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Chicken Run(2000)

G
| 1h 24min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 2,157 votes)

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky (Mel Gibson) attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

Directed by Peter Lord, Nick Park

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit(2005)

3.5/5 (with 1,156 votes)

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

Directed by Nick Park, Steve Box

Lady Macbeth(2017)

R
| 1h 26min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 326 votes)

Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Get Carter(1971)

R
| 1h 52min | Crime, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 190 votes)

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

Threads(1984)

3.8/5 (with 112 votes)

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Three Day Millionaire(2022)

1h 32min | Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

The Full Monty(1997)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 694 votes)

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

Four Lions(2010)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 485 votes)

A group of Muslim men living in Sheffield hatch an inept plan to become suicide bombers.

The 51st State(2001)

R
| 1h 33min | Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 264 votes)

An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.

24 Hour Party People(2002)

R
| 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 179 votes)

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

I, Daniel Blake(2016)

1h 40min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 602 votes)

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Kate Rutter, Gavin Webster

Wuthering Heights(2011)

NR
| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 100 votes)

Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.

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Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974(2009)

1h 42min | Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 111 votes)

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

My Summer of Love(2005)

R
| 1h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 110 votes)

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.

Calendar Girls(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Drama, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 165 votes)

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Little Voice(1998)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

Brassed Off(1996)

R
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 115 votes)

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

The Damned United(2009)

R
| 1h 37min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 273 votes)

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.

The Phantom of the Open(2022)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.

Directed by Craig Roberts - With Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, Rhys Ifans, Jake Davies, Christian Lees, Mark Lewis Jones, ...

Withnail & I(1987)

1h 48min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 226 votes)

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

The Parole Officer(2001)

1h 33min | Crime, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 42 votes)

A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.

This Sporting Life(1963)

2h 14min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 44 votes)

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning(1960)

NR
| 1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

Room at the Top(1959)

NR
| 1h 55min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 46 votes)

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

The Trip(2011)

NR
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 125 votes)

When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

Hobson's Choice(1954)

NR
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 48 votes)

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

Shirley Valentine(1989)

R
| 1h 48min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 36 votes)

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.

Tyrannosaur(2011)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 193 votes)

The story of Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction. As Joseph's life spirals into turmoil a chance of redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker. Their relationship develops to reveal that Hannah is hiding a secret of her own with devastating results on both of their lives.

The Railway Children(1970)

3.4/5 (with 38 votes)

After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.

The Rise(2012)

1h 46min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.3/5 (with 40 votes)

A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.

Directed by Rowan Athale
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