Highest-Rated Movies about 'Cornwall, England', Sort by Popularity

About Time (2013), Straw Dogs (1971), The Pirates of Penzance (1983), Arthur Christmas (2011), Fisherman's Friends (2019), The Witches (1990), The Plague of the Zombies (1966), Jamaica Inn (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cornwall, England movies.

#1. About Time (2013)

Storyline: At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time... The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change what happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place...by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). They fall in love, then an unfortunate time-travel incident means he's never met her at all. So they meet for the first time again-and again-but finally, after a lot of cunning time-traveling, he wins her heart. Tim then uses his power to create the perfect romantic proposal, to save his wedding from the worst best-man speeches, to save his best friend from professional disaster and to ...

Plot Keywords: young man, time traveler, father, love interest, family member, lighthearted, charming ...

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#2. Straw Dogs (1971)

Storyline: Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.

Plot Keywords: mathematician, wife, ex-lover, townsperson, magistrate, husband, raw ...

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#3. The Pirates of Penzance (1983)

Storyline: This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in. Frederic (Rex Smith) has fallen in love with sweet innocent Mabel Stanley (Linda Ronstadt). Yet his vocation is an impediment to their union. Perhaps the situation can be rectified by his old nurse, Ruth (Dame Angela Lansbury), who made a dreadful blunder years before. A highlight is the song and dance, "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One".—Reid Gagle

Plot Keywords: pirate, apprentice, love interest, military officer, police officer, nurse, cheeky ...

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#4. Arthur Christmas (2011)

Storyline: Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.

Plot Keywords: santa claus, son, older brother, grandfather, elf, young girl, hilarious ...

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#5. Fisherman's Friends (2019)

Storyline: A fast living, cynical London music executive (Daniel Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he's pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes the ultimate "fish out of water" as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who value friendship and community over fame and fortune. As he's drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he's forced to reevaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means.

Plot Keywords: fisherman, musician, music executive, hilarious, cornwall, england, music industry, musicians ...

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#7. The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

Storyline: Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond imagination or reality. Dead people are seen near an old, unused mine. Late people seem to live suddenly. Professor Forbes presumes that black magic is involved and someone has extraordinary power. He doesn't know how close he is: the dead become alive because of a magic voodoo-ritual, and so they must serve their master as mindless zombies...—Matthias Luehr <mluehr@htwm.de>

Plot Keywords: zombie, villager, doctor, squire, engaging, suspenseful, brooding ...

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#8. Jamaica Inn (1939)

Storyline: In early 19th century Cornwall, a young orphan, Mary, is sent to live with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss who are landlords of the Jamaica Inn. Mary soon realises her uncle's inn serves as the base for a gang of ship wreckers - who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast, and Mary begins to fear for her life.—Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>

Plot Keywords: young woman, gentleman, aunt, uncle, peddler, lawyer, dark ...

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#9. The Ghost Train (1941)

Storyline: Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor, to the constant irritation of his fellow passengers.—Neil Bridger

Plot Keywords: train conductor, stationmaster, train passenger, doctor, arms dealer, performer, amusing ...

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#10. Jack the Giant Killer (1962)

Storyline: The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help him he has his dreadful witches in his castle and his almost unstoppable sorcery. A giant under his control abducts the princess, but on the way home with her the giant meets farming lad Jack who slays him. This is only the beginning. Be assured Pendragon and his evil magic are far from done.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: hero, princess, wizard, witch, king, giant, creative ...

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#11. Stolen Hours (1963)

Storyline: Mike, a famed racing driver and an old flame of hers, is worried that Laura may be ill. Tricking her into a doctor's examination, she discovers she is; a brain operation to remove a tumor is performed and her symptoms disappear. All isn't well, however, but she is unaware of it, and she and her doctor fall in love. Finding out she is not actually cured, Laura renounces her new love and goes back to her old "jet-set" ways wasting the time she has left until a racing accident shows her how important the hours she has left are.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>

Plot Keywords: heiress, doctor, sister, ex-lover, party girl, melodramatic, fiery ...

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