British tv movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant british tv movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good and entertaining films and TV shows about / with urban, satire, friendship, slice of life, sketch, british, humour, lifestyle, irreverent and british humour plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as british tv: Rock Follies (1976), The Mighty Boosh (2003), MeeBOX (2008), The Saturday Show (2001), Prank Patrol (2006), The Javone Prince Show (2015), The Complaints Department (2021), Carrie and Barry (2004), The Beiderbecke Connection (1988), Sunburn (1999).
Best films
New films
| Question Team (2021) | 6.9 | |
| The First Team (2020) | 6.1 | |
| Stephen (2021) | 7.4 | |
| The Baby (2022) | 6.3 | |
| Ralph & Katie (2022) | 7.2 |
List of british tv movies
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and two series, followed the ups and downs of a fictional female rock band called the "Little ...
Style:
period piece
Plot:
music industry, behind the scenes, female friendship, fictional band, female empowerment, professional rivalry, pop music, nightclub, manager, makeover, promoter, rock band ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy television show created by Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and others. The Mighty Boosh is a comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in ...
Style:
surreal, sitcom, humorous, exciting, not serious ...
Plot:
absurdism, stupidity, absurd humor, surrealism, obsessive quest, eccentricity, music, best friend, comedy team, fictional band, improv, sketch ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
David Mitchell and Robert Webb combine forces with a host of exciting and innovative future stars. Will it result in a lot of funny, inventive, and very sweary sketch comedy? That is entirely a matter of opinion!
Style:
sketch comedy, parody, witty, fast paced, cynical ...
Plot:
satire, irreverent, social satire, current affairs, swearing, political satire
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
Story:
A pilot for a sketch show by Adam Buxton, featuring belligerent megastar Famous Guy, British cinema's greatest advocate Ken Korda, a poorly subtitled edition of Songs of Praise and a home-made music video for Spoon.
Style:
sketch comedy, spoof, parody, ironic, offbeat ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, pop culture, wit, variety show, celebrity culture, deadpan, british monarchy, internet, sketch, celebrity, sign language, alien ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Family, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
The Saturday Show was a BBC children's Saturday morning show that first aired in 2001, replacing the popular Live & Kicking. It had a mix of audience participation, cartoons, games and gunge. Initially it was presented by Dani Behr and Joe ...
Style:
lighthearted, non fiction, interactive
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
children, game, slime, variety show, pop culture, hosts, studio, live broadcast, reenactment
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Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
Prank Patrol was a British version of the original Canadian Prank Patrol. The show was made for by Baker Media for CBBC which specialised in kids programming. It was hosted by Barney Harwood. It was produced by Baker Media in association with ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light hearted
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers
Plot:
children, entertainment, child, mischievous children, hidden camera, unhappiness, youth, surprise, youth culture, teamwork, television studio
Place:
britain
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Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Kirstie Allsopp and her team of experts transform homes with freecycle goods from her pop-up shop.
Plot:
transformation, resourceful, inspiration, lifestyle, problem solving, community, charity, store, englishwoman, british, house, salvation ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
A rich mix of stand-up, sketches and live music. Javone picks over the more ridiculous aspects of life in modern-day multicultural Britain.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
sketch, satire, comedian, humour, joke, stand up comedy, stand up comedian, social commentary, variety show, modern life, live performance, everyday life ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Jason Manford hosts a panel game based around complaining.
Style:
game show, satirical, semi serious, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
satire, comedian, stand up comedy, humour, joke, stand up comedian, rivalry, contest, improv, everyday life, irreverent, entertainment ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Carrie and Barry is a sitcom, shown 2004 - 2005 on BBC One, starring Neil Morrissey, Claire Rushbrook, Mark Williams and Michelle Gomez.
Produced by Hartswood Films, it reunited Morrissey with personnel from Men Behaving Badly: specifically writer ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, satirical, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, taxi driver, lifestyle, family relations, male female relationship, taxi, family life, husband wife relationship, satire, british, marriage, slice of life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
britain, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 201 min.
TV show
Story:
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Chapman teaches English and wants to help save the planet. They live together and just want a quiet life. Since their last adventure in ('Beiderbecke Tapes, The (1987) (TV)' ...
Style:
comedy drama, period piece, cult classic
Plot:
jazz, friendship, slice of life, everyday life, fish out of water, small town, social commentary, english teacher, working class, parenthood, police, bank robber ...
Time:
80s
Place:
northern england, england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and eight episodes respectively. The first was set ...
Style:
comedy drama, light hearted
Plot:
holiday romance, beach resort, friendship, behind the scenes, beautiful scenery, office politics, slice of life, personal growth, love, flirting, drinking alcohol, love triangle ...
Place:
cyprus
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Justice is a British legal drama starring Robert Pugh as Judge Patrick Coburn. The first episode was originally broadcast on 4 April 2011 on BBC One.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
judge, lawyer, courtroom, fight for justice, courtroom drama, court, attorney, justice, social injustice, legal action, hotshot lawyer, ethics ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
england, britain
Is relevant?
