This is a list of some of the more notable British films. See also the BFI Top 100 British films and Cinema of the United Kingdom. Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971) The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. ... In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1000 people from the world of UK film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century. ... Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971) The United Kingdom has been influential in the technological, commercial, and artistic development of cinema. ...

Films by year

Before 1920

• With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) [1]
• Fight for the Dardanelles (1915) [2]

1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... With Our King and Queen Through India is a 1912 British documentary silent film. ... Fight for the Dardanelles is a 1915 British silent film, directed by Percy F. Smith. ...

1920s

• The Lodger (1927) [3]
• Champagne (1928) [4] [5]
• Piccadilly (1929) [6] [7]
• Blackmail (1929) [8] [9]

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Social issues of the 1920s. ... The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog often just called The Lodger was a 1927 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... Champagne is a 1928 silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... Piccadilly (1929) was a British film directed by Ewald André Dupont, written by Arnold Bennett and starring Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray and Jameson Thomas. ... Blackmail (1929), directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was one of the first British films with sound. ...

1930s

• The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) [10]
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) [11]
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) [12]
• The 39 Steps (1935) [13]
• Sabotage (1936) [14]
• Things to Come (1936) [15]
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) [16]
• Oh, Mr Porter! (1937) [17]
• The Lady Vanishes (1938) [18]
• The Divorce of Lady X (1938) [19]
• Pygmalion (1938) [20]
• Jamaica Inn (1939) [21] [22]
• The Four Feathers (1939) [23]
• Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939) [24]

This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... The Private Life of Henry VIII is a 1933 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ... The Man Who Knew Too Much was a 1934 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the French Revolution. ... The 39 Steps is a 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan. ... Sabotage, also released as A Woman Alone, is a 1936 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. ... Things to Come is a 1936 British science fiction film, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by William Cameron Menzies. ... The Man Who Could Work Miracles is a 1936 British fantasy-comedy film. ... Oh, Mr Porter! (with minor variations in punctuation) can refer both to a song and a film inspired by the song. ... The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. ... The Divorce of Lady X was a 1938 British film, directed by Tim Whelan and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. ... Pygmalion is a play by G. Bernard Shaw, written in 1912 and first staged in English in 1914. ... The Jamaica Inn is a Free House on the borders of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. ... Movie poster for The Four Feathers (2002) The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason which has been filmed several times. ... Goodbye, Mr. ...

1940s

• The Thief of Bagdad (1940) [25]
• Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941) [26]
• In Which We Serve (1942) [27]
• Went the Day Well? (1942) [28]
• The Goose Steps Out (1942) [29]
• The First of the Few (1942) [30]
• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) [31]
• My Learned Friend (1943) [32]
• A Canterbury Tale (1944) [33]
• The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with his Battell at Agincourt in France (1944) (U.S. alternative title: Henry the Fifth [34]
• The Way Ahead (1944) [35]
• Blithe Spirit (1945) [36]
• Dead of Night (1945) [37]
• A Matter of Life and Death (U.S. alternative title: Stairway to Heaven (1946) [38]
• Brief Encounter (1946) [39]
• Great Expectations (1946) [40]
• The Seventh Veil (1946) [41]
• Brighton Rock (1947) [42]
• Odd Man Out (1947) [43]
• Black Narcissus (1947) [44]
• The Red Shoes (1948) [45]
• The Guinea Pig (1948) [46]
• London Belongs to Me (1948) [47]
• Miranda (1948) [48]
• Oliver Twist (1948) [49]
• Scott of the Antarctic (1948) [50]
• Whisky Galore! (1949) [51]
• The Third Man (1949) [52]
• Passport to Pimlico (1949) [53]
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) [54]

// Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... This is about the 1940 film starring Sabu. ... Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941) is the third collaboration by the British-based filmmakers Powell & Pressburger. ... In Which We Serve is a 1942 war film written by and starring Noel Coward, and directed by Coward and David Lean, both making their directorial debut. ... Went the Day Well? is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942. ... The Goose Steps Out is a zany knockabout British comedy film made in 1942. ... The First of the Few, (known as Spitfire in the United States), is a 1942 British film, starring and directed by Leslie Howard, and co-starring David Niven. ... The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is a film by the British writer-director-producer team of Powell & Pressburger under the banner of The Archers, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook. ... A British film comedy by Will Hay, who stars and co-directs. ... A Canterbury Tale (1944) is a British film by the film-making team of Powell & Pressburger. ... Henry V is a 1944 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Henry V; it was released in Los Angeles in 1946. ... Henry V is a 1944 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Henry V; it was released in Los Angeles in 1946. ... The Way Ahead is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. ... Blithe Spirit (1941) is a comic play written by Noel Coward. ... Dead of Night (1945) is a British anthology horror film, rare for the period, directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dreaden and Robert Hamer. ... Bomber pilot Peter Carter (David Niven), washed up on a strange beach. ... Bomber pilot Peter Carter (David Niven), washed up on a strange beach. ... Brief Encounter (1945) is a British film directed by David Lean starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard. ... Great Expectations is a Bildungsroman (a novel tracing the life of the protagonist) by Charles Dickens and first serialized in All the Year Round from December 1860 to August 1861. ... The Seventh Veil is a 1945 British melodramatic film. ... This article refers to the book by Graham Greene. ... Odd Man Out (1947) is classic post WW 2 British film noir starring James Mason as an Irish republican operative running from the military state that was Northern Ireland after a botched bank robbery meant to replenish republican coffers. ... This page is about a film by Powell & Pressburger; for other uses of the term, please see Narcissus. ... Helpmann, Shearer and Massine in The Red Shoes. ... The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film also known as The Outsider in the United States. ... Miranda is British comedy/fantasy film, made in 1948. ... Oliver Twist (1948) is the second of David Leans two Dickens adaptations. ... Scott of the Antarctic is the title of several works about explorer Robert Falcon Scott: Scott of the Antarctic, a 1940 book by George Seaver Scott of the Antarctic, a 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic, a 1997 book by Michael De-La-Noy This is a disambiguation page — a... Whisky Galore is a well-known 1949 Ealing comedy film, in which a cargo vessel is sunk off a remote Scottish island—with 50,000 cases of whisky aboard. ... The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed. ... A British comedy film Passport To Pimlico (Ealing Studios made in 1948). ... Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 Ealing comedy film. ...

1950s

• The Blue Lamp (1950) [55]
• The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) [56]
• The Wooden Horse (1950) [57]
• No Highway (1951) [58]
• Laughter in Paradise (1951) [59]
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) [60]
• Scrooge (1951) [61]
• The Man in the White Suit (1951) [62]
• The African Queen (1951) [63]
• The Sound Barrier (1952) [64]
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [65]
• The Million Pound Note (1953) [66]
• The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) [67]
• The Cruel Sea (1953) [68]
• Genevieve (1953) [69]
• Hobson's Choice (1954) [70]
• Doctor in the House (1954) [71]
• Animal Farm (1954) [72]
• The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) (St Trinian's School) [73]
• The Dambusters (1954) [74]
• The Colditz Story (1955) [75]
• The Ladykillers (1955) [76]
• The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) [77]
• The Man Who Never Was (1956) [78]
• Reach for the Sky (1956) [79]
• X the Unknown (1956) [80]
• Private's Progress (1956) [81]
• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) [82]
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [83]
• Quatermass 2 (1957) [84]
• Carry On Sergeant (1958) [85]
• Dracula (1958) [86]
• A Night to Remember (1958) [87]
• Ice Cold in Alex (1958 [88]
• Look Back in Anger (1958) [89]
• Our Man in Havana (1959) [90]
• The Mouse That Roared (1959) [91]
• I'm All Right Jack (1959) [92]
• The Mummy (1959) [93]
• Room at the Top (1959) [94]
• The League of Gentlemen (1959) [95]

