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A good girl’s guide to murder
2024
A high school student begins her own investigation into a closed murder case, believing the real killer is still out there.
The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself
Joe Barton · 2022
Caught between two warring clans, the son of a notorious witch responsible for a deadly massacre tries to find his place in the world — and his powers.
Lockwood & Co.
Joe Cornish · 2023
A girl with extraordinary psychic abilities joins two gifted teen boys at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting London.
We Live in Time
John Crowley · 2024
Almut y Tobias se conocen en un encuentro inesperado que cambia sus vidas. A través de pasajes de su vida en común −se enamoran, construyen un hogar, forman una familia− se nos revela una difícil verdad que amenaza con sacudir sus cimientos. A medida que emprenden un camino que los límites del tiempo desafían, los protagonistas aprenderán a apreciar cada momento del inusual camino que ha tomado su historia de amor, que abarca una década.
Love Actually
Richard Curtis · 2003
En Londres, poco antes de las Navidades, se entrelazan una serie de historias divertidas y conmovedoras. 'Love Actually' es una manera abreviada de decir 'Love Actually Is All Around' y éste es precisamente el argumento de la película: mires a donde mires, encontrarás el amor en todas partes. Todos los personajes, cada uno a su manera (un primer ministro, una vieja estrella del rock, una asistenta portuguesa que sólo habla su idioma), están relacionados con los aspectos más divertidos, tristes, ingenuos y estúpidos del amor.
Yesterday
Danny Boyle · 2019
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was forgotten.
Heartstopper
Alice Oseman · 2022
Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
Dead Boy Detectives
Steve Yockey · 2024
Two teen ghosts work alongside a clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele — until a powerful witch complicates their plans.
not british but somehow it fits in my head
Locke & Key
Meredith Averill, Aron Eli Coleite, Carlton Cuse · 2020
Gdy ojciec trójki rodzeństwa zostaje zabity, dzieci przeprowadzają się z matką do jego rodzinnego domu pełnego kluczy otwierających drzwi do mrocznych tajemnic.
The Order
Dennis Heaton, Shelley Eriksen · 2019
Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.
The Magicians
Sera Gamble · 2015
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.
Shadow and Bone
Eric Heisserer · 2021
In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.
Nancy Drew
Noga Landau, Stephanie Savage · 2019
Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.
The Midnight Club
Mike Flanagan, Leah Fong · 2022 (it’s not in england but it has the vibes most of these do and belongs in my heart)
En un hogar para jóvenes enfermos terminales, los miembros de un club exclusivo hacen un pacto: el primero en morir debe enviar una señal desde el más allá.
victorian age-ish
The Law According to Lidia Poët
Guido Iuculano, Davide Orsini · 2023
In late 19th-century Turin, the young Lidia Poët, fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers. A profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.
Jane Eyre
Cary Joji Fukunaga · 2011
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Corpse Bride
Mike Johnson · 2005
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Dorian Gray
Oliver Parker · 2009
Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) es un joven aristócrata muy atractivo que, después de haber pasado una solitaria adolescencia en el campo, regresa a Londres, donde ha heredado una mansión. Atraído por la vida nocturna, se sumerge en ella de la mano de Lord Henry Wottom (Colin Firth), que lo conduce a los antros más recónditos y sórdidos de la ciudad. Al joven le fascina el estilo de vida decadente y amoral de Wotton. Por otra parte, su obsesión por alcanzar la eterna juventud lo impulsa a hacer un pacto diabólico: él se mantendrá siempre joven, pero las huellas del paso del tiempo y de sus terribles delitos, es decir, su degradación física y moral se reflejarán en un retrato que le ha hecho su amigo el pintor Basil Hallward (Ben Chaplin).
The Alienist
Cary Joji Fukunaga · 2018
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
Enola Holmes 2
Harry Bradbeer · 2022
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends — and Sherlock himself — to unravel.
Enola Holmes
Harry Bradbeer · 2020
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
The Irregulars
Tom Bidwell · 2021
In Victorian London, a gang of troubled street teens are manipulated into solving crimes for the sinister Doctor Watson and his mysterious business partner, the elusive Sherlock Holmes. As the crimes take on a horrifying supernatural edge and a dark power emerges, it'll be up to the Irregulars to come together to save not only London but the entire world.
older than victorian
The Other Boleyn Girl
Justin Chadwick · 2008
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Pride and Prejudice
1995
Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
The King
David Michôd · 2019
England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Shonda Rhimes · 2023
The story of how the young Queen Charlotte’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton.
Bridgerton
Chris Van Dusen · 2020
Los ocho entrañables hermanos de la familia Bridgerton buscan el amor y la felicidad en la alta sociedad londinense.
