Oh Mr Porter
If
A Matter of Life and Death
Peeping Tom
A Hard Day's Night
The Devils
Victim
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
A Taste of Honey
Went the Day Well?
The Ladykillers
Kes
I watched The Railway Children for the zillionth time recently and though I love it the naive and artless direction of Lionel Jeffries always makes me smile. Someone bends to pick some flowers and the next cut is to them in a vase on a table. But I think his strength was in the performances he got from his actors. Who could imagine anyone else in the roles of the three children? And Bernard Cribbens is just marvellous.
A Bridge Too Far
The Dam Busters
Genevieve
Hell Drivers
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A Night To Remember
The 39 Steps (1935)
Zulu
Never Let Me Go
The Deep End
Meantime
This Is England
Beautiful Thing
Fish Tank
Kes
Ratcatcher
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Nil by Mouth
Made in Britain
Submarine
Me Without You
10 Rillington Place
Oliver!
Blowup
Hope and Glory
Quadrophenia
A Place to Go
A Taste of Honey
Vera Drake
Trainspotting
Carry On at Your Convenience
Steptoe and Son/Ride Again
Ladies in Lavender
London to Brighton
Kidulthood
Nil by Mouth
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Secrets and Lies
Trainspotting
Shallow Grave
28 Days Later
Kill List
Tyronnosaur
Notes on a Scandal
Elizabeth
This is England
Fish Tank
The Wicker Man
Shallow Grave
Dead Man's Shoes
The Kill List
Layer Cake
Gangster no 1
1984 (I'm doubting whether this was British now, just always assumed it was)
A Fish Called Wanda
28 Days Later
Don't Look Now
I haven't seen many classics from pre 1970 so no place for If and Kind Hearts and others like that. By British do we just mean the nationality of the director? If so, I'd throw in Alien and Blade Runner as well.
As a bonus question - which film do you think would top the poll of best British film if it was a poll amongst students of film who had watched all the highly regarded movies stretching right back to the start? I'd guess The Third Man or maybe KHaC.
There are a lot of good films listed here so despite Truffaut's suggestion, there clearly is a British Cinema.
Heres a few others to add to the list, I don't think I saw them anywhere.
The Damned (1963, Losey)
The Servant (1963, Losey)
Bend it like Beckham (2002, Chadha)
Bhaji on the Beach (1993, Chadha) ( I used to know Gurinder)
Cal (1984, O'Connor)
That Sinking Feeling (1979, Forsyth)
Up the Junction (1968, Collinson)
Get Carter
Hobsons choice
Whistle down the wind
Scum
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A field in England
Made in Britain
Meantime
Secrets and lies
Nuts in May
Comments
If
A Matter of Life and Death
Peeping Tom
A Hard Day's Night
The Devils
Victim
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
A Taste of Honey
Went the Day Well?
The Ladykillers
Kes
Trainspotting
The 39 Steps(1935)
Made in Britain
A Rather English Marriage
Shallow Grave
Trainspotting
A Clockwork Orange
Quadrophenia
Carry On Camping
The Inbetweeners 1 and 2
The Railway Children
Oliver!
Walkabout
Nil By Mouth
Withnail and I
Kes
If we were classifying Hitchcock films as British, I'd throw Rear Window in there as well.
A Bridge Too Far
The Dam Busters
Genevieve
Hell Drivers
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
A Night To Remember
The 39 Steps (1935)
Zulu
Green street.
The Deep End
Meantime
This Is England
Beautiful Thing
Fish Tank
Kes
Ratcatcher
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Nil by Mouth
Made in Britain
Submarine
Me Without You
10 Rillington Place
Oliver!
Blowup
Hope and Glory
Quadrophenia
A Place to Go
A Taste of Honey
Vera Drake
Trainspotting
Carry On at Your Convenience
Steptoe and Son/Ride Again
Ladies in Lavender
I will also offer:
Croupier
Raining Stones
The devils
Photographing faries
Kidulthood
Nil by Mouth
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Secrets and Lies
Trainspotting
Shallow Grave
28 Days Later
Kill List
Tyronnosaur
Notes on a Scandal
Elizabeth
This is England
Fish Tank
Rocky horror
Tommy
^^^ love that movie!!! ^^^
Slumdog Millionaire
The Full Monty ;-)
Shallow Grave
Dead Man's Shoes
The Kill List
Layer Cake
Gangster no 1
1984 (I'm doubting whether this was British now, just always assumed it was)
A Fish Called Wanda
28 Days Later
Don't Look Now
I haven't seen many classics from pre 1970 so no place for If and Kind Hearts and others like that. By British do we just mean the nationality of the director? If so, I'd throw in Alien and Blade Runner as well.
As a bonus question - which film do you think would top the poll of best British film if it was a poll amongst students of film who had watched all the highly regarded movies stretching right back to the start? I'd guess The Third Man or maybe KHaC.
Heres a few others to add to the list, I don't think I saw them anywhere.
The Damned (1963, Losey)
The Servant (1963, Losey)
Bend it like Beckham (2002, Chadha)
Bhaji on the Beach (1993, Chadha) ( I used to know Gurinder)
Cal (1984, O'Connor)
That Sinking Feeling (1979, Forsyth)
Up the Junction (1968, Collinson)
Berberian Sound Studio
Peeping Tom
The red shoes
The devils
Twisted nerve
House of whipcord
Blood on satan's claw
Tales from the crypt (amacus)
The rebel
Til death us do part
Hobsons choice
Whistle down the wind
Scum
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
A field in England
Made in Britain
Meantime
Secrets and lies
Nuts in May
Gregory's Girl
Alfie (Michael Caine)
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Brief Encounter
Shirley Valentine