The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The Blue Lamp is a British crime film released in early 1950 by Ealing Studios. ... The Happiest Days of Your Life is a 1950 British comedy film starring well-known British actors, including Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell. ... The Wooden Horse is a 1950 2nd World War film starring Leo Genn, Anthony Steel and David Tomlinson. ... No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute, later forming the basis of a 1951 motion picture. ... The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios which tells the story of a mild-mannered bank clerk who masterminds the robbery of his bank. ... Scrooge (1951) is one of the best-known and most acclaimed film adaptations of Charles Dickenss A Christmas Carol. ... The Man in the White Suit was a satirical comedy movie made in 1951 by Ealing Studios. ... The African Queen is a 1951 movie. ... The Sound Barrier is a 1952 film by David Lean. ... The Importance of Being Earnest The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners by Oscar Wilde. ... The Million Pound Note is a 1953 film starring Gregory Peck External Links IMDB Profile Category: ... The Titfield Thunderbolt is a 1953 film about a story of villagers trying to prevent British Railways from closing the fictional Titfield branch line. ... The Cruel Sea refers to more than one thing: The Cruel Sea (book) is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. ... In Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, Saint Genevieve (Nanterre near Paris, ca 419/422 - Paris 512) is the patron of Paris. ... In colloquial English, a Hobsons choice is an apparently free choice that is really no choice at all. ... Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. ... Animal Farm: A Fairy Story is a satirical novella (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by George Orwell, ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm they live on and run it themselves, only to have it degenerate into a... The Belles of St. ... St Trinians is a fictional girls school created by Ronald Searle, a British cartoonist. ... Operation Chastise was the official name for the attacks on German dams on May 17, 1943 in World War II using a specially developed bouncing bomb. The attack was carried out by Royal Air Force No. ... The Colditz Story is a 1955 World War II film starring John Mills and Eric Portman. ... The Ladykillers is a 1955 British film. ... The 1955 advertising poster for the films UK release. ... The Man Who Never Was is a 1954 book by Ewen Montagu and a 1956 2nd World War war film based on the book. ... Reach For The Sky is the name of the biography of Douglas Bader, by Paul Brickhill, and also of a film of Baders story released in 1956, starring Kenneth More and directed by Lewis Gilbert. ... X the Unknown is a British science-fiction / horror film made by the famous Hammer Films company and released in 1956. ... Privates Progress is a British comedy film of 1956, based on the novel by Alan Hackney. ... The Curse of Frankenstein is a 1957 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions. ... The Bridge over the River Kwai taken in June 2004. ... Categories: 1957 films | Films based on television series | Movie stubs | Science fiction films ... Carry On Sergeant is the first Carry On film, and its first public screening was on 1st August 1958 at Screen One, London. ... Dracula (1958) is the first of a series of Hammer Horror movies inspired by Bram Stokers novel Dracula. ... See also A Night to Remember (album) for the Cyndi Lauper album by this name. ... Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) is a British film starring John Mills. ... Look Back in Anger (1956) is a John Osborne play and 1958 movie about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man, his middle-class, impassive wife, her snooty best friend and an amiable Welsh lodger. ... Our Man In Havana is a 1958 novel by Graham Greene. ... The Mouse that Roared is a 1955 novel by Irish writer Leonard Wibberley that launched a series of satirical books about a fictional European nation called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. ... Im All Right Jack is a British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting. ... The Mummy is a 1959 British Hammer Horror film starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. ... Room at the Top is a 1959 film which tells the story of a young man in a dreary English factory town who thinks that he might be able to move up the ladder if he marries the bosss daughter. ... See: The League of Gentlemen (novel), by John Boland The League of Gentlemen (film) starring Jack Hawkins and made in 1959. ...

1960s

• Village of the Damned (1960) [96]
• The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) [97]
• Peeping Tom (1960) [98]
• School for Scoundrels (1960) [99]
• Sons and Lovers (1960) [100]
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) [101]
• The Entertainer (1960) [102]
• The Rebel (1961) [103]
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) [104]
• Whistle Down the Wind (1961) [105]
• Murder, She Said (1961) [106]
• The Young Ones (1961) [107]
• The Innocents (1961) [108]
• The L-Shaped Room {1962) [109]
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) [110]
• A Kind of Loving (1962) [111]
• Dr. No (1962) [112]
• The Haunting (1963) [113]
• Billy Liar (1963) [114]
• From Russia with Love (1963) [115]
• The Mouse on the Moon (1963) [116]
• Tom Jones (1963) [117]
• The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963) [118]
• This Sporting Life (1963) [119]
• Summer Holiday (1963) [120]
• First Men in the Moon (1964) [121]
• A Hard Day's Night (1964) [122]
• Goldfinger (1964) [123]
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) [124]
• Zulu (1964) [125]
• The Ipcress File (1965) [126]
• Help! (1965) [127]
• The Collector (1965) [128]
• Darling (1965) [129]
• Thunderball (1965) [130]
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) [131]
• To Sir, with Love (1966) [132]
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966) [133]
• Born Free (1966) [134]
• Alfie (1966) [135]
• Blowup (1966) [136]
• The Jokers (1966) [137]
• A Man for All Seasons (1966) [138]
• The Wrong Box (1966) [139]
• How I Won the War (1967) [140]
• Quatermass and the Pit (1967) [141]
• Privilege (1967) [142]
• Far from the Madding Crowd {1967) [143]
• You Only Live Twice (1967) [144]
• Accident (1967) [145]
• If... (1968) [146]
• Otley (1968) [147]
• Up the Junction (1968) [148]
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [149]
• Oliver! (1968) [150]
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) [151]
• The Italian Job (1969) [152]
• Hannibal Brooks (1969) [153]
• Battle of Britain (1969) [154]
• Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) [155]

