Hollywood is good at block busters, of course but the British film industry produces great films as well often with much more depth than their US cousins, frequently concentrating on character portrayal and development, often pulling at ones emotions, sometimes gritty but never dull and occasionally groundbreaking.
What are everyone’s favourites?
A few suggestions, in no particular order.
The Full Monty
Get Carter
Funeral in Berlin
The Italian Job
The Debt Collector
Still Crazy
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Finding Your Feet
Educating Rita
Trainspotting
Shallow Grave
Brazil
If
1917
Dunkirk
Darkest Hour
I, Daniel Blake
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Withnail and I
Good to see “If” on your list. I was at grammar school when it was first shown on TV, and at morning assembly the headmaster said in front of some 600 of us, and I quote " Boys, there is a film on television tonight and I forbid each and everyone of you to watch it"
Where eagles dare (persuaded my dad - quite easily, to take me to see it when it first came out, it was a school night and my mum went apeshit, but we still went)
Sink the Bismark
A clockwork orange
The devil’s
Goldeneye (and Skyfall)
Lots of those mentioned but 2 stand out above all the others, for the action but also for the humour, with a delicious ironic tinge.
The Italian Job (the original, can’t bring myself to watch the newer one)
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, for the same 2 reasons.
Both Michael Caine and Vinny Jones are marvelous and head and shoulders above all others.
Alfie too, another great, always had a crush on Jane Asher and the scene of the fight in the pub with the wonderful Queenie Watts belting out her song with chairs and glasses, not to mention bodies, flying all around her. Absolutely hilarious.
