Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "english-culture"

1. Peaky Blinders (2013–2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama

A gangster family epic set in 1900s England, centering on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby.

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Paul Anderson, Sophie Rundle, Helen McCrory

Votes: 650,211

2. The Crown (2016–2023)

TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History

Follows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.

Stars: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, Matt Smith

Votes: 256,823

3. Legend (I) (2015)

R | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s.

Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Paul Anderson

Votes: 202,536 | Gross: $1.87M

4. Victoria (2016–2019)

TV-PG | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History

The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.

Stars: Jenna Coleman, Adrian Schiller, Tommy Knight, Jordan Waller

Votes: 30,895

5. Green Street Hooligans (2005)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.

Director: Lexi Alexander | Stars: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren

Votes: 161,862 | Gross: $0.34M

6. This Is England (2006)

Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Drama

A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.

Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim

Votes: 128,757 | Gross: $0.33M

7. Straw Dogs (1971)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna

Votes: 64,516

8. Maurice (1987)

R | 140 min | Drama, Romance

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 23,591 | Gross: $3.13M

9. Blackadder (1982–1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

In the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.

Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny

Votes: 41,089

10. Made in Britain (1982 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama

After being sent to a detention center, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers, who want to conform him to the status quo.

Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Tim Roth, Terry Richards, Bill Stewart, Eric Richard

Votes: 7,624

11. A Very English Scandal (2018)

TV-14 | 56 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused of conspiracy to murder his gay ex-lover and forced to stand trial in 1979.

Stars: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings, Patricia Hodge

Votes: 16,250

12. The Riot Club (2014)

R | 107 min | Drama, Thriller

Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Sam Claflin, Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Jessica Brown Findlay

Votes: 24,131

13. Bread (1986–1991)

30 min | Comedy

The series set in working-class Liverpool. Meet the Boswells: they're penniless, jobless and with little hope of things improving, but life's never stale.

Stars: Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Jonathon Morris, Kenneth Waller

Votes: 1,543

14. The Football Factory (2004)

R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

An insight on the gritty life of a bored male, Chelsea football hooligan who lives for violence, sex, drugs & alcohol.

Director: Nick Love | Stars: Danny Dyer, Frank Harper, Tamer Hassan, Roland Manookian

Votes: 32,794

15. A Hard Day's Night (1964)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Musical

Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Votes: 48,105 | Gross: $13.78M

16. This Is England '86 (2010)

TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Shaun has just finished his final exams and he realizes he is no longer a kid. It's mid 80's England, and the gang are back, looking for a laugh, a job and something that resembles a future.

Stars: Andrew Ellis, Andrew Shim, Chanel Cresswell, Danielle Watson

Votes: 14,507

17. Wilde (1997)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.

Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle

Votes: 18,128 | Gross: $2.16M

18. Yes Minister (1980–1984)

TV-PG | 679 min | Comedy

The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.

Stars: Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, Diana Hoddinott

Votes: 16,555

19. Scum (1979)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.

Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell

Votes: 13,085

20. House of Cards (1990)

TV-14 | 57 min | Drama

The schemes of a ruthlessly ambitious British politician who will stop at nothing to get to the top.

Stars: Ian Richardson, Susannah Harker, Miles Anderson, Alphonsia Emmanuel

Votes: 15,075

21. This Is England '90 (2015)

55 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The year is 1990, the rave scene has just entered England. The sound of the Stone roses lurks toward Shaun and the gang. This means that Woody and Lol are living in a domestic bliss, they are happy again. But this year will see huge changes in everyone. This is the year 1990. This is England.

Stars: Lyra Mae Thomas, Chanel Cresswell, Vicky McClure, Joe Gilgun

Votes: 9,545

22. Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, History

Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to find the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions.

Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, John Henshaw, Anthony Flanagan

Votes: 13,686

23. The Krays (1990)

R | 115 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

This fact-based movie follows the life of the twin crime-lords in London's '60s underworld.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell

Votes: 9,053 | Gross: $2.06M

24. Nil by Mouth (1997)

R | 128 min | Drama

A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working-class family sees his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.

Director: Gary Oldman | Stars: Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles, Laila Morse

Votes: 10,198

25. This Is England '88 (2011)

TV-MA | 48 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Christmas 1988. Soulmates Woody and Lol find themselves in exile from each other and the gang. Trying to understand the definition 'growing up', Shaun begins a course at College, that quickly takes a wrong turn.

Stars: Andrew Ellis, Andrew Shim, Chanel Cresswell, Charlotte Tyree

Votes: 11,563

26. Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005)

R | 95 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Simon Armstrong

Votes: 5,692 | Gross: $0.02M

27. Scum (1991 TV Movie)

R | 78 min | Crime, Drama

This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Ray Winstone, David Threlfall, Martin Phillips, Davidson Knight

Votes: 2,786

28. Brexit (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Director: Toby Haynes | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman, Lucy Russell

Votes: 17,750

29. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)

540 min | Drama, History, Romance

A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.

Stars: Keith Michell, Anthony Quayle, Patrick Troughton, Bernard Hepton

Votes: 1,457

30. Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story (2022)

TV-MA | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Jimmy Savile once ruled the airwaves with a quirky persona and good works. So how did this icon manage to hide his many alleged bad deeds for so long?

Stars: Roger Ordish, Mark Lawson, Meirion Jones, Alison Bellamy

Votes: 9,097

31. Britain's Most Evil Killers (2017–2023)

60 min | Documentary, Crime

Brand new and exclusive to Pick, Britain's Most Evil Killers explores the crimes of Britain's 12 most brutal killers.

