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 8.1
 18K
Emma (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 246 min.
TV show
Story: Emma Woodhouse seems to be perfectly content, a loving father whom she cares for, friends, and a home. But Emma has a terrible habit - matchmaking. She cannot resist finding suitors for her friends, most of all Harriet Smith. Emma is desperate for ...
Style: period piece, witty, feel good, costume drama, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: marriage, aristocracy, couples, female protagonist, looking for love, love and romance, love, fall in love, friendship, love triangle, naivete, opposites attract ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1800s, georgian era, victorian era
Place: england
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 6.6
 22K
Easy Virtue (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Style: witty, sexy, stylized, period piece, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: family relations, high society, culture clash, dysfunctional family, fish out of water, father in law daughter in law relationship, manipulation, parents and children, love and romance, marriage, disorder, meet the parents ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2008, future
Place: england, britain, europe, france
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, funeral, farce, dark humor, secret, sarcasm, gay, adultery, british, multiple storylines, family gatherings, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, london
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The Inbetweeners 2 (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, China, Russia, North Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Neil, Will and Simon receive an invite from Jay to join him in Australia whilst on his gap year, who promises them it’s ”the sex capital of the world”. With their lives now rather dull compared to their hedonistic school days and legendary ...
Style: funny, humorous, witty, realistic, hilarious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: holiday, bullying, buddies, road trip, corruption, drinking, mentor, life philosophy, sarcasm, drug, british, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia
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 5.5
 77K
Mortdecai (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
Style: humorous, funny, exciting, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: art dealer, spy, art theft, treasure hunt, art, chase, escapades, stolen painting, eccentricity, cons and scams, british, justice ...
Time: year 2015, year 1945, year 1943
Place: england, london, los angeles, paris france, big ben london ...
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 7.2
 60K
'71 (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, political, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, war, ira, soldier, military, survival, violence, brutality, wartime, chase, riot, tragedy ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century, year 2014
Place: ireland, northern ireland, britain
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An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV ...
Style: captivating, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: doctor who, time travel, television, producer, director, british, fantasy world, artists and showbiz, cultural icon, backstage, media, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 1963, year 1966 ...
Place: england
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style: clever, confusing, bleak, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cold war, spy, espionage, secret service, investigation, british intelligence, mole, double agent, kgb, conspiracy, surveillance, intelligence ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, somalia, britain ...
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 7.3
 96K
Submarine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: visually appealing, witty, surreal, touching, talky ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, virginity, high school, school, teenager, teenage love, high school life, youth, teen angst, social relations, loss of virginity ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 80s, 20th century
Place: wales, england, britain
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Beautiful People (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all ...
Style: humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sad ...
Plot: immigrant, politics, culture clash, working class, wartime, war, chase, refugee, honest, british, dysfunctional family, bosnian war ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, england, bosnia, balkan, hawaii ...
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 8.1
 722K
Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: fashion, drunk, british, best friend, public relations, drinking alcohol, old man, journalism, women, social satire, media, satire ...
Place: england
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 7.6
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Maternal (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Maryam, a Paediatric Registrar, Catherine, a General and Trauma Surgeon, and Helen, a Registrar in Acute Medicine, each attempt to balance their increasingly demanding jobs in post-pandemic frontline medicine with their lives as new mothers.
Style: exciting, captivating, dramatic, witty
Plot: medical, british, motherhood, hospital, doctor, female doctor, doctors and patients, sex scene, cheating wife, pandemic
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Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, History, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Roman teenager, Atti is forced to join the Roman army when one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero. He is sent to "miserable, cold, wet Britain" where "the natives are revolting - quite literally". Things go from bad ...
Style: parody, captivating, entertaining, humorous, spoof
Audience: kids
Plot: roman, roman empire, ancient rome, british, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, teenager, teenage girl, warrior, jousting, roma, power struggle ...
Time: 1st century
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 8.7
 197K
Fleabag (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 302 min.
TV show
Story: As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, sleeping with anyone who dares to stand too close, squeezing money from wherever she can, rejecting anyone who tries to help ...
