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1. Scoop (2024)
TV-14 | 102 min | Biography, Drama
How the BBC obtained the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Director: Philip Martin | Stars: Billie Piper, Gillian Anderson, Rufus Sewell, Connor Swindells
Votes: 15,313
2. Skyfall (2012)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench
Votes: 732,776 | Gross: $304.36M
3. The Producers (2005)
PG-13 | 134 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
Director: Susan Stroman | Stars: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell
Votes: 44,849 | Gross: $19.38M
4. 6 Days (I) (2017)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, History
Based on the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, this action-thriller dramatizes a six-day standoff between armed Iranian Arabs and SAS soldiers ready for a counterattack.
Director: Toa Fraser | Stars: Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish, Martin Shaw
Votes: 24,768
5. The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Alex, a 12-year-old boy, and his friends fight an evil sorceress with the help of Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur, in a bid to save the world from her atrocities.
Director: Joe Cornish | Stars: Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor
Votes: 18,791 | Gross: $16.79M
6. Misbehaviour (2020)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe | Stars: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear
Votes: 10,601
7. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Director: Kerry Conran | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 87,567 | Gross: $37.76M
8. The Monk and the Gun (2023)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
An American travels into Bhutan in search of a valuable antique rifle and crosses paths with a young monk who wanders through the serene mountains, instructed by his teacher to make things right again.
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji | Stars: Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Phubz, Kelsang Choejay, Tandin Sonam
Votes: 1,486
9. The Reckoning (2023)
59 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Jimmy Savile's life from his working-class roots, to his rise to TV stardom as a BBC presenter, and his later years when he managed to keep his reign of sexual abuse concealed until after his death in 2011.
Stars: Steve Coogan, Mark Stanley, Mark Lewis Jones, Darien
Votes: 3,784
10. The Duke (2020)
R | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Stephen Rashbrook, James Wilby
Votes: 13,329
11. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean
Votes: 7,207
12. Accident (1967)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York
Votes: 5,003
13. The Century of the Self (2002)
59 min | Documentary
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
Stars: Adam Curtis, Robert Reich, Ann Bernays, Alfred Pritz
Votes: 6,381
14. Jimmy Hollywood (1994)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A failing actor living in crime infested Los Angeles, frustrated with his career, decides to take the law into his own hands, and becomes the leader of a mock-vigilante group that videotapes criminals and turns them over to the police.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe
Votes: 3,659 | Gross: $3.69M
15. The First Grader (2010)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau veteran who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Tony Kgoroge, Alfred Munyua
Votes: 4,900 | Gross: $0.33M
16. JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick (2014 Video)
208 min | Documentary, History, War
This is one of the only documentaries that actually speaks on the real Secret Societies which for most are still a secret.
Stars: Francis Richard Conolly, Gordon Arnold, Charles Brehm, Howard Brennan
Votes: 722
17. A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Passed | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 1,576
18. The Road to Coronation Street (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 75 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of how the 22-year-old Tony Warren conceived, wrote and fought for the record breaking UK TV series Coronation Street (1960).
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Ann Aris, Lynda Baron, Steven Berkoff, David Dawson
Votes: 407
19. Unlawful Killing (2011)
78 min | Documentary
A documentary about the allegedly conspiratorial killing of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed
Director: Keith Allen | Stars: Keith Allen, Piers Morgan, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Howard Stern
Votes: 393
20. Compelled (1960)
Not Rated | 56 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-con-turned-engineer is blackmailed into taking part in a jewel heist.
Director: Ramsey Herrington | Stars: Beth Rogan, Ronald Howard, John Gabriel, Richard Shaw
Votes: 53
21. 9/11: Blueprint for Truth - The Architecture of Destruction (2008)
112 min | Documentary
On Prime Video it's Title is, "9/11 - The Myth and The Reality". Director: Ken Jenkins
Director: Ken Jenkins | Stars: Richard Gage, Jonathan Barnett, David Chandler, Craig Bartmer
Votes: 93
22. Attenborough's Wonder of Song (2022 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
David Attenborough chooses seven of the most remarkable songs found in nature.
Directors: Mike Birkhead, Beth Jones | Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 222
23. Chemtrails and the Flat Earth... Revisited (2015 Video)
130 min
Stars: Rod Jones, Lawrence Wright, Francis Mangels, Carl Sagan
25. Culture Wars: Silicon Valley's Obsession with Diversity Hiring (2017 Video)
9 min | Short, News
In the wake of the James Damore/Google memo, Dave Cullen (aka Computing Forever) disputes the value of diversity hiring and affirmative action.
Stars: Dave Cullen, Dave Rubin, James Damore
27. Britain Is Not Racist (2017 Video)
11 min | Short, News
Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad, responds to a BBC video featuring the ex-L'Oréal model, Munroe Bergdorf, who claims that Britain is racist.
Stars: Carl Benjamin, Munroe Bergdorf
29. The Big Question (2005 Video)
92 min
Director: Richard Laurence | Stars: Rupert Hoare, Roger Phillips, John Polkinghorne, John Mackay
30. Technocratic Dystopia & the Facial Recognition Nightmare (2017 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Dave Cullen, aka Computing Forever, looks at the possibility of a dystopia created by facial-recognition programs.
Star: Dave Cullen
33.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
The Affair at the Victory Ball
(1991)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Poirot and Hastings attend the Victory Ball, a popular costume party. During the festivities, one of the guests is found stabbed to death, and another succumbs to a drug overdose the next day.
Director: Renny Rye | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran
Votes: 1,406
34.