Stars: Elizabeth Yardley, Geoffrey Wansell, Fred Dinenage, Stuart Hamilton

Votes: 180

32. Britannia Hospital (1982)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

The chaotic workings of a hospital with staff on strike.

Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Leonard Rossiter, Malcolm McDowell, Brian Pettifer, John Moffatt

Votes: 2,928

33. London to Brighton (2006)

R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Desperate to evade an angry pimp, a London prostitute and a young girl flee by train to Brighton after an appointment with a powerful client goes violently wrong.

Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Lorraine Stanley, Georgia Groome, Johnny Harris, Nathan Constance

Votes: 8,739

34. The Martins (2001)

87 min | Comedy

The Martins live across from a shopping centre. Dad Robert is unemployed and hasn't really grown up - still blaming others for his failures. Things get really serious when he holds a gun for a friend.

Director: Tony Grounds | Stars: Lee Evans, Eric Byrne, Lloyd Harvey, Kathy Burke

Votes: 1,318

35. Murder Maps (2015– )

Crime, History

This drama-documentary series takes us back in time to the some of the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history.

Stars: Nicholas Day, Alan Moss, Donald Rumbelow, Judith Rowbotham

Votes: 624

36. Hillsborough (1996 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, History, Sport

A number of grieving families in the UK struggle to come to terms with the unexpected and tragic 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, in which 95 football fans were crushed to death.

Director: Charles McDougall | Stars: Tracey Wilkinson, Kevin Knapman, Mark Womack, Sarah Graham

Votes: 925

37. Hillsborough (2016 TV Movie)

121 min | Documentary

Hillsborough is an in-depth, moving account of Britain's worst sporting disaster, in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised. Beginning with... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Gordon | Stars: William Bale, Margaret Aspinall, David Duckenfield, Tony Evans

Votes: 545

38. K-Shop (2016)

Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A kebab shop owner's son, Salah, turns vigilante after his father's death in an effort to clean up the relentless onslaught of boozed up thrill seekers waging war on his doorstep.

Director: Dan Pringle | Stars: Ewen MacIntosh, Reece Noi, Darren Morfitt, Kristin Atherton

Votes: 2,026

39. Going Off Big Time (2000)

86 min | Thriller

After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.

Director: Jim Doyle | Stars: Neil Fitzmaurice, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Lamont, Nicholas Moss

Votes: 913

40. Thatcher: A Very British Revolution (2019)

60 min | Documentary, Biography

An in-depth examination of Margaret Thatcher, her rise to power, and the changes brought forth by her years in leadership. Told without narration, the story uses archive film and the ... See full summary »

Stars: Norman Tebbit, Michael Heseltine, Bernard Ingham, Michael Dobbs

Votes: 245

41. Tony Robinson's History of Britain (2020–2022)

60 min | Documentary, History

The actor and history enthusiast explores the history of Britain through the everyday lives of ordinary people during four periods of British history.

Stars: Tony Robinson, Jaega Wise, Ninya Mikhaila, Alex Hildred

Votes: 71

42. The Ballymurphy Precedent (2018)

108 min | Documentary

The Ballymurphy Precedent tells the unknown story of the death of eleven innocent people at the hands of the British Army in a Catholic estate in Belfast in 1971. This is a massacre that ... See full summary »

Director: Callum Macrae | Stars: Kevin-Barry Brown, Noel O'Brien, Callum Janes

Votes: 89

43. Bare Knuckle Fight Club (2007– )

62 min | Documentary

Uncovering the hidden world of underground bare-knuckle fighting in Britain. With access to a fight club where men from all walks of life compete against each other in brutal and bloody battles.

Stars: Corey Williams, Joe Duttine

Votes: 143

44. The Investigator: A British Crime Story (2016–2018)

47 min | Documentary, Crime

Series 1: In June 1985 Carole Packman, a wife and mother mysteriously disappeared and has never been seen since. Her husband Russell Causley is now serving a life sentence for her murder, ... See full summary »

Stars: Mark Williams-Thomas, Rick Warden, Tanya Winsor, Frances Millar

Votes: 1,742

45. London (1994)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary

An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.

Director: Patrick Keiller | Stars: Paul Scofield, John Major, Norma Major, Dennis Skinner

Votes: 759

46. Robinson in Space (1997)

82 min | Documentary

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Paul Scofield

Votes: 390

47. The Whip (IV)

82 min | Drama, Thriller | Post-production

With the looming threat of devastating welfare reforms known as Independence Credit, a full-time carer plots an audacious heist in a bid to halt the scheme in its tracks.

Director: Christopher Presswell | Stars: Shian Denovan, Gala Wesson, Tom Knight, Daniel Davids

48. Grooming Gangs: Britain's Shame (2023 TV Special)

60 min | Documentary

GB News's first investigative documentary focuses on the grooming of mainly underage white girls by men of mainly Pakistani heritage across England, and why the police and authorities have allowed such a big cover up for so long.

Stars: Charlie Peters, Elisabeth, Emily, Jack

Votes: 15

49. Robinson in Ruins (2010)

101 min | Documentary

A tour around England featuring images of nature and various industrialized and militarized settings.

Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Vanessa Redgrave

Votes: 259

50. Punk and Its Aftershocks (1980)

TV-MA | 85 min | Documentary, Music

This sequel to PUNK IN LONDON charts the rise and fall of Punk into Ska, New Wave and the Mod scene. See Britain's explosive music scene in the late 70's via live performances and exclusive interviews.

Director: Wolfgang Büld | Stars: Secret Affair, Pauline Black, Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Wolfgang Büld

Votes: 173