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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Well i watched a great british film at the weekend called ' Wild Bill '
Have to say it was gritty, emotional and very true to life !! Highly recommended !!
Anyone got any other good british films ??  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Withnail and I is brilliant film
Classic line from richard e grant....
" you can shove it up your arse for nothing and fuck off while your doing it "
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Company of Wolves
Shallow Grave
Trainspotting
Sliding Doors
Also, Batman and alot of Star Wars was filmed in the UK, so these could almost count too."
Great movies!!!
Add in Human Traffic, 24 Hr party people and kevin and perry go large |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Company of wolves is one messed up film but good lol !!!
Who dares wins is a good film especially the final sequence ( bit dated now though )
Also Layer cake and Sexy beast are another 2 great films |
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Glad some of you like Company of Wolves - I love the mysterious, darker flickerings, allegorical as well as the more blatant incredibly well produced and acted films. Is it more of a film for the feminine? |
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28 Days Later, very haunting, and creepy when it's all abandoned..... Or so you think.
Also would of said 28 weeks later but that's got Americans in that mainly so not sure if can class it as British.
The Bank Job. |
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"24 hour party people
Dead mans shoes
Zulu
School for Scoundrels
A Room for Romeo Brass
Mona Lisa
Get Carter
The Lady killers
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
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School for Scoundrels..Saturday night and Sunday morning..Total classics |
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So many as I prefer British (and other European) films to American ones on the whole....
Local Hero
Chariots of Fire
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Bend It Like Beckham
Shallow Grave
Gregory's Girl
Comfort and Joy
Time Bandits
Life of Brian
Jabberwocky
Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
Morvern Callar
Red Road
Acid House
A Life Less Ordinary
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Full Monty
Sexy Beast
Mary Poppins
Ealing comedies and lots with Alastair Sim, Peter Sellars and Norman Wisdom in them...original St Trinian's
Chitty Chitty Gang Bang! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I really enjoyed "Wild Bill" watched it about 2 weeks ago Dexter Fletcher's directorial debut and a really good film
others...hmm
Bonded by Blood
Rise of the Footsoldier
Room for Romeo Brass
Dead Man's Shoes
Outlaw
Goodbye Charlie Bright
Adulthood
Kidulthood
Age Of Heroes
Clubbed
South West 9
Dead Man Running
Gangster No.1
Dog Soldiers
I.D.
Cass
Neds
many more...British films are great! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Passport to Pimlico
This Happy Breed
A Light Still Burns
Blyth Spirit
Brief Encounter
iv acted in the stage play of all these films except brief encounter,happy days"
Really? What part did you play in This Happy Breed???
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Any list I put up will have glaring omissions, but here goes...
A matter of life and death
Went the day well
This Happy Breed
The Blue Lamp
Brighton Rock
The Long Arm
Black Narcissus
Victim
The Servant
Lawrence of Arabia
Loneliness of the long distance runner
Kes
The Italian Job
Local Hero
If...
The Wicker Man
The Crying Game
Quadrophenia
Where's Barry Norman when you need him?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can't believe no one has mentioned:
THE ITALIAN JOB !!!!!!
(the proper one not the daft amercian version)
What a classic !!
Oh and Quadrophenia"
I mentioned both of them smart arse that I am....
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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A few more that havent been mentioned .....
Flash Gordon ( superb )
Children of Men
The Man who fell to earth ( excellent )
The boys from brazil
Monsters ( Highly underated great film )
Seems us brits really know how to make great movies !! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Cant believe no one mentioned Twin Town, proberly one of the funniest British movies ever made "
Ha ha ha thats a great film love the bit in t he car with the old lady buying her drugs !! And when they hijack the ice cream van and sell that guy the hot dog with mushrooms on lmfao !!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cant believe no one mentioned Twin Town, proberly one of the funniest British movies ever made
Ha ha ha thats a great film love the bit in t he car with the old lady buying her drugs !! And when they hijack the ice cream van and sell that guy the hot dog with mushrooms on lmfao !!! "
Its a classic i think |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cant believe no one mentioned Twin Town, proberly one of the funniest British movies ever made "
Forgot all about that movie sooo funny , is 51st state a british movie loads of brits init great movie to |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Cant believe no one mentioned Twin Town, proberly one of the funniest British movies ever made
Forgot all about that movie sooo funny , is 51st state a british movie loads of brits init great movie to "
Its canadian/british and yeh it is a good film |
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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago
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"Passport to Pimlico
This Happy Breed
A Light Still Burns
Blyth Spirit
Brief Encounter
iv acted in the stage play of all these films except brief encounter,happy days
Really? What part did you play in This Happy Breed???
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Queenie Gibbons,she was the eldest daughter i think,she ran away to France with a Married Man,i have never to this day seen the film,but it was fun doing the play |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"gangster no1.
the lenny taylor hit.
a masterpiece."