Without Walls (1990–1996)
Episode:
Hell's Angel: Mother Teresa
(1994)
25 min | Documentary, Biography
Christopher Hitchens investigates whether Mother Teresa of Calcutta deserves her saintly image. He probes her campaigns against contraception and foeticide and her questionable relationships with wealthy religious and political leaders.
Director: Jenny Morgan | Stars: Christopher Hitchens, Mother Teresa, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Mihir Bose
Votes: 489
35.
Secrets and Mysteries (1983–1989)
Episode:
Jack the Ripper
28 min | Documentary
Directors: Erik Nelson, Graeme Whifler | Stars: Edward Mulhare, John Fleck, Robert Bloch, Donald Rumbelow
36.
Open All Hours (1976–1985)
Episode:
Beware of the Dog
(1976)
30 min | Comedy
When a crime wave hits the area Arkwright decides to scare off any potential burglars by putting up a notice that says Beware of the Dog but, since everybody knows that he has no dog, he ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron, Shirley Steedman
Votes: 107
37.
Porridge (1974–1977)
Episode:
Heartbreak Hotel
(1975)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Crime
Godber sends a request to a radio music show to play a record for his fiancee Denise, but it is rejected, probably because it is written on prison notepaper. At visiting time Fletch's ... See full summary »
Director: Sydney Lotterby | Stars: Ronnie Barker, Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay, Richard Beckinsale
Votes: 162
38.
Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode:
The Wedding of Latka and Simka
(1982)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Latka and Simka have a wedding in the garage and at the wedding Simka must pass a test to prove she's chaste.
Director: James Burrows | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza
Votes: 160
39.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019– )
Episode:
Thirsty Werk
(2019)
TV-MA | 62 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV
This week the queens' creative marketing skills are put to the test as they are asked to create an advert - and brand themselves
Stars: RuPaul, Cheryl, Graham Norton, Michelle Visage
Votes: 345
40.
Good Morning Britain (2014– )
Episode:
Episode dated 3 July 2019
(2019)
TV-14 | 150 min | News, Talk-Show
BBC under fire over salaries; reaction to the Lionesses World Cup semi-final defeat with Faye White; Alex from Glasto is live in the studio; Farage on EU anthem protest; KP on the CWC; plus, Bremner on Boris.
Stars: Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, Jonathan Swain, Toby Young
41.
Good Morning Britain (2014– )
Episode:
Episode dated 17 July 2019
(2019)
TV-14 | 150 min | News, Talk-Show
It's Piers' last day before his holiday; over 11,000 OAPs to lose TV licence; Isabel Oakeshott on her Darrochgate scoop; is President Trump a racist?; Lion of London Bridge denied compensation; plus, an exclusive interview with Ben Stokes.
Stars: Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, Richard Gaisford, Diana Moran
42.
Good Morning Britain (2014– )
Episode:
Episode dated 11 September 2019
(2019)
TV-14 | 150 min | News, Talk-Show
Labour split over Brexit; Tyson Fury on his upcoming bout; BBC show for kids is criticised for claiming there are over 100 genders; Lincolnshire Fire Service bans Fireman Sam; London Sea ... See full summary »
Director: Erron Gordon | Stars: Piers Morgan, Susanna Reid, Charlotte Barcas, Tyson Fury
43.
Good Morning Britain (2014– )
Episode:
Episode dated 26 August 2019
(2019)
TV-14 | 150 min | News, Talk-Show
Reaction to Ben Stokes' Ashes-saving innings; Boris demands BBC pay for TV licences for the over-75s; Prince Andrew breaks silence over friendship with Epstein; plus, it's the hottest Bank Holiday ever.
Stars: Richard Madeley, Charlotte Hawkins, Juliet Dunlop, Ben Stokes
44.
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ (1985)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1985)
52 min | Comedy, Family
The Mole family's neighbour Mr. Lucas is left by his wife, Mrs. Lucas. He and Adrian's mother Pauline have been having an affair, and they both leave to go to Sheffield, leaving Adrian and ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Gian Sammarco, Julie Walters, Stephen Moore, Beryl Reid
Votes: 18
45.
WatchMojoUK (2017– )
Episode:
Everything We Know So Far About War of the Worlds BBC
(2019)
Talk-Show
Star: Ashley Bowman
46.
ITV Lunchtime News (1972– )
Episode:
Episode dated 20 January 2020
(2020)
News
Director: Jon Roberts | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Carl Dinnen, Debi Edward, Johnny Hornby
47.
ITV Evening News (1999– )
Episode:
Episode dated 5 February 2020
(2020)
26 min | News
Director: Justyna Barlow | Stars: Cressida Dick, Paul Brand, Zachary France, Dave Abel
48.
News at Ten (1967–2024)
Episode:
Episode dated 5 February 2020
(2020)
News
Director: Justyna Barlow | Stars: Julie Etchingham, Rohit Kachroo, Robert Moore, Nancy Pelosi
49.
Clownfish TV (2016– )
Episode:
BBC Responds to Doctor Who BACKLASH Over ' The Timeless Children'
(2020)
TV-14 | Talk-Show
Directors: Kambrea Pratt, Thom Pratt | Stars: Thom Pratt, Kambrea Pratt
50.
Clownfish TV (2016– )
Episode:
Doctor Who WORST RATINGS EVER! Media TURNS on Series 12 Retcon!
(2020)
TV-14 | Talk-Show
Directors: Kambrea Pratt, Thom Pratt | Stars: Thom Pratt, Kambrea Pratt