Arts Council of England Popular Movie

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jamie Bell

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cate Blanchett

Steven spends his school days longing for all-star athlete John. But John has a gorgeous girlfriend, and Steven is still in the closet. Steven's sole...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Silverstone

In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gillian Anderson

Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lewis McKenzie

Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dan Futterman

In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kate Winslet

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement:...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jonny Lee Miller

The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Mullan

James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Eadie

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toby Stephens

When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rachel Weisz

In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christian Bale

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minnie Driver

It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Courtenay

Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Noah Taylor

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paddy Considine

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Linus Roache

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Summer Phoenix