English movies about caves

List of the best English cave movies selected by visitors to our site: The Descent, Nine Miles Down, The Breadwinner, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 127 Hours, Thirteen Lives, Mindhorn, The Viking War, Last Passenger, Island.

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

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:39

    After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

    In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman, battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than ever before.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, family, cartoon, military
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, Canada, Luxembourg, USA, United Kingdom, Philippines, India
    Duration01:45

    A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredocumentary, history
    CountryCanada, USA, France, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.

    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: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehistory
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings are trying to escape the Beserkers after they violently murdered and took over their town. However, the Beserkers are on their trail, and want to put them in the game.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:36

    Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother, confront her, and bitter enough to consider murder. She travels incognito to a remote Hebridean island where Phyllis now lives as a recluse with Calum, her son.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:42

    Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more? Based on Cecelia Ahern's bestselling novel, LOVE, ROSIE is a heart-warming, modern comedy-of-errors posing the ultimate question: do we really only get one shot at true love?

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:16

    A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:08

    Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, drama, detective, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak District.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Young Autism sufferer Danny enjoys the serenity and solitude of camping. That's all about to change when enraged teens Nicholas, Calvin and Julia find him, each with their own agenda for wanting to see Danny suffer.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    Four teenaged lads set off to get laid in order to stay alive. However, the boys have to attract the girls first in order to complete their mission. Otherwise, they will be hunted and killed by a vicious Werewolf which only seems interested in Virgins.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:52

      Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:09

      Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:37

      Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      Soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan unable to fit back into society. Living on a violent council estate and finding work in undercover surveillance, he becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are intrinsically tied to a suspected terrorist cell. Taking the situation into his own hands, Robert embarks on a brutal quest for justice, with devastating consequences.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
      Duration02:03

        The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Hooligan boss Billy Evans has it all - a successful business, a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey over a backstreet proetection racket, Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to finally settle the question - who is Top Dog?

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrehorror, fantasy
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:45

          A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:00

          Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genredrama, family
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:40

          Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates
          Duration02:33

          A young woman who dreams of being a children's author makes an unlikely friendship with a cantankerous, rich old widower.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:47

          A dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem that tells the story of an unnamed book editor who, fifteen years after their break-up, is meeting his former love for a nostalgic lunch at Zanzotti's, the Soho restaurant they used to frequent.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:20

          1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genreaction, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, USA
          Duration01:29

          When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a young female code announcer, code resources and remote station they are assigned to. After an ambush and one phone call later, it becomes a complicated fight for their survival.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrecomedy, cartoon
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:25

          John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story. (TIFF)

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium

          Emily Walters is an American widow living a peaceful, uneventful existence in the idyllic Hampstead Village of London, when she meets local recluse, Donald Horner. For 17 years, Donald has lived—wildly yet peacefully—in a ramshackle hut near the edge of the forest. When Emily learns his home is the target of developers who will stop at nothing to remove him, saving Donald and his property becomes her personal mission. Despite his gruff exterior and polite refusals for help, Emily is drawn to him—as he is to her—and what begins as a charitable cause evolves into a relationship that will grow even as the bulldozers close in.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Despite their age difference, Lesbian couple Olivia and Alex are very much in love. But as the question of pregnancy rears its head and their neighbour John befriends them, they both start making some truly disastrous decisions.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:36

          Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genredrama, documentary, music
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:37

          A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genremelodrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:34

          Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
          CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
          Duration02:36

          A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

          Markimdb: 8.5
          Genredocumentary, music
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:50

          A concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
          CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:13

          The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genreaction, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.

          Markimdb: 2.5
          Genrehorror
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:26

          The deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living as a family is trapped during a zombie apocalypse. Wales. Based on George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead".

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, action, short
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:07

          Follows a group of war-torn Templar knights who are put to the test against a strange beast that stalks the lands of England. This battle is what Myths and Legends are made of. An independent fan film.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom

          On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:09

          When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, military, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Denmark
          Duration02:09

          Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:38

          When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:52

          Based on the '70s UK TV show, The Sweeney is an action-packed British police thriller from the director of Football Factory. Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew aka Plan B) they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.

          Markimdb: 8.5
          Genredrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:44

          Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Doctor Strange) plays the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to international cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
          CountrySpain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Portugal
          Duration02:16

          Toby, a cynical advertising director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish shoe-maker who believes himself to be Don Quixote. In the course of their comic and increasingly surreal adventures, Toby is forced to confront the tragic repercussions of a film he made in his idealistic youth.




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