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Best British movies
1 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 16:23
I love British cinema so I just want to recommend some great British movies to you guys, let me know if you agree, disagree or have any recommendations of your own, here it goes here are my picks
Dead man's shoes
Rise of the footsoldier
Tyrannosaur
Sightseers
Kill list
The firm
Nil by mouth
Eden lake
This is England
Neds
Scum
Sexy beast
Bonded by blood
These are what I consider some of the best British movies to seek out, any opinions
2 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 16:27
None of those. You need to look further in the past for the best, like forties through sixties where British drama and comedy was the best in the world.
3 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 16:39
-Odd Man Out 1947
-Morning Departure 1950
-The Man Who Watched Trains Go By 1952
-The October Man 1947
-The Spy In Black 1939
-The Next Of Kin 1942
-The Queen Of Spades 1948
-Dead Of Night 1945
-The Sleeping Tiger 1954
-ST. Martin's Lane 1938
-The Scarlet Hour 1956
-None Shall Escape 1944
-Above Us The Waves 1955
-We Dive At Dawn 1943
-Angels One Five 1952
-The Runaway Bus 1954
-Escape 1948
-The Snorkel 1958
-Excalibur 1981
4 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 16:44
In addition, here are some for your delectation:
Another Sky (1954 - Gavin Lambert)
The Pumpkin Eater (1964 - Jack Clayton)
The Belly of an Architect (1987 - Peter Greenaway)
Liebestraum (1991 - Mike Figgis)
El Patrullero / Highway Patrolman (1991 - Alex Cox)
The Kreutzer Sonata (2008 - Bernard Rose)
Catch Me Daddy (2014 - Daniel Wolfe)
About Now MMX (2010 - William Raban)
Things To Come (1936 - William Cameron Menzies)
Soi Cowboy (2008 - Thomas Clay)
Walker (1987 - Alex Cox)
The Falls (1980 - Peter Greenaway)
The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2005 - Stephen & Timothy Quay)
Hunger (2008 - Steve McQueen)
High-Rise (2015 - Ben Wheatley)
The Final Programme (1973 - Robert Fuest)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999 - Stanley Kubrick)
The Reflecting Skin (1990 - Philip Ridley)
London (1994 - Patrick Keiller)
Three Businessmen (1998 - Alex Cox)
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995 - Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay)
The Passionate Friends (1949 - David Lean)
Bunny and the Bull (2009 - Paul King)
Made (1972 - John Mackenzie)
Thames Film (1986 - William Raban)
Water Wrackets (1975 - Peter Greenaway)
Penda's Fen (1974 - Alan Clarke)
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989 - Peter Greenaway)
Straight to Hell (1987 - Alex Cox)
A Canterbury Tale (1944 - Michael Powell)
Katalin Varga (2009 - Peter Strickland)
Drowning by Numbers (1988 - Peter Greenaway)
49th Parallel (1941 - Michael Powell)
The History of Mr. Polly (1949 - Anthony Pelissier)
Cluny Brown (1946 - Ernst Lubitsch)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929 - Anthony Asquith)
Following (1998 - Christopher Nolan)
The Hard Way (1979 - Michael Dryhurst)
Archipelago (2010 - Joanna Hogg)
Unrelated (2007 - Joanna Hogg)
5 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 16:52
A valuable list as always. I was wondering where Zardoz was, and was going to put it on my own list - but it's listed as an Irish/American coproduction which I wouldn't have guessed. And Boorman's other great film Point Blank is American, so he doesn't cut it for the list. Hope to finally get to The Pumpkin Eater this year, and perhaps those Joanna Hogg films. Need to see The Final Programme again, was not crazy about it initially but suspect it will improve. British weird-sf-fantasy stuff from the late 60s through the 70s in general is something I want to check out.
6 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 16:56
a resounding disagree.
5 = ok view
Dead man's shoes 5
Rise of the footsoldier 3
Tyrannosaur 5
Sightseers 4
Kill list 5
The firm ?
Nil by mouth 7
Eden lake 4
This is England 6
Neds ?
Scum 6
Sexy beast 6
Bonded by blood 4
Seen gangster no. 1 (2000)?
7 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 16:59
Yes I've seen gangster no.1 good film
8 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 17:05
You love British cinema of the last 10 years or so you mean. How could you not have Holiday on the Buses or Confessions of a Landscape Gardener.
9 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 17:15
Mike Leigh's work is excellent, especially 'Naked', 'Vera Drake' and 'Secrets & Lies'.
Also check out the work of David Lean and Ken Loach.
