Top rated academic movies on Acorn TV

Check out today’s highest ranked academic movies on Acorn TV! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best academic movies on Acorn TV, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Help (2021)

Sarah seems to have found her calling working in a Liverpool care home where she has a special talent for connecting with the residents. Then, in March 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic hits.

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2021-09-16 | Drama

Cast

Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.12
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    sobering
  2. Ranked #1 for
    close to home
  3. Ranked #1 for
    brilliant acting

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2 Marvellous (2014)

Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any situation overcame any stigma society tried to label him with.

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2014-09-25 | Drama / TV Movie

Cast

Toby Jones, Gemma Jones

Rating

rating icon 7.151
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #67 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #98 for
    carny ride
  3. Ranked #101 for
    great to watch with a loved one

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3 The Wipers Times (2013)

When Captain Fred Roberts discovered a printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium in 1916, he decided to publish a satirical magazine called The Wipers Times - "Wipers" being army slang for Ypres. Full of gallows humour, The Wipers Times was poignant, subversive and very funny. Produced literally under enemy fire and defying both authority and gas attacks, the magazine proved a huge success with the troops on the western front. It was, above all, a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity. In his spare time, Roberts also managed to win the Military Cross for gallantry.

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2013-09-11 | Comedy / War

Cast

Ben Chaplin, Julian Rhind-Tutt

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #151 for
    sepia tone
  2. Ranked #155 for
    tragicomic
  3. Ranked #192 for
    lack of talent

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4 The Way Back (2010)

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.

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2010-11-22 | Drama / Adventure

Cast

Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #107 for
    cruel twist
  2. Ranked #123 for
    realistic portrayal
  3. Ranked #152 for
    perilous journey

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5 Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery (2013)

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team arrive in Three Pines to solve the unusual murder of a much-loved woman and find dark secrets shadowing this usually peaceful village.

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2013-09-15 | Mystery / TV Movie

Cast

Nathaniel Parker, Anthony Lemke

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #103 for
    odd casting
  2. Ranked #318 for
    husky voice
  3. Ranked #402 for
    testy

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6 Wreckers (2011)

A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.

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2011-12-16 | Drama

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy

Rating

rating icon 5.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    good girl
  2. Ranked #73 for
    wayward
  3. Ranked #104 for
    ramshackle house

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7 The Silence (2006)

A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.

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2006-09-08 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Richard Roxburgh, Essie Davis

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #328 for
    discontent character
  2. Ranked #482 for
    wall to wall
  3. Ranked #485 for
    complex character

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8 The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin

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1982-11-09 | Action / Drama

Cast

Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #62 for
    swashbuckler
  2. Ranked #75 for
    fey
  3. Ranked #78 for
    like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Trailer

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9 Care (2018)

Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.

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2018-12-09 | Drama / TV Movie

Cast

Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman

Rating

rating icon 6.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #520 for
    applauded ending
  2. Ranked #616 for
    most accurate depiction
  3. Ranked #667 for
    burnish

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10 Golden Years (2016)

Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.

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2016-04-29 | Crime / Comedy

Cast

Bernard Hill, Virginia McKenna

Rating

rating icon 6.412
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #255 for
    raising chuckles
  2. Ranked #329 for
    light fare
  3. Ranked #480 for
    sadly underused

Trailer

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