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1. Mary Poppins (1964)
G | 139 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
In turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns
Votes: 186,629 | Gross: $102.27M
2. Enola Holmes (2020)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's teen sister) discovers her mother is missing, she endeavours to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy.
Director: Harry Bradbeer | Stars: Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 220,983
3. Miss Potter (2006)
PG | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.
Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn
Votes: 32,153 | Gross: $2.98M
4. Hysteria (2011)
R | 100 min | Biography, Comedy, Romance
The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
Director: Tanya Wexler | Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones
Votes: 33,244 | Gross: $1.80M
5. Suffragette (2015)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, History
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep
Votes: 44,847 | Gross: $4.69M
6. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 39,829
7. Parade's End (2012)
TV-MA | 57 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Revolves around a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette.
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens
Votes: 10,775
8. Possession (2002)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Aaron Eckhart, Jeremy Northam, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 13,731 | Gross: $10.10M
9. Thunder Rock (1942)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 818
10. The Rainbow (1989)
R | 113 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe, Paul McGann, Christopher Gable
Votes: 1,707 | Gross: $0.44M
11. The 39 Steps (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts ... See full summary »
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Rupert Penry-Jones, Lydia Leonard, David Haig, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 2,404
12. Iron Jawed Angels (2004 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History
A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.
Director: Katja von Garnier | Stars: Hilary Swank, Margo Martindale, Anjelica Huston, Frances O'Connor
Votes: 6,454
13. Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Family
Set in 1904, "American Girls" revolves around Samantha as she moves in with her grandmother and learns how to become a proper Victorian young lady.
Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Jordan Bridges, Rebecca Mader, Kelsey Lewis
Votes: 2,214
14. The Winslow Boy (1999)
G | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Following the theft of a postal order, a 14-year-old cadet is expelled from Naval College. To save the honour of the boy and his family, the pre-eminent barrister of the day is engaged to take on the might of the Admiralty.
Director: David Mamet | Stars: Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam, Nigel Hawthorne, Matthew Pidgeon
Votes: 9,468 | Gross: $3.96M
15. Sweet Land (2005)
PG | 110 min | Drama, Romance
In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.
Director: Ali Selim | Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lois Smith, Patrick Heusinger, Stephen Pelinski
Votes: 4,159 | Gross: $1.71M
16. Savage Messiah (1972)
R | 97 min | Biography, Drama
Biographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp
Votes: 1,678
17. The Bostonians (1984)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, Romance
A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter
Votes: 2,456 | Gross: $1.01M
18. Sons and Lovers (1960)
Approved | 103 min | Drama
A young man with artistic talent lives in a close-knit coal-mining town and finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative mother.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure
Votes: 1,779
19. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Two bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens
Votes: 5,019 | Gross: $2.62M
20. Van Gogh (1991)
R | 158 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The final sixty-seven days of Van Gogh's life are examined.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq, Gérard Séty
Votes: 3,321 | Gross: $0.14M
21. The Ballad of Lucy Sands (2024)
360 min | Crime, Drama, Family | Post-production
December 1st 1881. 16 year old Lucy meets her friends in the gritty iron mill town of workington. Failing to return home that night. Her aunt and grandma fear she has left home, until a chilling discovery, 1st March 1882 changes everything
Director: Steve Baldwin | Stars: Megan Tremethick, Kayleigh-Paige Rees, Matthew Doman, Ryan Noire
22. Mrs. Santa Claus (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the multicultural neighborhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side of the early 1900s.
Director: Terry Hughes | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Michael Jeter, Terrence Mann, Lynsey Bartilson
Votes: 1,261
23. Lillian Russell (1940)
Passed | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold
Votes: 583
24. À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Adventure, Horror
Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Votes: 1,211
25. Roughly Speaking (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Determined to overcome poverty, Louise Randall attends business school and weds Rodney Crane. Her driven nature leads to marital breakdown. She navigates career growth and family life with new spouse Harold, striving for a better future.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan
Votes: 882
26. Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
The liberated daughter of a 1905 minister innocently starts a scandal.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe
Votes: 530
27. Downton Abbey Revisited (2012 TV Movie)
Documentary
Full of footage after the series' end.
Stars: Angela Lansbury, Samantha Bond, Jessica Brown Findlay, Laura Carmichael
Votes: 59
28. Fame Is the Spur (1947)
96 min | Drama
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 225
29. Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (2018 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary, History
An overview of the events of the Suffragette Movement for Votes For Women. It follows the individual women who were part of the movement and uses dramatised testimony to tell their stories at key points of their dangerous campaign.
Director: Emma Frank | Stars: Amy Gavin, Lucy Worsley, Joanne Thomson, Kate Burdette
Votes: 173
30. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999)
TV-G | 181 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and their life long fight to bring equal rights to women.
