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1. Father Brown (2013– )
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the early 1950s, Father Brown, a Roman Catholic priest based in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, uses his distinctive skills to solve various crimes.
Stars: Mark Williams, John Burton, Sorcha Cusack, Jack Deam
Votes: 15,088
2. The Holiday (2006)
PG-13 | 136 min | Comedy, Romance
Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black
Votes: 323,426 | Gross: $63.22M
3. The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
PG | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter
Votes: 24,566
4. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 40,020
5. Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987)
54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Miss Marple receives a cryptic letter requesting her to right an unknown injustice, but receives no hint other than a ticket for guided tour of historic homes.
Stars: Joan Hickson, Peter Tilbury, Helen Cherry, John Horsley
Votes: 2,574
6. The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
PG | 84 min | Family, Horror, Mystery
When a family moves to a country home, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past.
Directors: John Hough, Vincent McEveety | Stars: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker
Votes: 7,081 | Gross: $5.00M
7. Princess Caraboo (1994)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess
Director: Michael Austin | Stars: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline
Votes: 2,987 | Gross: $3.02M
8. The Burning Girls (2023)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A reverend and her daughter start a new life in a village that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
Stars: Samantha Morton, Ruby Stokes, Conrad Khan, Paul Bradley
Votes: 1,650
9. Witchfinder General (1968)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama, Horror
A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.
Director: Michael Reeves | Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 12,248
10. Village of the Damned (1960)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 19,160
11. The Witches (1966)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there as well.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell
Votes: 3,255
12. Separate Lies (2005)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A couple's marriage is complicated by the introduction of a third party.
Director: Julian Fellowes | Stars: Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Hermione Norris, John Warnaby
Votes: 4,656 | Gross: $0.92M
13. Witchcraft (1964)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror
When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, Viola Keats
Votes: 1,543
14. The Return of Sam McCloud (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ex-Marshal McCloud is now senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. ... See full summary »
Director: Alan J. Levi | Stars: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter, Diana Muldaur
Votes: 144
15. The Detective (1954)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker
Votes: 1,665
16. The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
Henry is about to jump off a bridge when he hears a cry for help. He helps Karen, who had also planned suicide. They're both on Tower Bridge, London, because somebody wronged them. Revenging each other gives them a reason to live.
Director: Malcolm Mowbray | Stars: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves
Votes: 1,853
17. Anita & Me (2002)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence... See full summary »
Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Kabir Bedi, Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster
Votes: 1,822
18. The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A damaged privateer deserts the Spanish Armada and makes land for repairs near a village on the British coast, terrorizing the local inhabitants.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir, John Cairney, Duncan Lamont
Votes: 919
19. Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004–2005)
24 min | Animation, Adventure, Crime
A teenage girl divides her time between working in London for the famed Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot, and staying in the countryside with her shrewd great-aunt, Jane Marple.
Stars: Fumiko Orikasa, Masako Jô, Kôtarô Satomi, Hirofumi Nojima
Votes: 57
20. A Pattern of Roses (1983 TV Movie)
65 min | Drama, Thriller
Teenagers Tim Ingram and his friend Rebecca investigate a ghost story involving a boy, Tom Inskip, who mysteriously died in Tim's parents' cottage in 1910. Tim soon discovers eerie parallels between himself and Tim during his final days.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Stuart MacKenzie, Suzanna Hamilton, Vivian Pickles, Norman Rodway
Votes: 126
21. The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The last words uttered by by a conscience-stricken crook dying on the Saint's doorstep lead the detective in pursuit of gold smugglers and the master crook known as the Tiger.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod, Clifford Evans
Votes: 603
22. Hitch Hike Lady (1935)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama
In this touching tale, an elderly British woman saves up enough money to visit her son in the U.S. She believes that he is doing well, but he is actually a prisoner in San Quentin.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Alison Skipworth, Mae Clarke, Arthur Treacher, James Ellison
Votes: 133
23.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
May and June: Part One
(1997)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a lifetime of sibling rivalry, mousy May accepts an invitation from her recently-widowed younger sister June, to live with her in her elegant home.
