TOTP - Top Ten British Films Of All Time
The wonderful Billy knows his movies - he has kindly compiled his list of the greatest British films of all time. We've been racking our brains trying to work out which ones we have missed out - share with everyone on our comments board what you think the best British films were:-
- 10 - The 39 Steps
- 9 - Trainspotting
- 8 - The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and her Lover
- 7 - If....
- 6 - Don't Look Now
- 5 - Withnail and I
- 4 - The Ipcress File
- 3 - Scum
- 2 - Brief Encounter
- 1 - The Third Man
8 comments:
Quality list. Rob, you must watch The Third Man, my favourite movie of all time. It's no. 43 on the IMDB top 250 which isn't bad for a small British film made in 1949.
The best film missing from the list - Monty Python's Life of Brian.
Also Robert Powell is a proper film star, he was also in the Italian Job after all. Although his 39 steps remake was made in 1978 - hardly recent. But he did do a TV series in the late 80's called Hannay which was also based on the Buchan novel
You have to watch the Third Man and Brief Encounter! When I become supremee overlord it will be compulsory, so you might as well get cracking now.... ;-)
Billy.
I may also become simply "supreme" overlord, though I may make the extra "e" compulsory also to cover my error..... ;-)
Billy.
I'd say The Ladykillers (Alec Guinness etc) ought to be up there with the best of them - the old Ealing comedies may belong to a long bygone age, but some of them were real crackers, like Passport to Pimlico - anyone remember that one?
5 Films with twists
5. Beautiful mind
4. unbreakable
3. sixth sense
2. usual suspects
1 FIGHT CLUB
ph, yes, if I remember rightly, an old legal document turned up which showed that Pimlico was, in effect, an autonomous state, so they set up border customs checks, a government and everything, and so the rest of Britain decided to put a trade embargo on Pimlico and it went from being a paradise (no taxes on alcohol hehe)to being a nightmare place to live (no alcohol!)...
You missed SAW off your list Ed. Quality twist in that film my friend!
Robert Powell - was he more Jesus than Jesus
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