the Tham Luang Cave in northern Thailand. Featuring interviews with key people involved, the film explains how the boys became trapped in the cave by heavy rains on Saturday, June 23, 2018, and explains how, fearing the worst, relatives and local rescuers began searching for the boys but to no avail. Finally, the film reveals how an international team of rescuers was called upon to find the boys and ultimately bring them to safety. This remarkable story gripped the world for 18 days. A stunning example of innovation, teamwork and human endurance in one of the most hostile environments on earth - a flooded cave. |
| Louis Tomlinson: All of Those Voices | 2,023 | Charlie Lightening | Documentary, Music | 8.9 | 25 | English | Ditching the typical glossy sheen of celebrity documentaries, this film gives audiences an intimate and unvarnished view of Louis Tomlinson's life and career. Through never-before-seen home movie footage and behind the scenes access to Louis’ sell-out 2022 World Tour, the documentary offers a unique perspective on what it's like to be a musician in today's fast-paced world. |
| How to Grow a Planet | 2,012 | Unknown | Documentary | 8.9 | 12 | English | Geologist Ian Stewart explain in three stages of natural history the crucial interaction of our very planet's physiology and its unique wildlife. Biological evolution is largely driven bu adaptation to conditions such as climate, soil and irrigation, but biotopes were also shaped by wildlife changing earth's surface and climate significantly, even disregarding human activity. |
| Imagine Dragons: Smoke + Mirrors Live | 2,016 | Dick Carruthers | Music | 8.9 | 11 | English | Smoke + Mirrors Live celebrates Grammy Award winners Imagine Dragons' decibel-busting, spectacular live show. Capturing one incredible night in Toronto, it sees the band rapturously received by a crowd of 15,000 screaming fans. The band's phenomenal performance features their multi-platinum hits including Radioactive, I Bet My Life, Shots, Gold and Demons, as well as fan favorites from their first two records and the never before played live, Thief. The Smoke + Mirrors tour has seen the band play 110 dates in 42 countries on 5 continents. Smoke + Mirrors Live perfectly encapsulates the band's hugely successful transition to arena shows, fusing multi-sensory production with an intimate fan experience to create an atmosphere that can only be described as electric. Directed by Dick Carruthers (Led Zeppelin, The Killers, Oasis, Beyoncé), this concert film offers a one-of-a-kind experience for fans of their sensational live show. |
| Little Mix: LM5: The Tour Film | 2,020 | Laurence Warder | Documentary, Music | 8.8 | 40 | English | Following the release of their fifth studio album ‘LM5’, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall embarked on ‘LM5 The Tour’ in 2019, taking in 40 arenas across Europe, including Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK and Ireland. They sold over 400,000 tickets including an almighty 5 sold out shows at the 02 London. This film was recorded at the final show of the tour at London’s iconic 02 arena. In a career spanning set of nineteen songs the group perform hits such as ‘Shout Out to My Ex’, ‘Woman Like Me’, ‘Wings’ and ‘Touch’ to a crowd of over 15,000. |
| Hillsborough | 2,016 | Daniel Gordon | Documentary | 8.8 | 15 | English | A look at the April 15, 1989 tragedy at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, where a stampede in the stadium's standing-room-only areas killed 96 people and injured 766. The film also examines the ongoing efforts of victims' families to seek truth and justice, as well as tangible effects on English football, including stadium upgrades and the emergence of the English Premier League. |
| 20 Seconds of Courage | 2,016 | Shunsuke Okubo | Drama | 8.8 | 10 | English | Five boys and girls. Five small courage. Five different stories. But all linked together. From acclaimed director/writer Shunsuke Okubo ("Clocks Tell the Time" and "Moments") |
| Les Misérables: 10th Anniversary Concert at the Royal Albert Hall | 1,995 | Gavin Taylor | Music | 8.7 | 23 | English | The top stars from the original London and Broadway productions join together with a 150-voice chorus and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London's venerated Royal Albert Hall for a truly magical gala performance of Les Misérables. You'll watch and listen time and again to the magnificent Tony Award-winning score as sung by stars forever linked to these roles. |
| Louis Theroux: The Settlers | 2,025 | Joshua Baker | Documentary, TV Movie | 8.6 | 31 | English | 14 years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank. |
| Peaky Blinders: The True Story | 2,016 | David Glover | Documentary | 8.6 | 25 | English | The story of the real Peaky Blinders and how they became a TV sensation. Hear of the actual gangsters who became leading characters in the series and the real events behind many of the main story lines, learn the identity of the crime family that inspired the Shelbys, then take a tour of the film locations where the dark and violent world of the Peaky Blinders was recreated. |
| Depeche Mode: Devotional | 1,993 | Anton Corbijn | Music, Documentary | 8.6 | 15 | English | This video release by Depeche Mode features almost an entire concert from their 1993-1994 Devotional Tour, filmed in Barcelona, Liévin and Frankfurt. |
| Absolute Denial | 2,021 | Ryan Braund | Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller | 8.6 | 10 | English | An obsessive, genius programmer sacrifices everything in his personal and professional life to build a computer of unprecedented power. |
| Ariana Grande at the BBC | 2,018 | Richard Valentine | Music, TV Movie, Documentary | 8.6 | 10 | English | Davina McCall chats to Ariana Grande in this musical extravaganza. Ariana performs songs from her latest album Sweetener and some of her biggest hits accompanied by her band and an all-female orchestra. |
| Interstellar | 2,014 | Christopher Nolan | Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction | 8.5 | 38,903 | English | The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. |
| The Dark Knight | 2,008 | Christopher Nolan | Action, Crime, Thriller | 8.5 | 35,202 | English | Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker. |
| One Love Manchester | 2,017 | Hamish Hamilton | Music | 8.5 | 98 | English | Live coverage of the concert set up by Ariana Grande at Old Trafford cricket ground to benefit those affected by the May 2017 Manchester bomb attack. Performers include Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Take That, Pharrell Williams, Niall Horan, Miley Cyrus, Usher, Robbie Williams, Little Mix and The Black Eyed Peas. |
| Harry Styles: Behind the Album | 2,017 | David Soutar | Music, Documentary | 8.5 | 96 | English | Chronicles Harry’s musical journey while creating his much anticipated debut solo album. The film features exclusive interviews and behind the scenes footage shot in Jamaica, Los Angeles and London during the making of the album and is complemented by Harry and his band performing songs from it for the first time at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London. |
| Iron Maiden: Rock In Rio | 2,002 | Dean Karr | Music, Documentary | 8.5 | 37 | English | Rock In Rio Festival 2001 - Iron Maiden headlines one of the biggest shows on Earth to a massive sell-out 250,000 crowd and a global TV audience of millions. The explosive two hour set, shot using 18 cameras and edited by Steve Harris, is Maiden at its best, performing their biggest show ever on the final date of their Brave New World Tour. |
| Top Gear: Polar Special | 2,007 | Nigel Simpkiss | Documentary, Comedy | 8.5 | 27 | English | Clarkson and May, in a seriously modified Toyota, take on Hammond and his dog sled in a 450 mil race to the North pole as they drive over thin ice to face in-tent hostilities, polar bear fear and desperate food fantasies. |
| Zoo Quest in Colour | 2,016 | Anuschka Schofield | Documentary | 8.5 | 12 | English | Thanks to a remarkable discovery in the BBC's film vaults, the best of David Attenborough's early Zoo Quest adventures can now be seen as never before - in colour - and with it the remarkable story of how this pioneering television series was made. First broadcast in December 1954, Zoo Quest was one of the most popular television series of its time and launched the career of the young David Attenborough as a wildlife presenter. Zoo Quest completely changed how viewers saw the world - revealing wildlife and tribal communities that had never been filmed or even seen before. Broadcast 10 years before colour television was seen in the UK, Zoo Quest was thought to have been filmed in black and white, until now. Using this extraordinary new-found colour film, together with new behind-the-scenes stories from David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus, this special showcases the very best of Zoo Quest to West Africa, Zoo Quest to Guiana and Zoo Quest for a Dragon in stunning HD colour. |
| Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth) | 2,024 | Martin Durkin | Documentary | 8.5 | 11 | English | "Climate: The Movie" highlights a different perspective on the climate change debate and is supported by scientists who have signed the Clintel's World Climate Declaration. This group of researchers seeks to present an alternative narrative in the face of the dominant discourse. |
| Harry Styles at the BBC | 2,017 | Richard Valentine | Music, Documentary | 8.5 | 11 | English | The BBC has supported Harry since the beginning of his career as a solo artist and his time in One Direction. In a BBC Music exclusive, Harry Styles performs new tracks from his number one debut album as a solo artist, alongside covers of classic songs. He's accompanied by his band and performs in front of a live studio audience. Nick Grimshaw talks to Harry about his extraordinary career in music to date, his future ambitions and his debut acting role in Dunkirk. Harry and Grimmy also have some fun with some very special friends as they take time away from the studio to spend a day out in Manchester. |
| Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience | 2,017 | Mark Baker | Animation, Family | 8.5 | 11 | English | Join Peppa in this exciting new preschool cinema experience, with plenty of snorts, giggles and jumping up and down in muddy puddles! Leading with "Peppa Visits London," the first of the never-before-seen episodes, Peppa and her friends hop on board a double-decker red bus as the Queen takes them on an unforgettable tour of iconic London landmarks including Big Ben, Tower Bridge and Trafalgar Square. The other new ‘oink-tastic episodes include "The Police," "Canal Boat,""‘The Zoo," "Move to the Music" and a four-part story in which viewers will join Peppa on an Australian holiday to visit her old friend, Kylie Kangaroo. |
| Mr Bates vs The Post Office: The Real Story | 2,024 | Clare Richards | Documentary | 8.5 | 10 | English | When Post Office subpostmasters up and down the country started to experience big shortfalls in their accounts, Post Office assumed they were stealing the money and prosecuted them. Hundred were given criminal convictions and many were sent to prison. Lives, marriages, reputations – all ruined. The shortfalls were in fact, a result of errors in the Post Office’s own IT system, known as Horizon. It was something the Post Office had always denied. For over twenty years, former subpostmaster Alan Bates has fought tirelessly for justice for all the subpostmasters who were so poorly treated by the brand they had loved. This is his story. |
| The Fall | 2,016 | Daniel Gordon | Documentary | 8.5 | 10 | English | The Fall tells the remarkable story of a South African barefoot runner, an American track-and-field prodigy, and the events behind one of the most memorable moments in sporting history – the 1984 LA Olympics. The film charts two journeys, from rural South Africa under apartheid and the rolling hills of Southern California, to the starting line of the women’s 3,000 metres. It uncovers a tale of betrayal and exploitation, of the blurred lines between politics, media and sport, and of the dedication and sacrifice required to compete at the highest level. It’s a story that split governments and divided nations, but at its heart is a tale of two young women who, despite the turmoil in their lives, just wanted to run. |
| Inception | 2,010 | Christopher Nolan | Action, Science Fiction, Adventure | 8.4 | 38,703 | English | Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious. |
| David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet | 2,020 | Keith Scholey | Documentary, Drama | 8.4 | 417 | English | The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In more than 90 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Addressing the biggest challenges facing life on our planet, the film offers a powerful message of hope for future generations. |
| The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall | 2,011 | Laurence Connor | Music, Drama, Romance | 8.4 | 188 | English | A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera was celebrated with a grand performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London. |
| One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film | 2,014 | Paul Dugdale | Music, Documentary | 8.4 | 168 | English | Where We Are: Live from San Siro Stadium features the entire 23 track concert filmed at San Siro Stadium in Milan in June 2014, as well as 24 minutes of bonus content including backstage footage of One Direction and their crew. |
| Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium | 1,986 | Gavin Taylor | Music | 8.4 | 166 | English | One of the world's biggest bands returns to the scene of their Live Aid triumph (one year earlier in 1985) to play all their greatest hits in front of a packed Wembley Stadium. |
| The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert | 1,992 | David Mallet | Music, Documentary | 8.4 | 45 | English | A live concert in tribute to Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen. Mercury died of AIDS and so some of the proceeds of this concert went to AIDS research. Features performers such as Metallica, Def Leppard, Elton John, Axl Rose, Extreme, George Michael, and many others. Performers alternate between doing their own hits, covering Queen songs, or jamming with the surviving members of Queen. |
| An Audience with Adele | 2,021 | Liz Clare | Music, Documentary | 8.4 | 42 | English | Joining multi-Grammy Award winning and one of the biggest UK artists of all time, Adele, for a unique and special night at the legendary London Palladium, where she performs her chart-topping single Easy On Me, as well as tracks from her new album, 30. |
| Pollyanna | 2,003 | Sarah Harding | Drama, Family | 8.4 | 21 | English | Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest cloud, and her sunny nature, good humor and determination to look on the bright side of life prove to have an astonishing effect on those around her. With the help of her orphaned friend, Jimmy Bean, she casts her spell on the grumpiest townsfolk of Beldingsville -- including the cynical shut-in Mrs. Snow, the morose millionaire Mr. Pendleton and the enigmatic Dr. Chilton. And Pollyanna masterminds the romance between her Aunt's maid, Nancy, and the handyman, Tim. It is only Aunt Polly, who cannot bring herself to embrace Pollyanna's innocence and joy. But all is not straightforward in Pollyanna's war against pessimism, since she must overcome a personal tragedy that threatens to banish "glad" from her vocabulary forever. |
| The IT Crowd Manual | 2,014 | Joanna Hanley | Comedy, Documentary | 8.4 | 17 | English | This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans. |
| 9/11: The Day the World Stood Still | 2,025 | Finlay Bald | Documentary, History | 8.4 | 13 | English | It had been a crisp September morning like so many others. And then it was not. An explosion of evil would carve a path of death and destruction. The untold stories of resilience and unity from survivors pay tribute to hope amid tragedy. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 2,011 | Robert Delamere | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 | 47 | English | Two young lovers, Claudio and Hero, are to be married imminently but the devious scheming of a resentful Prince looks set to thwart the nuptials. Meanwhile, marriage seems inconceivable for reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick whose endless witty sparring threatens to keep them apart forever. Directed by Josie Rourke, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s great plays and reminds us all of the failings and triumphs of the human condition in our never ending search for perfect love. |
| Muse: HAARP - Live from Wembley Stadium | 2,008 | Tom Kirk | Music, Documentary | 8.3 | 31 | English | Muse's live act at Wembley Stadium, 17 June 2007. |
| George & Mildred | 1,980 | Peter Frazer-Jones | Comedy | 8.3 | 30 | English | Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law! |
| An Evening with Dua Lipa | 2,024 | Paul Dugdale | Music | 8.3 | 22 | English | Features live performances of Dua Lipa's greatest hits accompanied by the Heritage Orchestra, as well as personal reflections on her career. |
| An Audience with Billy Connolly | 1,985 | Alasdair Macmillan | Comedy | 8.3 | 19 | English | Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience. |
| Songwriter | 2,018 | Murray Cummings | Documentary | 8.3 | 14 | English | This personal portrait of the British singer-songwriter, filmed by his cousin Murray Cummings, follows this modest performer’s creative process as he writes a new song from scratch that will entrance millions. |
| Oppenheimer: The Real Story | 2,023 | Robin Bextor | Documentary | 8.3 | 13 | English | J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physics professor known for creating the atomic bomb during WWII. He witnessed the first atomic bomb detonation in New Mexico in 1945. This film examines Oppenheimer's life, from his early years to his involvement with nuclear physics and his later advocacy for nuclear weapons controls, with interviews and insights from those who knew him and impacted by his legacy. |