10 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 17:21
11 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 17:26
My favourite british films are:
Passport to Pimlico
Ask A policeman
Good Morning, Boys
Convict 99
the Lady vanishes
Q Planes
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
the Green Man
First A Girl
the halfway house
The Demi Paradise
Cottage to Let
The happiest days of Your Life
Spring in park Lane
Top Secret
Will any Gentleman?
The Constant husband
The Ladykillers
The Horse's Mouth
Private's progress
Carry on Nurse
Carry on Cabby
make Mine Mink
A hard day's Night
Help!
Hot Millions
Sebastian
carry on matron
Comfort and Joy
hope and glory
Nuns on the Run
the Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But came Down a Mountain
Rebecca's daughters
Saving Grace
12 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 17:37
From your list I've only seen "Eden Lake", which was pretty good.
"Deep End" is my favorite British film. That, and "The Innocents". brrrrr...
Also, "The Wicker Man", "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", "If...", "A Clockwork Orange", "Victim", "Odd Man Out", "Lost Language of the Cranes", "A Beautiful Thing", X, Y and Zee", "Sunday, Bloody Sunday", "Secrets and Lies", "Life is Sweet", "Twisted Nerve", "Secret Ceremony", "BOOM!"
13 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 17:46
Kes
Brighton Rock
The Devil's
Get Carter
Long Good Friday
Performance
14 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 17:50
Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
Zulu
Get Carter
Life & Death Colonel Blimp
A Matter Of Life & Death
Peeping Tom
39 Steps
Gregory's Girl
Twenty Four Seven
This Is England
Life Is Sweet
Naked
High Hopes
The Wicker Man
Bedazzled
Dog Soldiers
The Descent
Lawrence Of Arabia
Hope & Glory
Italian Job
Went The Day Well
O Lucky Man
Britannia Hospital
Moon
Kind Hearts & Coronets
The Lady Killers
To name but a (very) few
15 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 18:01
The correct answer is The Long Good Friday, the movie that made Bob Hoskins a force to be reckoned with. I only saw it for the first time after he died, but what an acting job he did in that! Blew me away, great movie.
16 Name: Anonymous : 2016-12-20 18:55
While I've only seen one of those (Sexy Beast) and so can't comment on the quality, it seems pretty limited - British cinema is far more than mostly low-rent crime films from the past 20 years. Anyway here are 66 of my favorites, chronologically:
*The Haunted Curiosity Shop (Walter R. Booth, 1901)
Underground (Anthony Asquith, 1928)
Blackmail (Alfred Hitchcock, 1929)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929)
Borderline (Kenneth MacPherson, 1930)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934)
Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies, 1936)
The Edge of the World (Michael Powell, 1939)
The Four Feathers (Zoltan Korda, 1939)
The Thief of Bagdad (Ludwig Berger/Michael Powell/Tim Whelan/others, 1940)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
A Canterbury Tale (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1944)
'I Know Where I'm Going!' (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1945)
Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1946)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
The Red Shoes (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
The Passionate Friends (David Lean, 1949)
Tales of Hoffman (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1951)
*The Stranger Left No Card (Wendy Toye, 1952)
Another Sky (Gavin Lambert, 1954)
*Free Radicals (Len Lye, 1958)
Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
*The Forgotten Faces (Peter Watkins, 1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962)
*The War Game (Mai Zetterling, 1963)
The Servant (Joseph Losey, 1963)
Zulu (Cy Endfield, 1964)
Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
Quatermass and the Pit (Roy Ward Baker, 1967)
The Sorcerers (Michael Reeves, 1967)
Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968)
Performance (Donald Cammel/Nicolas Roeg, 1969)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest, 1971)
O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson, 1973)
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam/Terry Jones, 1975)
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Winstanley (Kevin Brownlow, 1975)
*Vertical Features Remake (Peter Greenaway, 1978)
*A Walk Through H (Peter Greenaway, 1979)
*Thriller (Sally Potter, 1979)
The Falls (Peter Greenaway, 1980)
*The Snowman (Dianne Jackson, 1982)
The Plague Dogs (Martin Rosen, 1982)
The Terence Davies Trilogy (Terence Davies, 1976-83)
Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985)
Shadowlands (Norman Stone, 1985) (TV movie)
A Zed & Two Naughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
The Singing Detective (Jon Amiel, 1986) (TV miniseries)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Terry Gilliam, 1988)
Distant Voices Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988)
Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella, 1990)
Prospero's Books (Peter Greenaway, 1991)
The Long Day Closes (Terence Davies, 1992)
*The Wrong Trouserss (Nick Park, 1993)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Topsy-Turvy (Mike Leigh, 1999)
Of Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008)
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013)
Sunset Song (Terence Davies, 2015)
* short film
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