Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "liverpool-england"

1. The Responder (2022– )

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A crisis-stricken, morally-compromised first-responder tackles a series of night shifts on the beat in Liverpool.

Stars: Martin Freeman, Romi Hyland-Rylands, Adelayo Adedayo, Josh Finan

Votes: 13,956

2. Annie (1982)

PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking

Votes: 49,705 | Gross: $57.06M

3. Yesterday (III) (2019)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where they never existed.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino, Ellise Chappell

Votes: 168,465 | Gross: $73.29M

4. Creed (II) (2015)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Drama, Sport

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad

Votes: 311,792 | Gross: $109.77M

5. Dark Shadows (2012)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham Carter

Votes: 281,062 | Gross: $79.73M

6. Nowhere Boy (2009)

R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall

Votes: 39,053 | Gross: $1.45M

7. Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham

Votes: 22,533 | Gross: $0.16M

8. Bread (1986–1991)

30 min | Comedy

The series set in working-class Liverpool. Meet the Boswells: they're penniless, jobless and with little hope of things improving, but life's never stale.

Stars: Jean Boht, Nick Conway, Jonathon Morris, Kenneth Waller

Votes: 1,552

9. Michael Collins (1996)

R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Ian Hart

Votes: 33,857 | Gross: $11.09M

10. A Night to Remember (1958)

Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, History

On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman

Votes: 17,254

11. Redemption (I) (2022)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DI Colette Cunningham's no nonsense approach to policing has earned her the respect of her Merseyside Police colleagues. She seems unflappable, until she gets a call from the Garda in Dublin after the body of a young woman is discovered.

Stars: Paula Malcomson, Abby Fitz, Evan O'Connor, Moe Dunford

Votes: 4,781

12. Help (2021 TV Movie)

98 min | Drama

Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.

Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Jodie Comer, Arthur Hughes, Stephen Graham, Lesley Sharp

Votes: 12,151

13. Midas Man (2024)

Biography, Drama, Music

On Thursday 9 November 1961, a man named Brian descended the stairs to a cellar in Liverpool and changed the world forever.

Director: Joe Stephenson | Stars: Eddie Marsan, Ed Speleers, Emily Watson, Eddie Izzard

14. Yellow Submarine (1968)

G | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.

Director: George Dunning | Stars: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon

Votes: 28,126 | Gross: $0.99M

15. Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.

Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent

Votes: 13,718 | Gross: $1.59M

16. Formula 51 (2001)

R | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

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.

Director: Ronny Yu | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Nigel Whitmey

Votes: 51,042 | Gross: $5.20M

17. Little Boy Blue (2017)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, History

The true story of the 2007 murder of Rhys Jones in Liverpool. The story of the aftermath and police investigation.

Stars: Sinéad Keenan, Brían F. O'Byrne, Matthew Devlin, Stephen Graham

Votes: 5,634

18. G'wed (2024– )

30 min | Comedy

Comedy about working class Liverpudlian teenagers, tackling big issues like grief, sex, diversity and class differences.

Stars: Max Ainsworth, Gemma Barraclough, Zak Douglas, Amber Harrison

Votes: 640

19. Educating Rita (1983)

PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama

An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman

Votes: 14,957 | Gross: $14.65M

20. Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Kenneth Cranham, Julie Walters

Votes: 10,750 | Gross: $1.03M

21. Priest (1994)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson

Votes: 11,071 | Gross: $4.18M

22. Black Cab (2024– )

180 min | Drama, Thriller

Tony, a lonely Liverpool taxi driver, begins to form a twisted world view and an unhealthy obsession with a late-night radio talk show host.

Stars: Stephen Walters, Robert Glenister, Suzanne Packer, Grainne Keenan

Votes: 74

23. The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, War

A team of renegade soldiers in World War II tries to stop the creation of the Fourth Reich in the Middle East.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine, Hunt Block, Matthew Burton

Votes: 1,329

24. Backbeat (1994)

R | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.

Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell

Votes: 6,602 | Gross: $2.39M

25. Cilla (2014)

138 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The life and career of British singer and entertainer Cilla Black.

