Greatest British films ever?

Question

Please list as many as you like :)

Answer 1

The Long Good Friday

Answer 2

Whisky Galore
Local Hero
The Long Good Friday
Get Carter
The Italian Job
The Ladykillers
Kind Hearts & Coronets
Brief Encounter
Gandhi
Lawrence of Arabia
Ice Cold in Alex
633 Squadron
Dam Busters
Brighton Rock
10 Rillington Place

I haven't even scratched the surface

Answer 3

Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, in fact, pretty much all of David Lean's films, The Great Escape, Ghandi, pretty much any Attenborough Brothers film...The "Carry on..." films, the James Bond films with Sean Connery, Breaker Morant, lots more!

Answer 4

It depends on whether The Great Dictator, starring Charles Chaplin, is an American film. In spite of where it was filmed, I consider to be an English product. The best of England!

Answer 5

Well the first and most obvious one for me is James Bond. Then
1.Dads Army
2.Hot Fuzz
3.Shaun Of The Dead
4.Austin Powers
5.Layer Cake
6.Wallace and Gromit
7.Monty Python ( Life Of Brian )
8.Italain Job

Answer 6

I love Tiger Bay and more recently Brassed Off which is such a great British film in so many ways.

Answer 7

If, starring Malcolm McDowell.

Some recent decent movies. Trainspotting, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, I'll Sleep When I am Dead, Layer Cake.

Answer 8

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake, The Krays, Sexy Beast, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Gangster No. 1, Snatch, B.U.S.T.E.D.(aka Everybody Loves Sunshine).

Answer 9

properly it relies upon, for the reason which you are able to bypass physique of artwork or somebody that replaced the way human beings make movies... if i bypass with the latter, i might say Orson Wells His superb action picture - Citizen Kane This action picture had an rather complicated time of seeing the sunshine of day via fact it became supposedly approximately.. no, it became approximately William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnet that invented yellow journalism. Plus, Wells used low to extreme digicam angles, which weren't getting used earlier hand. maximum folk filmed at present on, yet Wells wished to make his important character seem larger than existence. The deep-concentration pictures, long takes, flashbacks, lights and weird and wonderful digicam angles are lauded for arising a "new vocabulary" in action picture. He extensively utilized severe digicam angles in his action picture "The 0.33 guy". He might shoot on a slant which made the floor seem slanted, (duh) and it became in no way executed earlier. This had complication some critcs on the time, yet this form of filming grew to become further and added frequently going on with different administrators. Wells became beforehand of his time (in my opinion) and that i think of, what if he became alive immediately and making use of the flaws that administrators and action picture makers have at their disposal, what movies would desire to he make. yet having mentioned that, understanding Welles, he might have invented something new. He became a pioneer and this, in my opinion, makes hime the wonderful action picture director ever.

Answer 10

I don't know if this is british, but I liked 28 days and weeks later.