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1. Citadel (2023– )

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Global spy agency Citadel has fallen, and its agents' memories were wiped clean. Now the powerful syndicate, Manticore, is rising in the void. Can the Citadel agents recollect their past and summon the strength to fight back?

Stars: Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stanley Tucci, Lesley Manville

Votes: 33,484

2. Tea with Mussolini (1999)

PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, War

An orphaned Italian boy is raised amongst a circle of British and American women living in Mussolini's Italy before and during World War II.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher

Votes: 14,203 | Gross: $14.35M

3. Orlando (1992)

PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Fantasy

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

Director: Sally Potter | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp, Jimmy Somerville

Votes: 18,733 | Gross: $5.29M

4. Drunken Master II (1994)

R | 102 min | Action, Comedy

A young martial artist is caught between respecting his pacifist father's wishes or stopping a group of disrespectful foreigners from stealing precious artifacts.

Directors: Chia-Liang Liu, Jackie Chan | Stars: Jackie Chan, Ho-Sung Pak, Lung Ti, Anita Mui

Votes: 48,946 | Gross: $11.55M

5. Queen of the Desert (2015)

PG-13 | 128 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis

Votes: 12,587

6. The Tailor of Panama (2001)

R | 109 min | Drama, Thriller

A tailor living in Panama reluctantly becomes a spy for a British Agent.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela

Votes: 31,143 | Gross: $13.73M

7. 55 Days at Peking (1963)

Unrated | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, U.S. marine, Maj. Matt Lewis, along with British consul, Sir Arthur Robertson, develop a plan to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force can arrive.

Directors: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson

Votes: 7,428

8. The Terrorists (II) (1974)

PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In a Scandinavian country, national security chief Colonel Tahlvik is tasked to rescue the passengers of a hijacked British airliner while the British Ambassador is being held hostage at his residence by another terrorist team.

Director: Casper Wrede | Stars: Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham, Isabel Dean

Votes: 2,506

9. The Far Pavilions (1984)

315 min | Drama, History, Romance

Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.

Stars: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy

Votes: 878

10. Advise & Consent (1962)

Not Rated | 139 min | Drama, Thriller

The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon

Votes: 7,514

11. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)

Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Drama

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce

Votes: 4,773

12. Sex & Fury (1973)

R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Reiko Ike, Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema, Yôko Hori

Votes: 3,439

13. Ambassadors (2013)

Comedy, Drama

The adventures and politics of a British ambassador to a fictitious Asian country called Tajbekistan.

Stars: David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Susan Lynch, Amara Karan

Votes: 1,931

14. 5 Fingers (1952)

Approved | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden

Votes: 5,478

15. Alexandria... Why? (1979)

Not Rated | 133 min | Drama

Yehia is a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Inspired by American movies and Shakespeare, he aspires to be an actor, but struggles to pursue his Hollywood... See full summary »

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Naglaa Fathi, Ahmed Zaki, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud Al Meleji

Votes: 2,044

16. Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)

PG | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Director: Hajime Satô | Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Tomomi Satô, Hideo Kô, Masaya Takahashi

Votes: 1,951

17. Riot (1996)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot.

Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Gary Daniels, Sugar Ray Leonard, Paige Rowland, Charles Napier

Votes: 570

18. The Divine Lady (1928)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, History, Romance

The story of the romance between Emma, Lady Hamilton, and British war hero Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith

Votes: 936

19. Princess of Cleves (1961)

101 min | Drama, History, Romance

Princess of Cleves is married with a rich and old prince but she loves secretly a lord younger, more beautiful and also very popular.

Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Marais, Marina Vlady, Jean-François Poron, Annie Ducaux

Votes: 518

20. The Yellow Ticket (1931)

Passed | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Walter Byron

Votes: 267

21. La madone des sleepings (1955)

96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The main occupation of the beautiful Lady Diana Winham is to travel through Europe in luxury trains. She also owns a uranium mine that is of interest to many people.

Director: Henri Diamant-Berger | Stars: Gisèle Pascal, Jean Gaven, Erich von Stroheim, Philippe Mareuil

Votes: 41

22. Egypt (2005)
Episode: The Pharaoh and the Showman (2005)

Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Italian Circus performer/engineer, Giovanni Belzoni becomes Egypt's greatest explorer.

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Matthew Kelly, Lynsey Baxter, Nevan Finegan, Joseph Long

Votes: 58

23. Little Birds (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2020)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Romance

Heiress Lucy Savage arrives in Tangier, 1955 - one of the last outposts of colonial decadence, and a culture shock in more ways than one.

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Juno Temple, Simon Paisley Day, Amy Landecker, David Costabile

Votes: 101

24. Jeremy Vine (2018– )
Episode: Episode #2.135 (2019)

96 min | News, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

Jeremy and the panel discuss - Should the British ambassador to the U.S. be sacked? Are cyclists really the scourge of the streets? Is 15 too young to play at Wimbledon?

Director: Daniel Wright | Stars: Jeremy Vine, William Njobvu, Colette Mann, Bobby Friction

25. Jeremy Vine (2018– )
Episode: Episode #2.138 (2019)

96 min | News, Reality-TV, Talk-Show

Today Jeremy asks - Is Boris Johnson to blame for the British Ambassador to the U.S. resigning? Is it time to call time on drinking alcohol at airports? Were the 70's the worst decade?

Director: Daniel Wright | Stars: Jeremy Vine, Storm, Jason Gardiner, Nina Myskow

26. Baptiste (2019–2021)
Episode: Episode #2.1 (2021)

Not Rated | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Julien Baptiste rushes to Hungary to find the British ambassador's family.

Director: Thomas Napper | Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Fiona Shaw, Jamie Maclachlan, Stuart Campbell

Votes: 387

27. The Scott Adams Show (2014– )
Chinese Army Virus, and Anti-Malaria Drug, Senate Stimulus Bill, Prince Charles, Harvey (2020 Podcast Episode)

News

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Stars: Scott Patrick Adams, Leonora Cravotta

28. Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode: Episode dated 24 March 1954 (1954)

News, Talk-Show

Lesueur and Collingwood interview Sir Roger Makins, the British Ambassador to the United States. Topics include trade between Eastern and Western countries, the United Nations' recognition ... See full summary »

Stars: Charles Collingwood, Larry LeSueur, Roger Makins

29. Marie Antoinette (2022– )
Episode: Queen of Hearts (2022)

Biography, Drama, History

Louis becomes increasingly confident in his position as King as he throws himself into supporting the American War of Independence. Marie Antoinette spends her time at the Petit Trianon where she begins to fall for a familiar face.

Director: Geoffrey Enthoven | Stars: Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow

Votes: 155

30. Psych (2006–2014)
Episode: Shawn Rescues Darth Vader (2011)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

While helping a young client get his Star Wars collector action figure back from a wealthy man, Shawn finds the action figure and a dead body in the mansion. He puts on his psychic act and tells the police there is a crime at the mansion.

Director: Steve Franks | Stars: James Roday Rodriguez, Dulé Hill, Timothy Omundson, Maggie Lawson

Votes: 1,088

31. Franklin (2024– )
Episode: Welcome, Mischief (2024)

TV-MA | 48 min | Biography, Drama, History

A ruthless opponent threatens an arms operation as the Paris police closely monitor Franklin's activities, leading to Temple's confession.

Director: Timothy Van Patten | Stars: Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Daniel Mays, Ludivine Sagnier

Votes: 160