British movies

List of the best British movies selected by visitors to our site: The Prestige, The Imitation Game, The King's Speech, The Life of David Gale, The Dig, To Walk Invisible, Crooked House, Downton Abbey, Brief Encounter, Interstellar.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:05

    A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:54

      Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
      Duration01:58

      The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA
      Duration02:10

      A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future‎.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:11

      A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:24

      The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:26

      Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:49

        Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada
        Duration02:44

        A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, comedy, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:24

        Canadian Richard Hannay, residing in London, meets secret agent Annabella Smith immediately following a shots fired incident. She asks to go home with him. Back at Hannay's flat the mysterious woman confides that she fears for her life and is on a critical mission relating to protecting state air ministry secrets. Later that night assassins murder her. Believed by the police to be her killer, Hannay is forced to go on the run and flees to Scotland in a desperate attempt to see Annabella's mission through before it's too late. Along the way he chances upon beautiful Pamela, who unwillingly becomes his accomplice in the mission.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration00:40

        A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.

        Markimdb: 8.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:28

          Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy
          Duration01:50

          Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
          Duration02:33

          Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey in WWII.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
          Duration02:30

          Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
          Duration02:34

          When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword Excalibur from the stone, his life is turned upside down and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy... whether he likes it or not.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:25

          Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:26

          Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore dead and Voldemort's unscrupulous Death Eaters on the loose, the world is more dangerous than ever.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genredrama, music, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:09

          Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
          Duration02:29

          Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genreaction, comedy, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:47

          A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan
          Duration01:57

            Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
            Duration02:09

            Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:03

              The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life – so he decides to make his world a better place... by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as he thinks.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrefantasy, melodrama, adventure, family
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
              Duration02:27

              Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genreaction, thriller, crime
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration01:54

                When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

                Markimdb: 7.8
                Genreaction, comedy, crime
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

                American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

                Markimdb: 8.3
                Genreaction, comedy, crime
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                Duration01:42

                The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the search for a stolen diamond, and the other about a boxing promoter who’s having trouble with a psychotic gangster.

                Markimdb: 8
                Genrefamily, documentary
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

                An enchanting making-of story told through all-new in-depth interviews and cast conversations, inviting fans on a magical first-person journey through one of the most beloved film franchises of all time.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genrecomedy, short
                CountryUnited Kingdom
                Duration02:09

                  Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.

                  Markimdb: 8.1
                  Genredrama, crime
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration02:35

                  After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

                  Markimdb: 7.4
                  Genremelodrama, drama
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration02:25

                  A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

                  Markimdb: 6.9
                  Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family
                  CountryUSA, Poland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
                  Duration02:23

                  Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the wise and magnificent lion, Aslan, the children lead Narnia into a spectacular, climactic battle to be free of the Witch's glacial powers forever.

                  Markimdb: 7.8
                  Genreaction, thriller, comedy, detective
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, France
                  Duration02:01

                  Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.

                  Markimdb: 8.1
                  Genredrama, biography, sport
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
                  Duration02:03

                  A biographical drama centered on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One motor-racing season.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, music
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration02:36

                  After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:44

                  For the past 60 years, a space-traveling smart-ass named Paul has been locked up in a top-secret military base, advising world leaders about his kind. But when he worries he’s outlived his usefulness and the dissection table is drawing uncomfortably close, Paul escapes on the first RV that passes by his compound in Area 51. Fortunately, it contains the two earthlings who are most likely to rescue and harbor an alien on the run.

                  Markimdb: 7.1
                  Genrecomedy, drama, crime
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
                  Duration01:33

                  A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.

                  Markimdb: 7.4
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

                  Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrethriller
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

                  When a high-rise climb goes wrong, best friends Becky and Hunter find themselves stuck at the top of a 2,000-foot TV tower.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:47

                  When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
                  Duration01:33

                  The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

                  Markimdb: 8
                  Genremelodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, India
                  Duration02:00

                    Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.

                    Markimdb: 7.8
                    Genreaction, thriller, crime
                    CountryFrance, USA, Turkey, United Kingdom
                    Duration01:33

                    While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.

                    Markimdb: 7.5
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
                    CountryUnited Kingdom
                    Duration01:53

                    Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

                    Markimdb: 7.9
                    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                    Duration01:42

                    Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

                    Markimdb: 8.5
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                    Duration01:56

                    During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

                    Markimdb: 8.1
                    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
                    Duration02:12

                      In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.




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