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1. Poirot (1989–2013)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.

Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran

Votes: 52,418

2. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

At an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston

Votes: 585

3. His Wife's Friend (1919)

60 min | Mystery

Unhappily married to Sir Robert Grimwood, an older man whose only passion is chess, Lady Marion finds solace in the arrival of her old suitor, John Heritage. Soon after Heritage's departure... See full summary »

Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Dorothy Dalton, Warren Cook, Henry Mortimer, Richard Neill

4. The Reckless Age (1924)

70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Lord Harrowby, an English nobleman about to marry American heiress Cynthia Meyrick, takes out a $100,000 insurance policy against the loss of his wealthy bride. Sent to usher at the ... See full summary »

Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Reginald Denny, Ruth Dwyer, John Steppling, May Wallace

Votes: 69

5. The Girl from Montmartre (1926)

60 min | Drama, Romance

On the Spanish island of Majorca lives the Faneaux family, product of a degenerate English father of good family and a Spanish woman, whom he had not married. Following the father's death, ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Barbara La Marr, Lewis Stone, Robert Ellis, William Eugene

6. The Young Diana (1922)

90 min | Drama

The father of young Diana May wishes to marry her to British nobility although she is in love with Richard Cleeve, a sailor, and is pursued by Dr. Dimitrius, a scientist in search of the "elixir of youth."

Directors: Albert Capellani, Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Marion Davies, Macklyn Arbuckle, Forrest Stanley, Gypsy O'Brien

Votes: 128

7. Déclassé (1925)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treats her shamefully. She falls in love with Ned Thayer, a young American, but refuses to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Lloyd Hughes, Clive Brook, Louise Fazenda

Votes: 50

8. Behold My Wife (1920)

70 min | Drama

In Canada, a young woman of Indian blood marries an Englishman who sends her back to England to humiliate his family and the woman who once spurned him. But the man's brother shows her the ... See full summary »

Director: George Melford | Stars: Mabel Julienne Scott, Milton Sills, Winter Hall, Elliott Dexter

9. Burning Sands (1922)

70 min | Drama

Englishman Daniel Lane gets involved in the dynastic intrigues of an old desert sheik whose son and another Briton named Robert Barthampton plot against him. Lane's girlfriend Muriel visits... See full summary »

Director: George Melford | Stars: Wanda Hawley, Milton Sills, Louise Dresser, Jacqueline Logan

10. Madcap Madge (1917)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

The social climbing Flower family is comprised of Mr. Flower, a banker who has overextended himself financially, Mrs. Flower, a socially ambitious mother, Julia Flower, a marriage-minded ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond B. West | Stars: Olive Thomas, Charles Gunn, Dorcas Matthews, Aggie Herring

11. A Man of Stone (1921)

Passed | 50 min | Drama

Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to discover that his fiancé, the wealthy Lady ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Conway Tearle, Betty Howe, Martha Mansfield, Colin Campbell

12. In the Palace of the King (1923)

90 min | Drama, Romance

King Philip of Spain is jealous of his more popular brother, Don John, and sends him into battle against the Moors, hoping he will not return. Don John is in love with Dolores, daughter of ... See full summary »

Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Edmund Lowe, Hobart Bosworth, Pauline Starke

13. Sporting Life (1918)

70 min | Drama, Sport

A young English lord lands in desperate financial straits. His only hope is for the success of a prizefighter and a racehorse in each of which he owns an interest.

Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Ralph Graves, Warner Richmond, Charles Eldridge, Charles Craig

14. The Masquerader (1922)

80 min | Drama

A distinguished British statesman, through excessive indulgence, has nearly ruined his political career and his home life. He persuades a struggling journalist, who is his cousin and his ... See full summary »

Director: James Young | Stars: Guy Bates Post, Ruth Cummings, Edward Kimball, Herbert Standing

Votes: 13 | Gross: $0.11M

15. Love's Blindness (1926)

70 min | Drama

A British nobleman heavily in debut to a moneylender agrees to marry the man's daughter in exchange for his debt being cleared. However, since the girl is Jewish, her new "husband" lets her... See full summary »

Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Pauline Starke, Antonio Moreno, Lilyan Tashman, Sam De Grasse

16. Kilmeny (1915)

Comedy, Drama

Little Doris Calhoun, of a wealthy English family, makes a playmate of Pierre, a crippled gypsy boy, and drifts away with him and the gypsy band on their wanderings and is seen no more. In ... See full summary »

Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Lenore Ulric, William Desmond, Doris Baker, Herbert Standing

17. A Society Exile (1919)

50 min | Drama

American heiress Nora Shard is in England working on a dramatization of her novel with playwright Sir Howard Furnival, however, their collaboration is kept a secret from Furnival's jealous ... See full summary »

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Elsie Ferguson, William P. Carleton, Warburton Gamble, Julia Dean

18. The Agony of Fear (1915)

Short, Crime, Drama

A man is literally frightened to death.

Director: Giles Warren

19. Richard the Brazen (1917)

50 min | Comedy

"Richard the Brazen" is the romance of a modern knight who has all the flourish and daring of the knights of old, although he happened to be born in Texas in the 20th century. While ... See full summary »

Director: Perry N. Vekroff | Stars: Harry T. Morey, Alice Joyce, William Frederic, Franklyn Hanna

20. Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922)

80 min | Adventure, Drama

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Matheson Lang, Isobel Elsom, Cecil Humphreys, Norman Page

21. The Holly House (1916)

Short, Drama

The scene is laid in England at a deserted estate called the Holly House, the mansion of Lord Sylvester. A young writer, Rolin, seeks the locality because of its beauty, and the air of ... See full summary »

Stars: Harry McCabe, Gordona Bennet, Vivian Rich, Gayne Whitman

22. Helene of the North (1915)

Drama, Romance

While waiting for the detained Lord Traverse, the guest of honor at an English society party, the guests play a game wherein each must tell a complete story before a cigarette burns out. ... See full summary »

Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Marguerite Clark, Conway Tearle, Elliott Dexter, Robert Rogers

23. The Gaiety Girl (1924)

80 min | Drama, Romance

Forced to abandon his ancestral castle, William Tudor accompanies his granddaughter Irene to London, while millionaire John Kershaw buys the castle for his son, "Kit." Irene joins the ... See full summary »

Director: King Baggot | Stars: Mary Philbin, Joseph J. Dowling, William Haines, James O. Barrows

24. Providence and Mrs. Urmy (1915)

Short, Drama

A young American woman unknowingly marries an English nobleman when she proposes to her chauffeur.

Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Louise Crolius, Helen Dunbar

25. The Princess of New York (1921)

50 min | Crime, Drama

A US steel king pawns the gems of his daughter who is loved by a student and a crook.

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: David Powell, Mary Glynne, Saba Raleigh, George Bellamy

Votes: 40

26. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)

50 min | Drama

"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr. Grex, an English Secret Service agent, Lord Huntersley ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Reicher | Stars: Theodore Roberts, Dorothy Davenport, Carlyle Blackwell, James Neill

27. Snobs (1915)

Comedy

Henry Disney, a milkman residing in a small city, is discovered by Phipps, a lawyer, to be the heir to the title and fortune of the Duke of Walshire. Phipps and his sister Laura, being ... See full summary »

Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Victor Moore, Anita King, Ernest Joy, Constance Johnson

28. Nearly a Lady (1915)

Comedy

That a fork was ever meant for anything but spearing bread never dawned on Frederica Calhoun until the arrival at her father's big Montana ranch of Lord Cecil Grosvenor, a prospective buyer... See full summary »

Director: Hobart Bosworth | Stars: Elsie Janis, Frank Elliott, Owen Moore, Myrtle Stedman

29. Walking Through History (2013– )
Episode: The Tudor Way (2013)

47 min | Documentary

Tony Robinson has quite a lengthy walk ahead of him as it takes four days of vigorous hiking to get from Penshurst in the Weald to Lewes on the South Downs. He's visiting places with a ... See full summary »

Director: Owen Rodd | Stars: Tony Robinson, Tracy Borman, Chris Butler, Arthur Franklin

Votes: 20