English movies about gargoyles

List of the best English films about gargoyles according to the audience: Closed Circuit, The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, Starred Up, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Gambit, Vendetta, Burnt, Last Passenger, The Rise of the Krays, The Party.

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: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:36

A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect, and the attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe as special advocate on his defence team. On the eve of the trial, the accused's attorney dies and a new one, Martin Rose, steps in. Martin and Claudia are former lovers—a fact which must remain hidden—and, as Martin assembles his case, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy that places him and Claudia in danger.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecrime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:21

Casual football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a football match that turns nasty off the pitch. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where organised gangs withdraw hundreds of thousands of pounds from cash machines every night. As Mike becomes seduced by the money and women that come with his new lifestyle, the dangers increase and he soon finds events spiralling beyond his control.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:46

19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.

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: 5.7
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:29

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:46

Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:05

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

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: 4.9
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:39

Follows the early years of two unknown 18 year old amateur boxers who quickly fought their way to becoming the most feared and respected villains in all of London. Told through the eyes of a close friend that survived them, we see them rise to infamy through drugs, sex and murder.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Denmark
Duration02:11

Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror
CountryUnited Kingdom

A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.

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: 7.4
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:32

James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, adventure, family
CountryUSA, India, United Kingdom
Duration01:54

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

Anna's marriage is on the rocks after her husband John discovered she was having an affair with a much younger man. Confronted by her other half in the honeymoon suite of a Stratford-Upon-Avon hotel, Anna must try to save their marriage, deal with hapless hotel staff and come up with a plan to get through the experience. Unknown to either John or Anna, the suite’s bathroom is occupied by a semi-naked and comatose 21-year-old, who’s trying to sleep off a stag do.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:25

A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.

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: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, France

A group of women involved in the Women's Liberation Movement hatched a plan to invade the stage and disrupt the live broadcast at the 1970 Miss World competition in London, resulting in overnight fame for the newly-formed organization. When the show resumed the results caused an uproar, turning the Western ideal of beauty on it's head.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:01

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong, Austria, United Kingdom, Morocco
Duration02:29

    Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Teenage musicians travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

    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: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating consequences.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Sweden, Belgium
    Duration01:52

    During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:42

    Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

    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: 5.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    Drifting through his gap year with its internships and travel plans, Jack has always suspected there was more to life than this. A chance encounter with the beautiful and ethereal Evelyn swerves his life radically off course.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:45

    This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:40

    Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    One summer's evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst's stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:40

    When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:05

    Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary
    Duration01:00

    Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    Gamers enter virtual reality video game contest for money only to realize things are not the way they seem.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Based on a true story, this four-part drama tells the story of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, in 2007. It explores Melanie’s and Steve’s ordeal, and tells of how Rhys’ murderer and associates were eventually brought to justice.

    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: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:39

    Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration01:38

    A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

    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: 6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
    Duration01:33

    A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.

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