Movies to Watch From United Kingdom (Page 2)

Disclaimer

Starring the Cate Blanchett and directed by Alfonso Cuaron, Disclaimer is every bit as cinematic and enjoyable as you’d imagine…

Touch

Dir. Baltasar Kormákur

With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…

The Greatest Night in Pop

Dir. Bao Nguyen

We Are the World is a charity single created for African famine relief. It was a smash success– it inspired…

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Dir. Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui

At the peak of his fame in the 80s, Christopher Reeve was constantly seen as his onscreen character, Superman. Like…

Scrapper

Dir. Charlotte Regan

Be prepared to have the expectations you form after reading Scrapper’s synopsis shattered: though it is about a 12-year-old dealing…

Everything Now

Messier than Heartstopper, but tamer than Skins, Everything Now has everything you’d expect from a British teen show. Sexuality, vices,…

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

In a TV age where dark comedies and slick satires are all the rage, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick…

Ludwig

Ludwig is a classic whodunnit with an interesting twist—the detective solving murder mysteries isn’t a cool genius like Sherlock or…

The Gentlemen

After the successful release of The Gentlemen (2019), it would have been easy to just continue the story with the…

Mary & George

After the likes of The Favourite six years ago, modern historical portrayals have now become more interested in the salacious…

Bodies

Based on the DC Vertigo comic, Bodies is an intriguing crime thriller with a unique twist – one body, in…

The Good Mothers

Dir. Elisa Amoruso & Julian Jarrold

With years of films depicting Italian crime syndicates, most focus on their leaders – the Dons, the Capos, and the…

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

Watching the trailers, and even the first ten minutes, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off just seems like a rehash of the…

Black Cake

We don’t really know our parents the same way they know about us. Black Cake recognizes this, and takes that…

Bird

Dir. Andrea Arnold

Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…

Beatles '64

Dir. David Tedeschi

The Beatles ‘64 zeroes in on a precise moment in The Beatles timeline: their American debut, which propelled them from…

Witches

Dir. Elizabeth Sankey

Witches begins as an innocuous exploration into witchery: how they’re depicted and why they’re alluring. Director Elizabeth Sankey builds an…

Such Brave Girls

In an early scene in Such Brave Girls, Josie (Kat Sadler) compares herself and her sister Billie (Lizzie Davidson) to…

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived

Dir. Dan Hartley

The Harry Potter movies undoubtedly changed the lives of its young stars forever — but a stuntman whose future the…

Count Abdulla

Dir. Asim Abbasi

This new six-part comedy series is as razor-sharp as a vampire’s fangs, skewering everything from the horror genre’s historically iffy…

The Commandant's Shadow

Dir. Daniela Völker

If you’ve seen the bone-chilling Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest, then The Commandant’s Shadow isn’t just supplementary but necessary…

Extraordinary

Imagine if the show Girls was Marvel-ized (or if you like, Derry Girls blended with Encanto): that’s kind of what…

Big Boys

Dir. Jim Archer

Masculinity can look like different things, and Big Boys reminds us of that in hilarious and poignant ways. The British…

Better

From Happy Valley and Line of Duty to Luther and Sherwood, the BBC has produced some of the finest police…

Black Snow

Dir. Sian Davies

Black Snow has the sleek style of a modern murder mystery, but its concern with Australia’s colonial past that sets…

Eric

Dir. Lucy Forbes

Backed by Netflix’s deep pockets, Eric looks as good as any prestige miniseries out there. As a portrait of pre-gentrified…

Anatomy of Lies

Anatomy of Lies, as much as it can, follows the complicated web of lies TV writer Elisabeth Finch has told…

Wham!

Dir. Chris Smith

For a short while in the ‘80s, the pop scene benefited from the sheer musical joy created by George Michael…

The Outrun

Dir. Nora Fingscheidt

The Outrun, which follows Rona as she struggles to acknowledge and eventually overcome her alcoholism, is understandably in shambles. It’s…

Constellation

A lot goes on in Constellation, Apple TV+’s latest addition to its growing collection of sci-fi shows. It begins as…

Blue Jean

Dir. Georgia Oakley

Led by Rosy McEwen’s commanding performance brimming with fear and self-loathing, Blue Jean pours all of the anguish and defiance…

Tour de France: Unchained

Tour de France: Unchained is an intense sports docuseries depicting the ins and outs of the prominent cycling race. While…

Drops of God

In the multilingual Drops of God, French author Camille and Japanese sommelier Issei battle for a wine expert’s multi-billion-dollar inheritance.…

In Vogue: The 90's

Dir. Jane Preston

This docuseries doesn’t say anything particularly new about the ‘90s, but that doesn’t make the journey to the past less…