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Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/45047/
69
/973/
72
/861/
3.8
/110596/
92
/53/
84
/878/
81
/15/
cc age 14+

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
poster
79
8.2
/279955/
79
/4394/
80
/3811/
4.3
/386144/
91
/65/
93
/3299/
78
/16/
cc age 14+

The Elephant Man (1980)
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.
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Kanopy
78
7.6
/29020/
74
/515/
71
/367/
3.7
/13500/
81
/26/
88
/537/
77
/10/

The Shootist (1976)
Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
poster
76
7.6
/33154/
75
/771/
69
/317/
3.6
/13521/
81
/21/
89
/1339/

Gettysburg (1993)
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
poster
74
7.2
/92060/
72
/1863/
71
/1492/
3.4
/58835/
62
/90/
82
/2106/
69
/18/
cc age 13+

Out of Africa (1985)
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
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Netflix
73
7.0
/42829/
72
/2537/
69
/607/
3.5
/144296/
80
/177/
92
/82/
58
/38/
cc age 15+

Wicked Little Letters (2024)
When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
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Disney Plus
73
7.1
/58308/
72
/2838/
70
/1758/
3.6
/94450/
78
/27/
79
/1871/
73
/13/
cc age 6+

The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil the perfect crime.
poster
72
7.1
/4660/
67
/80/
64
/82/
3.5
/1702/
67
/18/
77
/51/

Mountains of the Moon (1990)
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
70
6.9
/17661/
74
/1118/
67
/527/
3.3
/10141/
83
/161/
77
/160/
65
/41/
cc age 12+

A United Kingdom (2016)
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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Kanopy
79
68
7.3
/3070/
67
/74/
81
/56/
3.9
/3547/
89
/9/
89
/85/

Lilies (1997)
1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a prison to hear the confession of Simon, a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. However, once there, Bilodeau finds himself forced to watch a play put on by Simon and the other inmates depicting the two men's youths. As the play progresses, the tragic truth of Simon's crime comes to light.
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Hoopla
78
67
7.5
/4368/
72
/54/
70
/50/
3.8
/5186/
91
/11/
85
/52/

The Chess Players (1977)
In the year 1856, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah is the King of Awadh, one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British intend to control this rich land and send General Outram to clear way for an annexation. Pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political maneuvers, but the Nawab whiles away his time in pursuit of pleasure and religious practice. The court is of no help either — noblemen Mir and Mirza ignore all duties and spend their days playing endless games of chess. Based on Munshi Premchand's short story of the same name. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2010.
poster
78
67
7.3
/4744/
73
/137/
67
/79/
3.5
/4285/
100
/6/
87
/27/

The Night Strangler (1973)
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he’s on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a killer murders a certain number of people, drains them of their blood, and then disappears into the night. Kolchak is on his trail, but can he stop him?
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MGM Plus
72
66
6.8
/9009/
72
/159/
63
/120/
3.3
/2923/
100
/10/
66
/89/

Khartoum (1966)
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
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71
65
7.1
/4198/
71
/134/
60
/47/
3.5
/4200/
80
/15/
83
/355/
66
/8/

The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at last over and he happily leaves the service of the pirates. When Frederic meets the beautiful Mabel, one of the many daughters (or wards in Chancery) of Major-General Stanley, they fall in love and decide to marry. However, complications arise when the pirates decide to marry the rest of the Major-General's daughters, themselves - and Frederic's birthdate turns out to be not all it seems.
poster
70
65
6.8
/7560/
68
/168/
64
/148/
3.4
/10934/
93
/14/
63
/108/

Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a reporter to start investigating.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
6.5
/14365/
65
/458/
63
/324/
3.3
/18747/
80
/15/
53
/214/
68
/4/

Horror Express (1972)
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
poster
63
6.3
/13982/
63
/231/
60
/190/
3.0
/2981/
64
/153/
58
/348/
52
/34/
cc age 15+

Possession (2002)
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
63
6.5
/8673/
66
/263/
64
/178/
3.2
/12384/
92
/13/
58
/125/
55
/4/

The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
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Fandango at Home Free
62
6.4
/2190/
62
/32/
61
/33/
3.6
/3169/
44
/9/
86
/28/

Salome's Last Dance (1988)
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
poster
70
62
6.9
/6997/
72
/168/
67
/97/
3.3
/3469/
76
/161/

Move Over, Darling (1963)
Three years into their loving marriage, with two infant daughters at home in Los Angeles, Nicholas Arden and Ellen Wagstaff Arden are on a plane that goes down in the South Pacific. Although most passengers manage to survive the incident, Ellen presumably perishes when swept off her lifeboat, her body never recovered. Fast forward five years. Nicholas, wanting to move on with his life, has Ellen declared legally dead. Part of that moving on includes getting remarried, this time to a young woman named Bianca Steele, who, for their honeymoon, he plans to take to the same Monterrey resort where he and Ellen spent their honeymoon. On that very same day, Ellen is dropped off in Los Angeles by the Navy, who rescued her from the South Pacific island where she was stranded for the past five years. She asks the Navy not to publicize her rescue nor notify Nicholas as she wants to do so herself.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
60
6.8
/5913/
67
/152/
64
/83/
3.1
/2915/
78
/123/

