Oxford movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant oxford movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, independent film, period drama and captivating films and TV shows about / with oxford, love and romance, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, love, society, death and kiss plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as oxford: The Oxford Murders (2008), Endeavour (2012), An Education (2009), Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (1995), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Basil (1998), The History Boys (2006), Howards End (1992), American Friends (1991), I Can't Think Straight (2008).
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
mathematics, serial killer, amateur detective, oxford, university, investigation, teachers and students, murder, uncover truth, riddles and clues, life is a bitch, obsession ...
Time:
year 1993, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe, oxford university, united kingdom
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33K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Style:
serious, detective, intellectual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
police, police detective, investigator, murderer, police investigation, talented, coworker, british, oxford, murder, intelligence, bodies ...
Time:
60s, future, 20th century
Place:
england
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138K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style:
realistic, period piece, costume drama, feel good, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, self discovery, teenage girl, betrayal, virginity, teenage life, older man young girl relationship, culture ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 1900s, year 1961, 60s
Place:
london, france, oxford university, paris france, britain ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This affecting biography chronicles the life and times of prominent European philosopher John Wycliffe, who was the first to translate the Bible into English. The 14th century, Oxford University scholar often found himself caught between opposing ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious
Plot:
reformation, medieval, biopic, ancient, faith, christian, conservative, time machine, catholic, translator, clergy, injustice ...
Time:
medieval times, ancient times, 14th century, middle ages
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides ...
Style:
semi serious, cynical, witty, christmas horror, realistic ...
Plot:
estate, dark humor, master and servant, obsession, murder, human nature, manipulation, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, riddles and clues, nightmare, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, england, kenya
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, serious, sincere, period piece ...
Plot:
gay, world war two, couples, friendship, religion, catholic, nobility, oxford, love and romance, friends, siblings relations, society ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
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2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, light, sincere ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, couples, love affair, society, father daughter relationship, secret, adultery, extramarital affair, unrequited love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1998, 90s
Place:
england, britain, europe, yorkshire, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their ...
Style:
witty, melancholic, stylized, semi serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, coming of age, gay, youth, gay teenager, education, exam, lgbt, mentor, friends, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, family drama, infidelity, inheritance, dysfunctional family, greed, character study, country house, rich snob ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
england, britain, oxford university, london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of ...
Style:
touching, independent film, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
age-gap relationship, love triangle, oxford, family relations, couples, self discovery, love and romance, love affair, adoption, academy, cottage, reverend ...
Time:
year 1991, 19th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
switzerland, oxford university, europe, england, alps
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
I Can't Think Straight is a 2007 romance movie about a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding. A turn of events causes her to have an affair and subsequently fall in love with another ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, contemplative, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, lesbianism, love and romance, gender, gays and lesbians, passion, lesbian sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
idaho, indiana, london, middle east, europe ...
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11K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, UK, Thailand
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film is about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi (Yeoh) who spent more than a decade under house arrest. David Thewlis portrays Suu Kyi's husband, Dr. Michael Aris. Rebecca Frayn began working on the project after she and her husband, producer ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental, educational ...
Plot:
military dictatorship, resistance, politics, election, leadership, human spirit, selflessness, social activist, tragic love, idealism, biopic, social problems ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998, year 1947 ...
Place:
burma, france, china, asia, oxford university
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 1930s, Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, Judd is a Marxist. It explores his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism, while examining the hypocrisy and snobbery ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, factual, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, boarding school, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, equality, youth, gay relationship, gay lead character, boys' school, homosexual love, politics ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1983
Place:
england, russia, ussr, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
Style:
colorful, independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brat pack, college, teenager, oxford, teen angst, coming of age, high school, ship, sea, crew, american abroad, power relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, las vegas, europe, usa, oxford university
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19K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
depressing, touching, melancholic, sentimental, compassionate ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, aging, writers, writer's life, biopic, mental illness, love, female pubic hair, women, life & death, terminal illness, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2001, 50s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's part of her destiny.
