[TV] Good British TV series & movies?

[Swansman]

While I've always liked a lot of British music, I've always had something of a disdain (is that a word?) for British TV-series and movies, possibly traumatised by my mother watching EastEnders and Emmerdale and shit... sure I had a hate-love relationship to Mr Bean as a kid and I've enjoyed some classic movies like The Full Monty and Trainspotting, but generally speaking I've not explored this jungle. And I was sort of a James Bond freak for a lot of years but that film series is quite... (swearing in church) American.

Suggestions would be nice.

I have a pretty broad taste but lower-than-normal enthusiasm about crime/sci-fi stuff and "typical British comedy" makes me throw up - I would have ****ing hated the Monty Python movies... if they werent so ****ing brilliant.

I have a sweet spot for portrayals of rather normal lives with special flavours... I dont fancy the "ohh, will he get the girl or not" predictable stuff, but more of the "how is this wild road trip to Bristol gonna turn out for this perfectly normal human" stuff.

Well.. nough.. just bring me your best!

 

[schmunk]

Try Detectorists, as mentioned elsewhere recently.

If you don't like that, you're dead inside and should just give up.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b06l51nr/detectorists

 

[Albion_Dave]

Mrs Browns Boys is a very good portrayal of normal lives.

 

[schmunk]

Mrs Browns Boys is a very good portrayal of normal lives.

Well done, you beat Crodo to it.

It's not British, though...

 

[Stat Brother]

A foreigner will never get The Detectorists.

 

[Dunk&Disorderly]

Derry Girls is excellent

 

[Surrey_Albion]

What we do in the shadows britishish very funny

 

[marlowe]

"Our Friends in the North"
Classic tv series charting the lives of four friends over a 31 year period over a backdrop of the political changes that happened in Britain during that time. Features a young Daniel Craig (James Bond). Thoroughly recommended. You can watch all 9 episodes on youtube..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Friends_in_the_North

 

[Easy 10]

Great British movies:

Sexy Beast
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Layer Cake
The Long Good Friday
This Is England

 

[Razzoo]

Shane Meadows is a great British director. Dead Mans Shoes is gritty and worth a watch.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Great British movies:

Sexy Beast
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Layer Cake
The Long Good Friday
This Is England

My work here is done. By you.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

What we do in the shadows britishish very funny

The film was created by New Zealanders and the TV spin off is American I think.

But anything with Matt Berry in is very watchable. Toast of London is superb

 

[GOM]

Movie - The Lady in a Van

Slightly older - Local Hero

 

[lawros left foot]

Early Doors, dare I say it, better than Detectorists, no higher praise really.


To the Regiment!

 

[studio150]

The Blue Lamp
Brighton Rock
Jigsaw
Passport To Pimlico

 

[Norman Potting]

Father Ted
The IT Crowd
Hot Fuzz

 

[Lower West Stander]

Early Doors, dare I say it, better than Detectorists, no higher praise really.


To the Regiment!

Saw a live performance of that at the Lowry in Manchester just before Christmas. Fantastic.

Do you like circuses?

 

[Lower West Stander]

Great British movies:

Sexy Beast
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Layer Cake
The Long Good Friday
This Is England

You have to include Get Carter in that list....

And Mona Lisa

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Shane Meadows is a great British director. Dead Mans Shoes is gritty and worth a watch.

I will go further and say this is the best British film I’ve seen.

 

[lawros left foot]

Saw a live performance of that at the Lowry in Manchester just before Christmas. Fantastic.

Do you like circuses?

To coin a phrase,
I wish I was there.


I had plans to go to the Summer shows, unfortunately, bad health got in the way.