English movies about DJs

List of the best English movies about DJs selected by visitors to our site: Dark Signal, Northern Soul, SoulBoy, Leave the World Behind, The Child in Time, 45 Years, We Are Your Friends, Ginger & Rosa, Attack the Block, When the Lights Went Out.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:51

The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:42

Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.

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: 7.7
Genredocumentary, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:35

A music documentary following the breakup of Swedish House Mafia and their subsequent One Last Tour. The largest electronic tour in history, selling over 1 million tickets in one week. Director Christian Larson captures the band in a unique fly on the wall manner as they call it quits and seek closure by going on the tour they had always dreamed of. With breathtaking live moments, huge laughs and dark lows, the band start to unravel why they came to the decision to end the biggest achievement of their lives to date to save their friendship. The film maps out three of the biggest stars in a scene which has gripped youth the world over and the psychology of the band. A film not to be missed.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

Set two years after his daughter went missing, The Child In Time follows Stephen Lewis, a children's author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelma have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores the dark territory of a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance. The Child In Time is a lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:12

There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration03:21

    Young Cole Carter dreams of hitting the big time as a Hollywood disc jockey, spending his days and nights hanging with buddies and working on the one track that will set the world on fire. Opportunity comes knocking when he meets James Reed, a charismatic DJ who takes the 23-year-old under his wing. Soon, his seemingly clear path to success gets complicated when he starts falling for his mentor's girlfriend, jeopardizing his new friendship and the future he seems destined to fulfill.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Denmark, Canada, Croatia
    Duration01:30

    A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:28

      A teen gang in a grim South London housing estate must team up with the other residents to protect their neighbourhood from a terrifying alien invasion.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:52

      When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:40

      The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:57

      Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself.

      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: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada

      A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:25

      A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:20

      Two feuding rock stars get handcuffed together for 24 hours at a music festival where they are both due to perform.

      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: 3.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their navigation equipment failing, they find themselves facing a terrifying encounter with an unforgiving alien presence.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:39

      A chilling real-time thriller featuring a teenager, Casey, battling with an anonymous cyber-stalker.

      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: 8.5
        Genredrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:30

        Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan feature in David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry, broadcast live from London’s West End by National Theatre Live.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:31

        A group of college friends celebrate the end of term with a party to end all parties. During a drink and drug-fuelled evening, an innocent game of ‘Truth or Dare’ has a very sore loser, sparking a terrifying sequence of events and a whole new twist on the game of truth or dare – where the truth can kill you.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland

        Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages; which inspired one of Woolf's most iconic novels, 'Orlando'.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genreaction, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A Dicken’s classic brought thrillingly up to date in the teeming heartland of modern London, where a group of street smart young hustlers plan the heist of the century for the ultimate payday.

        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: 7.5
          Genredrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:32

          The story of Joseph a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:40

          An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.

          Markimdb: 8.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.

          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: 5.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:38

          A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche might manifest. As the experiment unravels along with their sanity, the rogue PHD students, led by their determined professor, are soon confronted with a terrifying reality: they have triggered an unspeakable force with a power beyond all explanation.

          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: 6.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

          An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration02:16

          Three generations of the rowdy Cutler family live as outlaws in some of Britain's richest countryside – hunting hares, ram-raiding stately homes, and taunting the police. Struggling to retain a way of life fast becoming extinct, Chad Cutler ends up caught between his father's archaic principles and trying to do right by his kids, whilst the full force of the law is finally catching up with him.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrefantasy, adventure, family, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:10

          Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's formidable skills.

          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: 7.4
            Genredrama, military, biography, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:30

            A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy
            CountryBulgaria, United Kingdom, Hungary, Sweden
            Duration01:44

            A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, drama, biography, sport
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
            Duration02:28

            Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genreaction, comedy, adventure
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, China
            Duration02:35

            Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genredrama, military, history
            CountryNorway, Denmark, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Sweden

            When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:41

            Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:30

            Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy meets 90-year-old Julius Bedford. He's a man with an extraordinary story of how, way back in 1909, he got to the Moon first, and, together with the eccentric Professor Cavor, discovered a terrifying secret deep beneath its seemingly-barren surface.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:32

            Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.

            Markimdb: 5.1
            Genrehorror, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom

            A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France

            Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genredrama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:35

            1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

            The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genredrama, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:09

            An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.




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