Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "class-snobbery"

1. North & South (2004)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance

North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.

Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sinéad Cusack

Votes: 35,110

2. Almost Heroes (1998)

PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western

Two bumbling explorers hope to beat Lewis & Clarke to the Pacific Ocean as they race across America's western frontier in the early 1800's.

Director: Christopher Guest | Stars: Chris Farley, Matthew Perry, Bokeem Woodbine, Barry Del Sherman

Votes: 17,795 | Gross: $6.11M

3. Persuasion (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Drama, Family

Anne was in love with Frederick, who was rejected by her snobby parents 8 years ago. They've now hit hard times and rent out their mansion to his brother-in-law. He returns a Royal Navy captain. Will he remember Anne?

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Alice Krige, Anthony Head, Julia Davis

Votes: 16,567

4. Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)

R | 104 min | Drama, Romance

After a injury leaves her husband paralysed, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

Director: Just Jaeckin | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Shane Briant, Nicholas Clay, Ann Mitchell

Votes: 3,368

5. Emma (1996 TV Movie)

TV-G | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Faithful, enchanting adaptation of Jane Austen's nineteenth-century tale of Emma Woodhouse--a clever young woman whose mischievous matchmaking schemes nearly end up jeopardizing her own shot at romance.

Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton, Mark Strong, Samantha Bond

Votes: 6,109

6. Ladybird Ladybird (1994)

R | 101 min | Drama

Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle, Mauricio Venegas

Votes: 3,838 | Gross: $0.15M

7. The Far Pavilions (1984)

315 min | Drama, History, Romance

Story of forbidden love in 1800s India set against the revolution for India's freedom from England.

Stars: Ben Cross, Amy Irving, Christopher Lee, Robert Hardy

Votes: 882

8. Dot the I (2003)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems.

Director: Matthew Parkhill | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke, James D'Arcy, Tom Hardy

Votes: 8,862 | Gross: $0.31M

9. 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: 16,094 | Gross: $1.09M

10. Princess Caraboo (1994)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

Director: Michael Austin | Stars: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline

Votes: 2,997 | Gross: $3.02M

11. Dragonwyck (1946)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan

Votes: 5,426

12. The Constant Nymph (1943)

Passed | 112 min | Drama, Music, Mystery

The daughter (Joan Fontaine) of a musical mentor (Montagu Love) is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband (Charles Boyer), a handsome composer.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith

Votes: 1,591

13. Lessons of a Dream (2011)

113 min | Drama, Sport

An English teacher brings soccer from England to Germany in the late 19th Century by teaching it to his class.

Director: Sebastian Grobler | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Burghart Klaußner, Thomas Thieme, Justus von Dohnányi

Votes: 2,609

14. Life at the Top (1965)

117 min | Drama

In this sequel to Room at the Top (1958), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig

Votes: 709

15. The Secret 6 (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama

After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.

Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow

Votes: 1,053

16. Here Comes Hell (2019)

75 min | Comedy, Horror

A 1930's dinner party descends into carnage, gore and demonic possession in Here Comes Hell, a genre-clashing horror comedy.

Director: Jack McHenry | Stars: Tom Bailey, Maureen Bennett, Alfred Bradley, Jasper Britton

Votes: 991

17. Vist er vi ej snobbede (1970 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary

Documentary about high society life represented by the snobbish and eccentric hairdresser Tutta Rosenberg, married the to editor-in-chief of a gossip weekly and the arranger/hostess of lavish dinner parties.

Director: Poul Martinsen | Star: Poul Martinsen

18. Bringing Up Father (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy

Maggie and her snooty society friends fool Jiggs and his buddies down at Dinty's tavern into not only signing a petition to close the bar, but they also trick them into taking the "temperaance" pledge to forsake all alcohol.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Tim Ryan, June Harrison

Votes: 46

19. Concert in Tirol (1938)

94 min | Music, Romance

A farmer opposes his daughter marrying a young music teacher (who a visitor from town also has eyes on) and prefers she marry a rich shopkeeper.The drama culminates with a fire in a barn where the touring Vienna Boys Choir are rehearsing.

Director: Karl Heinz Martin | Stars: Heli Finkenzeller, Ferdinand Mayerhofer, Hans Holt, Fritz Kampers

Votes: 10

20. The Duchess of Duke Street (1976–1977)
Episode: Plain Sailing (1976)

TV-PG | 52 min | Drama

Louisa turns the air blue, but hardly a sedate navy, when she buys a summer resort adjacent to a posh private club at Cowes.

Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: Gemma Jones, Christopher Cazenove, Jan Francis, Peter Graves

Votes: 38

21. Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985)
Episode: Episode #1.5 (1985)

Drama, Crime

Upon the death of Krook, Smallweed examines the personal effects, including letters reviewed by Tulkinghorn. Later, Esther becomes seriously ill with the pox. Finally, Tulkinghorn has a frank conversation with Lady Dedlock.

Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, Ian Hogg

Votes: 12

22. Affairs of the Heart (1974–1975)
Episode: Bessie (1974)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bessie and Lord Lambeth meet in Newport and both seem smitten. Everyone assumes that when Bessie visits London the next spring, she is set on marrying him.

Director: John Sichel | Stars: Sinéad Cusack, Anna Palk, Christopher Cazenove, Geoffrey Whitehead

Votes: 8