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Christine Kavanagh, Michael Nardone, Phoebe Nicholls, Tina Hobley
Votes: 77
24.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
Vanity Dies Hard: Part 1
(1994)
TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When wealthy middle-aged divorcée Alice Fielding, marries a handsome younger man, her best friend Nesta, who has fallen on hard times, begins to resent her.
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Jane Gurnett, Leslie Phillips, Leonard Preston, Arthur White
Votes: 119
25.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
A Great Deliverance
(2001)
TV-PG | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a farmer is found decapitated, aristocratic Detective Inspector Lynley is assigned to the case with a resentful new partner, D.S. Barbara Havers.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Anthony Calf, Amanda Ryan
Votes: 594
26.
Shades of Darkness (1983–1986)
Episode:
The Intercessor
(1983)
52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mr. Garvin is a writer who is seeking a quiet place to do his research and work on his book. Although he was staying in a small village, he find the children to be quite noisy and the local... See full summary »
Director: Peter Smith | Stars: John Duttine, Chrissie Cotterill, David Hargreaves, Maggie Ford
Votes: 239
27.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
The Killings at Badger's Drift
(1997)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An elderly woman is found dead in her own cottage and DCI Tom Barnaby is convinced the death is not a simple accident.
Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard
Votes: 2,247
28.
Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode:
Sad Cypress
(2003)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elinor Carlisle seems to be the obvious murderer of her ailing aunt and the beautiful romantic rival who broke up her engagement, but Poirot uncovers darker motives.
Director: David Moore | Stars: David Suchet, Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Rupert Penry-Jones, Kelly Reilly
Votes: 2,636
29.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
In Divine Proportion
(2005)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The unusual shotgun murder of an interior decorator is linked to the rape and subsequent suicide of her sister fifteen years earlier.
Director: Brian Stirner | Stars: Louise Hickson, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Craig Parkinson, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 381
30.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
Sleeping Murder
(2006)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Gwenda Halliday, a wealthy young Englishwoman recently emigrated from India, intuitively buys a seaside manor house, where she re-experiences a murder.
Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julian Wadham, Emilio Doorgasingh, Sophia Myles
Votes: 1,878
31.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
The Moving Finger
(2006)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna rent a cottage in a seemingly tranquil English village which is plagued by a spate of poison pen letters... and murder.
Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, James D'Arcy, Ken Russell, Frances de la Tour
Votes: 2,032
32.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
(2006)
TV-PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Chloe Pennington, Oliver Jordan, Anthony Andrews
Votes: 1,866
33.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
The Landlady
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Billy Weaver's just moved to a small English village, and sees an advert for a room. The landlady's quite pleasant. He's perplexed when she later mentions two others are also staying; he's ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dean Stockwell, Patricia Collinge, Laurie Main
Votes: 440
34.
Father Brown (1974)
Episode:
The Hammer of God
(1974)
Not Rated | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bullying, womanizing, and despised lord of the manor Col. James Bohun is found outside his brother's church with his skulled smashed in.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Kenneth More, Graham Crowden, William Russell, Geraldine Moffat
Votes: 110
35.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
Invasion
(2006)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
American troops arrive in Britain and the Corps of Engineers building an airstrip on a Hastings farm is met with resentment.
Director: Gavin Millar | Stars: Robert O'Sullivan, Jay Benedict, Zoë Tapper, Philip Jackson
Votes: 633
36.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode:
Poison Pen
(1996)
TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Whe a malicious poison pen writer targets both new and old residents of a small village, the prime suspect hires Hetty to find the real writer.
Director: Roger Bamford | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, John Graham-Davies
Votes: 119
37.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode:
Widdershins
(1996)
TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Robert's uncle and childhood hero commits suicide by hanging himself in his home, Hetty investigates and finds witchcraft may be involved.
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Gwenllian Davies
Votes: 134
38.
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998–2000)
Episode:
The Rising of the Moon
(2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Mystery, Thriller
A police inspector, and admirer of Mrs Bradley invites her to investigate the murder of a member of a traveling circus troupe.
Director: Martin Hutchings | Stars: Richard Baglow, James Baglow, Kenneth Colley, Peter Davison
Votes: 138
39.
