English movies melodrama

List of the best English melodrama movies selected by visitors to our site: Wuthering Heights, Downton Abbey, Love, Rosie, The Wedding Date, Wimbledon, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, A Room with a View, Easy Virtue, An Ideal Husband, The Prince and the Showgirl.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:09

A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.

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: 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
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:30

With the wedding of her younger sister fast approaching, Kat Ellis faces the undesirable prospect of traveling alone to London for the ceremony. While this is bad enough, Jeffrey, the man who left her as they moved closer to marriage, happens to be the groom's best man. Determined to show everyone -- most of all Jeffrey -- that her romantic life is as full and thrilling as ever, Kat hires a charming male escort as her date.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration01:38

A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:32

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:57

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:37

A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration01:37

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:55

A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryAustralia, USA, United Kingdom

Millie is a brilliant young fund manager who decides to leave her unfulfilling job and long-term boyfriend behind to chase her lifelong dream of becoming an opera singer…in the Scottish Highlands! She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned but fearsome singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan’s students who is also training for the upcoming “Singer of Renown” contest. What begins as a brutal competition between Millie and Max slowly turns into something more…

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:24

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, USA
Duration01:27

Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:37

After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, sport
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration01:58

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer...However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that--a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:00

A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, biography, history
CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom
Duration02:19

Italian-French-British TV film targeting the US audience, about the fashion icon Coco Chanel. The film begins with the fashion goddess (deftly played by Shirley MacLaine) in her twilight years, steeped in wealth and fame, still issuing game-changing designs and collections. From here the biopic looks backwards to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, music
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:12

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, short
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:57

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Czech Republic
Duration02:05

An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne (Franco) and the princess of the feuding Irish (Myles) spells doom for the young lovers.

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: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:54

    The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration01:17

    At Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, a beautician on her way to a new job in Mexico accidentally meets a cook who is on his way back from America. Labor strikes, bad weather, and pure luck cause the two of them to share a room overnight at the airport Hilton hotel. Will their initial mutual indifference and downright hostility turn into a one night stand or perhaps something more?

    Markimdb: 8
    Genremelodrama, military, history
    CountryItaly, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration03:17

    The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    It’s the summer before Elle heads to college, and she has a secret decision to make. Elle has been accepted into Harvard, where boyfriend Noah is matriculating, and also Berkeley, where her BFF Lee is headed and has to decide if she should stay or not.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico

    Henry, an english writer who has written a new book that has become a failure in the U.K, gets notified that the dull book has been highly trending over in Mexico. Little does he know that Maria, a spanish translator, turned the book into an erotic novel. Henry and Maria then swerve around Mexico to do a book tour and go through a wind of events.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:41

    In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Two youngsters reeling from bad breakups who connect over an eventful day in South-London.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend’s journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family’s Pakistani heritage. In the process, she challenges her own attitude towards relationships.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In a not-so-distant future, tech giant Pegazus offers couples the opportunity to share their pregnancies via detachable artificial wombs or pods. And so begins Rachel and Alvy's wild ride to parenthood in this brave new world.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

    Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Follow two childhood best friends as they dive deep into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:00

    In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual politics of high society along the way.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    The arrival of Patrick into Marion and Tom's home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previously.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    Barbie suffers a crisis that leads her to question her world and her existence.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, biography, history
    CountryGermany, Italy, USA, Czech Republic, France, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom
    Duration01:30

    King of the Persians, summons his attractive wife Vashti, to show off her beauty to the guests, the proud queen refuses to come. The king promptly bans her from ever entering his presence again, and gives orders for the most beautiful young virgins in the land to be brought to him. The young Jewess Esther, adopted daughter of her uncle Mordecai, is among the girls selected;

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    We meet Katie on her wedding day, surrounded by the dead bodies of her new husband and every member of his family. The police think Katie's lover Stefan did it. Stefan thinks Katie did it. Katie thinks her ex-husband did it. Someone knows the truth -but will they live to tell it.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Hayley and James are young and in love. They both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reunite?

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    William falls in love with his soon-to-be daughter in law, Anna who’s trying to keep both relationships but the truth always comes to light and someone is going to be hurt.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, melodrama, adventure, short
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, military, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:11

    When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel about an Italian soldier's experiences during the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia), but Hollywood made it into a pure love story by removing much of the "unpleasant" stuff.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Germany

    With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    «Emily» imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world’s most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA, Vietnam, Australia, France, Canada
    Duration01:35

    A stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.




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