Carry On Up the Khyber (1968)
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe, but the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas—he wants all the British dead. But his troops fear the 'skirted-devils, who are rumoured not to wear any underwear.
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Starz
59
6.4
/29094/
65
/577/
61
/382/
3.1
/9005/
54
/59/
53
/1146/
56
/16/

Ned Kelly (2003)
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.
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Kanopy
58
6.5
/36489/
68
/746/
66
/579/
3.2
/8958/
41
/147/
65
/1090/
49
/32/
cc age 13+

The Four Feathers (2002)
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
6.2
/196626/
69
/18628/
59
/6416/
2.5
/129326/
36
/258/
58
/2329/
44
/41/
cc age 12+

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
poster
67
51
6.9
/4293/
72
/67/
68
/56/
3.3
/1355/
63
/938/

The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
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Kanopy
43
5.7
/13367/
61
/661/
58
/294/
2.7
/6440/
18
/80/
36
/75/
39
/18/
cc age 14+

Queen of the Desert (2015)
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
poster
65
42
6.9
/2366/
60
/28/
60
/21/
3.3
/1338/
70
/10/
70
/27/

The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.
poster
59
40
6.0
/2785/
62
/66/
55
/45/
3.2
/804/
50
/14/
63
/31/

The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
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Amazon Prime Video
53
34
6.2
/2262/
60
/38/
54
/48/
3.0
/1394/
28
/387/

Man in the Attic (1953)
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
poster
62
26
6.5
/1662/
69
/32/
57
/19/
3.2
/476/
57
/26/

The Great Caruso (1951)
Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
poster
59
24
6.1
/1575/
53
/13/
66
/20/
3.1
/855/
55
/14/

Island in the Sun (1957)
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
poster
63
23
6.6
/663/
60
/15/
56
/14/
3.4
/304/
67
/96/

Love on the Dole (1941)
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
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Plex
37
20
3.8
/1794/
46
/169/
39
/70/
2.5
/522/
16
/4/

Prisoners of the Sun (2013)
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse
poster
51
18
5.3
/694/
54
/15/
55
/17/
3.2
/432/
33
/144/

Loot (1970)
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
poster
59
16
6.8
/736/
65
/2/
58
/7/
3.3
/231/
47
/68/

Charley's Aunt (1941)
In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.
poster
54
15
6.2
/708/
70
/12/
48
/10/
36
/31/

Challenge to Lassie (1949)
When Lassie's master dies, an old friend tries to convince a judge that the dog's life should be spared.
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Kanopy
70
14
7.1
/413/
67
/11/
70
/8/
3.7
/714/
69
/6/

Robinson in Space (1997)
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly concentrate on ports, power stations, prisons, and manufacturing plants, but they also bring in various literary connections, as well as a few conventional landscapes.
poster
50
13
5.6
/666/
50
/12/
65
/19/
31
/6/

The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
poster
?
7.1
/41/
71
/5/
60
/1/

The Cable That Changed the World (2024)
The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, County Kerry, to Newfoundland, Canada, 165 years ago was an 8 year endeavor that helped lay the foundation of the modern technology industry and explains the fragility of undersea cables today.
poster
?
6.8
/56/
10
/1/

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution (1980)
In an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to cover up a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor, and Annie Elizabeth Crook, a working class Irish Catholic girl. Knight's main source, Joseph Gorman (Annie Crook's grandson, Walter Sickert's self-proclaimed son with Annie's daughter Alice Margaret Crook), later retracted the story and admitted to the press that it was a hoax.
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Kanopy
73
?
7.7
/216/
80
/1/
72
/6/
65
/9/

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2003)
This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.
poster
35
?
4.1
/139/
35
/2/
31
/6/

On the Game (1974)
Comic look at the history of prostitution.
poster
?
6.8
/33/
40
/2/
45
/4/

Jack the Ripper: An On-Going Mystery (2000)
A new look into the mysterious serial killer: Jack the Ripper.
poster
?
6.6
/35/
80
/1/
80
/2/

Finding Jack the Ripper (2009)
London, 1888. A killer known by the name of Jack the Ripper brutally murders five prostitutes. Though the killings make the world's headlines, the slayer's identity remains a mystery for over 120 years. But new evidence found by an international team of experts leads to a German sailor and to New York's Lower East Side...
poster
?
7.4
/20/
60
/1/
65
/2/

5 Weeks in a Balloon (1977)
An elderly English doctor and his 14-year old American nephew go on a perilous journey to Africa in an hot air balloon with an African guide, to retrieve a precious diamond from the top of a volcanic rock, as a gift for Queen Victoria.
poster
?
6.6
/32/
10
/1/

Majuba: Hill of Pigeons (1968)
Set during the first Anglo-Boer War 1880-1881 details the events leading up to this final battle ending in one of the most humiliating defeats for Britain in history.
poster
56
?
7.6
/124/
46
/3/
45
/4/

Distinctly Me (1969)
Mind sick man wandering the streets of Belgrade, thinking about killing us all.
poster
62
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6.4
/499/
70
/4/
60
/8/
3.5
/324/
46
/8/

Smilin' Through (1941)
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.


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