Movies and TV shows set in east end london
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in east end london ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense and stylized films and TV shows about / with murder, working class, investigation, police investigation, cigarette smoking, british, family relations, police detective, violence and drinking alcohol plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
47
TOP 10 movies tagged as east end london: The Take (2009), From Hell (2001), Empire State (1987), Prospects (1986), The Alf Garnett Saga (1972), Dangerous Lady (1995), McCallum (1995), Meantime (1983), Hysteria (2011), Legend (2015).
Best films
New films
| Rocks (2019) | 7.4 | |
| The Runaway (2010) | 7.4 | |
| Burnside (2000) | 7.2 | |
| Mojo (1997) | 5.5 | |
| McCallum (1995) | 7.7 |
List of movies set in east end london
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story:
Freddie Jackson is just out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie dreams of having her husband home but she's forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can't ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mob boss, mafia, respect, power struggle, relatives, crime boss, british, criminal heroes, betrayal, gangster, victim, loss of family member ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london, east end london
Is relevant?
171K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, jack the ripper, freemason, conspiracy, graphic violence, a vision, police investigation, murder of a prostitute, violent, prostitution, who done it, life is a bitch ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, year 2001, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, ireland, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle ground where anything can happen. In the midst of the action, a young boy stows aboard to search ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, tense, atmospheric, crime drama ...
Plot:
nightclub, gay, gangster, betrayal, crime boss, corruption, power struggle, working class, moral ambiguity, underworld, urban decay, business deal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
east end london, london
Is relevant?
216
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Prospects is a British television comedy drama series that was written by Alan Janes and originally shown on Channel 4 in 1986. Created by Euston Films who had a pedigree of producing successful, gritty drama such as The Sweeney and Minder, it ...
Style:
comedy drama, buddy comedy, sitcom, situational comedy, period piece
Plot:
working class, unemployment, friendship, social commentary, social change, survival, satire, poverty, realism, racism, slice of life, urban decay ...
Time:
80s
Place:
east end london, london, england
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his ...
Style:
period piece, dark comedy, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
working class, racism, class conflict, satire, generation gap, city life, domestic drama, slice of life, unemployment, gender roles, social realism, fanatic ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
east end london
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Dangerous Lady was a four-part British mini-series TV drama, which aired on ITV and was based on Martina Cole's first published novel of the same name. The series premièred in 1995 and starred Sheila Hancock, Jason Isaacs, Susan Lynch and Owen ...
Style:
family saga, crime drama, realistic, tense, dark ...
Plot:
crime family, organized crime, criminal underworld, violence, female protagonist, betrayal, siblings, working class, power struggle, loyalty, ambition, control ...
Time:
60s, 1950s
Place:
east end london, england, london
Is relevant?
675
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
McCallum is a British television series that was produced by STV Productions.
Dr Iain McCallum was the original lead character, played by John Hannah. McCallum was a forensic pathologist who traveled by Triumph Motorcycle, and solved murders. The ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, dark, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forensics, autopsy, morgue, murder investigation, police procedural, medical examiner, forensic evidence, crime scene, urban, pathologist, murder mystery, nypd ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s
Place:
london, east end london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a ...
Style:
mysterious, bleak, independent film, cult classic, surreal ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, unemployment, skinhead, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, mental retardation, man with glasses, husband wife relationship, boy with glasses, smoking, envy, proles ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, england, east end london, britain, europe
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg, USA
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:
sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
hospital, hysteria, doctor, trial, masturbation, sexuality, happy ending, orgasm, sexual pleasure, invention, ex prostitute, court ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, east end london, europe, san francisco
Is relevant?
222K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running ...
Style:
realistic, brutal, period piece, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, mafia, gangster, violent, psychopath, gay interest, organized crime, abusive husband, rise and fall, brother brother relationship, homosexual, relationships ...
Time:
60s, year 2015, year 1957, 90s, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, east end london, europe, west end london ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Style:
inspirational, touching, educational, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
high school, teacher, teaching, dedicated teacher, coming of age, teenager, mentor, new teacher, cockney, gym teacher, slum, death of mother ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, 20th century, 80s
Place:
england, east end london, europe, united kingdom, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute, Madge, Cathy's life is difficult, especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. But when ...
Style:
tense, serious, bleak, period piece, captivating ...
Plot:
gender, gangster, murder, haunted by the past, on the run, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, forbidden love, lgbt, society, betrayal, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
england, east end london, london, europe
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil ...
Style:
gothic, classic horror, gothic horror, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot:
skeleton, creature, mad scientist, reincarnation, murder, body horror, laboratory, corpse, scientist, supernatural power, macabre, expedition ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
england, europe, east end london
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Burnside is a British television police procedural drama, broadcast on ITV in 2000. The series, a spin-off from ITV's long-running police drama The Bill, focused on DCI Frank Burnside, formerly a detective at Sun Hill and now working for the ...