Style: funny, dark comedy, sitcom, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sister sister relationship, sexuality, sexual humor, female friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, promiscuity, female protagonist, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, women, british, bisexual, dark humor ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: london
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Midsomer Murders (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Style: atmospheric, detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, police detective, murder investigation, investigation, who done it, whodunit, detective inspector, multiple suspects, human nature, twists and turns, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: england, europe
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 8.8
 638K
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 2109 min.
TV show
Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, gang, mafia, gang war, determination, cruelty, mob boss, power struggle, crime boss, family relations, rivalry ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, london
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 6.9
 3K
Apostasy (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A faithful Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God's love.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: jehovah's witness, belief in god, religion, teenage daughter, evangelical christianity, faith, british, religious fanatic, family problems, religious differences, religions or cults, religious ...
Time: 2010s
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 8.2
 4K
Home Fires (2015)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a group of inspirational women in a rural Cheshire community with the shadow of World War II casting a dark cloud over their lives. As the conflict takes hold and separates the women from their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers, the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, psychological, historical drama ...
Plot: world war two, village, female protagonist, friends, strong female presence, social relations, life is a bitch, society, husband wife relationship, family relations, british, father son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: england, europe
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Operation Crossbow (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) ...
Style: political thriller, retro, cult classic, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, undercover, spy thriller, espionage, nazi, british, world war, luftwaffe, great war, machine gun, aviation, man on a mission ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, england, london, europe, big ben london ...
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The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A writer named Adrian Messenger believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, ...
Style: suspense, serious, realistic, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: disguise, serial killer, murder, crime investigation, multiple murder, british intelligence, danger, british, hidden identity, world war two veteran, airport, spy ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place: england
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 8.1
 19K
Vera (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and ...
Style: realistic, serious, detective, crime drama, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: female detective, police investigation, crime investigation, police detective, murder, who done it, murder mystery, british police, law enforcement, investigation, police procedural, right hand man ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, europe
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 3.5
 1K
Darkest Day (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dan wakes up on a beach with no memory. He discovers an empty city ravaged by a deadly virus. After befriending a small group of survivors it soon becomes clear the army are hunting him down, and the group are forced on a dangerous journey to escape.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: zombie, virus, memory loss, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, survival horror, british, sole survivor, heroes, characters in danger, survival, walking dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, brighton
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Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alan Partridge has had many ups and downs in life. National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. Nervous breakdown in Dundee. A self-published book, 'Bouncing Back', which was ...
Style: humorous, satirical, cynical, hilarious, funny ...
Plot: radio station, hostage, radio dj, satire, self involved, radio, desire for fame, socially awkward, ambition, goofy hero, lifestyle, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Enter the Dragon (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
Style: tense, suspense, grindhouse, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, master warrior, martial arts tournament, island, tough heroes, shaolin monk, revenge, strong man, drug lord, final showdown ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, fictional island, usa ...
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 7.5
 12K
Ratcatcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, crying, depressing, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, neighbor, bully, strike, teenage boy, grief, rat, urban decay ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: glasgow scotland, britain, nebraska, scotland
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 6.1
 16K
Jabberwocky (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures. The town and the whole kingdom is threatened by a terrible monster called 'Jabberwocky'. ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, exciting, surreal ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: monster, sword and sorcery, monty python, imaginary kingdom, heroic mission, satire, curses spells and rituals, knight, goofy hero, danger, good versus evil, imaginary ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages
Place: england
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 7.2
 179K
Dr. No (1962)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey ...
Style: action packed, stylized, entertaining, saga, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: 007, james bond, spy, terrorism, murder, british secret service, terrorist plot, undercover, secret service, spy hero, cold war, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place: caribbean, jamaica, west indies, fictional island, england ...
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Some Mother's Son (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style: political, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: prison, lawyer, prison violence, terrorist, working class, women, betrayal, politics, ira, british, struggle, trouble ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
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 8.0
 240K
Gandhi (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, India, USA, South Africa
Duration: 191 min.
Story: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of ...
Style: epic, spiritual, inspirational, political, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: protest, biopic, idealism, life philosophy, politics, independence, freedom, british empire, leadership, human spirit, religious intolerance, indian history ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1940s ...
Place: india, south africa, britain, los angeles, new delhi ...
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