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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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 *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Get Carter. A classic Brit film.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Snatch is an awesome British film

This is England too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

bronson

harry brown

the killing of sister george

entertaining mr sloane

i love british films.

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Harry Brown was a bloody great film !!

I also like....

Human Traffic

Dead mans shoes

The Long good friday

Rita sue and bob too

Brazil

Nil by mouth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lavender Hill Mob

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Great Expectations

Oliver Twist (1948 version)

Just a few that springs to mind.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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 "

Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Passport to Pimlico

This Happy Breed

A Light Still Burns

Blyth Spirit

Brief Encounter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

long good Friday

anything ealing

most handmade films are watchable

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Harry Potter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kinky boots is brilliant.

I'm also partial to a bit of Wallace and gromit!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Ladykillers

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

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.

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

The Commitments

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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)
over a year ago

SNATCH!! that is soo funny hahahaha TYRONE!! lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Purely Belter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

revolver.

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By *oLfEnStEiN619Man
over a year ago

Billingham

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Kes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to love watching those old epics directed by David Lean....bridge over the river kwai and lawrence of arabia.

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By *edbagioMan
over a year ago

ripon

layer cake

28 days later

snatch

lock stock

all old war ones

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By *punkloverCouple
over a year ago

hatfield

Summer Holiday !!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Probably my favourite british film..Hope and Glory

also rock n rolla and layer cake

the life of brian

truly madly deeply

pierrepoint

a taste of honey

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville

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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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

"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

School for Scoundrels..Saturday night and Sunday morning..Total classics

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By *o Peep n WoodyCouple
over a year ago

suffolk

Hot Fuzz. my favorite brit comedy

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

Carry on films................

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Full Monty

i still laugh at the bit where their legs starts going in the dole queue when the song comes on, even after all these years

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Hot Fuzz. my favorite brit comedy

oh yeah good film, i liked run fat boy run too

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By *oantrimcpl2010Couple
over a year ago

Lisburn

Rise of the foot soldier

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Long good Friday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dancing thru the dark

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By *ushandkittyCouple
over a year ago

Gloucester

The Man who would be king

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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

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iv acted in the stage play of all these films except brief encounter,happy days

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

"Full Monty

i still laugh at the bit where their legs starts going in the dole queue when the song comes on, even after all these years

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Hey - me too! And the scene where they strip and the black guy's belt hits one of the others...;-) Priceless

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By *damandeve4funCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

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

Can't believe no one has mentioned:

THE ITALIAN JOB !!!!!!

(the proper one not the daft amercian version)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Alistair Sim in Scrooge.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

East is East

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sexy beast.

yes,yes,yes,yes.

i'll put my fucking fag out when ive finished.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

"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 *unloversCouple
over a year ago

rotherham

To many to mention

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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

"Can't believe no one has mentioned:

THE ITALIAN JOB !!!!!!

(the proper one not the daft amercian version)"

What a classic !!

Oh and Quadrophenia

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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

Anyone seen Bronson ??

Now that is a great film and Tom Hardy's acting in that is epic !!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

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)
over a year ago

Cant believe no one mentioned Twin Town, proberly one of the funniest British movies ever made

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"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)
over a year ago

"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)
over a year ago

Quadrophenia, classic film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rita sue and bob too

Carry on regardless

Zulu

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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
over a year ago

"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

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???

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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

unleashed was great starring jet li and bob hoskins...even better there was barely a glasgow accent in the film lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"unleashed was great starring jet li and bob hoskins...even better there was barely a glasgow accent in the film lol"

Great movie hun loved it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

gangster no1.

the lenny taylor hit.

a masterpiece.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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

"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

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

dirtybigbadsgirlville

"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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How can i forget The Maggie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How can i forget The Maggie

Some of the old ones often get forgotten, the Maggie, Whiskey Galore and Oh Mr Porter come to mind.

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By *northernsoulMan
over a year ago

Manchester

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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ah.... knew I'd forget an obvious one!

The Plank

Silent film made in the mid-60's with all the top comedians from Eric Sykes to Tommy Cooper et al...

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By *ichelle n big alCouple
over a year ago

Derbys

"Monty Python's Life of Brian "
holy grail a close second

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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

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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 *leasureDomeMan
over a year ago

all over the place

Most Boulting bros films,

David leans Oliver.

School for scoundrils

Classics.

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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago

Sw Scotland

"Rise of the foot soldier"

Great film!

Sexy Beast

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By *edbagioMan
over a year ago

ripon

football factory

kes)

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By *amslam1000Man
over a year ago

willenhall

Full metal jacket was filmed in england on an old RAF base

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

four lions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Kes "

One of the best films I have ever seen!!! Everytime I notice it's on tv I watch it. xx

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By *oantrimcpl2010Couple
over a year ago

Lisburn

Straw Dogs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita and of course Calendar Girls and Full Monty!!!! mmmmmmmmm naked men hehe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Has anyone mentioned scum with ray winstone?fucking brutal,and what about green street?

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

Most of the ones I was thinking of have been mentioned but a couple I've not seen listed are Slumdog Millionaire, Chariots of Fire, the Crying Game and Gosford Park.

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By *ucky_LadsCouple (MM)
over a year ago

Kidderminster+ surrounding areas.

"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

the italian job

trainspotting

the debt colletor ( i'm in it, YAY!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Italian Job stands out by a mile.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Snatch ..

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over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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

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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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trainspotting

The Loved Ones

Loot

Centurion

The Reflecting Skin

Kick Ass

Bronson

... lots more groovy films out there but off the top of me head these

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

my british film evening would consist of...

Escape to Victory....

The Italian Job....

Lock Stock and two smoking Barrels...

Shaun of the Dead....

I win!!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

50 dead men walking is a fantastic film

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"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."

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By *john121Man
over a year ago

staffs

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By *john121Man
over a year ago

staffs

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 *john121Man
over a year ago

staffs

Dog Soldiers "

Some excellent quotes

"sausages!"

"everything is bone!"

"come and av a go if you think you're hard enough!"

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By *avy1999Man
over a year ago

Manchester

"The Commitments

That'll be news to the Irish

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

"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

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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