Style:
detective, tense, crime drama, psychological, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, police, forensics, police procedural, british, private investigator, fbi, homicide detective, police detective, crime solving, murder investigation, police investigation ...
Place:
london, east end london
Is relevant?
6K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspense, rough, social
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, absent mother, coming of age, brother sister relationship, little brother, teenage protagonist, homeless, friendship, life is a bitch, grownups, society, nothing goes right ...
Place:
east end london, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being thrown in at the deep end with a murder enquiry.
Style:
detective, disturbing, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sleuth, police, policewoman, female objectification, murder, sexism, female protagonist, murder investigation, discrimination, police investigation, investigation, fighting crime ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
east end london, london
Is relevant?
328
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwhelming pressures to stay together after the death of their single mother.
Style:
independent film, wild
Plot:
nude boy, bare chested male, kitchen sink realism, brother brother relationship, youth, social services, poverty, orphan, convent, family values, sick mother, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, east end london, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him.
Style:
tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, inspirational ...
Plot:
organized crime, rastafarian, murder, father daughter relationship, car chase, couples, family relations, danger, black, urban, reggae, gangsta ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, year 1973, 70s, 80s
Place:
england, united kingdom, caribbean, london, east end london ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
672
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dark humor, dishonesty, criminal heroes, strong female presence, physical appearance, gender, profanity, robbery, stolen goods, three sisters, female thief, graphic violence ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, west end london, east end london, oxford university
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.
Style:
surreal, serious, tense, mind bending, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, police detective, time travel, reluctant partners, female detective, power relations, uncover truth, fighting crime, female protagonist, tough law enforcer, confined, coma ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
london, england, europe, east end london
Is relevant?
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, tense, serious, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
serial killer, victorian england, danger, murder, victim, jack the ripper, police detective, multiple suspects, investigator, urban, detective inspector, murder investigation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
england, london, ireland, britain, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Goodnight Sweetheart is a British sitcom that ran for six series on BBC1 from 1993 to 1999. It stars Nicholas Lyndhurst as Gary Sparrow, an accidental time traveller who leads a double life after discovering a time portal allowing him to travel ...
Style:
sitcom, surreal, semi serious, witty, offbeat ...
Plot:
time travel, world war two, portal, time portal, paradox, double life, police officer, british intelligence, unhappy marriage, extramarital affair, couple relations, misfit ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1940
Place:
england, london, east end london
Is relevant?
43K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, mental patient, misfit, macabre, psychopath, twists and turns, mental health ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 50s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, east end london, united kingdom ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story:
Jack the Ripper was a 1988 two-part television movie/mini-series portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack The Ripper, the killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, jack the ripper, multiple suspects, murder, mortician, murder of a prostitute, killer, police detective, danger, forensics, psychopath, police ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, turn of the century, 1880s
Place:
scotland yard, england, london, europe, east end london
Is relevant?
269
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.
Style:
dark, intense, atmospheric, noir, period piece ...
Plot:
singer, nightclub, gangster, nightlife, power struggle, showbiz, jealousy, murder, music industry, character study, manipulation, tragedy ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
london, east end london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two men are thrown together as live-in guardians of a 200 year-old house in the East End of London. But they are not alone. And so instead of learning to live together they have to fight to live through the night.
Style:
suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, curse, haunted, supernatural, fear, friendship, haunted house, peril, supernatural ability, exorcism, violence, paranormal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, east end london
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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, police investigation, inspector, fighting crime, partner, investigation, law enforcement, police station, society, workplace situations, police, british police ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, east end london
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This telling of the story of Jack the Ripper focuses not on the killings as much as on the aristocratic lives of the people connected to the heir-apparent to the throne of England... who of course is the Ripper. It tells also of the investigator who ...
Style:
sexual, creepy, serious, slasher, realistic ...
Plot:
jack the ripper, serial killer, dead prostitute, murder of a prostitute, british police, prostitute, murder, danger, law enforcement, investigation, love affair, conspiracy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, 1800s
Place:
london, england, europe, scotland yard, east end london ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Biography of the British painter Francis Bacon. The movie focuses on his relationship with George Dyer, his lover. Dyer was a former small time crook.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, art film, heartbreaking, contemplative ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art, biopic, artist, painter, lgbt, naked man, subculture, gay bar, psychology, art history, sadomasochism, doomed love ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 60s
Place:
new york, east end london, paris france, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, bleak, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay muslim, gay couple, male homosexuality, lgbtq, gay, closeted homosexual, gang, lgbt, brother brother relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, east end london, england
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