The outrageously crowded Woodstock festival epitomized the popular antiwar movement of the 60s. ... Village of the Damned was a science fiction film made in 1960. ... The Trials of Oscar Wilde is a 1960 film based on the libel case involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. ... Peeping Tom is a 1960 psychological horror film by the British film director Michael Powell. ... School for Scoundrels is a British comedy film starring Terry-Thomas and others. ... Sons and Lovers is the third published novel of D.H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece. ... Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a British novel by Alan Sillitoe (his second, in 1958), a film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, adapted from the novel by its author, and later, in 1964, a success as a stage play, adapted by David Brett for the Nottingham Playhouse... The Entertainer was a 1960 film which told the story of a failing stage performer who tried to keep his career going even as his personal life fell apart. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an British movie from 1961. ... Whistle Down the Wind is a 1961 British film, directed by Bryan Forbes, from a screenplay by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. ... Murder, She Said, is the first of four films, made by MGM, based, or claimed to be based, on novels by Agatha Christie and starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Bud Tingwell as Inspector Craddock and Stringer Davis (Rutherfords real-life Husband) as Mr Stringer. ... The Young Ones is a British musical released in 1961, featuring singer Cliff Richard. ... The Innocents, 1961. ... The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 film, directed by Bryan Forbes, which tells the story of a young French woman, unmarried and pregnant, who moves into a London apartment building, befriending a young man in the building. ... Thomas Edward Lawrence (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia, and (apparently, among his Arab allies) Aurens or El Aurens, became famous for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918. ... A Kind of Loving was a 1962 British film directed by John Schlesinger. ... 2002 reissue of the original novel. ... The Haunting is a 1963 horror film directed by Robert Wise and adapted by Nelson Gidding from the novel The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. ... Billy Liar (1959) is a novel by Keith Waterhouse that was later adapted into a play, film, musical and TV series. ... A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ... Tom Jones is a 1963 comedy film which tells the story of a young 18th century man who is taken into the household of a rich gentleman and grows up living a bawdy life with many women. ... The Wrong Arm of the Law is a 1963 black-and-white British comedy movie starring Peter Sellers, directed by Cliff Owen and written in part by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. ... This Sporting Life is also a radio program in Australia. ... Summer Holiday is a British musical released in 1962, featuring singer Cliff Richard. ... First Men in the Moon DVD First Men In The Moon is a 1964 science fiction film directed by Nathan Juran. ... This article is about the film. ... 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition Goldfinger, published in 1959, is the seventh James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ... Strangelove redirects here. ... Zulu is a 1964 film depicting the 22 January and 23 January 1879 Battle of Rorkes Drift between the British Army and the Army of the Zulus. ... Panther edition front cover The Ipcress File was the first spy novel by Len Deighton, published in 1962. ... Help! is the title of a 1965 film starring The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal and Roy Kinnear. ... The Collector is the title of a 1963 novel by John Fowles. ... Darling can refer to: Darling, a 1965 movie The Darling River in Australia Grace Darling, of shipwreck rescue fame Ralph Darling, former governor of New South Wales, Australia Joe Darling, Australian cricket captain, 1899-1905 Captain Kevin Darling, a character in the TV series Blackadder Alistair Darling, British politician brothers... 2003 Penguin Books paperback edition There is also a game in the UK National Lottery called Thunderball Thunderball is the ninth novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series. ... The 1965 comedy film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is set in 1910, at the dawn of aviation when Lord Rawnsley, an English Press magnate, puts up the prize money for an air race from... The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is an espionage novel by John le Carré, which tells the story of Alec Lemas, a British spy, who resigns from the Circus (as the British Secret Service is known in John le Carrés books) and defects to East Germany. ... To Sir, with Love (1967) is a British film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social issues in an inner city school, written and directed by James Clavell and based on a novel of the same name by E.R. Braithwaite. ... François Truffaut’s 1966 movie adaptation: Montag (Oskar Werner) discovers books hidden inside an empty television. ... Born Free is a book written by Joy Adamson in the 1960s about an orphaned Kenya. ... The cover to the VHS of Alfie Alfie is a 1966 film starring Michael Caine. ... Blowup is a 1966 British-Italian art film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, his first to feature an English language screenplay and also the first British film to feature full frontal female nudity (although expurgated in the VHS videotape release). ... A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt, first performed in London on July 1, 1960. ... The Wrong Box is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Bryan Forbes based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. ... How I Won the War is a 1967 film directed by Richard Lester. ... The 1967 advertising poster for the films UK release. ... Far from the Madding Crowd is a novel by 19th century English novelist Thomas Hardy, published in 1874. ... 2003 Penguin Books paperback edition You Only Live Twice is the twelfth novel by Ian Fleming featuring James Bond, secret agent 007; it was published in 1964, around the time Fleming died. ... A railing accidentally collapses at a college football game, spilling fans onto the sidelines An accident is something going wrong unexpectedly. ... If. ... Otley on a market day, looking up Kirkgate with The Chevin in the background Otley is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, by the River Wharfe. ... Up The Junction was the third single released from Squeezes second album, Cool for Cats. ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... Oh! What A Lovely War began life in 1963 as a stage musical by Joan Littlewood and her London Theatre Workshop based on a book by the historian Alan Clark. ... The Italian Job is a British comedy caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson. ... Combatants United Kingdom Germany Italy Commanders Hugh Dowding Hermann Göring Albert Kesselring Strength 700 fighters 1,260 bombers, 316 dive-bombers, 1,089 fighters Casualties 1,547 aircraft, 27,450 civilian dead, 32,138 wounded 2,698 aircraft One of the major campaigns of the early part of World... Anne of the Thousand Days is an Academy Award-winning 1969 costume drama, directed by Charles Jarrot. ...