Stars: Sheridan Smith, Aneurin Barnard, John Henshaw, Kent Riley

Votes: 1,521

26. An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth... See full summary »

Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong

Votes: 3,029 | Gross: $0.26M

27. Made in Dagenham (2010)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone

Votes: 16,090 | Gross: $1.09M

28. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)

Not Rated | 208 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese examines the life of musician George Harrison, weaving together interviews, concert footage, home movies and photographs.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: George Harrison, Harry Harrison, Peter Harrison, Paul McCartney

Votes: 12,652

29. The Promoter (1952)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy

Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark

Votes: 1,874

30. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, History, Music

A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney

Votes: 13,866 | Gross: $2.93M

31. Waterfront Women (1950)

80 min | Drama

A worthless sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives, but the eldest daughter is not happy when her father decides to return.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw

Votes: 493

32. The Long Haul (1957)

Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After leaving his U.S. Army job in Germany, a trucker takes a long-haul driver job in Britain where he runs into an organized-crime syndicate that controls the trucking industry.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Victor Mature, Diana Dors, Patrick Allen, Gene Anderson

Votes: 1,001

33. The Clouded Yellow (1950)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A former British agent is employed at the Fenton country estate where he aids Fenton's niece in eluding the police after she's unjustly accused of murdering a local gamekeeper.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones

Votes: 987

34. The Leaving of Liverpool (1993 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama, History

Two English children are uprooted from their beloved Liverpool dockside to the alien environment of Australia in the years following World War Two.

Director: Michael Jenkins | Stars: Kevin Knapman, Christine Tremarco, Frances Barber, John Hargreaves

Votes: 284

35. A House Through Time (2018– )

60 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Historian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home in a British city - from its construction to the present day.

Stars: David Olusoga, Deborah Sugg Ryan, Ian Hislop, Gaynor Evans

Votes: 198

36. The Fruit Machine (1988)

R | 103 min | Drama

Two gay teenagers go on the run after witnessing a murder.

Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth, Robert Stephens, Clare Higgins

Votes: 613

37. Dark Horse (2015)

PG | 85 min | Documentary, Drama, Sport

An inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse

Director: Louise Osmond | Stars: Jan Vokes, Howard Davies, Brian 'Daisy' Vokes, Angela Davies

Votes: 1,326

38. The Spirit of '45 (2013)

94 min | Documentary, History

A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Eileen Thompson, Julian Tudor Hart, Dai Walters, Sam Watts

Votes: 1,310

39. Going Off Big Time (2000)

86 min | Thriller

After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.

Director: Jim Doyle | Stars: Neil Fitzmaurice, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Lamont, Nicholas Moss

Votes: 919

40. Liam (2000)

R | 90 min | Drama

A family falls into poverty during the Depression.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Anthony Borrows, Ian Hart, Claire Hackett, Dave Hart

Votes: 2,678 | Gross: $1.01M

41. The White Bus (1967)

Not Rated | 46 min | Drama

An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal Big city life, back to a city in North England, on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity.

Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe, John Sharp, Julie Perry

Votes: 620

42. The Boys & Girl from County Clare (2003)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

In 1965, Jimmy McMahon and his group of Liverpudlians plot to win the annual céilí music competition in Ireland.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Colm Meaney, Bernard Hill, Shaun Evans, Andrea Corr

Votes: 1,516 | Gross: $0.14M

43. The Compleat Beatles (1982 Video)

119 min | Documentary, Music

The history of the great British rock band.

Director: Patrick Montgomery | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr

Votes: 1,199

44. Of Time and the City (2008)

Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, Biography

A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.

Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Terence Davies, George Harrison, Jack Hawkins, John Lennon

Votes: 2,263 | Gross: $0.03M

45. Perfect (2022– )

Comedy

Set in Liverpool, Perfect follows three young disabled people who become friends when they meet on a work preparation scheme. Together they navigate life, dating, and a system that seems designed to only benefit the people who run it.

Stars: George Robinson, Shreya M. Patel, Wills Whittington, Jo Griffin

Votes: 42

46. Violent Playground (1958)

108 min | Drama, Crime

The struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a dangerous young pyromaniac.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Stanley Baker, Anne Heywood, David McCallum, Peter Cushing

Votes: 843

47. Liverpool Ferry (2020)

19 min | Short, Drama

Sarah must make a journey from Belfast to Liverpool to avoid a life she does not want. A journey that is against the law.

Director: Lee Armstrong | Stars: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Ross McKinney, Lauren O'Rourke, Joanne Crawford

Votes: 37

48. The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983)

101 min | Drama

Three autobiographical short films made over seven years about a young gay man coming to terms with his Catholic schooling, his homosexuality and guilt, his parents and their deaths, despair and loneliness.

Director: Terence Davies | Stars: Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Robin Hooper

Votes: 672

49. Web of Evidence (1959)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee

Votes: 326

50. Grow Your Own (2007)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy

An English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.

Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Benedict Wong, Eddie Marsan, Omid Djalili, Alan Williams

Votes: 713