Your Top Three British Films

[Govinda Tim]

Wee Man
The Lavender Hill Gang
Life Of Brian

 

[half time scores]

Ice cold in Alice
Snatch
The Great Escape
Anything with Margaret Rutherford in...

Who's Alice, not seen that one.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Quadrophenia
Blow Up
Tommy

 

[Acker79]

Ice cold in Alice
Snatch
The Great Escape
Anything with Margaret Rutherford in...

one of those is an American made film

And one of them doesn't exist.

(It's Ice Cold in Alex)

 

[arkan]

Withnail & I
Sexy Beast
Babylon

 

[Meade's Ball]

I'd definitely have Colonel Blimp in there. And probably Black Narcissus. And if we're to make it a Powell and Pressburger triple-bill, which is entirely feasible, in spite of knocking out the earlier Hitchcock fare and the usually telling Mike Leigh canon and the dark comicality of the Ealing Classics, then it'd have to be A Matter of Life and Death. The expertly intertwined phantasmagorical and emotionally rich work of P&P just about win it over. Legends.

 

[glasfryn]

Ice cold in Alex .....again
Zulu................the ultimate chanting
Man for all seasons ...................epic historic


and if I am allowed another ......1066

 

[KZNSeagull]

Ice cold in Alex .....again
Zulu................the ultimate chanting
Man for all seasons ...................epic historic


and if I am allowed another ......1066

I have yet to meet anyone who knows what the Zulu's are chanting in that film - I will find out eventually though. And maidens do not wear black underwear whilst dancing either (i believe the film crew had to go and buy several hundred pairs of knickers as the dancers all turned up traditionally (un)dressed!)

Anyway, my 3 are:

Life of Brian
Zulu
Italian Job

 

[The Large One]

The Third Man
Withnail & I
Down Terrace

 

[wunt be druv]

1. Life of Brian

2.Scum

3.Italian Job

 

[jakarta]

I'd definitely have Colonel Blimp in there. And probably Black Narcissus. And if we're to make it a Powell and Pressburger triple-bill, which is entirely feasible, in spite of knocking out the earlier Hitchcock fare and the usually telling Mike Leigh canon and the dark comicality of the Ealing Classics, then it'd have to be A Matter of Life and Death. The expertly intertwined phantasmagorical and emotionally rich work of P&P just about win it over. Legends.

Might have I Know Where I'm Going over Black Narcissus but as you say P&P are the Mutts Nuts when it comes to British Films.

A non P&P selection:

The Duellists - Ridley Scotts debut - I don't think there has ever been a more beautiful looking film about pre-arranged violence
The Third Man - Carol Reed, Graham Greene and Orson Welles get together - you would be surprised if it wasn't a Classic film
Get Carter- You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow.....

 

[GoingUp]

Sexy Beast

Essex Boys

Snatch

Honourable Mentions:
The Krays, McVicar and Get Carter...

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Shadowlands
A Matter of Life and Death
The Kings Speech

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Honourable mentions to, Barry Lyndon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Dambusters, Gladiator, Strangers on a Train, Ice Cold in Alex.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Local Hero
Genevieve
Blow-Up

PS - is A Bridge too Far a British film?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I think Philomena will be joining this list soon.

 

[Acker79]

Local Hero
Genevieve
Blow-Up

PS - is A Bridge too Far a British film?

It's a US/UK co-production (like a large percentage of the films listed in this thread)

 

[nick c]

The madness of king George is worth a watch.

 

[Bolton va va]

I'd like to replace Genevieve with Spring and Port Wine.

A fine choice, and filmed in God's country.

On a similar note, i'm surprised that there are no shouts for Mona Lisa, London to Brighton or Brighton Rock, any of which are better than "Lock Stock" imo.

 

[Boys 9d]

Land And Freedom

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

The Cruel Sea