Top 49 British films as per Barry Norman

[Stat Brother]

What's the 50th?

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Black Narcissus (1947)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Cruel Sea (1952)

The Dam Busters (1954)

Dr No (1958)

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Dracula (1958)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

The Full Monty (1997)

Gandhi (1982)

Get Carter (1971)

Gladiator (2000)

Great Expectations (1946)

Gregory’s Girl (1980)

Henry V (1944)

I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)

If… (1968)

The Ipcress File (1965)

Kes (1969)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

The King’s Speech (2010)

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

The Ladykillers (1955)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Local Hero (1983)

The Long Good Friday (1979)

A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)

Naked (1993)

The Railway Children (1970)

The Red Shoes (1948)

The Remains of the Day (1993)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

Secrets & Lies (1995)

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

The Servant (1963)

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Skyfall (2012)

The Third Man (1949)

The 39 Steps (1935)

This Sporting Life (1963)

Trainspotting (1995)

Whisky Galore! (1949)

Zulu (1963)

 

[upthealbion1970]

Escape to victory or the Italian job?

 

[Trufflehound]

Dr No (1958)

Who's in the 1958 version? Surely it can't be better than the 1962 version with Sean Connery?

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and in answer to the original question, either The Italian Job, or Withnail & I.

 

[Nibble]

Yep that is certainly a list of britishfilms. One that doesn't include Withnail??

 

[Marxo]

As he's included Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon (classed as UK/USA by the IMDB) then The Shining and Full Metal Jackett could also be considered. Several of his other films are classed as USA/UK, could they also be considered? (Doctor Strangelove, 2001 etc.).
[MENTION=5707]Nibble[/MENTION], agree about Withnail.

 

[surrey jim]

The Italian Job

 

[The Birdman]

The Longest day

 

[Benson]

Where the bloody hell is Clockwise?

 

[Nibble]

In Bruges? Dead Men's Shoes? Barry Norman, silly old twat.

 

[HawkTheSeagull]

Got to be The Italian Job - the original of course.

Apparently they were meant to be making a sequel to the updated American one called The Brazilian Job - should you tell the producers or......

 

[Marshy]

So he pretty much hates modern film then..... !

 

[Nibble]

Got to be The Italian Job - the original of course.

Apparently they were meant to be making a sequel to the updated American one called The Brazilian Job - should you tell the producers or......

Never like The Italian Job. Massively overrated imo

 

[Tooting Gull]

This needed editing. Through being very dense.

 

[Stat Brother]

So he pretty much hates modern film then..... !

He was picked up on that.
BN's reasoning is that the bestest/classic film needs to be multi-generational, hence lacking in films from this generation.

 

[Durlston]

Football Factory?

 

[Stat Brother]

So he pretty much hates modern film then..... !

Oh and one other thing, to paraphrase Mr Norman:-

'Of the 300,000+ films ever committed to celluloid I've only seen, say, 15,000.
So it would be impossible for me to say any one film or performance is the greatest, because of the tiny percentage I have seen.
Hence them being alphabetical'.



I have no reason for mentioning that!

 

[martyn20]

Layer Cake

 

[wunt be druv]

Dredd all day and every day.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Harry Potter

 

[Weststander]

4 weddings.

I don't think that will make top 50 lists in years to come.

Other than that, some amazing films.

Not a bad film, but completely over hyped. A British thing, in desperation to talk our film industry up just as an when embarrassing Colin Welland yelled at the Oscars in c.1981.