| Jesy Nelson: "Odd One Out" | 2,019 | Adam Goodall | Documentary | 8.3 | 12 | English | Little Mix star Jesy Nelson goes on a journey of rehabilitation as she opens up about abuse she has suffered at the hands of cyberbullies and its effects on her mental health. |
| Derren Brown: Enigma | 2,011 | Benjamin Caron | Documentary | 8.3 | 12 | English | Derren Brown's 2009/10 stage tour, ending in London with a month at the Adelphi Theatre starting 15 June 2009. |
| Gladiator | 2,000 | Ridley Scott | Action, Drama, Adventure | 8.2 | 20,523 | English | After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences. |
| The Shining | 1,980 | Stanley Kubrick | Horror, Thriller | 8.2 | 18,627 | English | Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within. |
| The Prestige | 2,006 | Christopher Nolan | Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction | 8.2 | 17,229 | English | A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. |
| A Clockwork Orange | 1,971 | Stanley Kubrick | Science Fiction, Crime | 8.2 | 13,611 | English | In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune? |
| Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | 2,013 | Nick Hurran | Science Fiction, Adventure | 8.2 | 766 | English | In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him. |
| The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse | 2,022 | Peter Baynton | Animation, Family, Adventure, Fantasy | 8.2 | 689 | English | The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home. |
| Foo Fighters: Live At Wembley Stadium | 2,008 | Nick Wickham | Music | 8.2 | 36 | English | Foo Fighters captured over their two sold-out nights at Wembley on 6th and 7th June, 2008. |
| Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl | 2,004 | Gavin Taylor | Music | 8.2 | 15 | English | Filmed on the Hot Space Tour, complete Queen concert from Milton Keynes Bowl, 5th June 1982 in England where the band played a number of hits including "We Will Rock You", "Somebody to Love", "Under Pressure", "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Are the Champions". |
| White Right: Meeting the Enemy | 2,017 | Deeyah Khan | Documentary | 8.2 | 14 | English | Emmy award-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan joins the frontline of the race wars in America, sitting down face-to-face with Neo-Nazis and fascists. |
| Kylie Minogue: Aphrodite Les Folies - Live in London | 2,011 | William Baker | Music | 8.2 | 14 | English | For three decades, Kylie Minogue has been one of the world’s most successful music stars. Recorded at London’s O2 Arena in April 2011, Aphrodite Les Folies is a spectacle to behold. Featuring performance of tracks from the star’s latest album, Aphrodite, including Get Outta My Way, Closer and Put Your Hands Up (If You Feel Love), as well as classic anthems such as Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, On a Night Like This and Better The Devil You Know, this live concert sees Minogue at her best. |
| Christina Aguilera: Stripped - Live in the U.K. | 2,004 | Julia Knowles | Music | 8.2 | 13 | English | Stripped: Live In The U.K. is the first live release from Christina Aguilera, documenting her sold-out shows at London's Wembley Arena during her first-ever European tour. |
| The Cure: Anniversary 1978 - 2018 - (Live In Hyde Park) | 2,019 | Tim Pope | Music, Documentary | 8.2 | 11 | English | The band’s acclaimed 29-song, 135-minute anniversary concert. Filmed in one of London’s Royal Parks to a crowd of 65,000 fans, The Cure presented a four-decade deep set on July 7, 2018. Adding to the experience, the band is back-dropped by giant screens displaying footage that complements the unique moods and emotive song writing that established The Cure as pioneers of alternative rock. |
| Beside Bowie - The Mick Ronson Story | 2,017 | Jon Brewer | Documentary, Music | 8.2 | 10 | English | Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story is a documentary about the life and work of Michael "Mick" Ronson, the guitarist, songwriter, producer and arranger who, in the early part of his career, performed with David Bowie as one of the 'Spiders from Mars'. |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2,011 | David Yates | Adventure, Fantasy | 8.1 | 21,688 | English | Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills. |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1,968 | Stanley Kubrick | Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure | 8.1 | 12,350 | English | Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer. |
| Full Metal Jacket | 1,987 | Stanley Kubrick | Drama, War | 8.1 | 11,233 | English | A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 2,017 | Martin McDonagh | Crime, Drama | 8.1 | 10,706 | English | After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated. |
| Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | 1,998 | Guy Ritchie | Comedy, Crime | 8.1 | 7,046 | English | A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door. |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | 1,964 | Stanley Kubrick | Comedy, War | 8.1 | 6,032 | English | After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it. |
| Purple Hearts | 2,022 | Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum | Romance, Drama | 8.1 | 2,828 | English | An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real. |
| Paris, Texas | 1,984 | Wim Wenders | Drama | 8.1 | 2,146 | English | A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier. |
| Senna | 2,010 | Asif Kapadia | Documentary | 8.1 | 1,156 | English | The remarkable story of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of Senna, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. |
| Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor | 2,013 | Jamie Payne | Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie | 8.1 | 308 | English | Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe's deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them, the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe. |
| Queen: Days of Our Lives | 2,011 | Matt O'Casey | Music, Documentary | 8.1 | 199 | English | In 1971, four college students got together to form a rock band. Since then, that certain band called Queen have released 26 albums and sold over 300 million records worldwide. The popularity of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon is stronger than ever 40 years on. But it was no bed of roses. No pleasure cruise. Queen had their share of kicks in the face, but they came through and this is how they did it, set against the backdrop of brilliant music and stunning live performances from every corner of the globe. In this film, for the first time, it is the band that tells their story. Featuring brand new interviews with the band and unseen archive footage (including their recently unearthed, first ever TV performance), it is a compelling story told with intelligence, wit, plenty of humor and painful honesty. |
| Rising Phoenix | 2,020 | Peter Ettedgui | Documentary | 8.1 | 99 | English | Elite athletes and insiders reflect on the Paralympic Games and examine how they impact a global understanding of disability, diversity and excellence. |
| I Swear | 2,025 | Kirk Jones | Drama, History | 8.1 | 75 | English | Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life. |
| Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day | 2,012 | Dick Carruthers | Music | 8.1 | 54 | English | On 10th December 2007, Led Zeppelin took the stage at London's O2 Arena to headline a tribute concert for dear friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Founding members John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were joined by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham, to perform 16 songs from their celebrated catalog. |
| Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall | 2,011 | Sonia Anderson | Documentary, Music | 8.1 | 46 | English | This documentary looks at the conception, design and live shows of The Wall performed by Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981. It features in-depth 1980s era interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason and shows footage of The Wall performed at Earl's Court in 1980. It also features archival footage of the Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and discusses how David Gilmour was brought into the band to initially augment their live shows when Syd became unreliable due to his drug problem and how Gilmour ultimately replaced him. |
| Rowan Atkinson Live | 1,992 | Thomas Schlamme | Comedy | 8.1 | 46 | English | Rowan Atkinson and Angus Deayton in Boston doing a live performance of the same styles of humor we've seen in Mr. Bean and Blackadder. Included are lessons on Shakespearean acting, a school headmaster meeting with the father of a boy he's beaten to death, and tips for having a successful date. |
| We Will Rock You | 1,982 | Saul Swimmer | Music | 8.1 | 39 | English | In November 1981, and with “Under Pressure” topping the charts in the UK, Queen performed a blistering set of hits – including "We Will Rock You" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" – in front of an 18,000-strong crowd at Montreal's Forum, in this stunning concert film. |
| Attenborough's Life That Glows | 2,016 | Joe Loncraine | Documentary | 8.1 | 31 | English | Luminous beings, creatures with their own internal light, enchant and astonish us. Anyone who has seen a firefly or a glow-worm cannot help but fall under their spell. The sea at night sparkles as millions of luminous plankton reveal the shapes of dolphins in a truly magical light show. Join Sir David Attenborough and a team of the world's leading scientists and deep sea explorers on a quest to reveal the secrets of living lights. |
| Attenborough's Paradise Birds | 2,015 | Miles Barton | Documentary, TV Movie | 8.1 | 18 | English | David Attenborough tells the remarkable story of how these " birds of paradise " have captivated explorers , naturalists, artists, filmmakers and even royalty. |
| Under the Wire | 2,018 | Chris Martin | Documentary | 8.1 | 17 | English | On 12 February 2012, two journalists entered war-ravaged Syria. One of them was celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin. The other was photographer, Paul Conroy. Their aim was to cover the plight of Syrian civilians trapped in Homs, a city under siege and relentless military attack from the Syrian army. Only one of them returned. |
| F@ck This Job | 2,022 | Vera Krichevskaya | Documentary | 8.1 | 15 | Russian | In 2008, Natasha, a newly rich woman, decides to open an independent TV station in Russia and builds an open-minded team of outcasts. By 2020, Natasha has lost everything to Russia's war between Propaganda and Truth. |
| Björk: Vespertine Live at the Royal Opera House | 2,001 | David Barnard | Music | 8.1 | 15 | English | A live performance by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk recorded at the Royal Opera House in London, England on December 16, 2001. Björk performs tracks from her fourth studio album "Vespertine" along with songs from her previous solo albums. |
| Internet Story | 2,010 | Adam Butcher | Animation, Drama, Mystery | 8.1 | 14 | English | A fast-paced and thought-provoking film told through fragments of internet videos, animations, blogs and news articles. A series of shocking events unfolds when a young man creates a public treasure hunt for his own amusement and a video blogger decides to pursue the riddles across country. |
| The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody | 2,004 | Carl Johnston | Documentary, Music, TV Movie | 8.1 | 14 | English | The story behind the epic Queen single. |
| The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival | 2,007 | Murray Lerner | Music, Documentary | 8.1 | 13 | English | An unvarnished chronicle of Bob Dylan's metamorphosis from folk to rock musician via appearances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1965. |
| Planet Dinosaur: Ultimate Killers | 2,012 | Nigel Paterson | Documentary | 8.1 | 11 | English | Adapted from the multi-award winning BBC1 series, Planet Dinosaur 3D recreates the lost world of the dinosaurs in a groundbreaking stereoscopic production. This is one of the most ambitious animated programmes ever attempted for broadcast TV, recreating every detail of these extraordinary animals in an entirely digital production that stretches the boundaries of broadcast 3D with a scale and ambition normally reserved for Hollywood feature films. Planet Dinosaur 3D is a thrilling and immersive journey into a lost world. Pulling together cutting edge research from around the world this programme uses the latest, stunning fossil evidence to chart the rise and fall of the 'Ultimate Killers'; from the iconic Spinosaurus, the largest predator ever to walk the Earth, to Microraptor and the feathered, flying dinosaurs from China. At last, thanks to the advances in technology, and for the first time ever, these monsters can be experienced in all their full, magnificent wonder. |
| Demis Roussos: Rain And Tears | 2,007 | Ed Starink | Music | 8.1 | 11 | English | 1 Rain And Tears 2 I Want To Live 3 The Shepherd And The Moon 4 Let Me Love Let Me Live 5 We Shall Dance 6 When I'm A Kid 7 Forever And Ever 8 Goodbye My Love Goodbye 9 Smile 10 My Only Fascination 11 When Forever Has Gone 12 Schön Wie Mona Lisa 13 From Souvenirs To Souvenirs 14 Vagabund Der Liebe 15 Die Bouzoukie Die Nacht Under Der Wein 16 Kyrila 17 I Need You 18 Rain And Tears Extra: 1 Interview Aphrodite's Child 2 I Want To Live 3 I Want To Live 4 Rain And Tears 5 About Portant 6 Forever And Ever 7 Goodbye My Love Goodbye |
| The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | 1,990 | Francis Vose | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 8.1 | 11 | English | Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar's daughter. The youngest son of a simple peasant shows up to claim her, and the dumbfounded Tsar quickly has second thoughts, setting several 'impossible" tasks for 'The Fool of the World' and his remarkable friends. |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2,004 | Alfonso Cuarón | Adventure, Fantasy | 8 | 22,844 | English | Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul-sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot-Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban. And Harry will confront them all. |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | 2,018 | Bryan Singer | Music, Drama | 8 | 17,558 | English | Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess. |
| Oppenheimer | 2,023 | Christopher Nolan | Drama, History | 8 | 11,363 | English | The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. |
| Trainspotting | 1,996 | Danny Boyle | Drama, Crime | 8 | 10,223 | English | Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking. |
| Hachi: A Dog's Tale | 2,009 | Lasse Hallström | Drama, Family | 8 | 7,055 | English | Professor Wilson discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home. Despite objections from his wife, Hachi endears himself to the family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion. As their bond grows deeper, a beautiful relationship unfolds. |
| Gifted | 2,017 | Marc Webb | Drama, Comedy | 8 | 5,851 | English | Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother. |
| The Deer Hunter | 1,978 | Michael Cimino | Drama, War | 8 | 4,137 | English | Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever. |
| Lawrence of Arabia | 1,962 | David Lean | Adventure, History, War | 8 | 3,334 | English | During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks. |
| Barry Lyndon | 1,975 | Stanley Kubrick | Drama, Romance, War, History | 8 | 3,097 | English | An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon. |
| The Red Shoes | 1,948 | Michael Powell | Drama, Romance | 8 | 727 | English | A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart. |
| The Rescue | 2,021 | Jimmy Chin | Documentary, Drama | 8 | 254 | English | The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. |
| Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol | 2,010 | Toby Haynes | Science Fiction, Drama | 8 | 244 | English | Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve? |
| Making Squid Game: The Challenge | 2,023 | Unknown | Documentary | 8 | 227 | English | Go behind the scenes and witness how the "Squid Game"-inspired reality show transformed from a scripted drama to a cutthroat, nail-biting competition. |
| Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | 2,015 | Douglas Mackinnon | Drama, Science Fiction, Comedy | 8 | 161 | English | It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled into a fast and frantic chase across the galaxy. King Hydroflax is furious, and his giant Robot bodyguard is out-of-control and coming for them all! Will Nardole survive? And when will River Song work out who the Doctor is? All will be revealed on a starliner full of galactic super-villains and a destination the Doctor has been avoiding for a very long time. |
| Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time | 2,017 | Rachel Talalay | Science Fiction, Adventure | 8 | 129 | English | As the Twelfth Doctor nears regeneration, he stumbles on his first incarnation, also refusing to change. It takes a captain, a glass avatar and a familiar face to convince the Doctors the universe still needs them. |
| One Direction: Up All Night - The Live Tour | 2,012 | Andy Saunders | Music | 8 | 76 | English | Up All Night: The Live Tour is a DVD release from the British-Irish boy band One Direction, which was released on 28 May 2012. The video concert DVD was recorded as part of One Direction's Up All Night Tour at the International Centre in Bournemouth, includes songs from their multi-platinum debut album Up All Night and five covers, including "I Gotta Feeling", "Stereo Hearts", "Valerie", "Torn" and "Use Somebody". |
| Bill Hicks: Revelations | 1,993 | Chris Bould | Comedy | 8 | 70 | English | Bill Hicks in the height of his genius. Recorded at the Dominion Theatre in London, Hicks opens our eyes and minds to the hypocrisy and ludicrousness of the world around us. |
| Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor | 2,013 | John Hayes | Adventure, Science Fiction, Drama | 8 | 66 | English | The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years. |
