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

1. The Tudors (2007–2010)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance

Epic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world.

Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy, James Frain

Votes: 81,475

2. The Favourite (2018)

R | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult

Votes: 234,934 | Gross: $34.37M

3. Downton Abbey (2019)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Romance

1927. The Crawleys prepare to host King George V and Queen Mary at Downton Abbey.

Director: Michael Engler | Stars: Stephen Campbell Moore, Michael Fox, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera

Votes: 63,599 | Gross: $96.85M

4. The King's Speech (2010)

R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 709,005 | Gross: $138.80M

5. Elizabeth (1998)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox

Votes: 105,348 | Gross: $30.08M

6. Spencer (2021)

R | 117 min | Biography, Drama

Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen

Votes: 76,822

7. Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, History

Mary Stuart's (Saoirse Ronan's) attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie), Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.

Director: Josie Rourke | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn

Votes: 55,490 | Gross: $16.47M

8. The Lion in Winter (1968)

PG | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.

Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle

Votes: 34,306 | Gross: $22.28M

9. The Queen (2006)

PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Drama

After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings

Votes: 116,108 | Gross: $56.44M

10. The Lost King (2022)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod

Votes: 8,363

11. The Madness of King George (1994)

PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

When King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves, Amanda Donohoe

Votes: 18,466 | Gross: $15.24M

12. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

PG | 145 min | Biography, Drama, History

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 8,141 | Gross: $2.07M

13. Shanghai Knights (2003)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a Chinese rebel murders Chon's estranged father and escapes to England, Chon and Roy make their way to London with revenge on their minds.

Director: David Dobkin | Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Fann Wong, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Votes: 112,717 | Gross: $60.48M

14. The Windsors (2016– )

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

Comedy soap opera re-imagining the lives of the British Royal Family as you have never seen them before.

Stars: Celeste Dring, Louise Ford, Hugh Skinner, Ellie White

Votes: 3,492

15. Anne Boleyn (2021)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History

The final months of Boleyn's life, her struggle with Tudor England's patriarchal society, her desire to secure a future for her daughter, Elizabeth, and the brutal reality of her failure to provide Henry with a male heir.

Stars: Jodie Turner-Smith, Kris Hitchen, Thalissa Teixeira, Barry Ward

Votes: 28,049

16. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972)

PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama

On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher

Votes: 1,001

17. Mrs. Brown (1997)

PG | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History

When Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher

Votes: 15,618 | Gross: $9.22M

18. Richard III (1995)

R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War

The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Christopher Bowen, Edward Jewesbury

Votes: 15,598 | Gross: $2.60M

19. King Ralph (1991)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance

A regular guy from America becomes king of England after a royal wipe-out puts him next in line.

Director: David S. Ward | Stars: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt, Camille Coduri

Votes: 16,984 | Gross: $34.00M

20. Diana (2013)

PG-13 | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Cas Anvar, Charles Edwards

Votes: 20,942 | Gross: $0.33M

21. Cambridge Spies (2003)

59 min | Drama, History

The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

Stars: Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens, Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West

Votes: 2,219

22. Elizabeth I (2005)

TV-MA | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History

Mini-series about the the public and private lives of the later years of Queen Elizabeth I.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Toby Jones, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Malahide

Votes: 7,044

23. A Royal Night Out (2015)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.

Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Sarah Gadon, Bel Powley, Emily Watson, Rupert Everett

Votes: 11,105 | Gross: $0.20M

24. The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)

540 min | Drama, History, Romance

A six-episode dramatization of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.

Stars: Keith Michell, Anthony Quayle, Patrick Troughton, Bernard Hepton

Votes: 1,458

25. The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Two roommates' lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

Director: Dasha Nekrasova | Stars: Madeline Quinn, Betsey Brown, Stephen Gurewitz, Dasha Nekrasova

Votes: 2,453

26. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp

Votes: 6,179

27. Harry & Meghan (2022)

TV-MA | 58 min | Documentary, Biography

Explores the span of their relationship, from the early days of the couple's courtship to the challenges and controversies that prompted them to step back from the royal family.

Stars: Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Doria Ragland, David Olusoga

Votes: 23,489

28. Elizabeth R (1971)

520 min | Biography, Drama, History

When Elizabeth Tudor comes to the throne, her (male) advisers know she has to marry. Doesn't she? Thus starts a decades-long political/matrimonial game, during an age of high passions and high achievement.

Stars: Glenda Jackson, Ronald Hines, Robert Hardy, Stephen Murray

Votes: 1,944

29. The Last King (2003)

TV-14 | 188 min | Biography, Drama, History

The chronicle of Charles II's time on the throne, his ten-year exile from Oliver Cromwell's England, and his triumphant return.

Stars: Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Charlie Creed-Miles, Christian Coulson

Votes: 1,820

30. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Passed | 97 min | Biography, Drama

King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.

Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander

Votes: 4,880

31. The Lion in Winter (2003 TV Movie)

167 min | Drama, History, Romance

King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Glenn Close, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Andrew Howard

Votes: 2,396

32. Grey Owl (1999)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Western

The story of the life and work of the Canadian fur trapper-turned-conservationist who claimed to be an aboriginal North American.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Stewart Bick, Vlasta Vrana, Annie Galipeau

Votes: 4,052 | Gross: $0.63M

33. Henry and Anne: The Lovers Who Changed History (2014– )

Drama

This two-part docudrama shows the love affair between King Henry VIII of England and his second wife, Anne Boleyn; presented by historian Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb.

Stars: Suzannah Lipscomb, Emma Connell, Jack Hawkins, Jon Edgley-Bond

Votes: 165

34. Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding (2018 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary, History

Historian Lucy Worsley and a team of experts re-stage Victoria and Albert's wedding. It was regarded as the wedding of the century at the time.

Director: Ian Denyer | Stars: Jill Buchanan, Ruth Clarson, Etienne Dutoy, Nicholas Frentz

Votes: 225

35. Mary Queen of Scots (2013)

119 min | Biography, Drama, History

A queen who lost three kingdoms. A wife who lost three husbands. A woman who lost her head.

Director: Thomas Imbach | Stars: Camille Rutherford, Mehdi Dehbi, Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard

Votes: 995

36. Spitting Image (2020–2021)

23 min | Comedy

A revival of the classic satire show using puppets that are caricatures of major public figures.

Stars: Jess Robinson, John DiMaggio, Matt Forde, Indira Varma

Votes: 799

37. Secrets of the Royal Palaces (2021– )

44 min | Documentary, History

The less known stories about the British royals, their history and their homes.

Stars: Samantha Bond, Tony McMahon, Joanne Paul, Julie Montagu

Votes: 32

38. The Virgin Queen (1955)

Approved | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History

Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson

Votes: 3,072

39. Tower of London (1962)

Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, History, Horror

The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman, Robert Brown

Votes: 2,591

40. Young Bess (1953)

Approved | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The early life of Elizabeth I, from her childhood until her accession to the throne of England in 1558.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton

Votes: 1,821

41. Tower of London (1939)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, History

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter

Votes: 2,238

42. Henry IX (2017)

40 min | Comedy

A middle-aged man experiences a mid-life crisis. Unfortunately, this man is King of Great Britain and the Commonwealth.

Stars: Sally Phillips, Colin Salmon, Gina Bellman, Don Warrington

Votes: 206

43. The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama, Romance

The story of the courtship of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, told at a time when their union still seemed to be a match made in heaven.

Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Catherine Oxenberg, Christopher Baines, Olivia de Havilland, Dana Wynter

Votes: 161

44. The Princess (II) (2022)

109 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Princess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.

Director: Ed Perkins | Stars: Princess Diana, King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II, Martin Bashir

Votes: 1,561

45. Diana: Her True Story (1993 TV Movie)

181 min | Biography, Drama

Biopic attempting to tell the real story of Diana, Princess of Wales, made at a time when she was already deeply unhappy and her marriage to Prince Charles was known to be troubled, but ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Serena Scott Thomas, David Threlfall, Elizabeth Garvie, Donald Douglas

Votes: 234

46. The Children's Party at the Palace (2006 TV Special)

80 min | Drama, Family

To celebrate her 80th birthday, the Queen is holding a children's party in the grounds of Buckingham Palace. She has invited many classic characters from British children's literature. But ... See full summary »

Directors: Claire Popplewell, Ben Warwick | Stars: Kacey Ainsworth, Sam Aston, Matt Baker, Sanjeev Bhaskar

Votes: 239

47. Diana: In Her Own Words (I) (2017 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 112 min | Documentary, Biography

This documentary uses the recordings Princess Diana made for the book that was written by Andrew Morton. In this documentary Diana narrates her life and the events that surrounded her.

Directors: Tom Jennings, David Tillman | Stars: King Charles III, Princess Diana, Prince Harry, Queen Camilla

Votes: 4,001

48. Britain's Poshest Farm Shops (2022)

60 min | Documentary

Two-part documentary celebrating seven of the finest farm shops in the country. Just what is it that makes the British love a good farm shop and what does it take to make one a retailing success story.

Stars: Patricia Hodge, A.J. Langer, Michael Caines

49. Paedophiles in Parliament (2018)

96 min | Documentary

Explores the history of paedophile allegations in British Politics and the issue of child rapers in power is an epidemic.

Director: Sonia Poulton | Stars: Sonia Poulton, Andrea Davison, Chris Fay, Lowell Goddard

Votes: 18

50. The Grand Knockout Tournament (1987 TV Special)

93 min | Comedy, Family, Game-Show

The Grand Knockout Tournament was an annual event sponsored by the British Royal Family in which costumed famous people duel against one another or play medieval era-inspired games. Features Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder.

Directors: Geoff Wilson, Martin Hughes | Stars: Stuart Hall, Duke of Abercorn, Jenny Agutter, Anthony Andrews

Votes: 114