Its your typical rocky/kung fu fan film where you come out of the flix pretending its you. Poor mans rocky at best.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Passport to Pimlico
This Happy Breed
A Light Still Burns
Blyth Spirit
Brief Encounter
iv acted in the stage play of all these films except brief encounter,happy days
Really? What part did you play in This Happy Breed???
Queenie Gibbons,she was the eldest daughter i think,she ran away to France with a Married Man,i have never to this day seen the film,but it was fun doing the play "
Wonderful! Queenie is one of my favourite characters - don't know if you know, but it is suggested that Lennon and McCartney based the track 'She's leaving home' on Sgt Peppers on the character of Queenie after seeing the film one rainy afternoon. It's repeated quite often on C4 and Film4 and it's a genuine British classic from the tail end of WW2.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Long good Friday Vs Get Carter
Trainspotting Or The Acid house
Although Rob Roy is always good to see, highlander is too cheesy
Sure there are a few fab folk, been on the big screen either conversing with lord Roberts or fighting the english at Bannockburn.. |
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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago
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"Long good Friday Vs Get Carter
Trainspotting Or The Acid house
Although Rob Roy is always good to see, highlander is too cheesy
Sure there are a few fab folk, been on the big screen either conversing with lord Roberts or fighting the english at Bannockburn.."
Tim Roth is fab in Rob Roy |
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Can't believe Withnail & I has only received one mention!!
Anyway, that, The Wicker Man (the original, of course), 28 Days Later, This Is England... and is Shaun of the Dead technically British? If so, that too! |
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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago
from a town near you |
"Passport to Pimlico
This Happy Breed
A Light Still Burns
Blyth Spirit
Brief Encounter
iv acted in the stage play of all these films except brief encounter,happy days
Really? What part did you play in This Happy Breed???
Queenie Gibbons,she was the eldest daughter i think,she ran away to France with a Married Man,i have never to this day seen the film,but it was fun doing the play
Wonderful! Queenie is one of my favourite characters - don't know if you know, but it is suggested that Lennon and McCartney based the track 'She's leaving home' on Sgt Peppers on the character of Queenie after seeing the film one rainy afternoon. It's repeated quite often on C4 and Film4 and it's a genuine British classic from the tail end of WW2.
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do you remember spring and port wine,theres a scene in the kitchen where the daughter refuses to eat the kippers,we had about 45 seconds between scenes to clear and redo the set,i remember we had the kippers keeping warm in a flask,we used the same ones all week,they didnt half pong by the end of the week |
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By *ucky_LadsCouple (MM)
over a year ago
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"Full metal jacket was filmed in england on an old RAF base"
a lot was also filmed in beckton gas works in east end of london!,i was working on isle of dogs construction site just after full metal jacket hsd ben filmed and was told cabout the limehouse studio there and how loads of palm trees being taken to beckton for the filming. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Passport to Pimlico
This Happy Breed
A Light Still Burns
Blyth Spirit
Brief Encounter
iv acted in the stage play of all these films except brief encounter,happy days
Really? What part did you play in This Happy Breed???
Queenie Gibbons,she was the eldest daughter i think,she ran away to France with a Married Man,i have never to this day seen the film,but it was fun doing the play
Wonderful! Queenie is one of my favourite characters - don't know if you know, but it is suggested that Lennon and McCartney based the track 'She's leaving home' on Sgt Peppers on the character of Queenie after seeing the film one rainy afternoon. It's repeated quite often on C4 and Film4 and it's a genuine British classic from the tail end of WW2.
do you remember spring and port wine,theres a scene in the kitchen where the daughter refuses to eat the kippers,we had about 45 seconds between scenes to clear and redo the set,i remember we had the kippers keeping warm in a flask,we used the same ones all week,they didnt half pong by the end of the week "
Ha ha! No, never seen Spring and Port Wine, but feel a little search on Amazon will be on the cards.....
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Random harvest
The early StTrinians
Miss Marple with the only true marple Margaret Rutherford
The original Italian job
Zulu
School for scoundrels
Rebecca
Dam busters
Sherlock Holmes ' Basil Rathbone'
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Hill
Entertaining Mr Sloane
Prick up your Ears
East is East
Ladybird Ladybird
Trainspotting
Rita, Sue and Bob too
The Killing of Sister George
Scandal |
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"Well i watched a great british film at the weekend called ' Wild Bill '
Have to say it was gritty, emotional and very true to life !! Highly recommended !!
Anyone got any other good british films ?? "
I thought the very last line in it was sweet, deep and clever.... but generally disappointed at the film being a bit slow, lacking in grit and missing the chance for some of that oh so clever british dark humour.
Snatch is one of my all time favourite films.
Hard Boiled Sweets was OK.
Rock N Rolla.... you don't get to see Gerard Butler smooching with Tom Hardy in many films, so it's worth it just for that.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Watched Cleanskin last night !! Sean Bean stars with charlotte rampling also.
Really good film, all about suicide bombers in london but a very good story and gives you both perspectives.
Great ending with a good twist too well worth seeing !! |
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