The New Adventures of Robin Hood (1997–1999)
Episode:
Vanishing Act
(1998)
Action, Adventure
Lady Marian, Ingrid Little (sister of Little John) and several other lovely young ladies are abducted as part of a medieval white slavery ring. Robin's attempts to find them are thwarted by... See full summary »
Director: Adrian Carr | Stars: John Bradley, Barbara Griffin, Richard Ashton, Martyn Ellis
Votes: 10
40.
Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006)
Episode:
Swords into Ploughshares
(2004)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Laura is distressed to hear that Rosemary was shot dead while working at Engleton Park; but finds a very lively corpse at the home Rosemary's mother. Bodies, motives, suspects and clues pile up around an archaeological mystery.
Director: Gwennan Sage | Stars: Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Julian Wadham, Michael Carter
Votes: 213
41.
Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006)
Episode:
Up the Garden Path
(2004)
TV-PG | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Investigating a disease that is attacking the competing gardens of a small town, Rosemary and Thyme are put in the middle of murder involving revenge and whole lot of competition.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Cassandra Holliday, Lucy Fleming
Votes: 186
42.
She-Wolf of London (1990–1991)
Episode:
The Bogman of Letchmoor Heath
(1990)
TV-PG | 47 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Ian's aunt uncovers a well-preserved corpse from a bog on her property and asks the professor to ride to her village and determine its antiquity. Before he arrives, his aunt is brutality ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Cheveley | Stars: Kate Hodge, Neil Dickson, Scott Fults, Jean Challis
Votes: 29
43.
Rosemary & Thyme (2003–2006)
Episode:
Enter Two Gardeners
(2006)
TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The girls are contracted to do the landscaping for a traditional amateur theatrical, but when members of the cast are murdered, Laura is forced to don greasepaint.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, John Sackville, Rachel Pickup
Votes: 167
44.
Father Brown (1974)
Episode:
The Quick One
(1974)
TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A hotel bar with an exotic, Far East décor provides the ironic setting for the murder of John Raggley, a village curmudgeon who rails against immigrants. Only Father Brown can deduce the truth in the drink that became Raggley's last.
Director: Ian Fordyce | Stars: Kenneth More, Dennis Burgess, Bernard Lee, Penelope Horner
Votes: 56
45.
Clarkson's Farm (2021– )
Episode:
Shopping
(2021)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, Comedy, Reality-TV
Jeremy Clarkson decides to open a farm shop to sell his own produce. This sounds like it should be easy. It isn’t.
Director: Gavin Whitehead | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson, Kaleb Cooper, Lisa Hogan, Gerald Cooper
Votes: 1,360
46.
Clarkson's Farm (2021– )
Episode:
Pan (dem) icking
(2021)
TV-PG | 46 min | Documentary, Comedy, Reality-TV
As Covid-19 puts Britain on lockdown, Jeremy suddenly finds that his biggest worries aren’t all related to the upcoming lambing season.
Director: Gavin Whitehead | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson, Gerald Cooper, Kaleb Cooper, Kevin Harrison
Votes: 1,353
47.
Clarkson's Farm (2021– )
Episode:
Fluffing
(2021)
TV-PG | 41 min | Documentary, Comedy, Reality-TV
As the drought drags on and harvest time gets closer, Jeremy and his motley crew have a fearsome list of jobs to complete.
Director: Gavin Whitehead | Stars: Jeremy Clarkson, Gerald Cooper, Kaleb Cooper, Lisa Hogan
Votes: 1,231
48.
The Nine Tailors (1974)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1974)
52 min | Mystery
An extra body is found buried in a grave in a small village where, twenty years ago, an expensive emerald necklace was stolen. Lord Peter must find the killer - and the jewels.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Keith Drinkel, Elizabeth Proud
Votes: 35
49.
The Nine Tailors (1974)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1974)
52 min | Mystery
Wimsey discovers that the mysterious murdered man spent time in France and travels there to speak to his wife, and with the Vicar's help later later cracks a cipher.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Donald Eccles, Elizabeth Bradley
Votes: 32
50.
The Nine Tailors (1974)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1974)
52 min | Mystery
Wimsey hears the confessions of several individuals involving the killing of Deacon and ultimately deduces how the thief met his death.
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Ian Carmichael, Glyn Houston, Mark Eden, Donald Eccles
Votes: 32