Highest-Rated Movies about 'Yorkshire'

This Sporting Life (1963), The Damned United (2009), Jane Eyre (2011), The Selfish Giant (2013), Four Lions (2010), Billy Liar (1963), Brassed Off (1996), Nicholas Nickleby (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Yorkshire movies.

#17. Fairy Tale: A True Story (1997)

Storyline: Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings... which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it's quite normal, are excited about this "photographic proof" that fairies exist... even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: year 1917, 1910s, key, crown, angel, owl, pirate ...

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#18. Possession (2002)

Storyline: Roland Michell is an American scholar trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academia. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.

Plot Keywords: unfaithfulness, murder, museum, stealing, theft, passion, search ...

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#19. The Water Babies (1978)

Storyline: This story is about a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel. Before he can return to the surface and clear his name, however, he must help the Water Babies leave their enclosed lake and reach the free waters of the ocean.—Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

Plot Keywords: underwater scene, orphan, mansion, lobster, kidnapping, fortress, estate ...

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#20. Value for Money (1955)

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: money, love, male female relationship, gold digger, inheritance, mayor, reporter ...

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#21. Dark River (2017)

Storyline: After receiving news of her father's death, Alice, a young travelling sheep-shearer, tentatively decides to return to the dilapidated family house of her childhood, in muddy North Yorkshire. Surprisingly, it's been already fifteen years since Alice left behind an ailing dad and her older brother, Joe, to wander about from farm to farm; however, this cold and heavy homecoming will be Alice's last chance to reclaim the land she believes was once promised to her. But, now, on one hand, there's Joe's resentment paired with a rancorous rivalry between siblings--while, on the other hand--fleeting mournful shadows of a troubled past permeate the walls of an imperfect prize. What will it take to keep the haunting memories at bay?—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: brother sister relationship, f rated, title directed by female, death of father, father daughter incest, sexual abuse, yorkshire ...

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