Favourite British Films
 

Just looking through my dvds and i noticed that a lot of them are filmed in this country, we may not have the money to spend on big films that America have but we've certainly come up with some bloody good ones

here's a few of my favourites


The Krays
Kes
Scum
Harry Potter
Lock Stock
Trainspotting
Football Factory
Green Street
Withnail and I
Rita, Sue and Bob too (very cringeworthy i know)

what are some of your favourite old/new British films?

My choice of films aren't exactly great but are what i like, not everyones cup of tea, but hey ho, wouldn't be right us all being the same would it

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Anything with John Mills.

One thing I noticed about his films is it was a bit like real life, in his earlier ones he was a common seaman/squaddie/airman, towards the end of the 2wII he was upgraded to officer class and above. Proper promotion without having to dodge the real bullets and comparatively getting a really good wage.

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For me it has to be

Royal Flash

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Brassed Off with the excellent Pete Postlethwaite.

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Quadrophenia and anything with Danny Dyer in.

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Dead mans shoes is pretty much my fave British film.

others

Monty Python- Holy grail/Life of brian
28 days later
Kes
Nature of the beast(for local nostalgia(haven't seen it since broadcast)
Layer cake(book is better)

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think my favourite British film is who dares wins about the SAS

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I'll go with Quadrophenia and Layer Cake too, there's so many, just love British films

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You forgot Whistle down the wind filmed round Clitheroe, I enjoyed Layer Cake too. Sexy Beast was good as well for Brit Gangster movies.

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The Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
Get Carter
The Wicker Man
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Italian Job
Sleuth (not the remake)
And of Christopher Lee's Dracula's most of his Hammer Horrors as well and if Peter Cushing was in them, so much the better.
Early Hitchcock
Anything by the Pythons
Most of the others already listed

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I forgot Stanley Kubrick,
The Shinning
Dr Stranglove
Clockwork Orange
And
Full Metal Jacket

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This is England
Trainspotting
Lock Stock
Submarine
Shaun of the Dead
Goldfinger
A Clockwork Orange
Hunger
Control
24 hour party people

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Absolutely love Whistle Down The Wind & of course The Full Monty but a favourite is one called Jimmy Grimble, about a little lad who dreams of playing for Man City - always brings a smile that one

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The Railway Children

...and anything else with Jenny Agutter in...!!!

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Oi! I spotted her first!

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Billy Elliot

Thinking further on this subject I am changing my vote to Watership Down.

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never seen it, never been into soppy films

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Well worth watching with a four year old, nothing better than trying to calm them down for months later when someone plays the theme tune on a juke box, the child is taken back to the horrors of dead bunnies.

You couldn't have paid enough for the memories of a more lasting Cinema visit!
:p

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poor Roy lol

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Does she do tiling as well ? :D

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Not Roy, he wasn't old enough, it was one of his cousins.
:)

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For some reason, I too have fantasized about that lady, though it never involved grouting!

Oh no, I'll have to go and calm down again, memories can be so hard!
WALKABOUT Trailer (1971) - The Criterion Collection - YouTube

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You know I would happily become a werewolf, if she would nurse me better

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This wierdwolf malarkey is overrated if you ask me, far to many bad hair days, ripping yer pants of a full moon & having to worry about fleas, hardpad & mange.

Just give your head a bang & ask her to stroke it better ! Does it for me ;) :D

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Not keen on her in Call the Midwife, though - the nun thing doesn't do it for me...!!!

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saturday night,sunday morning
lavender hill mob
long good friday
room for romeo brass
dead mans shoes
pretty much an endless list when you think about it.
while we`re on the subject,has nature of the beast ever been released to the public?

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Good list Scoot, I would add "Get Carter" and "The Family Way"

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Anything with Margartet Rutherford, Alastair Sim or Joyce Grenfell.

The Happiest Days of Your Life - the pinnacle of British comedy.

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has anyone mentioned the Carry On films?
Some of those where made in this country and still make me laugh even though i've watched them several times

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Kind Hearts and Coronets...Alec Guinness playing all the D'ascoynes..'I shot an arrow in the air, and she came down in Berkeley Square'

Can still remember loving this kind of stuff on Sunday afternoons on BBC in the sixties...

Will Hay - Visiting Harbotle's dad (from "Ask A Policeman") - YouTube

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brassed off, which also has good memories of watching it on the coach during an orchestra trip to germany "its a bloody euphonium" bein shouted by the brass section :)

clockwork orange
quadrophenia is my husbands favourite, im sick of it tho lol

trying to think of more...

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a night to remember 1958 starring kenneth more

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I wouldn't call it a soppy film myself. I consider films that have Hugh Grant etc to be soppy. Its not that I ain't got a sentimental side that having a lack of means that I can't appreciate A romance film. But they are so unrealistic that they are mostly unbearable :)

The last film I was berated for by a friend for watching for being 'soppy ' was 8 pounds with Will Smith. Which I will admit is one that pulls the strings. :D

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For us older ones--How about Hobsons Choice with Charles Laughton and John Mills? Proper old Lancashire story.I like it anyway!!!

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My Beautiful Laundrette - mid 80's indie film one of first made by Channel 4's "Film 4" - filmed in laundrette I've used near where I live.

Daniel Day Lewis as Johnny in "My Beautiful Laundrette" 1985 - YouTube

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More Jenny.....
Logan's Run (1976 film) Party at Logan's - YouTube

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...one of my fave films!

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used to love watching the old will hay films n st trinians
but enjoy loads of british movies
what about Excalibur one of my favs