| James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 | 2,020 | Daniel Lucchesi | Comedy | 8 | 27 | English | On December 17th 2019, I, James Acaster, filmed my 2019 tour show Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 at EartH in Hackney. It was a show about the best year of my life (1999) and the worst year of my life (2017), I wore a very nifty jacket for it and I looked extremely cool. |
| Earth: The Power of the Planet | 2,007 | Annabel Gillings | Documentary | 8 | 27 | English | Dr Iain Stewart tells the story of how Earth works and how, over the course of 4.6 billion years, it came to be the remarkable place it is today. |
| Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real | 2,004 | Justin Hardy | Fantasy, Documentary | 8 | 24 | English | "The Last Dragon" is a nature mockumentary about a British scientific team that attempts to understand the unique incredible beasts that have fascinated people for ages. CGI is used to create the dragons. |
| Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium | 2,022 | Paul Dugdale | Music | 8 | 23 | English | A once-in-a-lifetime live, global original concert event offering fans from around the world a front-row seat to witness the groundbreaking magic of the Rocket Man back at Dodger Stadium and showcasing Elton John as audiences have never seen him before, paying tribute to the icon and the seminal moment in 1975 that cemented his global success. |
| Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet | 2,016 | Kenneth Branagh | Drama, Romance | 8 | 23 | English | Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy. |
| The Cure: Trilogy | 2,002 | Nick Wickham | Music | 8 | 20 | English | Trilogy is a live album video by The Cure. It documents The Trilogy Concerts, in which the three albums, Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers were played live in their entirety one after the other each night. Trilogy was recorded on two consecutive nights, 11–12 November 2002, at the Tempodrom arena in Berlin. |
| Cabaret | 1,993 | Sam Mendes | Romance, Music, Drama, War | 8 | 18 | English | Filmed live during the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End. Jane Horrocks stars as Sally Bowles, Adam Godley as Cliff, and Alan Cumming as the eccentric Emcee. Inside the Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally and the lewd Emcee sound the clarion call to decadence, while outside, the Nazi party grows into a brutal force. |
| Hiroshima: The Aftermath | 2,015 | Lucy van Beek | Documentary, History, War | 8 | 17 | English | Brand new documentary marking the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings which ended WWII and began the nuclear age. Features interviews with survivors from both sides. |
| Anglian Lives: Alan Partridge | 2,003 | Adam Tandy | Comedy | 8 | 17 | English | A documentary on the life and career of Norwich's finest broadcaster, Alan Partridge. In the programme, Alan is asked tough questions about his divorce, Toblerone addiction and his autobiography 'Bouncing Back' by formidable interviewer Ray Woollard. |
| Life in a Day 2020 | 2,021 | Kevin Macdonald | Documentary | 8 | 16 | English | On July 25th, 2020, Ridley Scott and Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald invite you to be part of Life in a Day—a historic, global documentary capturing a single day on Earth. Videos from around the world are woven into a feature film. |
| Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die | 2,011 | Charlie Russell | Documentary | 8 | 16 | English | In 2008, celebrated author Sir Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Nearly three years on, Pratchett considers ways to end his life before the disease consumes him. His search takes him to Switzerland, where he meets some of the staff and clients of a non-profit organisation that provides assisted suicide to people suffering from severe ailments and terminal illnesses. In a quiet cottage outside Zurich, we—along with Sir Terry—witness a man's final moments with his wife. |
| Coup 53 | 2,019 | Taghi Amirani | Documentary, History | 8 | 13 | English | Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world. |
| Distant Sky | 2,018 | David Barnard | Documentary, Music | 8 | 13 | English | Recorded at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena in October 2017, Distant Sky captures an extraordinary and triumphant live concert from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Performing new album Skeleton Tree’s exquisite compositions alongside their essential catalogue, the band’s first shows in 3 years provoked an ecstatic response in fans, critics and band alike, renewing a profound and intimate relationship wherever they played. The band’s acclaimed tour started in Australia in January 2017 before tearing across the USA and ending in Europe, with some of the best reviews of their decorated career. |
| Black Sabbath: The End - Live In Birmingham | 2,017 | Dick Carruthers | Music | 8 | 13 | English | On 4th February, 2017, Black Sabbath stormed the stage in their hometown of Birmingham for their final triumphant gig. This monumental show brought down the curtain on a career that spanned almost half a century, and is featured here in its entirety. With a hit packed set list including Iron Man, Paranoid, War Pigs and many more, the high production values, visual effects and pyrotechnics wowed fans, as the band delivered the most emotionally charged show in their history. Also included is The Angelic Sessions, the exclusive final studio recordings by the band who forged the sound of metal and continue to influence bands the world over. The End captures a once-in-a-career performance, an essential snapshot of musical history and a fitting farewell to true innovators and original heavy metal icons, Black Sabbath. |
| The Jam: About The Young Idea | 2,015 | Bob Smeaton | Music, Documentary | 8 | 13 | English | Sky Arts presents the definitive story of The Jam, one of the most successful British bands in rock history, who were at the forefront of the late 1970s punk-mod scene. Featuring exclusive interviews with Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler, and richly illustrated with archive performances, this documentary, directed by Bob Smeaton, traces the band's formation and success between 1975 and 1982, and is set against the backdrop of the ever changing politics, fashion and attitudes that shaped the period of late 70s and early 80s. |
| Schindler | 1,983 | Jon Blair | Documentary, History, TV Movie | 8 | 13 | English | The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II. |
| Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster | 2,024 | Victoria Bobin | Documentary, TV Movie | 8 | 12 | English | Sir David Attenborough investigates the discovery of a lifetime: the giant skull of a prehistoric sea monster, known as a pliosaur – the Tyrannosaurus rex of the seas! |
| The Freddie Mercury Story: Who Wants to Live Forever? | 2,016 | John Fothergill | Documentary, TV Movie, Music | 8 | 12 | English | The last years of Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), rock legend and frontman of Queen, a band that conquered the world of music in the seventies and eighties: what was his lifestyle and the path that led him to a tragic death due to AIDS when he was only 46 years old. |
| Rockshow | 2,013 | Jack Priestley | Music, Documentary | 8 | 12 | English | During their 1976 world tour, Paul McCartney and Wings gave a magnificent performance to 67,000 fans at the Kingdome, in Seattle, Washington. The concert features 30 songs of the Beatles and Wings. |
| Britz | 2,007 | Peter Kosminsky | Drama | 8 | 12 | English | Sohail is an ambitious law undergraduate who signs up with MI5 and, eager to play a part in protecting British security, begins an investigation into a terrorist cell. His sister Nasima is a medical student in Leeds who becomes increasingly alienated and angered by Britain's foreign and domestic policy after witnessing at first hand the relentless targeting of her Muslim neighbours and peers. With action set in Pakistan, Eastern Europe, London and Leeds, both feature-length episodes detail a tragic sequence of events from two distinct perspectives. At the heart of this thought-provoking drama is a revealing examination of British Muslim life under current anti-terror legislation. Britz ultimately asks whether the laws we think are making us safer, are actually putting us in greater danger. |
| Peter Gabriel: Growing Up Live | 2,003 | Hamish Hamilton | Music | 8 | 11 | English | Peter Gabriel: Growing Up Live presents the complete 2003 Milan concert from Peter Gabriel's tour based around the album Up, featuring 17 tracks across 134 minutes. Literally central to a memorable show is a revolving stage that sees Gabriel going for a cycle ride in an exuberant "Solsbury Hill," performing "Growing Up" inside a Zorb ball, and delivering a gravity-defying sky walk in "Downside Up" with daughter Melanie. Accompanied by regular sidemen David Rhodes (guitar) and Tony Levin (bass), Gabriel is joined by the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama for the spine-tingling "Sky Blue," throughout mixing recent tracks like the abrasive "Darkness" and "The Barry Williams Show" with established crowd pleasers such as "Red Rain," "In Your Eyes," and "Sledgehammer. |
| Luther: Never Too Much | 2,024 | Dawn Porter | Documentary, Music | 8 | 10 | English | Luther Vandross started his career supporting David Bowie, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, and more. His undeniable talent earned platinum records and accolades, but he struggled to break out beyond the R&B charts. Intensely driven, he overcame personal and professional challenges to secure his place amongst the greatest vocalists in history. |
| Varmints | 2,008 | Marc Craste | Animation, Science Fiction | 8 | 10 | English | Adapted and directed by Marc Craste, Varmints is a 24-minute film based on the award-winning book of the same name by Helen Ward and illustrated by Craste, that tells the story of one small creature's struggle to preserve a world in danger of being lost forever through recklessness and indifference. A crew of 35 people worked in three countries over a two year period to make the film, and an original score by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and sound design by Adrian Rhodes complete the picture. |
| Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone | 2,001 | Chris Columbus | Adventure, Fantasy | 7.9 | 29,164 | English | Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame. |
| 12 Years a Slave | 2,013 | Steve McQueen | Drama, History | 7.9 | 11,821 | English | In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life. |
| About Time | 2,013 | Richard Curtis | Drama, Romance, Fantasy | 7.9 | 9,090 | English | The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us. |
| The Third Man | 1,949 | Carol Reed | Thriller, Mystery | 7.9 | 2,046 | English | In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna. |
| Ron's Gone Wrong | 2,021 | Sarah Smith | Animation, Science Fiction, Family, Comedy | 7.9 | 1,982 | English | In a world where walking, talking, digitally connected bots have become children's best friends, an 11-year-old finds that his robot buddy doesn't quite work the same as the others do. |
| Pink Floyd: The Wall | 1,982 | Alan Parker | Music, Drama | 7.9 | 1,609 | English | A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone. |
| A Street Cat Named Bob | 2,016 | Roger Spottiswoode | Family, Drama | 7.9 | 1,528 | English | James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat. |
| Thirteen Lives | 2,022 | Ron Howard | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 | 1,444 | English | Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning. |
| Where Hands Touch | 2,018 | Amma Asante | War, Drama, Romance | 7.9 | 531 | English | Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world. |
| Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | 2,015 | Evgeny Afineevsky | Documentary | 7.9 | 311 | English | Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement. |
| The Greatest Night in Pop | 2,024 | Bao Nguyen | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 267 | English | On a January night in 1985, music's biggest stars gathered to record "We Are the World." This documentary goes behind the scenes of the historic event. |
| Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars | 2,009 | Graeme Harper | Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Mystery, Adventure, TV Movie | 7.9 | 233 | English | In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner. |
| Roger Waters: The Wall | 2,014 | Sean Evans | Music, Documentary | 7.9 | 170 | English | A concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety. |
| Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel | 1,987 | Kevin Sullivan | Family, Drama, Romance | 7.9 | 124 | English | Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea. |
| The Year Earth Changed | 2,021 | Tom Beard | Documentary | 7.9 | 119 | English | Never-before-seen footage shows how our living in lockdown opened the door for nature to bounce back and thrive. Across the seas, skies, and lands, Earth found its rhythm when we came to a stop. |
| Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 6 | 2,016 | Becky Sloan | Animation, Horror, Music, Fantasy, Comedy | 7.9 | 92 | English | All alone, Yellow Guy tries to stop a lamp from teaching him about dreams. While Red Guy finds out the truth about the puppets' existence. |
| Live Aid | 1,985 | Kenneth Shapiro | Music, Documentary | 7.9 | 51 | English | Live Aid was held on 13 July 1985, simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, United States. It was one of the largest scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: watched live by an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations. "It's twelve noon in London, seven AM in Philadelphia, and around the world it's time for Live Aid...!" |
| Heathers: The Musical | 2,023 | Andy Fickman | Music, Comedy, Thriller | 7.9 | 39 | English | A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics. |
| Depeche Mode 101 | 1,989 | D. A. Pennebaker | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 36 | English | A fascinating documentary focusing on backstage realities of art and business during the British synthesizer band's 1988 American tour. |
| Radiohead: In Rainbows - From the Basement | 2,008 | David Barnard | Music | 7.9 | 35 | English | A live performance by Radiohead of their 2007 album In Rainbows. This was their first of two full-episode performances, filmed at Maida Vale Studios in London, as part of the ‘From The Basement’ television series produced by Nigel Godrich, Dilly Gent, James Chads and John Woollcombe. |
| The Forgotten Toys | 1,995 | Graham Ralph | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.9 | 29 | English | A festive tale about two lost toys searching for a new home. |
| Daniel Sloss: X | 2,019 | Daniel Sloss | Comedy | 7.9 | 26 | English | Daniel Sloss discusses a variety of topics, from his love of children, to being a man, in this tastefully dark comedy special. |
| George Michael: Live in London | 2,009 | Andrew Morahan | Music | 7.9 | 21 | English | Live in London is a live concert recording of George Michael's final two concerts in London's Earl's Court arena on 24th and 25th August 2008 as part of his 25 Live tour. It features a career-spanning set that includes Wham! classics and his solo hits. This is the first live DVD of George Michael's career. |
| Anything Goes | 2,021 | Ross MacGibbon | Music, Comedy, Romance | 7.9 | 19 | English | When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love... proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. This hilarious musical romp across the Atlantic, directed by the multi-award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, features Cole Porter’s joyful score, including "I Get A Kick Out of You," "You’re the Top" and the show-stopping "Anything Goes." |
| Lord of the Dance | 2,011 | Marcus Viner | Music, Documentary | 7.9 | 17 | English | Tells a timeless story based on Irish folklore of good versus evil, & through the media of dance & music it is understood and appreciated by every culture. |
| Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure | 2,004 | Gareth Carrivick | Comedy | 7.9 | 17 | English | Dave Gorman tells the story of his attempt to find 10 'Googlewhacks' (websites containing two unique words when searched on Google) and meet their owners before his 32nd birthday, in order to win a bet. |
| The English Surgeon | 2,007 | Geoffrey Smith | Documentary | 7.9 | 16 | English | This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon, Henry Marsh, situated in Ukraine, as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession. |
| Derren Brown: Messiah | 2,005 | Unknown | Comedy | 7.9 | 14 | English | For his show "Messiah," Derren Brown traveled to the United States to try to convince five leading figures that he had powers in their particular field of expertise: Christian evangelism, alien abduction, psychic powers, New Age theories, and contacting the dead. Using a false name each time, Derren succeeded in convincing all of the "experts" that he had powers, and four openly endorsed him as a true practitioner. The concept of the show was to highlight the power of suggestion with regard to beliefs and people's abilities, and our failure to question those beliefs. His conclusion was that people tend to hear only things that support their own ideas and ignore contradictory evidence; this is known in psychology as confirmation bias. |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | 1,998 | Ian Sharp | Drama, Romance, TV Movie | 7.9 | 14 | English | Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men. Justine Waddell stars as the hapless Child of Nature who is tossed around by the dark forces of fate. Jason Flemyng is the dark and sinister Alec D'Urberville whose relentless pursuit of Tess triggers the heroine's downfall. Oliver Milburn plays the handsome young Angel Clare, the caring rebel who falls deeply in love with Tess. |
| XTC: This Is Pop | 2,017 | Roger Penny | Documentary, Music | 7.9 | 12 | English | A journey into the world of one of Britain's best-loved and most influential bands of modern times, XTC. Through a mixture of animation, archive and specially-shot sequences, the film explores the minds of principle songwriters, Partridge and Moulding. |
