239 Films & TV Shows Set In United Kingdom During The 21st Century
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Bridget Jones's Diary
England The 2000sHealth Warning: Adopting Bridget's lifestyle could seriously damage your health. — A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
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The 51st State
England California The 1970s The 2000sNice Wheels. Dirty Deals. And One Mean Mother In A Kilt. — An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
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Sexy Beast
England 🇪🇸 Spain The 2000sThere's a bit of the beast in all of us. — Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking battle of wills with Logan, and takes part in a sensational underwater heist, risking everything to protect the woman he loves.
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Intimacy
England The 2000sEvery Wednesday. She meets him once a week. — Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.
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Mr In-Between
England The 2000sA terrifying love triangle. An original twist on a story of divided loyalties, the perils of love and ultimate death. A haunting tale set in a London at times beautiful and ugly, but always captivating. A story that plays with the shadows and light of an underworld occupied by the fascinating and terrible.
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Snatch
England 🇧🇪 Belgium The 2000sStealin' stones and breakin' bones. — Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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Dracula 2000
Louisiana England The 2000sThe Most Seductive Evil of All Time Has Now Been Unleashed in Ours. — Abraham Van Helsing, who has tangled with Count Dracula in the past, works as an English antiques dealer. Simon is a vampire hunter in training under his apprenticeship.
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Highlander: Endgame
New York Scotland The 16th Century The 1990s The 2000sIt will take two immortals to defeat the ultimate evil. But in the end, there can be only one. — Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the highlands of Scotland, Kell, an immensely powerful immortal who leads an army of equally powerful and deadly immortal swordsmen and assassins. No immortal alive has been able to defeat Kell yet, and neither Connor nor Duncan are skilled enough themselves to take him on and live. The two of them eventually come to one inevitable conclusion; one of them must die so that the combined power of both the Highlanders can bring down Kell for good. There can be only one... the question is, who will it be?
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Born Romantic
England The 2000sLove Isn't Dead...It's Just Not Very Well — In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
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Entrapment
🇲🇾 Malaysia New York Scotland England The 1990s The 2000sThe trap is set. — Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
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Split Second
England The 2000sHe's seen the future. Now he has to kill it. — In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.
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Highlander II: The Quickening
Scotland 🇪🇸 Spain 🇺🇸 United States of America The 1990s The 2020sIt's a kind of magic. — In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed. It is up to MacLeod and Rameriz to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Ziest (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the supposed lack of ozone. Also, flashbacks show the story behind MacLeod and Ramirez's exile from Ziest.
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Threads
England The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sThe closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war. — Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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Things to Come
England The 1970s The 1960s The 1940s The 2030sThe future is here! — The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.