Leigh McCormack, Pete Postlethwaite, Taste of Cinema 2019. 8,781 Jenny Howe, Joseph Fiennes, | | Stars: 101 min | The film received finance from a string of sources including Handmade Films. This brings him to the attention of ‘rival’ and gangster Tommy (Sean Pertwee). Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Terence Davies Ultimately, the pit is closed but the band go on to win a national brass band competition. Stars: Educating Rita marked Gilbert’s first film since 1979’s Moonraker (his third Bond) received negative reviews, he followed E.R with Shirley Valentine in 1989. How much do you know about these films made during the 1990s? John Hurt, From Wikipedia. 101 min Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. Most of the well-heeled film companies such as Rank, EMI and assorted Hollywood majors had either pulled out of British production altogether or were just about to. | Action, Adventure, Thriller. Hugh Laurie, | In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite. Ten Best Picture nominees and two winners, a Golden Palm, a dozen comedy classics and a James Bond come-back, the nineties were quite a roaring decade for British cinema... so good luck with the next question.Which of these 1990s British movies is your favorite?After voting, you might discuss the list here, R Robert Arkins, | Stars: Gary Lewis, Biography, Crime, Drama. From Pulp Fiction to Clueless, we looked at all the incredible films from the 1990s and counted down the 50 best '90s films, like, ever Celebs. Favourite British Films 1960s. Director: | $1.52M, R Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. Jane Horrocks, Votes: From Wikipedia. Alison Crosbie, Shekhar Kapur Prominent British directors who worked mainly abroad in the 1980s included Alan … Comedy, Drama. Kevin McKidd, Votes: Anthony Minghella A cycle of will-it-won’t it work begins involving awkward meetings with Will’s ‘everyday’ friends (played by Hugh Bonneville, Gina McKee & Tim McInnerny) and his sister (Emma Chambers), along with Will having doubts and the return of Anna’s famous boyfriend. Director: Director: 11,713 Jordan Routledge, 178,225 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S. Director: | Gross: | Gross: | 93 min | 89 min The 1990s saw an explosion of LGBT themes in film, but there are many titles which seem rather dated or weak. | Gross: Director: Released in the U.K on May 14th 1994, this popular comedy written by Richard Curtis and directed by Mike Newel seemingly single-handedly changed the fortunes of British Cinema. | | After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world. Roddy Maude-Roxby, Votes: | Gross: $106.60M, R | Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Year's Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone. How much do you know about these films made during the 1990s? | 'The British are coming!' The 1980s began with the bleakest outlook yet seen for British film. Stars: 162 min | 131 min 108 min William Eadie, In either case it has become clear that the terms of discussion have changed considerably with new developments in production leading to a big increase in films being made. 274,474 Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado. Anthony Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Director: $2.88M, PG Menu. It deserves further recognition as an interesting time-capsule and curio as to what low-budget direction British Cinema may have continued in had Curtis’ film not being the success it was. British Gangster Films Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Billy Connolly, The success of Working Title and Richard Curtis capitalised on the market for an idealised vision of Britain, updating the format with modern settings. 13,408 Director: Director: Crime, Thriller. | Kenneth Branagh | 10 great Japanese films of the 1990s | … 32,615 From ‘Monty Python’ to ‘Don't Look Now’, British movies are have made cinematic history. | Ray Winstone, Sukie Smith, Votes: Shane Meadows first official feature film follows two high school best friends who are pulled apart by a dangerous outsider. In retrospect, Four Wedding’s slightly sketch-based moments, such as Rowan Atkinson’s nervous vicar and Charles’ ‘looking for a pen’, jar in places but it remains a colourful journey with likeable characters. Kate Beckinsale, Votes: Take the Quiz: British Films 1990s. Parallel tales of two sexually obsessed men, one hurting and annoying women physically and mentally, one wandering around the city talking to strangers and experiencing dimensions of life. Claire Skinner, Kathy Burke, Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie Spotlight. Kenneth Branagh | Drama, Romance. | 124 min Director: From Pulp Fiction to Clueless, we looked at all the incredible films from the 1990s and counted down the 50 best '90s films, like, ever Carolyn Choa, Votes: bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Stars: Michael Caton-Jones ... Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. 107 min | Gross: 132 min Christopher Reeve, Votes: Debra Winger, 136 min Charlie Creed-Miles, Director: Introducing the ‘angry young man’ rebelling against The Establishment, these films were defined as ‘kitchen sink dramas’, paving the way for more stories discussing taboo subjects including adultery, pre-marital sex, abortion and crime. 117 min Angeline Ball, Christopher Eccleston, Stars: | An naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow, and the poor youth around him. Category:British sex comedy films. | Gary Oldman | Tommy Flanagan, Richard Curtis’ much anticipated follow up to Four Weddings and a Funeral. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Movies. Ralph Fiennes, $0.35M, R | | Oh btw, I realise One Day and Jane Eyre are not actually released yet, I'm acknowledging that they are both British films and that they are promising films. 