Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "british-colonial"

1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley

Votes: 1,212,304 | Gross: $305.41M

2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure

In 1935, Indiana Jones is tasked by Indian villagers with reclaiming a rock stolen from them by a secret cult beneath the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri

Votes: 535,913 | Gross: $179.87M

3. Out of Africa (1985)

PG | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen

Votes: 86,465 | Gross: $87.10M

4. Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)

PG | 224 min | Drama, Musical, Sport

The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers.

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker | Stars: Aamir Khan, Raghubir Yadav, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley

Votes: 120,778 | Gross: $0.91M

5. Noble House (1988)

TV-14 | 355 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Ian Struan Dunross is chairman of Struan and Company, the oldest and largest trading company between Britain and East Asia.

Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, Ben Masters, John Rhys-Davies

Votes: 1,658

6. Sandokan (1976)

286 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Malaysia, the second half of 1800. The English Queen Victoria owns the domain of the eastern lands of Borneo, commanded by Lord James Guillonk, fierce and ruthless conqueror, father of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Kabir Bedi, Adolfo Celi, Philippe Leroy, Mohammed Azad

Votes: 1,609

7. The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)

Not Rated | 155 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The story of a young revolutionary who raised an armed resistance against the British rule in India.

Director: Rajkumar Santoshi | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Sushant Singh, D. Santosh, Akhilendra Mishra

Votes: 17,303

8. A Town Like Alice (1981)

301 min | Drama, Romance, War

Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a living nightmare of captivity, across three continents and two decades.

Stars: Helen Morse, Bryan Brown, Gordon Jackson, John Lee

Votes: 1,062

9. The Black Swan (1942)

Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama

An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 5,093 | Gross: $1.01M

10. The Lovers (I) (2015)

R | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

An epic, sweeping and riveting tale of an impossible love set across two time periods and continents.

Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Bipasha Basu, Tamsin Egerton, James Mackay

Votes: 3,435

11. Under Capricorn (1949)

Approved | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton

Votes: 8,122

12. The Chess Players (1977)

Not Rated | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, History

In 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.

Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal

Votes: 4,070

13. Conduct Unbecoming (1975)

PG | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

At a British Regimental party in Colonial India, the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden, and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior Lieutenants of the crime.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach

Votes: 964

14. Bhowani Junction (1956)

Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer

Votes: 2,088

15. Guns at Batasi (1964)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, War

Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale (Sir Richard Attenborough), on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat, must use his experience to defend those in his care.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton

Votes: 1,959

16. The Land (1970)

130 min | Drama

A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed

Votes: 2,459

17. The Return of Sandokan (1996)

182 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Sandokan is called by his friend Yáñez, now attached to the maharani Surama, to help them against her cousin Raska treacherous plans. Journalist lady Dora and photographer Alfred, on their ... See full summary »

Stars: Kabir Bedi, Mandala Tayde, Mathieu Carrière, Romina Power

Votes: 249

18. Sunday Premiere (1986–1988)
Episode: The Happy Valley (1986)

PG-13 | 90 min

In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle that leads to murder.

Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Holly Aird, Kathryn Pogson, Michael Byrne

Votes: 173

19. Junoon (1979)

141 min | Drama

Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.

Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Nafisa Ali, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah

Votes: 573

20. 23rd March 1931: Shaheed (2002)

188 min | Biography, Drama, History

When his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai is beaten to death by the Britishers, Bhagat Singh sets out to avenge his death. Upon killing the responsible British official, Bhagat Singh is sentenced to death for his actions.

Directors: Guddu Dhanoa, Tinu Verma | Stars: Bobby Deol, Sunny Deol, Amrita Singh, Rahul Dev

Votes: 808

21. Sundown (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, War

In 1941, a mysterious Somaliland woman helps the British against the Germans.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gene Tierney, Bruce Cabot, George Sanders, Harry Carey

Votes: 1,043

22. Kisna: The Warrior Poet (2005)

Not Rated | 171 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A man befriends and protects a British girl from a group of nationalists that want England to hand India back to them. They fall for each other, but the man is due to marry.

Director: Subhash Ghai | Stars: Vivek Oberoi, Isha Sharvani, Antonia Bernath, Sushmita Sen

Votes: 1,459

23. Before the Rains (2007)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance

A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.

Director: Santosh Sivan | Stars: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle

Votes: 2,172 | Gross: $1.04M

24. Man in a Cocked Hat (1959)

TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy

A former British colony in dire need of economic aid tries to play the British against the Soviets in an attempt to secure economic aid from either side in return for political loyalty.

Directors: Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Luciana Paluzzi, Ian Bannen

Votes: 868

25. Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (2009)

Not Rated | 195 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja is a 2009 Malayalam historical drama film based on the life of Pazhassi Raja, a Hindu king who fought against the British in the 18th century.

