Movies and TV shows set in britain – page 4
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Fool Britannia is a hidden camera sketch series which has aired since 1 September 2012 on ITV. Fool Britannia sees Dom Joly surprising unexpected members of the public with pranks. The first series aired for eight episodes.
The second series is ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, witty, light hearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
hidden camera, prank, silly humor, dishonesty, hidden identity, disorder, practical joke, surprise, sketch, improv, light comedy, disguise ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain, england
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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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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A tale of everlasting love between illegal immigrants struggling for their PR in the UK as they challenge they multiple struggles.
Style:
disturbing, romantic, captivating, psychological, heartfelt ...
Plot:
punjabi, friendship, love, illegal immigration, diaspora, immigration, love and romance, romantic relationship, love interest, relationships, friends, love affair ...
Place:
britain, india
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Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story:
A mischievous monkey visits his friends around the UK and gets up to various antics.
Style:
lighthearted, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschool
Plot:
friendship, monkey, british, children, animal that acts human, animal, animal protagonist, friends, anthropomorphic animal, light comedy, problem solving, rehearsal ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
britain, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A provocative drama about an IVF mix-up which results in a white woman giving birth to a black boy.
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, serious, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
parenthood, parents, custody, baby, legal, pregnancy and birth, parents and children, race, ethical dilemma, disorder, pregnancy, motherhood ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
britain
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17K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas ...
Style:
epic, period piece, costume drama, tense, talky ...
Plot:
religion, friendship, british history, catholic, royalty, medieval, monarch, politics, biopic, nobility, martyr, monarchy ...
Time:
middle ages, 12th century, medieval times, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, europe, france, london ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Style:
scenic, romantic, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
literary, unrequited love, dalmatian, victorian england, farm, beach, love, tragic romance, canceled wedding, male nudity, lost love, sergeant ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1967, 1870s, 1860s
Place:
britain, england, 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, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to ...
Style:
emotional, touching, semi serious, feel good, family saga ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
train, teenage girl, countryside, child's point of view, railway, children, friendship, christmas, missing father, human spirit, life is a bitch, family life ...
Time:
edwardian era, 20th century, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place:
yorkshire, england, britain, northern england, europe ...
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202K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, epic, visually appealing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nobility, rise and fall, aristocracy, opportunist, duel, card playing, british army, pistol duel, wealth, soldier, social climber, literary ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 20th century, year 1975, 19th century ...
Place:
ireland, england, prussia, berlin germany, britain ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, War
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Queen Elizabeth I visits late twentieth-century Britain to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
Style:
offbeat, cult classic, retro, psychotronic, dark ...
Plot:
punk rock, time travel, rock and roll, distopia, rock, post apocalypse, surrealism, dystopian future, murder, group sex, counterculture, dystopia ...
Time:
distant future, future, 17th century, 70s, 16th century ...
Place:
britain, europe, england, london, united kingdom
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the ...
Style:
period piece, epic, entertaining, exciting, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night, teens ...
Plot:
knight, robin hood, good versus evil, archer, sword fight, chase, swashbuckler, justice, medieval, folk hero, courage, sword and shield ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, ancient times, 19th century, 12th century
Place:
england, britain, europe, israel, jerusalem ...
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49K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to ...
Style:
costume drama, captivating, exciting, historical drama, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
life philosophy, violent man, rape, revenge, sword fight, pregnant from rape, medieval, sexual cruelty, nobility, swashbuckler, danger, biopic ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, year 1995, 20th century, medieval times ...
Place:
scotland, highlands, britain, europe, scottish highlands ...
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1.4M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, touching, sentimental, dramatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
titanic, love story, disaster, love, ship, tragedy, forbidden love, love and romance, ocean, fall in love, tragic love, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1997, edwardian era, 90s ...
Place:
atlantic ocean, britain, iran, nova scotia, america ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ...
Style:
exciting, tense, period piece, epic, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ship, napoleonic wars, navy, naval battle, sea battle, battles, sailing, warship, heroic mission, royal navy, british navy, sea ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place:
britain, england, america, brazil, europe ...
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207K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style:
neo noir, intense, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, violence, sex, drug dealing, twists and turns, gangster, chase, murder, drug, british gangster, drug lord, caper ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
Henry VIII is a two-part British television movie produced principally by Granada Television for ITV. It chronicles the life of Henry VIII of England from the disintegration of his first marriage to an aging Spanish princess until his death ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, period piece, historical drama ...
Plot:
tudors, king of england, renaissance, royal family, queen of england, royalty, ambition, dishonesty, head of state, infidelity, monarch, historical event ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
britain, europe, england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of ...
Style:
serious, homoerotic, disturbing, factual, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
soccer, gang, hooligan, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, subculture, buddies, friends, uninhibited rivalry, obsession, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, harvard university
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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, violence, dark humor, violent, organized crime, lifestyle, working class, football hooligan, dysfunctional family, drug, buddies ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, britain, europe, england ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, sexy, historical drama, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
queen, love triangle, royal family, british history, medieval, royal court, king, intrigue, tudors, betrayal, siblings relations, kingdom ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, rome italy, london ...
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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: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to ...
Style:
costume drama, heartbreaking, period piece, romantic, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, poetry, love story, love, biopic, tuberculosis, passion, art, friendship, literary, longing ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, regency period, ancient times, 1810s ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, rome italy, london ...
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117K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Style:
thought provoking, political, touching, inspirational, period piece ...
Plot:
politics, prime minister, british prime minister, british history, female protagonist, female politician, monarchy, british politics, women, biopic, alzheimer's disease, political leader ...
Time:
20th century, year 2011, 2010s, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Style:
witty, humorous, funny, spoof, horror comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
apocalypse, violence, plot twist, satire, alien invasion, dark humor, fight scenes, twists and turns, pub, profanity, friends, obsessive quest ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, year 1990, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben ...
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, sexy, gothic horror, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, eternal youth, aristocracy, painting, deal with the devil, destiny, beefcake, male nudity, fall in love, society, immortality, artist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 2009, turn of the century ...
Place:
england, europe, london, britain, ireland
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style:
suspense, realistic, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, vigilante, violence, vigilante justice, murder, gang, revenge, investigation, juvenile delinquency, gangster, violent ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, y2k, 21st century
Place:
england, london, britain, persia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story:
The Hollow Crown is a series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
The first Season is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Henry ...
Style:
epic, costume drama, serious, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
king, medieval, royal family, queen, royalty, throne, betrayal, politics, monarchy, monarch, shakespeare, heir to the throne ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, medieval times, 14th century, 12th century
Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Style:
political, factual, costume drama, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
feminism, feminist, women, girl power, sexism, rebelliousness, activism, politics, gender, women's suffrage, women's rights, sexual harassment ...
Time:
1900s, year 1912, 1910s, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, united kingdom ...
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Genre: History
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Elizabeth McGovern (Downtown Abbey) takes an in-depth look at the young American heiresses whose real life stories inspired the acclaimed TV drama "Downton Abbey." This series takes you from the late 1800s, when daughters of America's ...
Style:
captivating, witty, factual, serious
Plot:
wedding planning, money, aristocracy, elite, millionaire, wealth, aristocrat, dowry, wedding, inheritance, high society, heiress ...
Time:
1800s, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
britain, america, england
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799K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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