Good British films to watch.

[billblu]

filth is a brilliant bizarre film if you haven't watched it you won't be disappointed

 

[TheGhost]

The Ceremony​

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Cristi and Yusuf toil washing cars in Bradford as undocumented workers, trying to shield their traumatic pasts. But after one of their coworkers dies under ...



This IS the film you watched isn't it? Is there another "Ceremony"?

That is the film. It’s about ‘people’.

 

[mexico1970]

That is the film. It’s about ‘people’.

Oh FFS.

All films are about people, in this case illegal ones not undocumented ones.

I wonder if you would have watched the same films Goebbels made with the same wide eyed expectation in 1937 and remarked it's just "About people" ?

 

[TheGhost]

I don’t how a person can be illegal. It’s interesting that you put them in the context of the atrocities of WWII. By dehumanising people and calling them ‘illegals’ it’s what the Nazis did to the Jews.

Anyway the film is great. It gives these people who are living in our country a voice and tells a very small part of their story.

 

[super_city_si]

‘Wicked little letters’ is a good recent-ish British film. Pretty funny, based on a true story and has the brilliant Olivia Coleman.

 

[mexico1970]

‘Wicked little letters’ is a good recent-ish British film. Pretty funny, based on a true story and has the brilliant Olivia Coleman.

Like an adult Wallace And Gromit yarn, I enjoyed it too.

 

[Fat Chance]

'And for my next tick'

 

[flook]

Read the books, thought Pierce Brosnan was miscast, he was NOT Ron....balding tattooed west ham fan...I would have forgiven him if he'd even tried a cockernee accent...geezer who played Tony Curran ( Geoff Bell) woulda been a better Ron..Still enjoyable though, as you say well acted and made.

Bogdan was miscast too, decent enough, but Joyce character relegated to a provider of cake was a bit weak

 

[flook]

Watched Man with a Hat on Prime last night, wife picked it, looked a little quirky from the brief description, but set in France and labelled "International". Aye Aye I thinks to myself, this is one of them there furrener fillums. She pressed play and we agreed to wait for the dialogue to confirm or deny whether I was correct or not.

Long story short, the first spoken line was about 10 minutes into it, and was someone ordering something in a village cafe. OK we thought, it was french but that may be "atmosphere dialogue" So we waited....another 5 or 10 minutes passed before another line of dialogue which confirmed my suspicions.

By this stage we were invested so carried on watching. Imagine of you would a cross between a Wes Anderson Film and "The Plank" and you're in the right ball park. Bizarre but it worked, definitely worth a watch particularly with a some form of accompanying reality enhancing accompaniment (wine in my case, choose your own poison)

 

[tamworthblue]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Great cast and Helen Mirren get her noobs out.

 

[JULES]

georgy girl, pure brit 60,s.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Kes
Gregory’s Girl
Local Hero
Up The Junction
Get Carter

 

[Bill Walker]

The Ceremony​

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Cristi and Yusuf toil washing cars in Bradford as undocumented workers, trying to shield their traumatic pasts. But after one of their coworkers dies under ...



This IS the film you watched isn't it? Is there another "Ceremony"?

There's now 3 films with that title.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Probably been mentioned already, but A Fish Called Wanda.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

24 hour party people

[youtube]

Provocative.


…provocatively poor

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Can’t believe no-one has mentioned “Love Actually” yet!

;-)

Some cracking films on these lists!

 

[rocketman]

a taste of honey
Brighton rock (2010 re make)
kes (the library scene has 1 of the funniest ever one liners)

 

[blueish swede]

Sink me! We haven't had a mention of The Scarlet Pimpernell.

Restless natives
The lady vanishes
The 39 steps (Robert Powell version for me)

 

[City Hobgoblin]

 

[Bill Walker]

Forgot about Kingdom of Heaven and Blow Up.