| Russell Brand: End the Drugs War | 2,014 | Ross Wilson | Documentary | 7.9 | 11 | English | In this personal journey for BBC Three, Russell Brand sets out to find out how other countries are tackling their problems of drug abuse and to explore how the framework of criminalization implicit in the 'war on drugs' produces enormous harm in the treatment of addicts. |
| Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert | 2,022 | Joel Gallen | Music | 7.9 | 10 | English | An all-star global music event live from London's Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert featuring the biggest names in music joining together in celebration of the life, music and love of Taylor Hawkins, one of modern music’s most beloved figures. |
| The Dark Knight Rises | 2,012 | Christopher Nolan | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 24,010 | English | Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy. |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2,005 | Mike Newell | Adventure, Fantasy | 7.8 | 21,862 | English | When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Triwizard Tournament. But since Harry never submitted his name for the Tournament, who did? Now Harry must confront a deadly dragon, fierce water demons and an enchanted maze only to find himself in the cruel grasp of He Who Must Not Be Named. |
| The Big Lebowski | 1,998 | Joel Coen | Comedy, Crime | 7.8 | 11,951 | English | Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money. |
| The Theory of Everything | 2,014 | James Marsh | Drama, Romance | 7.8 | 10,987 | English | The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. |
| Snatch | 2,000 | Guy Ritchie | Crime, Comedy | 7.8 | 9,760 | English | Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond. |
| Fargo | 1,996 | Joel Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 | 8,888 | English | Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha! |
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | 2,008 | Mark Herman | Drama, War, History | 7.8 | 7,541 | English | When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls. |
| Love, Rosie | 2,014 | Christian Ditter | Romance, Drama, Comedy | 7.8 | 6,442 | English | Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more? |
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1,975 | Terry Gilliam | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.8 | 6,261 | English | King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place". |
| Life of Brian | 1,979 | Terry Jones | Comedy | 7.8 | 4,811 | English | Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs. |
| Dances with Wolves | 1,990 | Kevin Costner | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.8 | 4,582 | English | Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe. |
| Straight Outta Compton | 2,015 | F. Gary Gray | Drama, Music, History | 7.8 | 4,120 | English | In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today. |
| Sherlock: The Abominable Bride | 2,016 | Douglas Mackinnon | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie | 7.8 | 2,319 | English | Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in 1890s London in this holiday special. |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1,957 | David Lean | Drama, History, War | 7.8 | 2,312 | English | The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. |
| The Wrong Trousers | 1,993 | Nick Park | Animation, Comedy, Family | 7.8 | 1,127 | English | Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno trousers created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. |
| God's Own Country | 2,017 | Francis Lee | Romance, Drama | 7.8 | 964 | English | A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker. |
| They Shall Not Grow Old | 2,018 | Peter Jackson | Documentary, History, War | 7.8 | 642 | English | A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war. |
| A Matter of Life and Death | 1,946 | Emeric Pressburger | Romance, Fantasy, Drama, Comedy | 7.8 | 457 | English | A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl. |
| The Plague Dogs | 1,982 | Martin Rosen | Adventure, Animation, Drama | 7.8 | 283 | English | Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague. |
| Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride | 2,006 | Euros Lyn | Science Fiction | 7.8 | 246 | English | A young bride in the midst of her wedding finds herself mysteriously transported to the TARDIS. The Doctor must discover what her connection is with the Empress of the Racnoss's plan to destroy the world. |
| The Alpinist | 2,021 | Peter Mortimer | Documentary, Adventure | 7.8 | 168 | English | Marc-André Leclerc, an exceptional climber, has made solo his religion and ice his homeland. When filmmaker Peter Mortimer begins his film, he places his camera at the base of a British Columbia cliff and waits patiently for the star climber to come down to answer his questions. Marc André, a little uncomfortable, prefers to return to the depths of the forest where he lives in a tent with his girlfriend Brette Harrington. In the heart of winter, Peter films vertiginous solos on fragile ice. He tries to make appointments with the climber who is never there and does not seem really concerned by this camera pointed at him "For me, it would not be a solo if there was someone else" . Marc-André is thus, the "pure light" of the mountaineers of his time, which marvel Barry Blanchard, Alex Honnold or Reinhold Messner, interviewed in the film. An event film for an extraordinary character. |
| Tatami | 2,024 | Guy Nattiv | Thriller, Drama, Mystery | 7.8 | 141 | English | Iranian female judokas Leila and her coach Maryam, travel to the Judo World Championship, intent on bringing home Iran’s first gold medal. Midway through the Judo World Championships, they receive an ultimatum from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and lose, or she will be branded a traitor of the state. With her own and her family’s freedom at stake, Leila is faced with an impossible choice: comply with the Iranian regime as her coach Maryam implores her to do, or fight on, for the gold. |
| Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams | 2,018 | Mat Whitecross | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 140 | English | An in-depth and intimate portrait of Coldplay's spectacular rise from the backrooms of Camden pubs to selling out stadiums across the planet. At the heart of the story is the band's unshakeable brotherhood which has endured through many highs and lows. |
| Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles | 2,021 | Robert Rodriguez | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 124 | English | Fresh off the heels of her brand-new album, "Happier Than Ever," this cinematic concert experience features an intimate performance of every song in the album's sequential order – for the first and only time – from the stage of the legendary Hollywood Bowl. |
| Being James Bond | 2,021 | Baillie Walsh | Documentary | 7.8 | 89 | English | Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. |
| Leading Lady Parts | 2,018 | Jessica Swale | Comedy | 7.8 | 89 | English | The best women of British acting go to an audition for a dream role, primed to take on the role of a lifetime: that complex woman, the strong woman, a woman for today. |
| Muse: Simulation Theory | 2,020 | Lance Drake | Music | 7.8 | 70 | English | Conceived and filmed at London's O2 Arena in September 2019 the film follows a team of scientists as they investigate the source of a paranormal anomaly appearing around the world. Blurring the lines between narrative and concert film, virtual and reality, Muse's most theatrical tour to date launches the viewer through a supernatural spectacle, questioning the world around us. |
| Lionel Messi: Destiny | 2,023 | Alexander Hill | Documentary | 7.8 | 61 | English | Behind-the-scenes documentary about how Lionel Messi succeeded in lifting the World Cup – the only trophy to have eluded him in an incredible career. |
| The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | 2,013 | Peter Davison | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.8 | 59 | English | With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the "classic" Doctors Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy are keen to be involved. But do they manage it? |
| The Great White Silence | 1,924 | Herbert G. Ponting | Documentary | 7.8 | 54 | English | Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica with Captain Scott’s ill-fated South Pole expedition and filmed the stunning images that make up this extraordinary documentary. (Originally released in 1912 as With Captain Scott in the Antarctic, the material was re-edited and re-issued by Ponting in 1924 as The Great White Silence.) |
| Roger Waters: Us + Them | 2,019 | Roger Waters | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 51 | English | Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017 – 2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two million people worldwide, the film features songs from his legendary Pink Floyd albums (The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here) and from his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want? |
| House of Anubis: The Touchstone of Ra | 2,013 | Angelo Abela | Drama, Fantasy, Family, Mystery | 7.8 | 48 | English | The students of Anubis House are on the eve of their graduation when they encounter a new group of underclassmen and a mysterious stone that leads them on a quest to save the world from evil. |
| Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical | 2,025 | Michael Grandage | Music, Family, Fantasy | 7.8 | 42 | English | Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff, his reindeer Sven, and snowman Olaf. On an adventure where she will find out what friendship, courage, family, and true love really means. |
| Coldplay: Live 2012 | 2,012 | Paul Dugdale | Music | 7.8 | 38 | English | A concert film documenting English pop rock band Coldplay's 2011-2012 'Mylo Xyloto' world tour, capturing their live shows at Paris's Stade de France, Montreal's Bell Centre, and Glastonbury Festival's Pyramid Stage. |
| The War You Don't See | 2,010 | Alan Lowery | Documentary | 7.8 | 36 | English | This film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day. |
| In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro | 1,986 | Raju Patel | Horror | 7.8 | 34 | English | There's a big drought in Africa. Food and water are scarce. 90,000 wild baboons suddenly start attacking humans and eating them in order to survive. Some people find themselves being hunted by the starving monkeys and must do whatever they can to stay alive. |
| Witches | 2,024 | Elizabeth Sankey | Documentary | 7.8 | 32 | English | Elizabeth Sankey’s deeply personal documentary examines the relationship between the cinematic portrayals of witches and the all-too-real experiences of postpartum depression by utilizing footage that spans the entirety of film history alongside heartrending personal testimony. |
| Beyond Citizen Kane | 1,993 | Simon Hartog | Documentary | 7.8 | 30 | English | Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion. |
| FLOW | 2,024 | Unknown | Animation | 7.8 | 26 | English | As the ‘flow’ progresses, the world where our ‘giant’ once stood gradually fades away, replaced by their inner worlds. Our ‘giant’ continues to advance endlessly, questioning the relationship between the world and oneself. |
| Mark Cavendish: Never Enough | 2,023 | Alex Kiehl | Documentary | 7.8 | 26 | English | An uplifting profile in resilience and self-belief that reveals the inside story of one of the most inspiring and unexpected comebacks in sporting history. |
| The Rebel | 1,961 | Robert Day | Comedy | 7.8 | 26 | English | Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius. |
| Good Omens: Lockdown | 2,020 | Douglas Mackinnon | Comedy, Fantasy | 7.8 | 25 | English | Aziraphale and Crowley talk over the phone about how they're dealing with the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Lost and Found | 2,008 | Philip Hunt | Family, Animation | 7.8 | 24 | English | A magical tale of friendship and loneliness, which tells the story of a little boy who one day finds a penguin on his doorstep. Although at first he is unsure what to do, the boy becomes determined to help the penguin find his way back home... even if that means rowing all the way to the South Pole! |
| A Hazard of Hearts | 1,987 | John Hough | Drama, Romance, TV Movie | 7.8 | 23 | English | When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on Serena Staverley, although they have never met. He challenges Lord Wrotham to a game of dice in which the winner takes both Staverley Court and Miss Serena. |
| Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story | 2,024 | Charlie Hamilton James | Documentary | 7.8 | 22 | English | A man forms an unlikely friendship with a wild otter while living in the remote Shetland Islands. |
| Wreckage and Rage: Making 'Alien³' | 2,003 | Charles de Lauzirika | Documentary | 7.8 | 22 | English | The creation of the film Alien³ (1992) is covered here in this feature-length documentary in exhaustive detail. Many interviews with the cast and crew give us an idea of how hard of a time David Fincher had creating his first feature film, as well as present us with much information about every element that went into making this film, including how the plot and script changed drastically through filming. |
| Oasis: Knebworth 1996 | 2,021 | Jake Scott | Documentary, Music | 7.8 | 21 | English | Oasis Knebworth 1996 - the eagerly anticipated feature length documentary telling the story of the special relationship between Oasis and their fans that made the largest concert of the 90's possible, directed by Grammy Award-winner Jake Scott. It is told entirely in the moment through the eyes of the fans who were there, built around extensive and never before seen archive concert and backstage footage from the event, with additional interviews with the band and concert organisers. Also included are the full concerts from both nights, edited by Dick Carruthers with audio mixed by Will Shapland in 5.1 surround sound. |
| The Concert for Bangladesh | 1,972 | Saul Swimmer | Music, Documentary | 7.8 | 21 | English | A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide. |
| Bob the Builder: A Christmas to Remember - The Movie | 2,001 | Sarah Ball | Animation, Family | 7.8 | 19 | English | Near Christmas, Robert "Bob The Builder" McGraw Jr. and his machine team gang of talking construction vehicles are preparing for the Winter Christmas Holiday celebration season. Bob's twin brother Thomas "Tom The Zoologist" McGraw (who lives in the Arctic Circle near the North Pole) is coming for Christmas, Spud The Scarecrow is trying to be good to get presents and a big Christmas concert is coming up with the rock band Lenny Lazenby and the Lasers (including Elton John). but unfortunately, a huge ULTIMATE DISASTER has happened with the Christmas tree and the town hall has nearly smashed to SMITHEREENS!!. will the concert work out? will Tom get there for Christmas? will Spud be on the nice list? will the tree and the town hall be alright??? find out these answers, in "A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER". |
| Black Sabbath: Live... Gathered In Their Masses | 2,013 | Jeb Brien | Music | 7.8 | 18 | English | A live album and video by English rock band Black Sabbath. It features performances from their 2013 world tour. Recorded live at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 29 April and 1 May 2012. |
| Storm the Animated Movie | 2,011 | DC Turner | Drama, Thriller, Animation | 7.8 | 18 | English | Official animated movie of Tim Minchin's 9-minute beat poem Storm. |
| The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | 2,001 | Stephen Whittaker | Drama, TV Movie | 7.8 | 18 | English | A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle. |
| Kipchoge: The Last Milestone | 2,021 | Jake Scott | Documentary | 7.8 | 17 | English | Kipchoge: The Last Milestone follows record-breaking marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge's journey to becoming the first person in history to run a marathon in under two hours. |
| Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime | 2,014 | Jacqui Morris | Documentary | 7.8 | 17 | English | Before the internet. Before social media. Before breaking news. The victims of Thalidomide had to rely on something even more extraordinary to fight their corner: Investigative journalism. This is the story of how Harold Evans fought and won the battle of his and many other lives. |
| Garbage Warrior | 2,007 | Oliver Hodge | Documentary | 7.8 | 16 | English | Garbage Warrior is a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of maverick US architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing. An extraordinary tale of triumph over bureaucracy, Garbage Warrior is above all an intimate portrait of an extraordinary individual and his dream of changing the world. Written by The Works International |
| The Punch and Judy Man | 1,963 | Jeremy Summers | Comedy | 7.8 | 16 | English | Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head. |
| The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story | 2,003 | John Edginton | Documentary, Music | 7.8 | 15 | English | The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd. |
| The Sound of Music Live! | 2,015 | Coky Giedroyc | Drama, Music, Family, Romance | 7.8 | 14 | English | The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. |
| Gypsy | 2,015 | Jonathan Kent | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 | 13 | English | Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. |
| When Björk Met Attenborough | 2,013 | Louise Hooper | Documentary | 7.8 | 13 | English | Award-winning musician Björk and legendary broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough have admired each other's work for years but this is the first time they have discussed their mutual love of music and the natural world on screen. In this remarkable documentary, Björk explores our unique relationship with music and discovers how technology might transform the way we engage with it in the future. |
| Happy Birthday Mr Bean | 2,021 | Ian Thompson | Documentary, Comedy | 7.8 | 12 | English | A celebratory documentary looking back at the 30 years since comedy legend Mr Bean landed on our screens. This documentary explores the magic behind this unlikely hero. |