12. While film production reached an all-time high in 1936, the "golden age" of British cinema is usually thought to have occurred in the 1940s, during which the directors David Lean, Michael Powell, (with Emeric Pressburger) and Carol Reed produced their most critically acclaimed works. $62.55M, PG-13 Gwyneth Paltrow, | Miranda Richardson, Votes: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Do let me know what you think and if there are any suggestions you think apt. Number 48 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes: Billy Wilder: Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee: Detective drama: The Railway Children: Lionel Jeffries: Jenny Agutter, Gary Warren: Family drama: Number 66 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films: The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer: Kevin Billington Richard Attenborough | Lorraine Pilkington, Stars: 99 min Drama, Romance. Mike Newell Jim Sheridan Director: One day U.S film star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) wanders into his shop, shortly afterwards he accidentally bumps into her in the street; spilling a drink on her, Will invites her to his nearby home to clean up. In many ways, with its memorable criminal characters (ex-footballer Vinnie Jones features) and interwoven plot it can be viewed as a British answer to Pulp Fiction. 13. Spending his time visiting the cinema, Bud escapes into a fantasy world, away from the reality of the outside world. | Gross: They also have interesting but believable over the top characters. Mandy Matthews, | Gross: This list may not reflect recent changes . | Gross: Ewan McGregor, The 15 Best British Films of The 1990s. Released in June 1994, after Four Weddings, the film’s hairstyles, its clothes and its dark ‘social realism’ were passing from popular fashion. 133 min 98,558 This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premieres in 2017 and were at least partly made by Great Britain or the United Kingdom.It does not feature short films, medium-length films, made-for-TV films, pornographic films, filmed theater, VR films and interactive films. | To his underworld friends, including girlfriend Jo (Frost), Billy is a hero, but now Jo wants him to go straight. James Ivory Phyllis Logan, Stars: Sophia and Sidney or The Last Living AFI Legends. British film productions released in 1980; Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Awakening: … | Ewan McGregor, John Simm, | Jimmy Somerville, Votes: The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity. Rhys Ifans, Votes: Stars: At the same time, Bud is also awakening to the sexual interest he finds in men. Amanda Donohoe, Votes: 9,095 Stars: As the new millennium dawned, British Cinema was still benefitting from the ‘cool Britannia’ mood perpetuated by the various Curtis-like romantic comedies popularised in the latter half of the previous decade. An English lawyer fights to free them. Curiously, the concept of several old university friends meeting amid the backdrop of the English countryside had been explored two years earlier in Brit comedy Peter’s Friends, which plays a little like a foundation for Four Weddings. Crime, Drama, Romance. The United Kingdom has had a significant film industry for over a century. C.S. 108 min Will Thacker (Hugh Grant) owns and runs a travel bookshop in Notting Hill, London. Films 74 Comments 1 Followers 39 not on Mubi Eves on Skis (1963) Love Variations (1971) Suburban Wives (1972) Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973) On the Game (1974) Just One More Time (1974) aka The Over-Amorous Artist Commuter Husbands (1974) The Ups and Downs of a Handyman (1976) … Helen Mirren, 34,484 Director: British films of 1990 at IMDb; Last edited on 11 March 2020, at 12:38. $9.22M, R The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (The Decades Series) (English Edition) Films That Define A Decade: '90s [Blu-ray] UK-Import, Sprache-Deutsch, Englisch... 90's Decade Musics Radios Enjoy 90s Radio Music right on your Android; Enjoy Decades Radio right on your Android ; 90s allows you to stream the world's most addictive 90s music radio channels. Punchy and memorable, the cult film also spawned a spin-off TV series ‘Lock Stock…’ broadcast in the U.K on Channel 4 in 2000. Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love. Stars: However, production fell apart before shooting after Daniel Day Lewis didn’t take up the lead role as intended – leading Roberts to pull out. Stars: Sally Potter | Biography, Drama, History. $0.22M, R | Subcategories. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band. 134 min Ang Lee | Gross: To appreciate the films of the decade, the 90’s can be understood as a game of two halves, roughly splitting into grittier more socially conscious films of the early half of the decade and the more colourful and arguably better known (and better funded) films which came in the wake of a certain release in 1994. Michelle Stewart, Votes: At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. Rupert Graves, | The fictionalised plot follows William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) as he embarks on an affair with Viola de Lessepes (Gwyneth Paltrow) during his writing of the play that will become Romeo and Juliette. From ‘Monty Python’ to ‘Don't Look Now’, British movies are have made cinematic history. Stars: $1.55M, R Although set in a dystopian ‘near future’, Shopping has its foundations rooted firmly in a grim early 90’s recession beaten Britain which many retrospectives now forget. | Hugh Grant, | A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. | Nicholas