Style:
fairy tale, epic, visual, visually stunning, aesthetic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
fantasy world, steampunk, magical, journey, witch, alternate reality, orphan, parallel world, polar bear, imaginary, adventurer, heroes ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
england, london, oxford university
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436
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
athlete, oxford, university, sport team, power relations, college life, campus, student life, contests and competitions, human spirit, ambition, underdog ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly ...
Style:
romantic, surreal, melancholic, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
gambling, obsession, religion, friendship, wager, inheritance, fall in love, introspection, obsessive quest, love and romance, love, destiny ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1997, 1800s
Place:
australia, england, britain, europe, sydney australia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious ...
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, exciting, sad ...
Audience:
teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
travel, magic, prophecy, friendship, children, child protagonist, steampunk, journey, parallel universe, conspiracy, coming of age, church ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Marcus King, an old school gangster, a crime lord, has left behind old school crime. He has manoeuvred his business into the leafy lanes of the suburbs and now, in place of pimps and dealers, his team consists of the best graduate geeks that money ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, exciting, independent film
Plot:
internet, crime boss, organized crime, money, death, criminal, violence, gangster, betrayal, telephone call, danger, friendship ...
Place:
spain, london
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Master Keaton is a Japanese manga series created by Hokusei Katsushika and Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Big Comic Original between 1988 and 1994 and ran for 144 chapters. The chapters were combined into 18 tankōbon volumes. An anime ...
Style:
anime, detective
Plot:
police, ancient ruins, archaeologist, cemetery, teacher, agent, veteran, archaeology, biracial, college, bomb, murder ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this two-hour TV movie episode of Family Ties, the Keaton family goes on vacation to London, England and becomes entangled in an espionage plot.
Style:
freeze frame, microfilm
Plot:
vacation, spy, cycling, photography, bare chested male, holiday, college campus, university, male objectification, mansion, kidnapped, kidnapping ...
Place:
europe, oxford university, london, england
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and ...
Style:
humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, thrilling ...
Plot:
fraud, inheritance, suspicion, trial, seduction, infidelity, adultery, murder, love, money, erotica, unfaithfulness ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story:
Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style:
stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot:
world war two, world war one, post war, love, high society, social relations, power relations, couples, lifestyle, society, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now 007 must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Style:
suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
spy, james bond, 007, espionage, chase, secret agent, top secret, secret service, world war three, terrorism, female martial artist, female agent ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
hamburg germany, hong kong, china, vietnam, england ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Style:
epic, realistic, factual, talky, serious ...
Plot:
revolution, british history, battles, royal family, political unrest, society, medieval, tyranny, military, against the odds, rivalry, rebellion ...
Time:
17th century, victorian era, middle ages
Place:
england, ireland, britain, europe, america ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, touching, melancholic, factual ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
poet, writers, biopic, marriage, honest, college, death, writer's life, couple relations, terminal illness, melancholy, literature ...
Time:
1950s, year 1993, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Anjali is left heartbroken when her best friend and secret crush, Rahul, falls in love with Tina. Years later, Tina's young daughter tries to fulfil her mother's last wish of uniting Rahul and Anjali.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, best friend, childhood friend, love, love and romance, youth, family life, crumbling relationship, unhappiness, family relations, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india, middle east, scotland, asia
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72K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ivan Tretiak, Russian Mafia boss who wants to create an oil crisis in Moscow and seize power as a result sends Simon Templar, great international criminal, to England to get a secret formula for cold fusion from U.S. scientist Emma Russell. Templar ...
Style:
romantic, action packed, exciting, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
master thief, espionage, knights templar, conspiracy, love story, love, winter, agent, secret agent, one last job, female protagonist, heist ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
russia, europe, berlin germany, england, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, true love, lake, hotel, love, adultery, lesbian love, summer, age-gap relationship, interwar period, nanny, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place:
italy, switzerland, europe, venice
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