Stars: Carolyn McCormick, Adam Arkin, Ann Dowd, Sally Kellerman
Votes: 338
31. London: The Modern Babylon (2012)
Not Rated | 125 min | Documentary, History, Music
London: The Modern Babylon is legendary director Julien Temple's epic time-traveling voyage to the heart of his hometown.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Keith Allen, Michael Gambon, Steve Jones, Bill Nighy
Votes: 657
32. A Busy Day (1914)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Comedy
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Phyllis Allen, Ted Edwards
Votes: 1,270
33. A Skirt Through History (1994– )
180 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.
Stars: Dearbhla Molloy, Lesley Manville, Anna Massey, Paola Dionisotti
34. Sleepy Lagoon (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Transient workers are pouring into Sleepy Lagoon by the thousands to work in the local defense factories, with no means of finding good clean fun in a town that has been as moribund as its ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Dennis Day, Ruth Donnelly, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 45
35. My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will, the paper is inherited by his only living relative, an "old maid schoolteacher" from Nebraska. Martha Aldrich, along ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson
Votes: 418
36. Estimados Señores
Biography | Post-production
Director: Patricia Castañeda | Stars: Julieth Restrepo, Marcela Mar, Claudio Cataño, Paula Castaño
37. Hands Upon the Heart (1991)
90 min | Biography, Drama
Stories about the African-American experience in the 20th Century.
Directors: David Dowe, Bill Pratt | Stars: Phillip Brogdon, Douglas Brown, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
38. Die Hälfte der Welt gehört uns - Als Frauen das Wahlrecht erkämpften (2018 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Director: Annette Baumeister | Stars: Ingo Abel, Anja Antonowicz, Anke Sabrina Beermann, Matthias Bundschuh
Votes: 19
39. Les suffragettes, ni paillassons ni prostituées (2012 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Michèle Dominici | Stars: Cécile Magnet, Marie Bouvier, Anne Kreis, Isabelle Mestre
Votes: 9
40. Katupeilin takana (1949)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: T.J. Särkkä | Stars: Eeva-Kaarina Volanen, Helge Ranin, Henny Valjus, Uuno Laakso
Votes: 86
41. Of Love and Lust (1955)
74 min | Drama
The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get ... See full summary »
Director: Anders Henrikson | Stars: Anita Björk, Anders Henrikson, Elsa Carlsson, Edvin Adolphson
Votes: 31
42. Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI (2015 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
Historian Lucy Worsley marks the centennial of the Women's Institute in Britain by exploring and celebrating their amazing history, social evolution and impressive accomplishments.
Director: Eleanor Scoones | Star: Lucy Worsley
Votes: 10
43. The Year of the Bodyguard (1982)
52 min | Documentary, Drama
Drama-documentary which uses archive material and reconstruction to present the feminist struggle from the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1913.
Director: Noël Burch | Stars: Janet Amsden, Linda Barr, David Beale, Roy Boyd
44. A Cure for Suffragettes (1913)
4 min | Comedy, Short
Moving Picture World magazine (Oct - Dec 1913) described this film as "a farce of suffragettes and comic cops."
Director: Edward Dillon | Stars: Dorothy Bernard, Kathleen Butler, Dorothy Gish, Antonio Moreno
45. Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette (2013 TV Special)
47 min
Clare Balding examines the story of Emily Davison, her death at the Derby, and the Suffragette movement.
Director: Harvey Lilley | Stars: Clare Balding, Andrew Balding, Ian Balding, Emily Wilding Davison
Votes: 13
46. Bertrand (1964 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A stray cat brings together three people: an ex-suffragette, a recluse and a teenager.
Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Michael Thomas, Eve Wynne, Ronald Morse, James Workman
47. Utopia Girls (2012 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
This insightful documentary investigates how and why Australia became the first country in the world to give women full political rights. Beautifully shot, with drama tic re-enactments and ... See full summary »
Director: Jasmin Tarasin | Stars: Clare Wright, Roy Billing, Patrick Brammall, Tom Budge
Votes: 10
48. The Dark Horse of Suffragettes (2022)
Short, History
When a Women's Rights campaigner discovers a suffrage calling during lock down, she realizes it is deeds not words.
Directors: Nina Bhalla, Swati Chugh | Stars: Barbara Gorna, Sarah Gould, Jennie Griffiths
49. Woman: Past and Present (1913)
Comedy, Drama, Short
A comedy-drama of two generations of suffragettes.
Director: Lem B. Parker | Stars: Harold Lockwood, Kathlyn Williams, Eugenie Besserer, Al Ernest Garcia
50. The Praise Agent (1919)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
After a touring theatrical company goes broke on the road, press agent Jack Bartling persuades a local Suffragette leader, Mrs. Eubanks, whose husband is a Senator and soap manufacturer, to... See full summary »
Director: Frank Hall Crane | Stars: Arthur Ashley, Dorothy Green, Jack Drumier, Lucille La Verne