Critically acclaimed United Kingdom movies

The Dig(2021)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.



Swimming Pool(2003)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A British mystery author visits her publisher's home in the South of France, where her interaction with his unusual daughter sets off some touchy dynamics.



The Lady in the Van(2015)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.



Chariots of Fire(1981)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.



Billy Elliot(2000)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.



Herself(2020)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.



The Little Stranger(2018)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After a doctor is called to visit a crumbling manor, strange things begin to occur.



Ordinary Love(2019)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.



His House(2020)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to their new life in an English town that has an evil lurking beneath the surface.



Wuthering Heights(2011)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 72

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.



The Wonder(2022)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil.



Loving Vincent(2017)

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Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.



Ray & Liz(2018)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.



A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon(2019)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.



Memoria(2021)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A woman from Scotland, while traveling in Colombia, begins to notice strange sounds. Soon she begins to think about their appearance.



The Children Act(2017)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 70

As her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) founders, eminent High Court judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) has a life-changing decision to make at work - should she force a teenage boy, Adam (...



Extra Ordinary(2019)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.



Boyz in the Wood(2019)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Set deep in the Scottish Highlands, Boyz In The Wood is an anarchic cocktail of generational politics, hip-hop loving farmers, and hallucinogenic rabbit shites.



Host(2020)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.



Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa(2013)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 69

When famous DJ Alan Partridge's radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.




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