Best British Films and TV Shows of the 1980s

An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.

The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.

Shirley is a 42-year-old bored Liverpudlian housewife who takes a holiday trip to Greece and meets a local man who bolsters her self-confidence. She evolves and transforms to the point that her husband doesn't even recognize her.

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.

The history of the great British rock band.

In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.

When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.

Follows Janet Baker's final year in Opera as she performs with the ENO, ROH and Glyndebourne.

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.

At an opulent gourmet restaurant, a woman carries on an affair with deadly consequences.

In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.

16 years have elapsed since Too Long A Winter and a combination of failing health and a series of devastatingly bitter winters culminates in Hannah being heart-wrenchingly driven off her beloved farm.

Lucy Honeychurch shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?

Two gay teenagers go on the run after witnessing a murder.

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.

Documents the preparation and rehearsals for Sting's first solo concert, as well as his supporting band's opinions on their leader and his controversial efforts.

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

Maureen has been faithfully attending the slimmers' club for months. Now the weeks of endless crispbreads have paid off - but is her optimism misplaced?

A young boy living on the outskirts of London comes of age during the uncertain days of World War II.

A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.

American college students David Kessler and Jack Goodman on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. Jack dies. David recovers in a hospital, where he has nightmares.

A struggling female soprano in 1934 Paris finally finds work after posing as a female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life when a visiting Chicago gangster finds himself inexplicably attracted to the seemingly male performer.