Origin: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography
61 content found
Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie 2021

A car racing movie that Hollywood legend and avid racing fan Steve McQueen started production on in the mid-1960s as his passion project, but never completed.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Steve McQueen, James Garner, John Frankenheimer

6.7 IMDB Rating 1,942 Views
Belle 2013

The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century England.

Category: Biography, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,115 Views
Mrs Lowry & Son 2019

A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Wendy Morgan

6.7 IMDB Rating 4,312 Views
The Crown 2016–2023

Follows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton

8.6 IMDB Rating 35,018 Views
Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,711 Views
Another Mother’s Son 2017

Lou lives on the Nazi-occupied Island of Jersey during World War 2. She accepts to hide a young Russian POW at her house at the risk of being imprisoned herself and takes care of him as if he was her own son.

Category: Biography, Drama, War

Stars: Sophie Skelton, Izzy Meikle-Small, John Hannah

6.8 IMDB Rating 4,915 Views
Red Joan 2018

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore

6.4 IMDB Rating 7,959 Views
Wolf Hall 2015–2024

After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Thomas Brodie-Sangster

8.1 IMDB Rating 5,419 Views
Effie Gray 2014

A look at the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise), his teenage bride Euphemia "Effie" Gray (Dakota Fanning), and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais (Tom Sturridge).

Category: Biography, Drama, romance, Romantic

Stars: Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge

6.0 IMDB Rating 4,285 Views
Trump: An American Dream 2017

A British documentary series exploring the extraordinary journey of Donald Trump through five decades.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Colin Tierney, Nikki Haskell, Geraldo Rivera

7.2 IMDB Rating 7,413 Views
Listen to Me Marlon 2015

A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.

Category: Biography, Documentary

Stars: Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bernardo Bertolucci

8.1 IMDB Rating 7,381 Views
A Very English Scandal 2018

British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is accused of conspiracy to murder his gay ex-lover and forced to stand trial in 1979.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Crime, TV Mini

Stars: Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Alex Jennings

7.7 IMDB Rating 9,411 Views
Manhunt 2019–2021

Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton tracks down a serial killer.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Martin Clunes, Claudie Blakley, Matthew Gravelle

7.6 IMDB Rating 12,287 Views
Make Us Dream 2018

Documentary about the mercurial football career of Steven Gerrard, one of Liverpool FCs finest ever players.

Category: Biography, Documentary, Sport

Stars: Steven Gerrard, Michael Owen, Steve Bruce

7.9 IMDB Rating 5,658 Views
Mrs. Wilson 2018

A grieving widow discovers that her seemingly ideal husband lived many secret lives.

Category: Biography, Drama, Mystery, TV Mini

Stars: Ruth Wilson, Iain Glen, Fiona Shaw

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,918 Views
Rush 2013

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde

8.1 IMDB Rating 12,936 Views
Golda 2023

Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Henry Goodman

6.0 IMDB Rating 1,721 Views
Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This 2014

With his trade-mark fez and bumbling stage persona involving clever conjuring tricks which appear to have gone wrong Tommy Cooper is one of Britain's most popular comedians, respected by his peers. However behind the public image ...

Category: Biography

Stars: David Threlfall, Helen McCrory, Amanda Redman

7.3 IMDB Rating 4,727 Views
The Damned United 2009

The story of the controversial Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of the English football club Leeds United.

Category: Biography, Drama, Sport

Stars: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,683 Views
12 Years a Slave 2013

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender

8.1 IMDB Rating 13,390 Views