The Vault
This Sporting Life
1963 ★ 7.0In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Wea
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
2001 ★ 6.8The lives of five loveable, 20-somethings are followed in the northern town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, where the friends meet often at a local pub to chat
The Black Velvet Gown
1991 ★ 5.8In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller
The Fifteen Streets
1989 ★ 6.4In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher o
The Trip to Italy
2014 ★ 6.3Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy. The Trip to Italy
Funny Cow
2018 ★ 6.3A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England's working men's
Jackdaw
2024 ★ 4.6A former motocross champion and army veteran cares for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the
Blue Jean
2023 ★ 6.8Jean, a PE teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her sexuality, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep
Not Going Out
2006 ★ 7.4Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well
When Saturday Comes
1996 ★ 5.8Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas — he dre
Tilly Trotter
1999 ★ 7.7In 1830s rural England, a courageous young girl, envied by women for her beauty, lusted after by men, is accused of witchcraft and forced to rise above the prej
Lady Macbeth
2016 ★ 6.6Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force with
Ireland: A Television History
1980 ★ 0.0The first major attempt to tell the history of a country on television -- from its first beginnings to the present day. Since the late 1960s we have all grown u
Brassic
2019 ★ 8.4A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned thei
Wuthering Heights
2011 ★ 5.9Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering
The League of Gentlemen
1999 ★ 7.7The League of Gentlemen is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC Two over three series from 1999 to 2002. In the fictional Northern England town of Royston Vasey—ba
No Blade of Grass
1970 ★ 5.3A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect Joh
Life at the Top
1965 ★ 5.9Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career s
The Secret
2000 ★ 7.0As a boy, Freddie Musgrave ran contraband on the Tyne, but now, as a successful businessman, he seems to have it all. However, his troubled past comes back to h
Vera
2011 ★ 7.4A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmai
The Passenger
1975 ★ 7.2David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he
North & South
2004 ★ 8.1Margaret Hale is a southerner from a country vicarage newly settled in the industrial northern town of Milton. In the shock of her move, she misjudges charismat
dinnerladies
1998 ★ 7.5Dinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren t
Bram Stoker's Van Helsing
2021 ★ 5.8England, 1897. Abraham Van Helsing receives a letter from his former student Dr John Seward requesting his urgent assistance in the northern town of Whitby, whe