Movies and TV shows set in england – page 3
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Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy the prejudices of society and start a life together, all the while swerving the ongoing chaos of an alien invasion.
Style:
apocalyptic, costume drama, frightening, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien attack, alien, end of the world, apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien race, martian, survival, ufo, fight, evil alien ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story:
The relationship between childhood sweethearts, a farmer's daughter and boy from a rich family, turns tumultuous in this modern interpretation of Wuthering Heights.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love affair, abuse, family relations, unfulfilled love, parents and children, society, human nature, life is a bitch, hopeless romantic, farm, young lovers, dysfunctional relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away ...
Style:
sweet, witty, semi serious, humorous, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, date night, chick flick
Plot:
couples, love and romance, disorder, hidden identity, master and servant, rich and poor, cinderella story, monarchy, renaissance, monarch, village, village life ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, victorian era, year 1994, 1800s ...
Place:
england, europe, london, fictional island, bristol
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Four American girls go to England to find husbands.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, romantic drama, spooky ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
high society, victorian england, love and romance, looking for love, duchess, cottage, gilded age, love story, abortion, card playing, society, culture clash ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
england, rhode island, britain, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Elizabeth of York, the White Queen's daughter, and her marriage to the Lancaster victor, Henry VII. Based on the Philippa Gregory book of the same name.
Style:
historical drama, costume drama, stylized, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
british royal family, monarchy, palace intrigue, royalty, medieval, princess, sex scene, british history, loveless marriage, arranged marriage, monarch, wedding planning ...
Time:
15th century, medieval times, ancient times, 16th century
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Style:
clever, realistic, captivating, detective, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
investigation, whodunit, private detective, murder, murder mystery, danger, murder investigation, who done it, riddles and clues, multiple suspects, private investigator, uncover truth ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, europe
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217K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sexy, light, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love, marriage, aristocracy, society, love and romance, love story, sex scene, eligible bachelor, couple relations, intrigue, relationships, steamy romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, georgian era, ancient times, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective investigates a series of gruesome murders leveled against the fairy population. During his investigation, the detective becomes the prime suspect and ...
Style:
dark fantasy, sensual, gothic, erotic, costume drama ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mythical creature, steampunk, interspecies romance, fairy, fantasy world, social injustice, monster, politician, alternate reality, class differences, sorceress, female friendship ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, period piece, romantic drama ...
Plot:
social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, love affair, master and servant, obsession, sexual relations, couples, fall in love, power relations, countryside, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s
Place:
england, europe, britain
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style:
costume drama, sexual, talky, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
artist, writers, painter, polyamory, art, glbt, biopic, male nudity, world war one, passion, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
1930s, year 1915, victorian era, 1910s, 1920s ...
Place:
england, wales, europe, italy, venice ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but ...
Style:
parody, spoof, entertaining, humorous, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, who done it, farce, investigation, sherlock holmes, comedy of errors, disorder, hidden identity, storytelling, doctor, actor, drunkenness ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style:
enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, emotional, colorful ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love affair, jewess, nanny, society, loss of virginity, male nudity, photograph, couple relations, master and servant, love triangle ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s, year 1998, 1800s
Place:
england, london, oxford university, middle east, britain ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
When Geraldine Bretherick and her 5-year-old daughter Lucy are found dead in the bathroom of their luxury home, the case divides new DS Charlie Zailer and her DC Simon Waterhouse. Is it a murder-suicide or something even more sinister, and how ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, law enforcement, murder mystery, partner, assassination plot, danger, investigation, police, mysterious death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
D.C. Rachel Bailey and D.C. Janet Scott have a robust and engaging friendship which enables them to draw upon each other’s strengths and investigate murders for the Manchester Metropolitan Police.
Style:
detective, serious, suspenseful, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
police detective, policewoman, female detective, police investigation, female partner, friends, relationship vs career, partners against crime, law enforcement, police procedural, female protagonist, best friend ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom, manchester, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, witty, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, violinist, polish, village life, sister sister relationship, sisters, human nature, musician, aging, foreigner, suspicion, bittersweet ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, europe, london, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style:
touching, scenic, period piece, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, hotel, travel, self discovery, female protagonist, country estate, piano, passion, male nudity, nude bathing, happy ending, comedy of manners ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
italy, england, europe, florence, britain ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny.
The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
royal family, british royal family, queen, monarchy, monarch, british history, royalty, winston churchill, queen elizabeth ii, british monarchy, prime minister, politics ...
Time:
50s, 2000s, 1940s, 1950s, 70s ...
Place:
england, buckingham palace, london, wales, syria ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Style:
independent film, bleak, depressing, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, working class, childhood, boy, neglected child, boyhood, child protagonist, bird, school, teacher, small town, friendship ...
Time:
60s, year 1969, 20th century, 70s
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, yorkshire, northern england ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 261 min.
TV show
Story:
Drama series based on the novel by Jane Austen. Mansfield Park is the magnificient country residence of Sir Thomas Bertram and his family. It is here that their poor relation Fanny Price is brought up. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny ...
Style:
serious, realistic, witty, costume drama, spiritual ...
Plot:
rich and poor, love and romance, nobility, couples, family relations, estate, cousin cousin relationship, adultery, sister sister relationship, social differences, marriage proposal, spirituality ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, regency period, georgian era
Place:
england, europe, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Liverpool. 1947. A star-struck young girl learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Style:
bleak, clever, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, incestuous sex, older man younger woman romance, male female relationship, death, gay, drinking, sex with daughter, accidental incest, unrequited love, redhead girl ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1947, year 1941
Place:
england, europe, liverpool
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hopes will become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, costume drama, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
village life, parents and children, society, social relations, villager, countryside, village people, world war one, family relations, gay relationship, small village, village ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
A BBC dramatization of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate, who arrives at Middlemarch ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, clever ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, victorian england, social differences, intrigue, priest, tragic love, love, doctor, reform, inheritance, politics, journalist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s, regency period
Place:
england, rome italy, britain, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, political, factual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
power struggle, political intrigue, king, christmas, british history, dysfunctional family, royalty, medieval, infidelity, monarch, british royal family, monarchy ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
england, france, britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style:
erotic, feel good, touching, sexy, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, victorian england, love affair, governess, couples, hopes, marriage proposal, estate, love and romance, parents and children, happy ending, british ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1997, 1830s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, breathtaking, romantic drama, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
melancholy, nazi, love, nazism, butler, aristocracy, manor, british, class differences, master servant relationship, domestic servant, master and servant ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
The English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death.
Style:
epic, tense, costume drama, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
plague, society, lovers apart, monastery, medieval, witch, love and romance, state affairs, village, ancient, monk, betrayal ...
Time:
14th century, medieval times, middle ages, 50s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard to the lives of her people.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, costume drama, breathtaking, visually stunning ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
queen elizabeth i, british history, queen, throne, royalty, royal family, tudors, monarchy, politics, renaissance, medieval, political intrigue ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, 19th century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, spain, scotland ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars are driven through shop windows to aid large-scale looting before the police arrive. For Tommy, ...
Style:
harsh, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gang, rivalry, criminal, violence, nihilism, vandalism, life is a bitch, teenage life, criminal heroes, heist, prison, gangster ...
Time:
future, year 1994, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, sexy, witty, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
fall in love, country estate, couple relations, literary, women, love, love and romance, feminist, love story, estate, abbey, society ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, middle ages, ancient times, year 1999 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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