British Movies on Netflix
Last updated January 22, 2025
Bronson
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNicolas Winding Refn's vivid and unflinching biopic delves into the life of Britain's most notorious prisoner, Charlie Bronson -- who's been jailed for nearly 35 years -- and attempts to dissect the real man behind the deranged persona.
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The Age of Stupid
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn the desolate future of 2055, an archivist combs through a vast collection of videos to learn what went wrong with the planet. His research points to the first decade of the century, when humans blithely ignored the warning signs of climate change.
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Made in Dagenham
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSally Hawkins stars in this cheeky dramatization of the landmark 1968 labor strike initiated by hundreds of women who rebelled against discrimination and demanded equal pay for their work in a London automobile manufacturing plant.
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Hanna
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsHanna (Saoirse Ronan) is a teenager raised and trained by her father (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA operative, to become a highly skilled assassin. But when she's sent on a deadly mission across Europe, Hanna takes to an English family and starts longing for a normal life. She must first solve the puzzle of her mysterious past, however. Joe Wright (Atonement) directs this tense actioneer; Cate Blanchett also stars.
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Weekend
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis frank drama centers on the cautious relationship between two gay men -- one a genial lifeguard, the other a lusty art-gallery worker -- who contemplate turning a passionate one-night stand into something more meaningful.
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The Decoy Bride
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen Hollywood actress Lara Tyler travels to a tiny Scottish island to get married, the paparazzi follow her, prompting her to flee in frustration. To dupe the press, her handlers stage fake nuptials and hire a local girl to play the bride.
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The Imposter
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA 13-year-old boy who vanished in Texas and shows up three years later in Spain now has the same tattoos, but looks different and speaks with an accent. An investigator sets out to unravel the mystery in this riveting documentary.
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The Moo Man
2013 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsChronicling a year in the life of a family-run dairy, this charming documentary centers on an optimistic English farmer who insists on thinking small when it comes to the size of his herd.
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Wild Bill
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsOut on parole after 8 years inside, Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15-year-old sons, Jimmy and Dean, abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
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The Odessa File
1974 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSet in 1963, this political thriller follows a freelance German reporter as he gets involved in the hunt for a former concentration camp commander who -- with the aid of a secret organization called Odessa -- vanished after World War II.
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The Winslow Boy
1999 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen his 14-year-old son is expelled from the Royal Naval College for stealing, bank manager Arthur Winslow launches a long and costly effort to clear the boy's name. But in the process, the determined Arthur may destroy his family.
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Sliding Doors
1998 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTwo wholly different universes unfold in writer-director Peter Howitt's romantic fantasy about alternate realities, the reliability of subway schedules and the role fate plays in shaping random lives.
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The Boys from Brazil
1978 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this thriller based on Ira Levin's novel, young Nazi hunter Barry Kohler stumbles on the trail of the infamous "Angel of Death," Dr. Josef Mengele, who is planning to resurrect Hitler's vision in South America.
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Quills
2000 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe Marquis de Sade was a provocateur so addicted to words that he used his own blood to write salacious stories while locked away in an asylum. A doctor tries to prevent the Marquis from writing, but a worker is lured into taking his dictation.
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Night Train to Munich
1940 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsGermans invading Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II capture top scientist Axel Bomasch and his beautiful daughter, Anna. But there's hope in the form of dashing British agent Gus Bennett, who poses as a German officer to effect a rescue.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
2002 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this adaptation of Oscar Wilde's witty play about mistaken identities, Rupert Everett and Colin Firth star as two proper gentlemen in 1890s London who use the same pseudonym with disastrous results.
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A Room with a View
1986 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy travels to Florence with her chaperone in tow. There, she falls for a fellow countryman's moody son. But like any proper Englishwoman of that era, she must fight her feelings, and it's a losing battle.
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Pompeii: The Last Day
2003 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTake a step back in time via this engrossing program and visit the fabled "vanished city" on its last day, when Vesuvius erupted in a 24-hour reign of terror that covered the ancient town with tons of lava and mummified many of its inhabitants.
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The Buccaneers
1995 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis top-notch adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel tells the story of sisters Nan and Virginia St. George (Carla Gugino and Alison Elliott) and their friends Lizzy Elmsworth (Rya Kihlstedt) and Conchita Closson (Mira Sorvino). Shunned as "new money" by elitist New York society, the foursome travels to London to look for husbands, where they soon find themselves courted by numerous suitors. But as old and new worlds clash, something has to give.
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This Is England
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter his father is killed fighting in the Falklands War, a 12-year-old boy named Shaun falls in with a gang of young skinheads. Still angry and in pain, Shaun becomes susceptible to carrying out the group's hateful agenda.
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The Escapist
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen Frank Perry, a con serving a life sentence, learns that his estranged daughter has fallen terminally ill, he enlists a hapless group of inmates to help him escape the maximum-security facility so he can reconcile with her before it's too late.
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Dead Man Running
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAn ex-con has 24 hours to pay a ruthless loan shark -- or else he's dead. To get his hands on as much cash as possible, he embarks on a wild adventure full of fights, shoot-outs, heists and other extreme ordeals.
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The Tournament
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsEvery seven years, the world's deadliest hired guns converge on a random town to compete in the Tournament. The rules are simple: The last contestant standing receives $10 million and the title of the world's greatest assassin. Meanwhile, the competition is recorded on closed-circuit cameras and broadcast live to a secret room, where billionaires bet on the results. Ian Somerhalder, Kelly Hu and Robert Carlyle star in this killer thriller.
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Exam
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this psychological thriller, eight job applicants in a guarded, windowless room are given instruction, exams and 80 minutes to answer one discerning question that may win them a prime position. But they soon discover this is no ordinary test.
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Red Riding Trilogy: Part 3: 1983
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen the current case of a missing 10-year-old becomes linked to the abduction and murder of Clare Kemplay in 1974, investigators torture the man who found Clare's body in an effort to learn more in this final installment of the Red Riding trilogy.
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