| Occupation | 2,009 | Nick Murphy | Drama, War | 7.8 | 12 | English | Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason. |
| The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol | 2,009 | Gordon Anderson | Fantasy, Drama, Science Fiction, Family, Comedy | 7.8 | 12 | English | It's Christmas Eve and Nan receives some unexpected visitors, in the form of Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. In this comic retelling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Nan is shown the error of her ways, but is it too late for her to swap her Scrooge-like misery for some seasonal goodwill? |
| Bowie: The Final Act | 2,025 | Jonathan Stiasny | Documentary, Music | 7.8 | 11 | English | The final creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic artists. Featuring rare interviews with those who knew and worked alongside Bowie as well as famous fans and figures who have been inspired by his artistry, the film will uncover the strategy behind Bowie’s artistic resurrection and the inexhaustible extraordinary creativity that defined his final decade, in which he released his critically acclaimed album Blackstar just two days before he died. This was an emergence from the turbulence of the 1990s, when Bowie had found himself at odds with a changing industry but pushed on to headline Glastonbury in 2000. |
| Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga | 2,008 | Lindsay Jex | Comedy, Documentary, TV Movie | 7.8 | 11 | English | To mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documentary for the first time. The show includes an exclusive in-depth interview with Edmund Blackadder himself, Rowan Atkinson - the first time he has agreed to be interviewed about his experience making the show. |
| Copa 71 | 2,024 | Rachel Ramsay | Documentary, History | 7.8 | 10 | English | The extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s World Cup, which was held in Mexico City and witnessed by more than 100,000 fans. This landmark tournament was dismissed by FIFA and written out of sports history – until now, with dazzling archival footage and interviews with the former players. |
| Robot & Scarecrow | 2,017 | Kibwe Tavares | Drama, Romance, Science Fiction | 7.8 | 10 | English | A love story between a robot and a scarecrow who meet and fall for each other at a summer music festival. |
| 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street | 2,015 | Calum Waddell | Documentary | 7.8 | 10 | English | The story behind the rise and fall of New York's 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as "New 42nd Street" - this is the document of the world's most notorious movie strip. |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2,002 | Chris Columbus | Adventure, Fantasy | 7.7 | 23,263 | English | Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage. |
| Batman Begins | 2,005 | Christopher Nolan | Drama, Crime, Action | 7.7 | 22,264 | English | Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman. |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2,007 | David Yates | Adventure, Fantasy | 7.7 | 20,530 | English | Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of motivated students to defend themselves against the Dark Arts. |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2,009 | David Yates | Adventure, Fantasy | 7.7 | 20,500 | English | As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again. |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2,010 | David Yates | Adventure, Fantasy | 7.7 | 20,106 | English | Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever. |
| The Terminator | 1,984 | James Cameron | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.7 | 14,301 | English | In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine? |
| Slumdog Millionaire | 2,008 | Danny Boyle | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 11,129 | English | A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". |
| The King's Speech | 2,010 | Tom Hooper | Drama, History | 7.7 | 9,163 | English | The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war. |
| Rush | 2,013 | Ron Howard | Drama, Action | 7.7 | 7,660 | English | In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all. |
| Marriage Story | 2,019 | Noah Baumbach | Drama | 7.7 | 7,311 | English | A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes. |
| The Gentlemen | 2,020 | Guy Ritchie | Comedy, Crime | 7.7 | 6,418 | English | American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him. |
| Platoon | 1,986 | Oliver Stone | Drama, War, Action | 7.7 | 4,968 | English | As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. |
| Brazil | 1,985 | Terry Gilliam | Comedy, Science Fiction | 7.7 | 3,608 | English | Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies. |
| Guy Ritchie's The Covenant | 2,023 | Guy Ritchie | War, Action, Thriller | 7.7 | 3,053 | English | During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain. |
| Aftersun | 2,022 | Charlotte Wells | Drama | 7.7 | 1,746 | English | Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't. |
| I, Daniel Blake | 2,016 | Ken Loach | Drama | 7.7 | 1,505 | English | A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario. |
| Charade | 1,963 | Stanley Donen | Comedy, Mystery, Romance | 7.7 | 1,498 | English | After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. |
| Brief Encounter | 1,945 | David Lean | Drama, Romance | 7.7 | 691 | English | Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love. |
| Sleuth | 1,972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Thriller, Mystery, Crime | 7.7 | 686 | English | A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results. |
| Hamnet | 2,025 | Chloé Zhao | Drama, Romance, History | 7.7 | 633 | English | The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet. |
| Ricky Gervais: Humanity | 2,018 | John L. Spencer | Comedy | 7.7 | 505 | English | In his first special in seven years, Ricky Gervais slings his trademark snark at celebrity, mortality and a society that takes everything personally. |
| Entergalactic | 2,022 | Fletcher Moules | Animation, Romance, Music | 7.7 | 474 | English | Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor. |
| A Night to Remember | 1,958 | Roy Ward Baker | Drama, Action, History | 7.7 | 282 | English | The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows. |
| Doctor Who: Last Christmas | 2,014 | Paul Wilmshurst | Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama | 7.7 | 255 | English | The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus! |
| Doctor Who: The Snowmen | 2,012 | Saul Metzstein | TV Movie, Adventure, Science Fiction, Drama, Family | 7.7 | 235 | English | The Doctor has retired to 1892 London. Despite the protests of his allies, he is determined to keep out of mankind's affairs. However, a governess ... |
| An Adventure in Space and Time | 2,013 | Terry McDonough | Drama | 7.7 | 211 | English | Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made. |
| Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey | 2,014 | Dan Storey | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.7 | 184 | English | A look behind the lens of Christopher Nolan's space epic. |
| The War Game | 1,966 | Peter Watkins | War, TV Movie | 7.7 | 182 | English | A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985. |
| Doctor Who: Time Crash | 2,007 | Graeme Harper | Science Fiction, TV Movie | 7.7 | 100 | English | After Martha Jones parts company with the Doctor, his TARDIS collides with another, and he comes face to face with one of his previous incarnations. |
| Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 | 2,015 | Becky Sloan | Horror, Fantasy, Animation, Music, Comedy | 7.7 | 96 | English | The fourth instalment in the surreal Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared videos in which the three returning characters enter a sinister digital world through their computer. |
| Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill | 1,999 | Lawrence Jordan | Comedy | 7.7 | 80 | English | Eddie Izzard takes her show to San Francisco to give a brief history of pagan and Christian religions, the building of Stonehenge, the birth of the Church of England and of Western empires, and the need for a European dream. |
| TINA | 2,021 | T.J. Martin | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 77 | English | Tina Turner overcame impossible odds to become one of the first female Black artists to reach a mainstream international audience. Her road to superstardom is an undeniable story of triumph over adversity. It’s the ultimate story of survival – and an inspirational story of our times. |
| London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder | 2,012 | Danny Boyle | Documentary | 7.7 | 77 | English | The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. Titled 'Isles of Wonder', the Ceremony welcomed the finest athletes from more than 200 nations for the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, marking an historic third time the capital has hosted the world’s biggest and most important sporting event. The Opening Ceremony reflected the key themes and priorities of the London 2012 Games, based on sport, inspiration, youth and urban transformation. It was a Ceremony 'for everyone' and celebrated contributions the UK has made to the world through innovation and revolution, as well as the creativity and exuberance of British people. |
| The Green Book: Guide to Freedom | 2,019 | Yoruba Richen | Documentary, History, TV Movie | 7.7 | 62 | English | In 1936, Victor H. Green (1892-1960) published The Negro Motorist Green Book, a book that was both a travel guide and a survival manual, to help African-Americans navigate safe those regions of the United States where segregation and Jim Crow laws were disgracefully applied. |
| Kinky Boots: The Musical | 2,019 | Brett Sullivan | Music, Comedy | 7.7 | 58 | English | Charlie is a factory owner struggling to save his family business, and Lola is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea. With a little compassion and a lot of understanding, this unexpected pair learn to embrace their differences and create a line of sturdy stilettos unlike any the world has ever seen! |
| Joy Division | 2,009 | Grant Gee | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 54 | English | A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band. |
| Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In | 2,021 | Jason Ferguson | Documentary | 7.7 | 46 | English | A look at the life and legend of Sir Alex Ferguson, from his working-class roots in Glasgow through to his career as one of the greatest football managers of all time. While recovering from a traumatic brain haemorrhage in 2018, Sir Alex intimately recounts vivid details of his life and career to his son, including his legendary 26-year tenure as manager of Manchester United. |
| Eddie Izzard: Definite Article | 1,996 | Ed Bye | Comedy | 7.7 | 40 | English | Eddie arrives on stage through a huge book which opens to reveal herself sitting at the top of a staircase. Then discusses Caesar dog food, 24 hour garages, Latin, and winds her way through James Bond gadgets, Einstein and Pavlov. |
| Jimmy Carr: Comedian | 2,007 | Dominic Brigstocke | Comedy | 7.7 | 39 | English | Recorded live at London's Bloomsbury theatre, the posh-suited gagster unleashes his rapid-fire wit upon his audience, with jokes that are just too rude for TV. |
| Jimmy Carr: In Concert | 2,008 | Dominic Brigstocke | Comedy | 7.7 | 35 | English | Britain's foremost multi award winning joke technician Jimmy Carr returns with his fourth live stand up DVD, Jimmy Carr In Concert. |
| On the Beat | 1,962 | Robert Asher | Comedy, Crime | 7.7 | 30 | English | Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause |
| Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | 2,024 | David Hinton | Documentary | 7.7 | 25 | English | Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. |
| Black Sabbath: The End of The End | 2,017 | Dick Carruthers | Music, Documentary | 7.7 | 24 | English | Chronicles the final tour from Black Sabbath. On February 4th, 2017, Black Sabbath takes the stage in Birmingham, the city where it all began, to play the 81st and final gig of the tour and bring down the curtain on a career that spanned almost half a century. |
| A State of Mind | 2,005 | Daniel Gordon | Documentary, Music | 7.7 | 22 | English | Two young North Korean gymnasts prepare for an unprecedented competition in this documentary that offers a rare look into the communist society and the daily lives of North Korean families. For more than eight months, film crews follow 13-year-old Pak Hyon Sun and 11-year-old Kim Song Yun and their families as the girls train for the Mass Games, a spectacular nationalist celebration. |
| The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | 2,017 | Michael Oswald | Documentary | 7.7 | 20 | English | At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today? This is what the Spider's Web sets out to investigate. |
| Stewart Lee: 41st Best Stand-Up Ever! | 2,008 | Michael Cumming | Comedy | 7.7 | 20 | English | In 2007, Stewart Lee was voted the 41st best stand-up of all time in an official Channel 4 poll, apparently better than Lenny Bruce but not as good as Jim Davidson. But what real difference does this accolade make? His TV pilot has been cancelled and his mother still thinks the 1970s game show host Tom O'Connor is funnier than him. |
| Totally Bill Hicks | 1,998 | Rupert Edwards | Comedy, Documentary | 7.7 | 20 | English | Consisting of two parts: ‘Revelations’, Bill Hicks’ last live performance in the United Kingdom made at the Dominion Theatre; and a documentary about Hicks’ life ‘Just a Ride’ featuring interviews with friends, admirers, and family. |
| Secret Lives of Orangutans | 2,024 | Huw Cordey | Documentary | 7.7 | 19 | English | Follow a multi-generational orangutan family through their treetop triumphs and travails in this immersive documentary narrated by David Attenborough. |
| Doctor Who: The Five Doctors | 1,983 | Peter Moffatt | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, TV Movie | 7.7 | 19 | English | Many incarnations of the Doctors and their old companions are taken out of time and deposited in the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, they must battle the Master, Daleks, Cybermen and Yeti in order to reach the Dark Tower and discover the Tomb of Rassilon. |
| Friend Request Pending | 2,011 | Chris Foggin | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 | 18 | English | FRIEND REQUEST PENDING is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It's a tale of love but more importantly life long friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson). |
| Swallows and Amazons | 1,974 | Claude Whatham | Adventure, Family | 7.7 | 18 | English | On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry. |
| Lee Evans: Roadrunner | 2,011 | Tom Poole | Comedy | 7.7 | 17 | English | Wired And Wonderful was huge... XL was big... Big was even bigger... now the legendary Lee Evans embarks on his most ambitious tour to date. Roadrunner is Lee's amazing new show with over 60 nights in the biggest arenas in the country. Lee will be playing to more fans than ever on this record- breaking tour of the UK and R.O.I in 2011 with the show filmed for DVD during his 5 nights at the 02. |
| Lee Evans: Big | 2,008 | Tom Poole | Comedy | 7.7 | 17 | English | Lee Evans returns to the stage with another hilarious stand-up routine, this time at London's 02 arena. |
| Simon Amstell: Do Nothing - Live | 2,010 | Michael Matheson | Comedy | 7.7 | 16 | English | Recorded at Vicar Street, Dublin on May 22nd 2010, Do Nothing Live is Simon Amstell’s debut stand up DVD. |
| Musangwe: Fight Club | 2,007 | Rian Horn | Documentary | 7.7 | 16 | English | The first rule is that there are no rules. For the bare-knuckle combatants competing in Musangwe fights, anything goes - you can even put a curse on him. The sport, which dates back centuries, has become a South African institution. Any male from the age of nine to ninety can compete. We follow a group of fighters as they slug it out in the ring. Who will be this year's champion? |
| Lee Evans: Monsters | 2,014 | Chris Howe | Comedy | 7.7 | 13 | English | The legend of comedy returns in 2014 with his biggest and funniest show yet. Monsters is the frightening funny new Live DVD from one of the biggest names in British comedy filmed during his ambitious 2014 tour. Lee’s manic energy, uncanny observations, hilarious delivery and side-splitting material have made his live performances a must-see for comedy fans worldwide and Monsters sees Lee back doing what he does best live on stage, proving once again why he is a record-breaking comic and one of the nation’s best! "The must see comedy event of the autumn" ***** - Daily Telegraph "Stand-up doesn't get much bigger" - Evening Standard |
| Fabula | 2,020 | Jordan Baseman | Documentary, Animation | 7.7 | 11 | English | "Fabula" is an experimental film by Jordan Baseman that asks questions about our dreams and dream experiences during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. The film is narrated by the Harvard Medical School Dream Researcher, Dr. Deirdre Barrett. We hear Dr. Barrett discuss various dreams that she has collected through her research into Pandemic Dreams, their collective commonality, their significance and meanings, and their relevance to our times. Dr. Barrett also comments on the uniqueness of the Pandemic and the unusual dreams that have arisen as a result. The film was recorded entirely in London during Lockdown, using 16mm film and 6k digital film cameras. Time-lapse footage of clouds, are super-imposed with footage of the Thames and threaded through, layered with various shots lit by infra-red light. Fabula muses on our relationships with ourselves, one another, our environments and the meanings of our dreams while living with Covid-19. |
| Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family | 2,019 | Geoffrey O'Connor | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.7 | 11 | English | Louis returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader. |
| Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web | 2,017 | Emily James | Documentary, Crime | 7.7 | 11 | English | Documentary looking at the black market website known as the Silk Road, which emerged on the darknet in 2011. This 'Amazon of illegal drugs' was the brainchild of a mysterious, libertarian intellectual operating under the avatar The Dread Pirate Roberts. Promising its users complete anonymity and total freedom from government regulation or scrutiny, Silk Road became a million-dollar digital drugs cartel. |
| Sea Wall | 2,012 | Andrew Porter | Drama | 7.7 | 11 | English | A man makes sense of his life, love, family and the possibility of faith whilst facing an emotional abyss. |
| Bill Bailey: Cosmic Jam | 1,997 | John Kaye Cooper | Comedy | 7.7 | 11 | English | One night from his 1996 Cosmic Jam tour at the Bloomsbury in London in which Bill explains the seminal influence of cockney knees-up music upon classical composers through the ages and takes a shot at Bryan Adams. |
| The Beatles at Shea Stadium | 1,977 | Robert Precht | Music, Documentary | 7.7 | 11 | English | The Beatles at Shea Stadium is a fifty-minute-long documentary of the Beatles' 1965 concert at Shea Stadium in New York, the highlight of the group's 1965 tour. |
| Rhys Nicholson: Live at the Athenaeum | 2,020 | Toby Parkinson | Comedy | 7.7 | 10 | English | Rhys Nicholson flexes his biting humor as he discusses horse tranquilizers, angry letters from viewers, and more in this stand-up special. |
| Being Poirot | 2,013 | Chris Malone | Documentary | 7.7 | 10 | English | After 25 years playing Hercule Poirot, British actor David Suchet explores the enduring appeal of his most legendary character. |
| Sting: Live In Berlin | 2,010 | Jim Gable | Music | 7.7 | 10 | English | Culled from Sting's critically acclaimed world tour, Symphonicity, this exclusive live CD/DVD compilation features many of his greatest hits, including "Roxanne," "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic," "King Of Pain," "Fields Of Gold," and more, all re-imagined for symphonic arrangement. Featuring special guest Branford Marsalis on select tracks, this live concert experience is quintessential Symphonicity! [Tracklist:] 01 A Thousand Years 02 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic 03 Englishman In New York 04 Roxanne 05 When We Dance 06 Russians 07 I Hung My Head 08 Why Should I Cry For You? 09 Whenever I Say Your Name 10 This Cowboy Song 11 Tomorrow We'll See 12 Moon Over Bourbon Street 13 The End Of The Game 14 You Will Be My Ain True Love 15 All Would Envy 16 Mad About You 17 King Of Pain 18 Every BreathcYoun Take 19 Desert Rose 20 She's Too Good For Me 21 Fragile 22 I Was Brought To My Senses (Intro) |
| Queen: A Night at the Odeon | 1,975 | Tom Corcoran | Music | 7.7 | 10 | English | Queen’s legendary Hammersmith Odeon show on Christmas Eve 1975 is one of the best recorded and dynamic early shows available. It occurs a month after A Night At The Opera was released and soon after it hit number one and was video taped for The Old Grey Whistle Test hosted by Bob Harris for BBC television. Most of the show was taped, but the BBC cameras were turned off when Queen came back onstage after the “Jailhouse Rock” encore to play a few more songs. The cameramen couldn’t capture this part of the show so after thirty-five years it remains unseen. |
| Kingsman: The Secret Service | 2,015 | Matthew Vaughn | Crime, Comedy, Action, Adventure | 7.6 | 17,582 | English | The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. |
| Ex Machina | 2,015 | Alex Garland | Drama, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 14,028 | English | Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl. |
| Casino Royale | 2,006 | Martin Campbell | Adventure, Action, Thriller | 7.6 | 11,449 | English | Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. |
| Corpse Bride | 2,005 | Tim Burton | Romance, Fantasy, Animation | 7.6 | 10,025 | English | In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living. |
| Children of Men | 2,006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Drama, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction | 7.6 | 7,675 | English | In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind. |
| Moon | 2,009 | Duncan Jones | Science Fiction, Drama | 7.6 | 6,122 | English | With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation. |
| Apocalypto | 2,006 | Mel Gibson | Action, Drama, History | 7.6 | 6,096 | English | Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life. |
| Wrath of Man | 2,021 | Guy Ritchie | Thriller, Crime, Drama | 7.6 | 5,939 | English | A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score. |
| The Kissing Booth 2 | 2,020 | Vince Marcello | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 | 5,104 | English | With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate. |
| Roma | 2,018 | Alfonso Cuarón | Drama | 7.6 | 4,071 | Spanish | In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time. |
| Thelma & Louise | 1,991 | Ridley Scott | Drama, Crime, Adventure | 7.6 | 3,771 | English | Taking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience. |
| Tetris | 2,023 | Jon S. Baird | Thriller, History, Drama | 7.6 | 1,656 | English | In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain. |
| Amy | 2,015 | Asif Kapadia | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 1,303 | English | A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs. |
| The Dirty Dozen | 1,967 | Robert Aldrich | Action, Adventure, War | 7.6 | 1,288 | English | 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences. |
| A Close Shave | 1,996 | Nick Park | Family, Animation, Comedy | 7.6 | 906 | English | Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot. |
| My Policeman | 2,022 | Michael Grandage | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 754 | English | In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal. |
| Secrets & Lies | 1,996 | Mike Leigh | Drama | 7.6 | 708 | English | After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman. |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | 1,949 | Robert Hamer | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 | 591 | English | When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry. |
| Maurice | 1,987 | James Ivory | Drama, Romance | 7.6 | 590 | English | After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society. |
| The Servant | 1,963 | Joseph Losey | Drama | 7.6 | 367 | English | Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid. |
| Oliver Twist | 1,948 | David Lean | Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy | 7.6 | 250 | English | When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy. |
| Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned | 2,007 | James Strong | Science Fiction, TV Movie, Mystery, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 207 | English | When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he stop the Christmas inferno? |
| Don't Hug Me I'm Scared | 2,012 | Becky Sloan | Animation, Comedy, Horror, Music | 7.6 | 166 | English | A disturbing puppet short exploring the concept of creativity. |
| Heidi | 2,005 | Paul Marcus | Drama, Family | 7.6 | 128 | English | Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours. |
| Diana: In Her Own Words | 2,017 | Tom Jennings | Documentary | 7.6 | 116 | English | Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life. |
| Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 2 | 2,014 | Joseph Pelling | Horror, Animation, Fantasy, Music, Comedy | 7.6 | 102 | English | Step back into the imaginative and frankly terrifying world of Becky & Joe with Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared. In this episode: Some things change over Time. |
| The Browning Version | 1,951 | Anthony Asquith | Drama | 7.6 | 100 | English | Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work. |
| Bitter Lake | 2,015 | Adam Curtis | Documentary | 7.6 | 92 | English | An experimental documentary that explores Saudi Arabia's relationship with the U.S. and the role this has played in the war in Afghanistan. |
| Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth | 2,020 | Philip Hunt | Animation, Family | 7.6 | 71 | English | On the eve of Earth Day, a precocious seven-year-old learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents—and a mysterious exhibit at the aptly named Museum of Everything. |
| Bill Hicks: Relentless | 1,992 | Chris Bould | Comedy | 7.6 | 67 | English | Bill Hicks tells us how he feels about non-smokers, blow-jobs, religion, war and peace, and drugs and music. |
| Cash on Demand | 1,961 | Quentin Lawrence | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 | 58 | English | A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000. |
| 35 Up | 1,991 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.6 | 55 | English | Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years. |
| Gorillaz: Reject False Icons | 2,019 | Denholm Hewlett | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 54 | English | Focused on the life of the band and their collaborators over the 3 vital years in which they developed critically acclaimed albums, 'Humanz' and 'The Now Now', and undertook their most ambitious world tour to date. |
| 42 Up | 1,999 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.6 | 53 | English | Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years. |
| Hawking | 2,013 | Stephen Finnigan | Documentary | 7.6 | 50 | English | The extraordinary story of the planet’s most famous contemporary scientist, told in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking’s private life, this is an intimate and moving journey into Stephen's world, both past and present. |
| McCullin | 2,012 | Jacqui Morris | Documentary | 7.6 | 47 | English | Biographical documentary of the war photographer Don McCullin, with sections on his upbringing, early work for the Observer and extensive war reporting for the Sunday Times until the purchase of the newspaper by Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s. |
| Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster | 2,019 | Chris Holt | Crime, Documentary | 7.6 | 42 | English | New exclusive access and never before heard testimony gives a unique insight into the mind of America's most notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy. Breathtaking archive from the time and the voice of Bundy himself, reveals the monster inside the man. |
| The Secret Life of Brian | 2,007 | Will Yapp | Documentary | 7.6 | 41 | English | A documentary about the making of the controversial Life of Brian and the surrounding accusations of blasphemy. |
| Brazil 2002: The Real Story | 2,022 | Luis Ara | Documentary | 7.6 | 39 | Portuguese | A behind-the-scenes look at Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning soccer team, with unseen footage and interviews with the players. |
| Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life | 2,009 | Unknown | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.6 | 37 | English | Darwin's great insight – that life has evolved over millions of years by natural selection – has been the cornerstone of all David Attenborough’s natural history series. In this documentary, he takes us on a deeply personal journey which reflects his own life and the way he came to understand Darwin’s theory. |
| Scouts Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America | 2,023 | Brian Knappenberger | Documentary, Crime | 7.6 | 33 | English | Survivors, whistleblowers, and experts recount the Boy Scouts of America's decadeslong cover-up of sexual abuse cases and its heartbreaking impact. |
| The Beckoning Silence | 2,007 | Louise Osmond | Documentary, Action, Drama | 7.6 | 28 | English | In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning "Touching the Void", travels to the treacherous North Face of the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies. As a child, it was this story and that of one of the climbers in particular, that first captured Simpson's imagination and inspired him to take up mountaineering. |
| Blackadder's Christmas Carol | 1,988 | Richard Boden | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.6 | 27 | English | After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways. |
| A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | 2,017 | Richard Boden | Comedy, TV Movie | 7.6 | 25 | English | The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a live production of Charles Dickens' famous festive fable. Yet they struggle with studio direction and special effects, and trying to keep a professional cast at bay. |
| Derren Brown: Infamous | 2,014 | Andy Nyman | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.6 | 25 | English | Multi award-winning psychological illusionist Derren Brown returns in the recording of his acclaimed live show ‘Infamous’. Featuring Derren at his baffling best with the excitement of a live theatre audience, Infamous includes amazing, provocative, jaw dropping demonstrations of his incredible skills of magic, suggestion, showmanship and misdirection in a must-watch roller coaster of emotions. |
| No Stone Unturned | 2,017 | Alex Gibney | Documentary | 7.6 | 20 | English | Ireland's victory over Italy at the World Cup in New Jersey in 1994, remains a source of Irish pride. But it is haunted by memories of a massacre: terrorists opened fire and killed six innocents while they watched the match in a small village pub in Northern Ireland. Remarkably, no one was ever charged for the crime. For more than twenty years the victims' families have searched for answers. Now, at last, they may have found them. But what they learn turns a murder mystery into bigger inquiry relevant for us all: what happens when governments cover up the truth? |
| Dara Ó Briain: Live at the Theatre Royal | 2,006 | Paul Wheeler | Comedy | 7.6 | 20 | English | The final date from Dara's sell-out 100 date tour of the UK and Ireland. Recorded in front of 2,500 fans at London's Theatre Royal, this show displays the comedian at his quick-thinking best. |
| Gorillaz: Demon Days Live at the Manchester Opera House | 2,006 | David Barnard | Music | 7.6 | 18 | English | Demon Days: Live at the Manchester Opera House is a Grammy Award nominated live DVD by Gorillaz, It compiles live performances by the band from the 1st through the 5th of November 2005 at the Manchester Opera House that recreated the Demon Days Studio album. |
| Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album | 2,000 | Andrew Solt | Music, Documentary | 7.6 | 17 | English | An instant classic when released in September 1971, John Lennon's Imagine was the ex-Beatle's solo masterpiece, and its musical legacy is matched here by priceless footage of Lennon's creative process, independently edited from original 16-millimeter footage by producer-director Andrew Solt with the hands-off approval of Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. Incorporating footage from John and Yoko's original film Imagine (clips of which were previously included in the 1988 documentary Imagine: John Lennon), Gimme Some Truth presents Lennon, Ono, coproducer Phil Spector, and a host of gifted musicians in a fluid context of conflict, community, and craftsmanship. Bearing witness to every stage of the recording process, this 63-minute documentary succeeds as a visual diary, a study of familiar music in its infancy, and a revealing portrait of the then-30-year-old Lennon--from witty clown to confrontational perfectionist--at the peak of his post-Fab Four inspiration. |
| CTRL Z | 2,017 | James Kennedy | Science Fiction, Comedy | 7.6 | 16 | English | A man creates a device that creates a "save point" in his life, allowing him to undo recent actions. Desperate to impress the love of his life, he uses the device repeatedly, seeking advice from a friend to perfect every moment. However, returning to the save point comes at a dark cost, he must take his own life each time. |
| Hunter | 2,015 | Scott Barley | Mystery | 7.6 | 16 | English | It is nightfall. A hunter lurks in the darkness, wandering further towards the impenetrable. Do the meanings lie in the stream, in the mountains, the stars, or in the death of things? |
| The Expert | 2,014 | Lauris Beinerts | Comedy | 7.6 | 16 | English | A funny business meeting illustrating how hard it is for an engineer to fit into the corporate world. |
| Stewart Lee: Content Provider | 2,018 | Tim Kirkby | Comedy | 7.6 | 14 | English | Stewart Lee's latest live show, Content Provider, is also his most successful live show yet. He toured it for 214 dates from November 2016 to April 2018. This is a filmed recording of that show |
| Jayde Adams: Serious Black Jumper | 2,020 | Peter Orton | Comedy | 7.6 | 12 | English | Multi-award-winning comic Jayde Adams’ debut stand-up special Serious Black Jumper sees the Bristolian take a completely new direction. Having packed away the sequins and glamour (for now), Jayde has gotten rid of the show stopping musical numbers and glitzy costumes to reinvent herself as a ‘Successful Independent Woman Person’, exploring what it means to be a feminist this century. Working class woman of the people and “Britain’s Funniest Woman comic” (Daily Mail) invites you to discover what it takes to be a real role model, whilst wearing the feminist wardrobe staple attire; the Serious Black Jumper™. |
| Victoria & Albert | 2,001 | John Erman | Romance, Drama | 7.6 | 12 | English | The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert's frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort. |
| Lord Don't Slow Me Down | 2,007 | Baillie Walsh | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 11 | English | What happens when a film maker follows one of the world's biggest bands on a year long world tour? What happens when the film maker is granted unique access to that band, is present for the ups and downs, the moments of greatness and the periods of the same interview in 10 different languages in as many days? What happens when that band is Oasis, traveling across 26 countries on their biggest world tour to date playing to a total of over 2 million people? |
| The Debussy Film | 1,965 | Ken Russell | TV Movie, Drama | 7.6 | 11 | English | An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely. |
| Now and Then - The Last Beatles Song | 2,023 | Oliver Murray | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 10 | English | The story of The Beatles' last song featuring exclusive footage and commentary. |
| Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle | 2,021 | Ben Fogle | Documentary | 7.6 | 10 | English | Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the doomed Control Room 4 where the disaster first began to unfold. |
| The Seven Ages of Elvis | 2,017 | David Upshal | Documentary, Music | 7.6 | 10 | English | Documentary about the life and career of Elvis Presley produced for Sky Arts. Includes rarely seen clips and photos from throughout Elvis' career as well as comments from music historians and musicians, songwriters, producers, actors, etc. who worked with him. Narrated by producer/director David Upshal. |
| Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks to People | 2,016 | Jonathan Taylor | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.6 | 10 | English | Documentary telling the extraordinary story of Koko, the only 'talking' gorilla in the world, and her lifelong relationship with Penny Patterson. Project Koko started as a PhD project to teach sign language to a baby gorilla, but as Koko began to communicate with Penny, an intense bond formed between them. Penny has now been with Koko for over 40 years and claims Koko can reveal fresh insights into the workings of an animal's mind. Koko's unique life with Penny has been filmed every step of the way. Over 2,000 hours of footage chart the most dramatic moments - Penny's battle to keep Koko from being taken back to the zoo in which she was born, Penny's clash with academic critics who doubted her claims and the image of Koko mourning the death of her kitten. |
| Caligula with Mary Beard | 2,013 | Hugo Macgregor | Documentary, History | 7.6 | 10 | English | What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (12-41), nicknamed Caligula? Professor Mary Beard explains what is accurate and what is mythical in the historical accounts that portray him as an unbalanced despot. Was he a sadistic tyrant, as Roman historians have told, or perhaps the truth about him was manipulated because of political interests? |
| How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster? | 2,010 | Carlos Carcas | Documentary | 7.6 | 10 | English | The film traces the rise of one of the world's premier architects, Norman Foster, and his unending quest to improve the quality of life through design. |
| The Passing of the Third Floor Back | 1,935 | Berthold Viertel | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.6 | 10 | English | The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door. |
| Shaun of the Dead | 2,004 | Edgar Wright | Horror, Comedy | 7.5 | 9,137 | English | Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners. |
| Eyes Wide Shut | 1,999 | Stanley Kubrick | Drama, Thriller, Mystery | 7.5 | 6,841 | English | After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head. |
| In Bruges | 2,008 | Martin McDonagh | Comedy, Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 5,627 | English | Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected. |
| Carol | 2,015 | Todd Haynes | Romance, Drama | 7.5 | 3,910 | English | In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. |
| The Banshees of Inisherin | 2,022 | Martin McDonagh | Drama, Comedy | 7.5 | 3,234 | English | Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them. |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | 2,011 | Lynne Ramsay | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 3,028 | English | After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager. |
| Barton Fink | 1,991 | Joel Coen | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 | 1,833 | English | A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood. |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | 2,001 | Joel Coen | Crime, Drama | 7.5 | 1,712 | English | A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it. |
| This Is England | 2,007 | Shane Meadows | Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 1,372 | English | A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. |
| The Iron Claw | 2,023 | Sean Durkin | History, Drama | 7.5 | 1,172 | English | The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports. |
| A Grand Day Out | 1,990 | Nick Park | Family, Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction, Adventure | 7.5 | 978 | English | Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. |
| Where Eagles Dare | 1,968 | Brian G. Hutton | Action, Adventure, War | 7.5 | 958 | English | World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late. |
| Exit Through the Gift Shop | 2,010 | Banksy | Documentary | 7.5 | 939 | English | Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. |
| The Killing Fields | 1,984 | Roland Joffé | Drama, History, War | 7.5 | 808 | English | New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in. |
| The Man Who Would Be King | 1,975 | John Huston | Adventure, Drama | 7.5 | 691 | English | Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafiristan, where they are ultimately embraced by the people and revered as rulers. After a series of misunderstandings, the natives come to believe that Dravot is a god, but he and Carnehan can't keep up their deception forever. |
| The Innocents | 1,961 | Jack Clayton | Horror, Mystery, Drama | 7.5 | 650 | English | A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed. |
| Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | 2,024 | Nick Park | Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation | 7.5 | 609 | English | Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again! |
| Black Narcissus | 1,947 | Emeric Pressburger | Drama | 7.5 | 536 | English | A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love. |
| Tell It to the Bees | 2,019 | Annabel Jankel | Romance, Drama | 7.5 | 466 | English | Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world. |
| Touching the Void | 2,003 | Kevin Macdonald | Documentary, Action, Adventure, Drama | 7.5 | 445 | English | The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. |
| The Devils | 1,971 | Ken Russell | Drama, History, Horror | 7.5 | 416 | English | Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft. |
| A Christmas Carol | 1,984 | Clive Donner | Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie, Family | 7.5 | 411 | English | Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption. |
| The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years | 2,016 | Ron Howard | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 380 | English | The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music. |
| The Snowman | 1,982 | Dianne Jackson | Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy | 7.5 | 340 | English | A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. |
| To Sir, with Love | 1,967 | James Clavell | Drama | 7.5 | 337 | English | A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care. |
| I Can't Think Straight | 2,008 | Shamim Sarif | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 327 | English | Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents. As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself. |
| Night and the City | 1,950 | Jules Dassin | Drama, Crime | 7.5 | 277 | English | Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan. |
| Marley | 2,012 | Kevin Macdonald | Music, Documentary | 7.5 | 273 | English | Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), MARLEY is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. Made with the support of the Marley family, the film features rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best. |
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | 1,943 | Emeric Pressburger | War, Drama, Romance, Comedy | 7.5 | 264 | English | General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier. |
| The Hill | 1,965 | Sidney Lumet | Drama, War | 7.5 | 241 | English | North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms. |
| Summerland | 2,020 | Jessica Swale | Drama, Romance | 7.5 | 221 | English | A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him. |
| Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead | 2,009 | James Strong | Science Fiction, TV Movie, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.5 | 218 | English | A meeting in a London bus with jewel thief Lady Christina takes a turn for the worse for the Doctor when the bus takes a detour to a desert-like planet, where the deadly Swarm awaits. |
| Listen to Me Marlon | 2,015 | Stevan Riley | Documentary | 7.5 | 164 | English | With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life. |
| Let It Be | 1,970 | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 164 | English | A documentary chronicling the Beatles' rehearsal sessions in January 1969 for their proposed "back to basics" album, "Get Back," later re-envisioned and released as "Let It Be." |
| Victim | 1,961 | Basil Dearden | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 7.5 | 155 | English | A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success. |
| HyperNormalisation | 2,016 | Adam Curtis | Documentary | 7.5 | 154 | English | We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now… |
| The Fear of 13 | 2,015 | David Sington | Documentary, Crime | 7.5 | 140 | English | After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems. |
| Gigi & Nate | 2,022 | Nick Hamm | Drama | 7.5 | 138 | English | A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend. |
| McQueen | 2,018 | Ian Bonhôte | Documentary | 7.5 | 133 | English | Alexander McQueen's rags-to-riches story is a modern-day fairy tale, laced with the gothic. Mirroring the savage beauty, boldness and vivacity of his design, this documentary is an intimate revelation of McQueen's own world, both tortured and inspired, which celebrates a radical and mesmerizing genius of profound influence. |
| TT3D: Closer to the Edge | 2,011 | Richard De Aragues | Documentary | 7.5 | 127 | English | By vividly recounting the TT's legendary rivalries and the Isle of Man's unique road racing history, this 3D feature documentary discovers why modern TT riders still risk their lives to win the world's most dangerous race. The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is the greatest motorcycle road race in the world, the ultimate challenge for rider and machine. It has always called for a commitment far beyond any other racing event, and many have made the ultimate sacrifice in their quest for victory. A story about freedom of choice, the strength of human spirit and the will to win. It's also an examination of what motivates those rare few, this elite band of brothers who risk everything to win. |
| Ethel & Ernest | 2,016 | Roger Mainwood | Animation, Drama, War, History | 7.5 | 123 | English | This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events. |
| 28 Up | 1,984 | Michael Apted | Documentary | 7.5 | 74 | English | Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted's documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wondering whether they've found their place in the world. |
| Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet | 2,021 | Jonathan Clay | Documentary | 7.5 | 69 | English | David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted. |
| Make Us Dream | 2,018 | Sam Blair | Documentary | 7.5 | 66 | English | Steven Gerrard became perhaps the greatest player in the history of Liverpool FC, but did so when success and trophies were declining. It became his personal mission to lift the famous club back to the top. That loyalty raised him to God-like status with Liverpool fans, but was an unbearable burden, bringing with it a profound sense of responsibility to live up to their and his own expectations. |
| Peter Pan Goes Wrong | 2,016 | Dewi Humphreys | Comedy, Family, Music | 7.5 | 63 | English | The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to BBC One. As part of its commitment to community theatre, the BBC has commissioned The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, an amateur dramatics group, to recreate the JM Barrie classic as part of their festive programming. But can they pull it off? Narrated by David Suchet and filmed in front of a live audience, watch as Peter Pan flies through the air, Captain Hook and his pirates set adrift in the lagoon, and Tinkerbell is due to light up the stage in a stunning electrical costume... what can possibly go wrong?! With their trademark comic mayhem, expect hilarious stunts, chaos, technical hitches, flying mishaps and cast disputes on the way to Neverland with hilarious and disastrous results. |
| Hornblower: The Even Chance | 1,998 | Andrew Grieve | War, Adventure, TV Movie | 7.5 | 57 | English | Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications. |
| The French Revolution | 1,989 | Richard T. Heffron | Drama, War, History, Thriller | 7.5 | 55 | French | A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794. |
| Russell Howard: Recalibrate | 2,017 | Peter Orton | Comedy | 7.5 | 52 | English | Self-deprecating comic Russell Howard plows ahead through politics, porn, social media and his own shortcomings. Yet he somehow keeps it positive. |
| David Bowie: Five Years | 2,013 | Francis Whately | Documentary, Music, TV Movie | 7.5 | 48 | English | Featuring a wealth of previously unseen archive, this film looks at how Bowie continually evolved: from Ziggy Stardust to the Soul Star of Young Americans, to the ‘Thin White Duke’. It explores his regeneration in Berlin with the critically acclaimed album Heroes, his triumph with Scary Monsters and his global success with Let’s Dance. With interviews with all his closest collaborators, David Bowie - Five Years presents a unique account of why Bowie has become an ‘icon of our times’. |
| ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas | 2,019 | Sam Dunn | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 45 | English | The story of how three oddball teenage bluesmen became one of the biggest, most beloved bands on the planet. |
| Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh | 2,010 | Paul Wheeler | Comedy | 7.5 | 42 | English | Jimmy Carr: Making People Laugh features over two hours of material that's too rude for TV. |
| Cunk on Shakespeare | 2,016 | Lorry Powles | Comedy | 7.5 | 40 | English | Fresh from her triumphs on Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe investigating time, Winston Churchill, and Donald Trump, Philomena Cunk has finally been given her own show - about William Shakespeare. Cunk will leave no stone unturned as she gets to the bottom of the Bard, visiting his birthplace, exploring the Globe, studying priceless artefacts and interviewing literally six different experts. |
| Louis Theroux: Behind Bars | 2,008 | Stuart Cabb | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.5 | 37 | English | For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison. |
| The Enemies of Reason | 2,007 | Russell Barnes | Documentary | 7.5 | 36 | English | Documentary written and presented by scientist Richard Dawkins, in which he seeks to expose "those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell", including mediumship, psychokinesis, acupuncture, and other forms of alternative medicine. |
| Maiden | 2,019 | Alex Holmes | Documentary | 7.5 | 35 | English | In a moving portrait of resilience, Alex Holmes chronicles the unprecedented journey of 24-year-old Tracy Edwards and the first all-female sailing crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race. |
| Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of | 2,015 | Stephen Kijak | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 34 | English | A behind-the-scenes look at the popular boy band, Backstreet Boys. |
| The Seat | 2,025 | Kyle Thrash | Documentary | 7.5 | 33 | English | 'The Seat' is an unprecedented inside look that led to a once-in-a-generation driver change in Mercedes and F1 history. It reveals the private conversations that led the Mercedes team and Toto Wolff, its Team Principal and CEO, to its decision to promote 18-year-old Italian-born Kimi Antonelli to a Formula 1 Driver, making him the third-youngest rookie in the sport's history. The film follows Kimi, in the lead up to his first Formula 1 season as he takes on his destiny. |
| Grenfell: Uncovered | 2,025 | Olaide Sadiq | Documentary | 7.5 | 33 | English | Survivors, witnesses, and experts tell the story of the tragic fire that engulfed a residential tower block in London — and the investigation that ensued. |
| The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms | 2,015 | David Briggs | Documentary | 7.5 | 30 | English | Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines on the internet to satnavs and credit card data security - they even help us travel the world, find love and save lives. Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy demystifies the hidden world of algorithms. By showing us some of the algorithms most essential to our lives, he reveals where these 2,000-year-old problem solvers came from, how they work, what they have achieved and how they are now so advanced they can even programme themselves. |
| Eddie Izzard: Unrepeatable | 1,994 | John Gordillo | Comedy | 7.5 | 30 | English | Recorded one night at the Albert Theatre in March 1994, when Eddie Izzard was playing a limited seven week sold-out run of her celebrated stand-up show. |
| Nirvana: Live at Reading | 2,009 | Toru Uehara | Music, Documentary | 7.5 | 29 | English | This was the band's second performance at the music festival and their first since the success of 'Nevermind' had elevated them to the position of what magazines called the "biggest" rock band in the world. It was also sadly their final concert in the United Kingdom. |
| Storm in a Teacup | 1,937 | Ian Dalrymple | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 29 | English | A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter. |
| Jellyfish | 2,019 | James Gardner | Drama | 7.5 | 28 | English | In Margate, England, life is not easy for teenager Sarah Taylor, between being bullied at school, being exploited by a dominant boss and having to take care of her depressive mother and her two siblings. But Sarah finds a way to channel her growing despair and fight adversity when her drama teacher gives her a new purpose. |
| The Real Charlie Chaplin | 2,021 | Pete Middleton | Documentary, Drama | 7.5 | 26 | English | A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966. |
