Movies and TV shows set in london
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in london ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, inspirational, atmospheric, suspense and romantic films and TV shows about / with love, murder, girl, urban, friendship, women, love and romance, family relations, dancing and teenage girl plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
london
TOP 10 movies tagged as london: About Time (2013), Notting Hill (1999), A Long Way Down (2014), The Football Factory (2004), V for Vendetta (2005), About a Boy (2002), Sherlock (2010), Mary Poppins (1964), City of Vice (2008), Dirty Pretty Things (2002).
Best films
New films
Nolly (2023) | 7.3 | |
Heart of Stone (2023) | 5.7 | |
Love at First Sight (2023) | 6.8 | |
Poor Things (2023) | 8.2 | |
Bank of Dave (2023) | 7.1 |
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383K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, life philosophy, fall in love, true love, couple relations, looking for love, changing the past or future, sent to the past, life, father son relationship, young woman ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, cornwall
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340K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
William Thacker is a London bookstore owner whose humdrum existence is thrown into romantic turmoil when famous American actress Anna Scott appears in his shop. A chance encounter over spilled orange juice leads to a kiss that blossoms into a ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, fame, social differences, love and romance, bookstore, opposites attract, power of love, paparazzi, love, friendship, male female relationship, dating ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four lost souls decide to end their lives on the same night, New Year's Eve. When they meet unintentionally at the same suicide hotspot, they mutually agree to call off their plans for six weeks, forming an unconventional, dysfunctional family.
Style:
touching, dark comedy, emotional, talky, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
new year's eve, new year, friendship, suicide, introspection, direction and purpose, unfulfillment, dull life, group of strangers, cause and meaning, coping, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, hooligan, football, organized crime, dark humor, lifestyle, violent, violence, working class, dysfunctional family, football hooligan, drug ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
london, england, britain, united kingdom, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, stylized, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, dystopia, fighting the system, freedom, vigilante, anti hero, society, protest, mentor ...
Time:
future, year 2005, near future, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
london, england, britain, big ben london, europe
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191K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, romantic, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, dating, bullying, friendship, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, christmas, boy, mentor, motherhood, couples ...
Time:
year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place:
london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe
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990K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story:
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Style:
clever, detective, witty, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sherlock holmes, investigation, private detective, murder mystery, genius, mastermind, friendship, british, murder, mind game, riddles and clues, prodigy ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, scotland yard, afghanistan, britain ...
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185K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Style:
feel good, touching, uplifting, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot:
magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, dancing, child's point of view, dog, childhood, children ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, europe, madagascar ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and was first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4. It is produced by Touchpaper Television part of the RDF Media Group. The series mixes fiction with fact ...
Style:
captivating, serious, detective, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
blind character, murder, fighting crime, legal, rivalry, prostitution, gang, novelist, brothel, police, partners against crime, peplum ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, tense, grim, neo noir ...
Plot:
immigrant, blackmail, maid, working class, friendship, illegal immigration, murder, black market, character study, prostitute, surgery, social decay ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, nigeria, england, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, hood, anthology ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangster, drug addict, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, british gangster, mafia, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain
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44K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very ...
Style:
disturbing, talky, compassionate, realistic, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
existentialism, sexual abuse, drifter, humiliation, nihilism, rape, alienation, voyeurism, sexual humiliation, rough sex, rapist, secrets ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, manchester
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263K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to ...
Style:
light, fairy tale, visually appealing, captivating, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
fashion, robbery, villain, female villain, personality change, fashion designer, lifestyle change, villainess, dalmatian, designer, life is a bitch, change of heart ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, future, year 1965
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, ...
Style:
rough, exciting, brutal, intellectual, suspense
Plot:
mafia, gang war, organized crime, crime family, violence, father son relationship, murder, criminal, danger, bandit, gangster, mobster ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
london
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Returning for his fifth year of study 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 students – ...
Style:
exciting, saga, scenic, tense, teen ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
witch, magic, magical, harry potter, teenager, school, creature, boarding school, chosen one, wizards and magicians, supernatural ability, young heroes ...
Time:
year 2007, year 1995, year 1996, 20th century, year 1994 ...
Place:
london, england, europe, scotland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. James and Anne Manning become involved because the victim is the husband of their cleaner, Maggie. James, a solicitor in the city, soon comes to suspect William Bule, a millionaire ...
Style:
suspense, emotional, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
murder, infidelity, depression, twists and turns, family problems, investigation, crumbling marriage, society, introspection, love and romance, betrayal, drinking alcohol ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When Eliza Scarlet’s father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, detective, costume drama, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot:
female detective, detective agency, female police detective, victorian england, private detective, crime investigation, investigation, murder investigation, forensics, humour, murder, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future
Place:
london
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530K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, love, holiday, relationships, love story, multiple storylines, love and romance, fall in love, marriage, couples, first love, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, britain, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, talky, erotic ...
Plot:
working class, loneliness, life, multiple storylines, existentialism, parents and children, couple relations, society, relationships, sister sister relationship, missing person, melancholy ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
london, los angeles, england, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The Bill is a police procedural television series that was broadcast on the ITV network from 16 October 1984 until 31 August 2010. The programme originated from a one-off drama, entitled Woodentop, which was broadcast in August 1983. In its final ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, detective, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
police detective, inspector, police investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, society, workplace situations, police, partner, investigation, legal, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, east end london
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, inspirational, clever ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, date night ...
Plot:
writers, single parent, peter pan, friendship, writer's life, biopic, parents and children, death, family relations, stage play, human nature, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, future, 1910s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, sexy ...
Plot:
gangster, rock star, organized crime, surrealism, violence, rock and roll, sex, music, rock, basement, murder, on the run ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 60s
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france, berlin germany ...
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33K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hysteria is a romantic comedy with an accomplished cast led by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones and Rupert Everett, that tells an untold tale of discovery - the surprising story of the birth of the electro-mechanical ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, sexy, humorous, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
doctor, hysteria, hospital, masturbation, trial, sexuality, ex prostitute, court, feminism, sexual pleasure, orgasm, invention ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, east end london, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, killings, police detective, victim, victorian england, investigator, multiple suspects, jack the ripper, notoriety, murder, urban ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
england, london, ireland, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, light, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love story, love and romance, marriage, looking for love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, sisters, couples, family gatherings, happy ending ...
Place:
europe, england, london, united kingdom
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91K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A tough, renegade cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Style:
intense, serious, exciting, detective, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, revenge, serial killer, murder, life philosophy, tough law enforcer, police, fight scenes, vigilante, law enforcer killer, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, iran, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
missing child, missing person, investigation, kidnapping, danger, imaginary friend, kindergarten, journalism, family relations, missing daughter, single parent, mentally unstable ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s
Place:
london, england, britain, america, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Style:
feel good, sweet, romantic, light, funny ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
love, love triangle, love and romance, couples, love story, thirtysomething life, christmas, looking for love, opposites attract, holiday, workplace romance, happy ending ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe, britain
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132K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Style:
culinary, inspirational, talky, exciting, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chef, cooking, restaurant, food, abuse of power, violent behavior, violent man, male chauvinist, psychopath as protagonist, redemption, bullying, physical abuse ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, y2k
Place:
london, new orleans
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23K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Style:
factual, costume drama, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, courtroom, courtroom drama, historian, holocaust survivor, lawyer, shoah, anti semitism, auschwitz, justice, court, idealism ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2000, year 1994, year 1998, year 1996 ...
Place:
london, germany, atlanta georgia
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