Question:
Okay I like British Movies.?
anonyomous
2008-02-11 22:17:12 UTC
I want to know some good british movies beside these
Shaun of Dead, hot fuzz, the queen, harry potter, casino royale, this is england, rise of the footsoldier, run fat boy run etc.

Any good movies besides these?
23 answers:
csi83
2008-02-11 23:06:09 UTC
James Bond movies

About a Boy

Sense & Sensibility

Monty Python & The Holy Grail

A Clockwork Orange

Love Actually

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Bridget Jones's Diary

Shakespeare in Love

Elizabeth

Notting Hill

Dr. Strangelove

Trainspotting

Brighton Rock

Get Carter

The Full Monty

Oliver Twist

The English Patient

The Killing Fields

Black Narcissus
2008-02-11 22:28:09 UTC
Hi,

Here are a few from a british top 100 list at

http://www.britishpictures.com/:



1 The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)

2 Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)

3 Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)

4 The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)

5 Great Expectations (1946, David Lean)

6 Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer)

7 Kes (1969 Ken Loach)

8 Don't Look Now (1973, Nicolas Roeg)

9 The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

10 Trainspotting (1996, Danny Boyle)

11 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, David Lean)

12 If... (1968, Lindsay Anderson)

13 The Ladykillers (1955, Alexander Mackendrick)

14 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960, Karel Reisz)

15 Brighton Rock (1947, John Boulting)

16 Get Carter (1971, Mike Hodges)

17 The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, Charles Crichton)

18 Henry V (1944, Laurence Olivier)

19 Chariots of Fire (1981, Hugh Hudson)

20 A Matter of Life and Death (1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger)

21 The Long Good Friday (1980, John Mackenzie)

22 The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey)

23 Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, Mike Newell)

24 Whisky Galore! (1949, Alexander Mackendrick)

25 The Full Monty (1997, Peter Cattaneo)



For 75 more great british movies, here is the link to the site I got these from:

http://www.britishpictures.com/articles/BFI100.htm



Good luck!

Hope this has helped.
MystMoonstruck
2008-02-12 00:57:51 UTC
I've been a film fan practically since birth and have gathered many favorites since the Fifties. I tried to whittle down my list as much as possible, believe it or not!

if.....

Tess

Help!

Oliver!

Tommy

Trauma

Miranda

Maurice

Lord Jim

Tiger Bay

Billy Budd

Lady Jane

Walkabout

Georgy Girl

Wonderwall

The Gorgon

High Spirits

My Left Foot

About a Boy

Performance

Barry Lyndon

The Collector

Elephant Boy

The Innocents

Flash Gordon

Stage Beauty

Educating Rita

Stealing Beauty

Half a Sixpence

The Long Ships

Don't Look Now

Mad About Men

The Hasty Heart

Black Narcissus

The Family Way

The Little Prince

Velvet Goldmine

Watership Down

The Sundowners

The Go-Between

To Sir, With Love

The Crying Game

The Lion in Winter

Tom Jones (1963)

Fire Over England

The Elephant Man

A Hard Day's Night

So Long at the Fair

Never, Never Land

The African Queen

A Passage to India

Blowup aka Blow Up

Shakespeare in Love

A Fish Called Wanda

The Drum aka Drums

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Scrooge~Alastair Sim

Scrooge~the musical!

No Highway in the Sky

That Hamilton Woman

The Divorce of Lady X

Straight on Till Morning

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Whistle Down the Wind

The Looking Glass War

My Beautiful Laundrette

FairyTale: A True Story

The MatchMaker (1997)

Kind Hearts & Coronets

84 Charing Cross Road

The Mouse That Roared

The Mouse on the Moon

A High Wind in Jamaica

The Company of Wolves

The Comfort of Strangers

The Wicker Man (original)

The Watcher in the Woods

The Wicked Lady (remake)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Anne of the Thousand Days

The Private Life of Henry VIII

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Man Who Would Be King

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Three Lives of Thomasina

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (both versions)

The Man Who Could Work Miracles

Burn, Witch, Burn! aka Night of the Eagle

Night of the Demon aka Curse of the Demon

Jason & the Argonauts (original), Mysterious Island (1960), First Men in the Moon, and other Ray Harryhausen films, including the Sinbad movies

Dracula~Prince of Darkness and other Hammer horror films, as well as Amicus!

James Bond films of course!
Zheia
2008-02-11 22:31:43 UTC
Carry On Screaming.

The Long Good Friday.

Lair Of The White Worm.

Quatermass And The Pit.

A Night To Remember.
not Stidge again
2008-02-12 04:27:57 UTC
Some of my favourites are:



Going Off Big TIme

Trainspotting

Snatch

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells

Gangster No. 1

Twin Town

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Life of Brian

51st State

The Full Monty

Sexy Beast
?
2008-02-11 23:02:45 UTC
Try the Dambusters, Passport to Pimlico, The Lady Killers This Sporting Life, Saturday night and Sunday Morning, Kes,

King Hearts and Coronets and many more. Try also the Classic Carry on Films eg Carry on Camping, Screaming, Nurse and Doctor
2008-02-12 00:14:39 UTC
Mrs Henderson Presents

Blackball
Stu T
2008-02-11 22:54:30 UTC
Thre are loads of good British movies, as well as the ones that others have mentioned try "Withnail and I "(an absolute classic) "How To Get A Head In Advertising", "Face", "Human Traffic", "The Trench", The Business", "Sexy Beast" and for the kids "Watership Down"
cfreyja23
2008-02-11 22:25:07 UTC
Layer cake, Snatch, Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels, Trainspotting, the Monty Python movies, Croupier
2008-02-11 22:27:28 UTC
Get Carter

The Long Good Friday

both oldish but really good British type gangster films



The Ladykillers

Kind Hearts and Coronets
?
2016-10-07 12:36:39 UTC
to boot to the different listings: the Bond movies the shop on movies To Sir with Love Up the Junction Kes Quadraphenia Brighton Rock Tommy Clockwork Orange Trainspotting the entire Monty Withnail and that i Ryan's Daughter Little Voice
moonlillyhorizon
2008-02-11 23:10:34 UTC
The Krays , Gangster # 1, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells, B.U.S.T.E.D. , District B13 ( Its French. But well worth it, it has non stop action ) , The Mother , The Swimming Pool .
camel herder
2008-02-11 23:12:05 UTC
One of the very best British Films is Ice Cold in Alex. Although the majority of films that came out of the ealing studio are pretty good.
Experto Credo
2008-02-11 22:23:20 UTC
Go back to earlier times



passport to pimlico

Tight Little Island

Kind hearts and Coronets

One of Our Aircraft is Missing

the Hill
varsityfoosball
2008-02-11 22:23:33 UTC
the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. monty python and the holy grail. Greenstreet Hoolagains.
Henry & Carryn A
2008-02-13 04:33:14 UTC
Try



"Saving Grace"



A movie which made me smile throughout and even LOL once or twice.





Cheers
Baz G
2008-02-11 23:28:02 UTC
lock,stock and two smoking barrels, snatch,human traffic,mischief night,twin town,severance,the football factory, green street hooligans,the business,mean machine,the firm.
2008-02-11 22:37:31 UTC
On the busses
2008-02-12 11:10:34 UTC
10 rillington place ,rita sue and bob too
manicdetroiter
2008-02-11 22:25:39 UTC
snatch, lock stock and 2 smoking barrells
2008-02-12 09:59:21 UTC
A FISH CALLED WANDA...



i just couldnt stop laughing! watch it !
notgnal
2008-02-11 22:48:41 UTC
we call them films
2008-02-11 23:01:57 UTC
Snatch


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