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Criterion Channel
87
8.0
/50683/
78
/750/
76
/696/
4.3
/56659/
95
/44/
91
/643/
92
/27/
cc age 15+

Secrets & Lies (1996)
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
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Kanopy
86
7.8
/84103/
76
/1369/
75
/981/
3.9
/61380/
98
/45/
92
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97
/18/
cc age 16+

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
poster
84
8.1
/200214/
80
/3059/
78
/1870/
4.2
/99643/
94
/50/
95
/1869/
84
/16/
cc age 16+

In the Name of the Father (1993)
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/28837/
74
/787/
71
/402/
3.9
/38849/
97
/32/
89
/773/
82
/16/
cc age 17+

The Long Good Friday (1980)
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.4
/12032/
73
/245/
70
/169/
3.9
/20987/
94
/17/
87
/179/
88
/18/

Life Is Sweet (1990)
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/47916/
74
/979/
72
/631/
4.0
/114938/
88
/59/
91
/870/
85
/21/

Naked (1993)
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
poster
83
8.1
/760890/
80
/17143/
80
/10112/
4.2
/1057262/
90
/98/
93
/16411/
83
/28/
cc age 18+

Trainspotting (1996)
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.
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Amazon Prime Video
82
8.0
/432255/
80
/11855/
77
/4720/
4.0
/359681/
96
/73/
93
/10665/
77
/15/
cc age 15+

Life of Brian (1979)
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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Kanopy
82
7.3
/28975/
72
/575/
68
/377/
3.9
/33018/
100
/42/
87
/674/
83
/17/
cc age 12+

Local Hero (1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.4
/6209/
75
/102/
70
/95/
3.9
/9332/
92
/13/
85
/77/
84
/12/

High Hopes (1989)
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.5
/51116/
75
/1094/
73
/599/
4.0
/86627/
84
/86/
93
/3760/
84
/18/
cc age 16+

Withnail & I (1987)
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.
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Criterion Channel
81
7.3
/20112/
71
/330/
68
/281/
3.8
/21805/
98
/42/
81
/252/
85
/20/
cc age 16+

Mona Lisa (1986)
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
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Amazon Prime Video
81
7.3
/3801/
70
/79/
69
/67/
3.8
/5654/
100
/10/
80
/21/

Moonlighting (1982)
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
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Kanopy
81
7.2
/11831/
71
/202/
70
/253/
3.8
/16150/
97
/32/
85
/233/

The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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The Roku Channel
81
7.5
/33009/
73
/448/
71
/398/
3.8
/15557/
98
/41/
89
/775/
83
/17/

Henry V (1989)
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
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The Roku Channel
81
7.2
/51488/
70
/867/
69
/803/
3.7
/69474/
100
/37/
85
/1352/
83
/21/
cc age 11+

A Room with a View (1986)
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
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Fandor
80
7.3
/5221/
71
/89/
69
/141/
3.7
/4293/
100
/11/
91
/77/

Raining Stones (1993)
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
poster
80
7.4
/4068/
73
/79/
72
/101/
3.8
/2785/
82
/11/
84
/51/
83
/23/

Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.
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Kanopy
80
7.2
/62742/
71
/1178/
68
/814/
3.6
/37809/
95
/73/
78
/1276/
90
/22/
cc age 16+

The Crying Game (1992)
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.
poster
80
8.2
/278360/
79
/4304/
81
/3770/
4.3
/366603/
91
/65/
93
/3296/
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.
poster
79
7.8
/220089/
78
/5359/
76
/3549/
4.1
/244717/
98
/62/
90
/7405/
84
/18/
cc age 17+

Brazil (1985)
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
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Peacock Premium
78
7.6
/41927/
77
/1120/
72
/576/
3.8
/37379/
90
/51/
90
/1220/
73
/23/
cc age 16+

The Commitments (1991)
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
poster
77
7.0
/36497/
71
/763/
67
/540/
3.5
/43001/
89
/70/
76
/1458/
76
/22/

Sid and Nancy (1986)
January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
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Kanopy
77
7.3
/54867/
73
/1070/
69
/773/
3.6
/56286/
90
/50/
86
/2594/
80
/25/
cc age 12+

