Good movies in (british) english?

big screen satellite · #1 08-17-2006, 04:05 AM

the italian job (michael caine version)

stimpee · #2 08-17-2006, 05:26 AM

Twin Town
The Ladykillers (sir alec guinness version)
lock stock & two smoking barrels
snatch

sanakan · #3 08-17-2006, 08:00 AM

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Twin Town

twin town is an awsome movie!
alone the (imbd) tagline makes me want to see it again:

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Rugby. Tom Jones. Male Voice Choirs. Shirley Bassey. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantisili ogogogch. Snowdonia. Prince of Wales. Anthony Hopkins. Daffodils. Sheep. Sheep Shaggers. Coal. Slate Quarries. The Blaenau Ffestiniog Dinkey-Doo Miniature Railway. Now If That's Your Idea Of Thousands Of Years Of Welsh Culture, You Can't Blame Us For Trying To Liven The Place Up A Little Can You?

i have an age old vhs copy of it lying around somewhere, got to dig it up again

sanblaster · #4 08-22-2006, 11:58 AM

Thanks everybody, some of them I've already seen, liked Local Hero a lot!

Twin town sounds good, I find Scottish accent very appealing although a bit hard to understand.

(currently downloading and watching episodes of Modern Toss too, Mr Tourette and the talking flies are awesome

)

Renze · #5 08-22-2006, 12:42 PM

Shaun of the Dead

seriously, it's more than just a Dawn of the Dead parody

jOHN rODRIGUEZ · #6 08-22-2006, 12:42 PM

Maurice
Beautiful Thing
Little Voice

BeautifulBurnout · #7 09-02-2006, 04:02 AM

The Long Good Friday
My Beautiful Launderette
Restless Natives (if you manage to understand the Scots accents

- very funny movie)
Gregory's Girl (ditto - you've already seen, but maybe not fully followed, Local Hero by the same director)
In the Name of the Father

That's all I can think of for the moment, but I will surely think of more later.

Deckard · #8 09-02-2006, 04:35 AM

East is East (1999) [COLOR="Blue"]Link[/COLOR]
Chip shop owner George Khan is a proud Pakistani married to an English woman who is attempting to bring up his seven children as good Muslims. However, after his eldest son flees an arranged marriage, the cracks in the behaviour of the others begin to show, and family strife breaks out. Surprisingly funny and poignant.

Human Traffic (1999) [COLOR="#0000ff"]Link[/COLOR]
Five UK youths with various anxieties await the weekend - a 48 hour bingeing and purgeing session involving drink, class A drugs, dancing, shagging, and bangin' choons. But it's not all roses - they're getting older, and the scene just isn't the way it used to be. Or is it? Maybe it's them that have changed. I've seen this called 'the Welsh Trainspotting' but I'd have to disagree.

stimpee · #9 09-02-2006, 04:57 AM

Brassed Off
The Full Monty

Kes
Educating Rita

votingfloater · #10 09-02-2006, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Restless Natives (if you manage to understand the Scots accents

- very funny movie)

I'll second that one! Now I just have to find a copy on dvd...

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Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Gregory's Girl (ditto - you've already seen, but maybe not fully followed, Local Hero by the same director)

Again, top stuff - one of the few good things to come out of Cumbernauld (or Vietnauld as we used to call it; I - ahem - used to live there). Also worth tracking down is That Sinking Feeling also by Bill Forsyth - it came out before GG and is just as good.