105 Films & TV Shows Set In United Kingdom During The 2000s
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I am Zlatan
🇪🇸 Spain 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇳🇱 Netherlands England The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s The 2020sComing-of-age story depicting Zlatan Ibrahimovic's upbringing in a rough Swedish suburb. Born to Balkan immigrants, football was Zlatan's release in a tough environment where his remarkable talent and self-reliance catapulted him against all odds to the top of international football playing for clubs like Ajax Amsterdam, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.
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The Vault
England 🇫🇷 France 🇪🇸 Spain The 2000s The 2010sNo job is impossible. — When an engineer learns of a mysterious, impenetrable fortress hidden under The Bank of Spain, he joins a crew of master thieves who plan to steal the legendary lost treasure locked inside while the whole country is distracted by Spain's World Cup Final. With thousands of soccer fans cheering in the streets, and security forces closing in, the crew have just minutes to pull off the score of a lifetime.
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Official Secrets
England The 2000sNothing is more dangerous than the truth — The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
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Fighting With My Family
England Florida Louisiana The 2000s The 2010sA comedy about a family that fights a little differently. — Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot in the competitive training program, she must leave her loved ones behind and face this new cutthroat world alone. Paige's journey pushes her to dig deep and ultimately prove to the world that what makes her different is the very thing that can make her a star.
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The Good Liar
England 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000s The 1940sRead between the lies. — Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindle takes on the ultimate stakes.
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Sorry We Missed You
England The 2000sRicky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.
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The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
New York Pennsylvania England 🇨🇿 Czechia The 2000s The 2010sA decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
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On Chesil Beach
England The 1970s The 1960s The 2000sA different time. A different love. — In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
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Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
England The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sDrawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
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Red Joan
England The 2000s The 1930sTo change the world, she betrayed her country — London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
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The Journey
Northern Ireland The 2000sFirebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
California Florida Wales England Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010s The 1940sStay peculiar — A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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7 Days in Hell
England 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇧🇪 Belgium The 1990s The 2000sThe epic battle for epicness — A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days.
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Dark Horse
Wales The 2000sThe larger than life true story of how a barmaid in a poor Welsh mining village convinces some of her fellow residents to pool their resources to compete in the "sport of kings" with a racehorse they would breed and raise.
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London Road
England The 2000sLondon Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
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Amy
England The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sThe girl behind the name. — A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
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A Song for Jenny
England The 2000sA Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station. Starring Emily Watson as Julie, A Song For Jenny details the dramatic and profound impact of violence on one woman and a family.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Michigan Pennsylvania District of Columbia England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000s The 2010sTrust no one. — Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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Rosewater
England 🇮🇷 Iran The 1980s The 2000sIn 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
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One Night in Istanbul
England 🇹🇷 Turkey The 2000sFour fanatical fans. One cup final... Only one outcome! — Two down on their luck Liverpool cabbies, Tommy and Gerry, strike an unusual deal with a local gangster to take their sons on a trip of a lifetime, to watch their beloved football team play in the European Cup Final in Istanbul. Hoping to use the trip as a chance to bond with their sons, big trouble awaits them in the form of a sexy hotel chambermaid, two ruthless crooks on a mission and a bag of counterfeit cash. It is 3-0 down at half time and things could not be more desperate both on and off the pitch. Stevie G and the boys in red are trying to launch the most amazing football comeback in history, and Tommy is in deep water, being held hostage. With the clock ticking and time running out, a miracle is needed fast. In the end a bit of faith, and Gerry’s lucky underpants may be the only thing that can get them and the cup back home in one piece.
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The Fifth Estate
District of Columbia England 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000s The 2010sYou can't expose the world's secrets without exposing yourself — A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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The Selfish Giant
England The 2000sA hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
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Philomena
District of Columbia England 🇮🇪 Ireland The 2000s The 1950sThese two unlikely companions are on a journey to find her long lost son. — A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
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One Chance
Wales 🇮🇹 Italy The 2000sThe incredible true story of an underdog who never gave up — This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.
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Battleship
New York District of Columbia Hawaii Scotland England 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Tokyo Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2000s The 2010sThe Battle for Earth Begins at Sea — When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
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