Good British Movies?

[The waveguide]

I was discussing with my friends movies and then we found ourselves looking hard into any good British movies. We came up with those:

Trainspotting
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Monty Pythons

Any other good British movies out there?

 

[Kenny Shovel]

One of the biggest difficulties in answering your question is working out exactly what is a 'British film', as so many people involved in the film industry here (both in front and behind the camera) go and work in Hollywood. At the same time many of the big blockbuster Hollywood films were actually made in Britain, with a mainly British crew. So are Hitchcock's films British? Or just the ones he made before moving to America? What about Kubrick? Is 'A Clockwork Orange' British but 'Full Metal Jacket' American?

Anyway here are a couple of links that might help you:

British film Institute 100 favourite fims - http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/bfi100/

BBC Summer of British film -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/about/

The BBC site includes details about a documentary series currently being shown:

Thrillers: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/documentary/thriller.shtml
Romance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/documentary/romance.shtml
Social Realism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/documentary/social_realism.shtml
Costume Drama: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/documentary/costume_drama.shtml
Horror: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/documentary/horror.shtml
War: http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/documentary/war.shtml
Comedy (no real details on page yet as this episode is yet to be shown): http://www.bbc.co.uk/britishfilm/summer/comedy.shtml

Regards,

K_S

 

[sparkchaser]

I was discussing with my friends movies and then we found ourselves looking hard into any good British movies. We came up with those:

Trainspotting
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Monty Pythons

Any other good British movies out there?

I thought Snatch was much, much better than Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

 

[letterHead]

Withnail and I, Brassed Off, Bend It Like Beckham, Calendar Girls, Dr Strangelove, A Fish Called Wanda, Guest House Paradiso, Quadrophenia, Shooting Fish, the Comic Strip series such as Five Go Mad in Dorset, Supergrass, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door etc.

 

[whats a book?]

tristram shandy was really good

 

[Enya]

I like them

I like British films, thanks for bringing that up and for all the web sites recommended.
I liked Billy Eliot and Little Voice.and many others...Are Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations British?

 

[Litany]

Carry on Camping.

 

[Flor]

Children of Men (2006)

 

[roddglenn]

Dog Soldiers
Severence
28 Days Later (and 28 Weeks Later, although that was mainly US funded)
Last King of Scotland
Enduring Love
Casino Royale
Get Carter
The Italian Job
The Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
The Wild Geese

To name just a few off the top of my head. We've made some absolutely corking films over the years.