225
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Archie Daley's a bit of a rogue, always up for some dodgy dealings in the hope of making a nice little earner, but sometimes it can cause him to lose his moral compass, which is where Jamie usually steps in to put him right.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
heist, partner, master criminal, unlikely partners, criminal heroes, cons and scams, urban, friendship, going straight, scheme, loyalty, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Comedy sketch show with hilarious characters and absurdist twists from the duo that brought us Peep Show and The Smoking Room - David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
Style:
sketch comedy, funny, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
satire, humour, comedy duo, comedy team, stand up comedy, comedian, stand up comedian, joke, escape, awkwardness, social satire, irreverent ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A four-part thriller that focuses on the lives of sisters Theresa and Helen after a kid in their neighbourhood goes missing.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
sisters, children, missing child, mysterious disappearance, dysfunctional family, parents and children, kids in trouble, family problems, disappearance, sister sister relationship, child in peril, guilt ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after his death - secures ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
murder investigation, racial injustice, true crime, realism, biopic, racial tension, uncover truth, crime solving, homicide detective, police detective, police investigation, investigation ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 2010s
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Rescue Me is a British romantic comedy television series produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and broadcast on BBC One in 2002. It was created, and principally written, by David Nicholls and stars Sally Phillips as Katie Nash, a woman who is ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, cliffhanger, romantic comedy, funny ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, love, thirty something, friend, office, male female relationship, marriage, couples, love affair, troubled marriage, marriage crisis, couple relations ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The comedy show in which the nation's favourite comics and celebrities compete to convince Mel Giedroyc that they are the most Unforgivable person in the room. To do this they will have to dredge up their most outrageous sins, lies, legal ...
Style:
game show, humorous, feel good, satirical, semi serious ...
Plot:
confession, satire, absolution, celebrity, celebrity interview, competition, revelation, irreverent, judgment, celebrity culture, embarrassment, scandal ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story:
Tracy Beaker Returns is a BAFTA-winning British children's television series, which premiered on 8 January 2010 on CBBC and BBC HD. Based upon the novels by Jacqueline Wilson, it is the spin-off series to The Story of Tracy Beaker. The series ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
dumped, female protagonist, social misfits, children, society, family problems, life is a bitch, social problems, kids in trouble, orphan, dysfunctional family, social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
media, investigative journalism, newspaper, newspaper editor, newspaper reporter, relationship vs career, ambition, uncover truth, boss, workplace, workplace situations, integrity ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Footballers' Wives: Extra Time is a British drama programme. A spin-off of Footballers' Wives, the programme aired on ITV2 for two series. Footballers' Wives: Extra Time aired in the US on BBC America under the title Footballers' ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, relationship vs career, lifestyle, rise to the top, couples, manipulation, social relations, sport team, television, soccer, glamour, celebrity culture ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In The Club follows six pregnant women and their partners as they get ready for the arrival of their babies at the local parenting class. Housewife Diane, schoolgirl Rosie, newlywed Jasmin, businesswoman Roanna, midwife Vicky and writer and teaching ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, emotional
Plot:
couples, pregnancy, lifestyle, couple relations, family relations, love and romance, baby, parents and children, motherhood, parenting, birth, support group ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Red Cap is a British television drama series produced by Stormy Pictures for the BBC and broadcast on BBC One. Two series of six episodes each were produced following a feature length pilot. It featured the investigations of an Special Investigation ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
military life, military, army, army investigation, military base, sergeant, dishonesty, british army, chain of command, moral ambiguity, european, police corruption ...
Place:
germany
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Estranged foster-brothers Stephen and Andrew vie to take over the family business following the death of their father.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, entertaining, light, realistic ...
Plot:
inheritance, pub, humour, death of father, rivals, brother brother relationship, rivalry, sibling rivalry, small town, family problems, family relations, friendship ...
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
In a 2012 London house-share, childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy — now in their 20s — experience bad dates, heartaches and humiliation. With flashbacks to suburban adolescence in the early noughties, the series begs the question: can ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, women, female protagonist, platonic, female friendship, friends, problem, female best friends, relationships, satire, unrequited love, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The misadventures of three young football players Mattie, Jack and Benji, at a fictional Premier League club with terrifying team hard-man Petey, mercurial Italian manager Cesare and eccentric chairman Mark Crane.
Style:
sitcom, satirical, feel good, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
football team, football, friendship, soccer, satire, football player, young man, soccer coach, athlete's life, sport team, athlete and trainer, playing football ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Little Crackers is a series of Christmas short films featuring stars of British and Irish comedy.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, realistic, sexual, christmas special ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, childhood, holiday, school, christmas spirit, childhood home, celebration, children, christmas season, kids and family, nostalgia, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Merseybeat follows the fortunes of Newton Park police force, as the officers struggle to balance their demanding work and home lives.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
crime investigation, police, police procedural, law enforcement, police detective, workplace, investigation, fighting crime, uncover truth, forensics, workplace situations, police investigation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
northern england
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
Two murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history while threatening to inflame historic divisions sparked during the Miners' Strike three decades before.
Style:
crime drama, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mining town, murder mystery, police officer, manhunt, murder, police investigation, investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, murderer, crime solving ...
Time:
future, 2010s
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