About A Boy (2002)
Hugh Grant, who hates kids and loves their mums, becomes friends with an odd 12-year-old boy.
American Dreamz (2006)
Satire of American Idol, George Dubya and suicide bombers.
Bitter Moon (1992)
An Englishman gets more than he bargained for when an American on his cruise ship offers to tell him the story of his relationship with a beautiful but dangerous woman.
Bridget Jones's Diary (2000)
Overweight middle-class secretary has trouble with men and other appetites in London. Re-released for its 25th anniversary.
Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason (2004)
Bridget continues to put her fat foot in it, ending up in a Thai prison.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
The story of souls across the centuries.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023)
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Extreme Measures (1996)
A surgeon begins to suspect one of his eminent colleagues may be in the business of harming rather than healing people.
Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)
The story of a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite being unable to carry a tune in a bucket.
Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)
Comic observations of the emotionally cauterised English upper-middle-classes at play.
Heretic (2024)
Two young religious women are drawn into a game of cat-and-mouse in the house of a strange man.
Lair Of The White Worm (1988)
An archaeologist discovers that an ancient snake cult may not be as dead as he thought.
Love Actually (2003)
Frightfully English ensemble rom-com about middle-class, emotionally dysfunctional Londoners.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Napoleon Solo teams up with a KGB operative for a joint mission.
Maurice (1987)
A young man has to come to terms with his sexuality.
Merchant Ivory (2023)
The story of cinema's longest lasting partnership.
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Comedy in which a British auctioneer becomes embroiled in the mob after proposing to a gangster's daughter.
Music And Lyrics (2007)
A has-been pop star makes beautiful music with the potted plant maintenance girl.
Notting Hill (1999)
A world famous film star falls for a bookseller.
Paddington 2 (2017)
Paddington gets into a scrape over his Aunt Lucy's birthday present.
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists (2012)
In his quest to become Pirate of the Year, the Pirate Captain leads his crew into peril and risks losing a treasured shipmate.
The Remains Of The Day (1993)
A butler realises late in life the folly of his devotion to the household he has served.
The Rewrite (2014)
Scriptwriter who can't sell his movie ideas to Hollywood ends up in a small town education facility as a teacher.
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
An idealistic young lawyer locks horns with a wealthy property developer.
Wonka (2023)
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
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