Director: T. Hariharan | Stars: Mammootty, Mohanlal, R. Sarathkumar, Manoj K. Jayan

Votes: 3,376

26. Bonnie Scotland (1935)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy

Stan and Ollie mistakenly enlist in the army and find themselves posted to the Northwest Frontier in India on a dangerous mission.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang, William Janney

Votes: 2,109

27. Outpost in Malaya (1952)

Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Drama

During the 1950s, in British-controlled Malaya, rubber-tree planters face many difficulties and dangers, including bandit attacks and nationalist guerrilla ambushes.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Ram Gopal

Votes: 359

28. John A.: Birth of a Country (2011 TV Movie)

91 min | Drama

The political manoeuvrings in the ten or so years in the legislature of the Province of Canada, comprised of the former Upper Canada and Lower Canada, leading up to the confederation of ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Ciccoritti | Stars: Shawn Doyle, Peter Outerbridge, David La Haye, Aidan Devine

Votes: 138

29. Gandhi, My Father (2007)

Not Rated | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History

The account of troubled relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and his eldest son.

Director: Feroz Abbas Khan | Stars: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shah, Bhoomika Chawla

Votes: 1,731 | Gross: $0.24M

30. Staying On (1980 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Sequel to The Jewel in the Crown: A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British Raj in the 1940s.

Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Saeed Jaffrey, Pearl Padamsee

Votes: 143

31. Madrasapattinam (2010)

165 min | Drama, History, Romance

A film set in 1940s India, during the country's struggle for independence. The young daughter of an English governor falls in love with a local Indian boy.

Director: A.L. Vijay | Stars: Arya, Carole Trangmar-Palmer, Amy Jackson, Cochin Hanifa

Votes: 2,897

32. The Sun Never Sets (1939)

Passed | 97 min | Drama

After Clive Randolph finally returns home from Gold Coast colony, younger brother John balks at following the family Colonial Service tradition. But back in Gold Coast, one Zurof, nominally... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Basil Rathbone, Virginia Field, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 134

33. Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore (1999)

120 min | Action, Drama, History

Le film se déroule en 1838, en plein coeur du conflit entre les habitants français du Bas-Canada et les occupants anglais. À l'automne de la même année, François-Xavier Bouchard et ... See full summary »

Director: Michel Brault | Stars: Sébastien Gauthier, Martin Larocque, Frank Fontaine, Guy Héroux

Votes: 148

34. The Green Goddess (1930)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure

An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Ralph Forbes, H.B. Warner, Alice Joyce

Votes: 441

35. The Green Goddess (1923)

80 min | Adventure

Three British subjects arrive in the land of the Rajah of Rukh during the time of the British Raj.

Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: George Arliss, Alice Joyce, David Powell, Harry T. Morey

Votes: 67

36. The Shanghai Drama (1938)

76 min | Drama

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has ... See full summary »

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Christl Mardayn, Louis Jouvet, Raymond Rouleau, Dorville

Votes: 126

37. Old Loves and New (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Gervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns... See full summary »

Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford, Walter Pidgeon, Katherine MacDonald

Votes: 19

38. A Dangerous Woman (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

The commissioner of a remote outpost in Africa has a mistress who is so sexy and seductive that she has made several of the local white men kill themselves. She learns that the ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Olga Baclanova, Clive Brook, Neil Hamilton, Clyde Cook

Votes: 62

39. Scarlet Ibis

Drama, Fantasy, Romance | Announced

A high school freshman, travels to the exotic isle of Trinidad. There she discovers the stories that unlock the gates of her ancestral past; empower her to open her own heart, to understand her father and her destiny.

40. The Massacre That Shook The Empire (2019)

60 min | Documentary, History

On 13 April 1919, British troops shot hundreds of peaceful protesters dead in India. This film shines new light on a deeply controversial moment in Britain's history, and examines its troubling legacy.

Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Sathnam Sanghera, Winston Churchill, Reginald Dyer

Votes: 26

41. Along the Lifeline of the British Empire: Suez, Malta, Gibraltar (1936)

11 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: André de la Varre | Star: Paul P. Devlin

42. Wolfe; or, the Conquest of Quebec (1914)

Drama, History

General Wolfe, appointed commander of the expedition against Quebec, comes to bid his mother goodbye. Before sailing, the general calls upon his sweetheart, Katherine Lowther. She presents ... See full summary »

Director: Kenean Buel | Stars: Guy Coombs, Helen Lindroth, Alice Hollister, Jere Austin

43. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)
Episode: Part I (1988)

Not Rated | 149 min | Drama, War

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Captain Victor 'Pug' Henry finds himself in command of a cruiser, the USS Northampton. His son Warren is a naval aviator on the USS... See full summary »

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant

Votes: 130

44. The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs (1998– )
Episode: Programme 1 (1998)

49 min | Documentary, History, War

1948-56. The formation of the state of Israel and the wars of 1948 and 1956.

Director: Michael Simkin | Stars: Gideon Rafael, Clark Clifford, Abba Eban, Yitzhak Navon

Votes: 6

45. Love, Death & Robots (2019– )
Episode: Good Hunting (2019)

TV-MA | 17 min | Animation, Short, Action

The son of a spirit hunter forges a bond with a shape-shifting huli jing.

Directors: Ki-Yong Bae, Dae Woo Lee, Gabriele Pennacchioli, Oliver Thomas | Stars: Elaine Tan, Matthew Yang King, Gwendoline Yeo, Maddox Henry

Votes: 19,099