West Is West (
2010) | IMDb:
6.4
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.
Directed by:
Andy de Emmony
The Reader (
2008) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Kinky Boots (
2005) | IMDb:
7.1
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.
Starring:
Joel Edgerton
,
Chiwetel Ejiofor
,
Sarah-Jane Potts
,
Nick Frost
,
Linda Bassett
,
Jemima Rooper
Directed by:
Julian Jarrold
Calendar Girls (
2003) | IMDb:
6.9
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Starring:
Helen Mirren
,
Julie Walters
,
John Alderton
,
Linda Bassett
,
Annette Crosbie
,
Philip Glenister
The Hours (
2002) | IMDb:
7.5
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Starring:
Nicole Kidman
,
Julianne Moore
,
Meryl Streep
,
Stephen Dillane
,
Miranda Richardson
,
George Loftus
East Is East (
1999) | IMDb:
6.9
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
Directed by:
Damien O'Donnell
Oscar and Lucinda (
1997) | IMDb:
6.6
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Ciarán Hinds
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Richard Roxburgh
,
Christian Manon
Directed by:
Gillian Armstrong
Mary Reilly (
1996) | IMDb:
5.8
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Let Him Have It (
1991) | IMDb:
7.2
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
Starring:
Christopher Eccleston
,
Paul Reynolds
,
Tom Courtenay
,
Eileen Atkins
,
Iain Cuthbertson
,
Tom Bell
Directed by:
Peter Medak