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
poster
77
7.1
/70059/
69
/1492/
67
/989/
3.4
/42967/
84
/114/
80
/1663/
78
/19/
cc age 11+

Chariots of Fire (1981)
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
7.5
/78946/
74
/1503/
71
/1232/
3.8
/57203/
94
/34/
83
/1783/
74
/17/

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
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Amazon Prime Video
76
7.1
/177872/
70
/4159/
67
/2876/
3.4
/270322/
92
/133/
74
/3649/
81
/19/
cc age 16+

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
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MGM Plus
76
7.1
/6873/
64
/85/
66
/98/
3.6
/3856/
92
/39/
79
/145/
72
/17/

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.
poster
76
6.6
/2529/
66
/94/
65
/59/
3.6
/2963/
100
/12/
82
/33/

Comfort and Joy (1984)
Radio host Alan 'Dickie' Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
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The Roku Channel
76
7.2
/9686/
71
/140/
67
/120/
3.6
/3686/
83
/47/
81
/99/
81
/21/

The General (1998)
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
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Kanopy
76
7.1
/9939/
70
/199/
67
/142/
95
/22/
81
/292/
cc age 14+

Gregory's Girl (1981)
A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.
poster
76
7.3
/10853/
69
/172/
68
/140/
3.8
/7537/
79
/34/
87
/482/
76
/20/
cc age 17+

Nil by Mouth (1997)
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
poster
76
7.1
/20525/
70
/467/
69
/358/
3.9
/55022/
84
/64/
82
/551/
75
/14/

Orlando (1992)
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
poster
76
7.2
/118530/
72
/2291/
69
/1735/
3.7
/78917/
96
/55/
79
/3083/
75
/31/
cc age 15+

The Full Monty (1997)
Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
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Hoopla
75
7.2
/2885/
68
/29/
71
/42/
3.6
/1319/
81
/27/
88
/61/

In the Bleak Midwinter (1995)
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
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Fandor
75
7.0
/5181/
70
/102/
67
/111/
3.7
/4370/
90
/10/
83
/45/

Riff-Raff (1991)
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
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The Roku Channel
79
75
7.5
/12721/
77
/262/
73
/289/
3.9
/12152/
79
/14/
94
/261/

Land and Freedom (1995)
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
poster
75
7.1
/59353/
72
/1656/
70
/959/
3.7
/44880/
90
/60/
82
/1587/
69
/15/
cc age 12+

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
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MGM Plus
74
7.2
/1325/
65
/17/
65
/11/
3.5
/369/

Little Dorrit (1987)
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
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Hoopla
74
6.9
/1866/
65
/18/
59
/27/
3.4
/886/
86
/14/
75
/14/

Betrayal (1983)
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological order.
poster
74
6.7
/1749/
74
/26/
62
/25/
3.5
/1924/
100
/8/
70
/33/

Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter and hook up for a night of fun and frolics. Teresa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of the Liverpool docklands. A classic British romantic comedy filled with new wave tunes, 80s fashion, a little politics and a lot of heart.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
7.1
/6645/
68
/59/
65
/85/
3.7
/8154/
88
/24/
78
/77/
76
/25/

Career Girls (1997)
A young college student in London moves into a flat and becomes best friends with a flatmate; the former moves into her own flat 4 years later but 6 years after their parting, the former returns to London to pay the latter a visit.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
74
6.8
/3656/
71
/61/
65
/74/
3.5
/2156/
85
/33/
77
/70/

Wish You Were Here (1987)
In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.
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Kanopy
74
6.8
/18473/
68
/391/
66
/291/
3.5
/33841/
95
/103/
74
/377/
76
/21/

My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
6.9
/73204/
70
/2292/
66
/1096/
3.5
/71978/
92
/53/
77
/2330/
79
/18/
cc age 9+

Time Bandits (1981)
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.
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MGM Plus
73
6.6
/3169/
62
/43/
60
/52/
3.4
/1117/
91
/11/
70
/44/

Dance with a Stranger (1985)
Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
poster
MGM Plus
73
6.9
/5115/
69
/166/
69
/100/
3.6
/4633/
86
/21/
71
/37/

Hidden Agenda (1990)
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
poster
Hoopla
73
7.1
/11634/
71
/172/
70
/185/
3.9
/11993/
88
/16/
88
/156/

Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings.


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