Best British Movies
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What are your favourite British Movies?
Mine are in no particular order
This is England
Snatch
Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Train spotting
Harry Potter
Lord of the rings
Severance
Eden Lake
The descent
Kidulthood/Adulthood
magdeline sisters
The commitments
Veronica Guerin
The beach
Mine are in no particular order
This is England
Snatch
Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Train spotting
Harry Potter
Lord of the rings
Severance
Eden Lake
The descent
Kidulthood/Adulthood
magdeline sisters
The commitments
Veronica Guerin
The beach
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How are they not?
J R Tolken and JK Rowling are british
because the authors didn't direct them, lol
Well I'm classing it as british anyway
not a bad film, but tarantino had nothing to do with it, probably would have been better if he was.
Clockwork orange
Carry on camping
Trainspotting
The Italian job
The ladykillers
The lavender hill mob
Kes
Snatch
Layer cake
Casino royale
Gregory's Girl
Nuts in May
harry potter is a british movie...pretty sure lotr is not though
Actors, directors, writers, crew, locations etc may all be from the UK, but the money all comes from Hollywood and I'm afraid that's what counts.
I dont know whether you are aware of it or not, but British Films were made before 1990- some were even made in that wretched black and white
Try googling Alfred Hitchcock, Carol Reed, Michael Powell, Nic Roeg and David Lean for starters. and who knows . a great new world may open up for you.
Although my two picks are both from this year, but neither feels like a British movie in the traditional 'grey-skies and dodgy wallpaper' sense that was a mark of British Films while I was growing up.
Kick Ass. I find it astonishing that this film was rejected by every major studio, only for Matthew Vaughan to fund it with the help of some rich mates and the UK film council, it looks and feels like a Hollywood blockbuster, only it's clever, funny and daring in a way that Hollywood wouldn't even attempt to be. The fact that it was made and funded entirely in the UK astounded me when I found out (long after seeing the film).
Monsters. While it's far less glossy, once again this is a film that is far greater than the sum of it's parts, and it proves that you do not need tens, even hundreds of millions of pounds to make a great film. If Avatar is Chelsea and Inception is Arsenal, then Monsters is Blackpool: entertaining, punching above it's weight and proving that buckets of cash are not always the answer to people's problems!
I thought that after reading the first post.
Which is great if you're one of the handful of people ever to have seen it in the form in which it's intened to have been shown. I've only ever read about it or heard Kermode talking about it, but it seems to make Clockwork Orange look like Mary Poppins!
Kes
Walkabout
Railway Children
Trainspotting
I'm Alright Jack
Carry on Screaming
How old are you? You have totally missed great movies like
The Long good Friday
Chariots Of Fire
Kes
Thats just 3 that are a lot better than the above. Have you never heard of Hitchcock or Ealing Comedies?
Ryan's Daughter (my fave, panned by critics. Lawrence, Zhivargo, both long and boring ........).
Brief Encounter.
Blythe Spirit.
League of Gentlemen.
Green for Danger (minor classic).
School for scoundrels.
Close My Eyes
The Crying Game.
I agree with some of the other choices such as Dog Soldiers & Snatch.
Ploughman's Lunch
I haven't seen them, I was either too young or not born,
These are The Damned (best ever Hammer FIlm - made by Sidney Lumet - including Oliver Reed).
The Way ahead. Hell Drivers (both with Bill Hartnell).
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.
Wicker Man.
The Lady Vanishes.