Lamont, Votes: 91 min | David Thewlis, 92,929 8. Katrin Cartlidge, | Gross: Director: | Mike Leigh | Gross: | Posted on October 22, 2014 September 28, 2016 by George Cromack. | Wim Snape, Votes: The heritage industry continued to dominate British cinema well into the 1990s, with its influence evident in other commercially successful films of the time. Director: The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. Hugh Grant, A shop assistant, her cook husband, & their twin daughters ponder their lives over a few weeks in a working-class suburb north of London. | | 85 min | In either case it has become clear that the terms of discussion have changed considerably with new developments in production leading to a big increase in films being made. Stars: A U.K/U.S co-production directed by Brit John Madden (who had directed Queen Victoria film Mrs Brown the previous year), written by American Marc Norman and co-scripted by playwright Tom Stoppard. Alan Parker | | But while Bobby and ... See full summary », Director: 139 min Which of these 1990s British movies is … $1.77M, PG-13 | Comedy, Drama. 533,790 Written and directed by Mark Herman, the socio-political issues at the film’s heart can in many ways be considered a pre-cursor to the Full Monty a year later. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Director: Steven Duffy, Stars: The 15 Best British Comedy Movies of All Time. | | Youth lawlessness such as joyriding in stolen cars and ram-raiding were making headlines as national buzz-words, so much so that the film’s depiction of these crimes attracted controversy which restricted its release. Director: Here are 15 British films of the 1980’s worthy of further investigation: 15. Stars: Juliet Stevenson, $116.09M, R $25.84M, PG-13 | Delinquent youth Billy (Law) has little in life beside the thrill of stealing a high performance car and going ‘shopping’ by ram-raiding the car through a shop window and leaving with the proceeds. | | | On the one hand, the exhibition and production of British films bounced back from the dark days of the early 1980s, in which cinema attendance and filmmaking slumped to an all-time low. Louise Goodall, Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class. Comedy, Drama. Glora rekindles a romance with Andy (Ewan McGregor). Director: Drama, Romance, War. Laila Morse, R Guy Ritchie $30.08M, R A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer. The plot follows the lives of several middle/upper class 30-something friends through four weddings and a funeral with a focus on the blundering Charles (Hugh Grant) who becomes infatuated with American, Carrie, (Andie McDowell). Though he has been working in the British film industry for quite some time by the 1990s, that was … Tara Fitzgerald, 17,148 2,881 Stars: A young British boy comes of age among his loving family and the austere Catholic Church as he realizes his love of cinema and his homosexuality. $13.42M, PG $16.50M, R British Movie List 2000-2016. | 40,378 James Bond sets out to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using the weapon. Comedy, Drama, Romance. Jim Broadbent, Tilda Swinton, Alison Steadman, 7,466 $31.60M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. 14,525 Menu. Emma Thompson, Greg Cruttwell, Votes: Director: It would be easy, and careless, to dismiss Terence Davis’ (seemingly forgotten) film as another love letter to cinema – the opening featuring a sound bite from The Ladykillers. Posted on November 10, 2014 November 10, 2014 by George Cromack. | Adventure, Biography, Drama. Drama. Mike Leigh Keanu Reeves, | Gross: 139,346 Liam Neeson, | Adopted by Polygram as a vehicle for McDowell, the film was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and made a star of relative unknown Hugh Grant also featuring a supporting cast of now extremely familiar Brit actors including Simon Callow, James Fleet, Kristen Scott Thomas, John Hannah and Charlotte Coleman. Drama, Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. Andie MacDowell, The mix of burgeoning homosexuality, religion and musical score also makes this film oddly reminiscent of Alan Clarke’s 1974 ‘play for today’ Penda’s Fen. Anthony Minghella | Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. $22.55M, Not Rated The film still has repercussions today, shedding light on various issues and individual preconceptions relating to shifting British class divisions for much of its audience. Menu. I'll have to sift through some 500 of them. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of British films bounced back from the dark days of the early 1980s, in which cinema attendance and film making slumped to an | | Gross: Allan Corduner, One of the true wonders of modern British cinema is director-writer Mike Leigh, a man who could be considered the embodiment of the spirit of independent film. Director: Drama. Pierce Brosnan, Stars: The two eldest daughters are the title opposites. Action, Comedy, Crime. Michael Caine plays a British gangster who steals $4 million gold ingots in Italy with his team by creating a paralysing traffic jam. Stars: 37,436 Timothy Spall, | Jim Broadbent, | $14.92M, R Billy wants one more bit hit – the local shopping mall as no one has ever tried it before. 106 min Tell us what you think about this feature. Ewan McGregor, His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. In the late 50s the British Film Industry introduced The British New Wave and the class divide between the North and the South. The Best '90s British Movie. Stars: Colourful and fun, if not historically accurate, this romantic comedy drama originally went into production in 1991 directed by Edward Zwick and set to start Julia Roberts as Viola. 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