| The Village | 1,993 | Mark Baker | Animation | 7.5 | 23 | English | A village is ruled by the church, but is filled with hypocritical sinners who constantly spy on each other. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008. |
| Hunt vs Lauda: F1's Greatest Racing Rivals | 2,013 | Matthew Whiteman | Documentary | 7.5 | 22 | English | James Hunt has never been equalled. Could swashbuckling Hunt catch the scientific Lauda? Could Niki overcome an appalling crash to come back from the dead and fight James all the way to the last race of the season? This powerful story captures the heart of the 1970s - told through unseen footage and exclusive interviews with the people who were really there - the team managers, families, journalists and friends who were in the front row of the season that changed Formula 1 forever. |
| Cleopatra's Final Secret | 2,025 | Alex Kiehl | Documentary, History | 7.5 | 19 | English | After 20 years seeking Cleopatra's tomb, archaeologist K. Martinez's search shifts to an underwater Mediterranean site. She's joined by Titanic finder Bob Ballard, Egyptian Navy and dive teams to explore the location. |
| Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd | 2,023 | Roddy Bogawa | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 19 | English | Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star. |
| Extinction: The Facts | 2,020 | Charlotte Lathane | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.5 | 19 | English | With a million species at risk of extinction, Sir David Attenborough explores how this crisis of biodiversity has consequences for us all, threatening food and water security, undermining our ability to control our climate and even putting us at greater risk of pandemic diseases. |
| 97% Owned | 2,012 | Michael Oswald | Documentary | 7.5 | 19 | English | 97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like; where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does this mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when the monetary, and financial system, breaks down? Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the "HBOS Whistleblower" Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign. |
| Lee Evans: XL Tour Live 2005 | 2,005 | Tom Poole | Comedy | 7.5 | 19 | English | Comedy antics of Lee Evans on his live stand-up tour in Cardiff, Wales. |
| Hard Grit | 1,998 | Richard Heap | Drama, Action, Documentary | 7.5 | 17 | English | Hard Grit (1998) is a climbing film produced by Slackjaw Film, featuring climbing on gritstone in the North of England. It has won ten international film festival awards. |
| Hijacked: Flight 73 | 2,023 | Ben Anthony | Documentary | 7.5 | 16 | English | On 5 September 1986, Palestinian terrorists stormed Pan Am Flight 73 as it stalled on the Karachi Airport tarmac. Exploring what happened over the next 16 hours, including the death of 21 passengers, in a day that would change terrorist operations for ever. |
| Defying Gravity: The Curtain Rises on Wicked | 2,024 | Julia Knowles | Documentary | 7.5 | 15 | English | A behind-the-scenes look at the highly-anticipated film Wicked, featuring interviews with the cast and crew. |
| The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee | 2,024 | Jon Spira | Documentary | 7.5 | 15 | English | Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, post-war Nazi-hunting adventures and a side career as a heavy metal rock singer. And one of the most iconic actors of all time. |
| Coldplay: Live 2003 | 2,003 | Russell Thomas | Music | 7.5 | 15 | English | On tour promoting their 2002 studio album ‘A Rush of Blood to the Head’, English pop rock band Coldplay performs a live show at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia in July 2003. |
| Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy | 2,025 | Robert Palumbo | Documentary | 7.5 | 13 | English | The story of Matthew Perry's rise to fame is interwoven with the harrowing story of his final days, as his assistant allegedly sought ketamine from sources the U.S. Attorney claims "should have known better." We hear from some of Perry's collaborators, Hollywood insiders, and law enforcement in telling this tragic Hollywood story. |
| Brian Cox: Seven Days on Mars | 2,022 | Michael Lachmann | Documentary | 7.5 | 13 | English | With unique access to Nasa, Brian Cox follows Perseverance rover’s search for life on Mars during a critical seven-day period as it undertakes an epic journey across the red planet. |
| A Christmas Carol | 2,020 | Jacqui Morris | Drama, Animation, Fantasy | 7.5 | 13 | English | The radical new take on Dickens’ classic seeks both to exhume the original story’s gritty commentary on social inequality and the corrupting influence of greed, and to breathe new life into the lyricism of the original text by setting its scenes to extraordinary tableaux of modern dance. |
| Two for Joy | 2,018 | Tom Beard | Drama | 7.5 | 13 | English | A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town. |
| Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule | 2,014 | Andy Humphries | Documentary | 7.5 | 13 | English | Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, surrealism, subversive satire and pompous punk wit left a body of work that spanned four decades. Mayall's characters include the Black Country's investigative nerd Kevin Turvey, Felicity Kendal-adoring student and 'People's Poet' Rik in The Young Ones, ruthless MP Alan B'Stard in The New Statesman, seedy loser Richie in Bottom and larger-than-life characters Robin Hood and flying ace Lord Flashheart from Blackadder. Narrated by Simon Callow, this programme salutes Rik Mayall and celebrates his part in the UK's comedy history using rare and unseen archive footage. It also features contributions from people who knew or admired him, including Michael Palin, Simon Pegg, Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Alexei Sayle, Christopher Ryan, Tim McInnerny, Jools Holland, Ruby Wax and Greg Davies. |
| Christine | 1,987 | Alan Clarke | TV Movie, Drama | 7.5 | 13 | English | Christine is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one friend's house to another, delivering heroin while their parents are absent. |
| The Ritchie Blackmore Story | 2,015 | Alan Ravenscroft | Music, Documentary | 7.5 | 12 | English | The Ritchie Blackmore Story traces the long and winding road of the guitar legend — from his early days as a session player (with legendary producer Joe Meek) and his early ’60s combo the Outlaws up through his years guiding one of hard rock’s finest bands, Deep Purple, and into his recent work with Blackmore’s Night. |
| Over | 2,015 | Jörn Threlfall | Drama | 7.5 | 12 | English | Over presents a crime scene. During the course of 9 wide shots, we watch an intriguing story unfold. What's happened in this quiet neighbourhood? A murder, hit-and-run, an accident? The reality is profound, and deeply unexpected. |
| Classic Albums: Amy Winehouse - Back to Black | 2,018 | Jeremy Marre | Documentary, Music | 7.5 | 11 | English | The true story of how Amy Winehouse’s best known and most celebrated body of work came into being. Featuring previously unseen footage of Amy, new interviews with producers Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi, and the musicians who worked with Amy on the album, offering fresh insights into Amy’s remarkable gifts as a singer, songwriter, musician and performer |
| 1945: The Savage Peace | 2,015 | Peter Molloy | Documentary, History, TV Movie | 7.5 | 11 | English | How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years. |
| Leopard Fight Club | 2,013 | Unknown | Documentary | 7.5 | 11 | English | Witness a remarkable coming-of-age story as we track a young leopard's journey from rookie to royalty in South Africa's lethal Big Five landscape. When we first meet Jack, he's clumsy, fearful, and weak, but he's a fast learner - and he'll need to be. He's destined for a showdown with the area's current leopard monarch, an alpha male with a real mean streak. We follow Jack as he hones his skills and builds up muscle for the ultimate catfight. It's a battle where only the winner will walk out alive. |
| Retirement | 2,013 | Scott Barley | N/A | 7.5 | 11 | English | "Retirement. My retirement. After a long stretch of intense work on a project that I wasn't passionate about, I finally had a little time to make something I truly wanted. Solitude. A subtle use of machinima alongside HD video." Scott Barley |
| The Ethereal Melancholy of Seeing Horses in the Cold | 2,012 | Scott Barley | N/A | 7.5 | 11 | English | A silent short, focusing on the beauty and melancholia of seeing horses in the cold fog, and the metaphors that manifest, as time passes. |
| Copenhagen | 2,002 | Howard Davies | Drama, History | 7.5 | 11 | English | No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the momentous meeting that occurred one night in September 1941, during which the longtime friends entered into a dangerous discussion about physics and politics. |
| On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' | 2,000 | Andrew Abbott | Documentary, TV Movie | 7.5 | 11 | English | This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version. |
| Winstanley | 1,975 | Kevin Brownlow | Drama, History | 7.5 | 11 | English | Gerrard Winstanley is the leader of a 17th Century religious group that believes the land should be owned communally. His convictions bring him into conflict with both the state and the church. |
| Don't Take Me Home | 2,017 | Jonny Owen | Documentary | 7.5 | 10 | English | Documentary focusing on the Wales national football team and their first Major Tournament since 1958 at the Euro's 2016 in France. going beyond expectations and reaching the Semi Final, Making a Country Proud |
| Billy Connolly: High Horse Tour Live | 2,016 | Paul Wheeler | Comedy | 7.5 | 10 | English | Stand-up legend, Billy Connolly returns in his ‘High Horse Tour’. Even at the age of 72, the legendary Scot has a wild and manic energy—and is still as sharp as ever. |
| Pat and Margaret | 1,994 | Gavin Millar | Drama, Comedy, TV Movie | 7.5 | 10 | English | Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent. |
| Follow Me! | 1,972 | Carol Reed | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 | 10 | English | A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him. |
| Windbag the Sailor | 1,936 | William Beaudine | Comedy | 7.5 | 10 | English | Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt. |
| Dunkirk | 2,017 | Christopher Nolan | War, Action, Drama | 7.4 | 17,324 | English | The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II. |
| Baby Driver | 2,017 | Edgar Wright | Action, Crime | 7.4 | 16,590 | English | After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. |
| Lost in Translation | 2,003 | Sofia Coppola | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 7,899 | English | Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America. |
| Black Hawk Down | 2,001 | Ridley Scott | Action, War, History | 7.4 | 6,213 | English | When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground. |
| Law Abiding Citizen | 2,009 | F. Gary Gray | Drama, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 | 5,556 | English | A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal. |
| Darkest Hour | 2,017 | Joe Wright | Drama, History | 7.4 | 5,434 | English | In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire. |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind | 1,977 | Steven Spielberg | Science Fiction, Drama | 7.4 | 4,540 | English | After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. |
| One Day | 2,011 | Lone Scherfig | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 4,472 | English | A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together. |
| Match Point | 2,005 | Woody Allen | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 | 4,294 | English | Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and financial advantages that this relationship affords him, Chris becomes obsessed with Tom's fiancee, American actress Nola. |
| Goldfinger | 1,964 | Guy Hamilton | Adventure, Action, Thriller | 7.4 | 3,868 | English | Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy. |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 1,975 | Jim Sharman | Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror | 7.4 | 3,073 | English | After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr. Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man. |
| An American Werewolf in London | 1,981 | John Landis | Comedy, Horror | 7.4 | 2,643 | English | American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind. |
| Selma | 2,014 | Ava DuVernay | History, Drama | 7.4 | 2,295 | English | "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act. |
| Midnight Express | 1,978 | Alan Parker | Drama, Crime | 7.4 | 1,849 | English | Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express". |
| Submarine | 2,011 | Richard Ayoade | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 7.4 | 1,555 | English | 15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana. |
| The Mission | 1,986 | Roland Joffé | Adventure, Drama, Action, History | 7.4 | 1,508 | English | When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors. |
| The Remains of the Day | 1,993 | James Ivory | Drama, Romance | 7.4 | 1,452 | English | A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude. |
| The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society | 2,018 | Mike Newell | Romance, Drama, History | 7.4 | 1,383 | English | Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII. |
| The Mauritanian | 2,021 | Kevin Macdonald | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 | 1,243 | English | The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release. |
| Repulsion | 1,965 | Roman Polanski | Drama, Thriller, Horror | 7.4 | 1,076 | English | Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness. |
| The African Queen | 1,952 | John Huston | Romance, Adventure, Drama | 7.4 | 1,027 | English | At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship. |
| The Lady Vanishes | 1,938 | Alfred Hitchcock | Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 | 1,006 | English | On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss Froy. When the train resumes, Iris suffers a bout of unconsciousness and wakes to find the old woman has disappeared. The other passengers ominously deny Miss Froy ever existed, so Iris begins to investigate with another traveler and, as the pair sleuth, romantic sparks fly. |
| All of Us Strangers | 2,023 | Andrew Haigh | Romance, Drama, Fantasy | 7.4 | 968 | English | One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. |
| Man on Wire | 2,008 | James Marsh | Documentary | 7.4 | 937 | English | On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement. |
| Peeping Tom | 1,960 | Michael Powell | Horror, Thriller, Drama | 7.4 | 881 | English | Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making. |
| Miss You Already | 2,015 | Catherine Hardwicke | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 | 685 | English | The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill. |
| The Swimmers | 2,022 | Sally El Hosaini | Drama, History | 7.4 | 627 | English | From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use. |
| A Matter of Loaf and Death | 2,008 | Nick Park | Family, Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Romance | 7.4 | 589 | English | Wallace and Gromit open a bakery, accidentally getting tied up with a murder mystery in the process. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case by himself. |
| Zulu | 1,964 | Cy Endfield | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.4 | 554 | English | In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes. |
| Kes | 1,970 | Ken Loach | Drama | 7.4 | 429 | English | Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence. |
| Diego Maradona | 2,019 | Asif Kapadia | Documentary | 7.4 | 417 | English | Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s. |
| The Lion in Winter | 1,968 | Anthony Harvey | Drama, History | 7.4 | 392 | English | Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir. |
| Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut | 2,006 | Richard Donner | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure | 7.4 | 371 | English | Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth. |
| Scrooge | 1,951 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Fantasy, Drama | 7.4 | 360 | English | Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man. |
| Ricky Gervais: SuperNature | 2,022 | John L. Spencer | Comedy | 7.4 | 324 | English | With his signature pitch-black sense of humor, Ricky Gervais takes the stage at the London Palladium in this provocative stand-up comedy special. |
| When the Wind Blows | 1,986 | Jimmy T. Murakami | Animation, War, Drama | 7.4 | 319 | English | With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II. |
| Little Lord Fauntleroy | 1,980 | Jack Gold | Family, Drama, TV Movie | 7.4 | 314 | English | Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir. |
| Hamlet | 1,948 | Laurence Olivier | Drama | 7.4 | 282 | English | Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists. |
| An Inspector Calls | 2,015 | Aisling Walsh | Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery, TV Movie | 7.4 | 254 | English | Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her. |
| Supersonic | 2,016 | Mat Whitecross | Music, Documentary, History | 7.4 | 233 | English | Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew. |
| Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | 2,008 | Andy Goddard | Science Fiction, TV Movie, Mystery, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.4 | 227 | English | The Doctor arrives in Victorian London. It's Christmas, but snow isn't the only thing descending on the tranquil and jubilant civilization, as familiar silver giants from an alternate reality are amassing in numbers. The Cybermen are on the move again, and the only beings who can stop them are the Doctor and... another Doctor? |
| Stuart: A Life Backwards | 2,007 | David Attwood | Drama, TV Movie | 7.4 | 218 | English | Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison. |
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