This Sporting Life (1963), Lassie Come Home (1943), Calendar Girls (2003), A Month in the Country (1987), Tread Softly Stranger (1958), The Secret Garden (2020), Catch Me Daddy (2014), Value for Money (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Yorkshire movies.
Storyline: In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation, and this is not helped by the more straightforward enticements of Mrs Weaver.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: coal miner, landlady, team owner, athlete, brash, uneasy, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hard times came for Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog to the rich Duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce). However, Lassie (Pal), the dog, is unwilling to leave the young Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) and sets out on the long and dangerous journey in order to rejoin him.—Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr>
Plot Keywords: lassie, young boy, mother, father, duke, grandchild, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Middle aged Chris Harper and Annie Clarke are best friends. They spend much of their time at their local Knapely, Yorkshire County chapter of the Women's Institute (WI), whose motto is "enlightenment, fun and friendship". Although they like most of the women at the WI (the friendship part), they, but the perceived flaky Chris in particular, hold the way Marie, the local president, runs the chapter with derision. They find much of what goes on there, especially the monthly presentations, banal and devoid of enlightenment and fun. Equally as banal was last year's fund-raising calendar, featuring local bridges, which raised a meager £75.60, with this year's proposed calendar, local churches, promising to be even more so. After Annie's husband John passes away from leukemia, Chris wants the WI to provide a memorial in his memory: a new sofa for the family room at the hospital. The one Chris wants to buy costs £999, which she proposes to raise by changing the fund-raising calendar to one ...
Plot Keywords: wife, friend, husband, photographer, director, cheeky, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes to see the mural and later visits Birken's bell tower abode, bringing a basket of apples. Will she open the book in which he has pressed the yellow rose she gave him earlier?—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: veteran, soldier, archaeologist, stationmaster, vicar, wife, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers when the more handsome charismatic ones turns up, leading to robbery and death.
Plot Keywords: young man, brother, girlfriend, gripping, gutsy, tense, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sent to live with her uncle, a young orphan discovers a magical garden of wonder in 1947 England.
Plot Keywords: orphan, uncle, housekeeper, cousin, friend, airy, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Laila, a girl on the run from her family is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron. When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.
Plot Keywords: drifter, mother, boyfriend, brother, hairdresser, runaway, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young man from Yorkshire inherits a sizeable legacy from his millionaire father. He decides to try the nightlife of London and meets a young girl performing in a nightclub. She intends to take him for all he's got and he's quite happy to be taken.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: englishman, young man, young woman, airy, charming, yorkshire, london ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two orphaned brothers turned radical Christian hitmen venture to rural Ilkley under the instruction of Father Enoch). Their mission: assassinate Professor John Huxley, famed atheist writer.
Plot Keywords: radical, hitman, professor, priest, brother, orphan, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Yorkshire, 1974. Britain is in recession, the oil crisis and black outs loom large. The Maynard family move into their dream house, only to find a "presence" already living there. Len, Jenny and their daughter Sally must struggle to keep their already-fragile family together as they are attacked by poltergeists. Soon it becomes apparent that Sally is their main focus of attention. The house becomes a living nightmare. They must exorcise the evil spirits for them to survive.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: spirit, family, daughter, engaging, yorkshire, home, 1970s ...
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