1970s

• Ryan's Daughter (1970) [156]
• The Railway Children (1970) [157]
• The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) [158]
• Ned Kelly (1970) [159]
• Performance (1970) [160]
• The Go-Between (1971) [161]
• A Clockwork Orange (1971) [162]
• Straw Dogs (1971) [163]
• Walkabout (1971) [164]
• 10 Rillington Place (1971) [165]
• Get Carter (1971) [166]
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) [167]
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972) [168]
• Sleuth (1972) [169]
• Don't Look Now (1973) [170]
• The Wicker Man (1973) [171]
• The Day of the Jackal (1973) [172]
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974) [173]
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) [174]
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) [175]
• The Man Who Would Be King (1975) [176]
• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) [177]
• Jabberwocky (1977) [178]
• Jubilee (1977) [179]
• A Bridge Too Far (1977) [180]
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) [181]
• Alien (1979) [182]
• Life of Brian (1979) [183]
• Tess (1979) [184]

The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Ryans Daughter is David Leans 1970 film which tells the story of an Irish girl who has an affair with an English soldier during World War I, despite opposition from her nationalist neighbours. ... The Railway Children is a childrens book by Edith Nesbit. ... The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is a 1970 film directed and produced by Billy Wilder, and starring Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes. ... Ned Kelly the day before his execution Edward Ned Kelly (c. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Go-Between is a novel by L.P. Hartley (1895 – 1972), published in London in 1953. ... This article describes the novel by Anthony Burgess. ... Straw Dogs is a 1971 film directed by Sam Peckinpah. ... Walkabout is a 1971 Australian film. ... This article might not be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film, directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a gangster who sets out to avenge the death of his brother. ... Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 film which tells the story of a young bisexual man played by Murray Head, who freely jumps from the beds of his male and female lovers played by Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson. ... A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a play by Peter Nichols. ... Sleuth is a comedy-drama play by Anthony Shaffer. ... Dont Look Now is a British film about a couple whose daughter tragically drowns while playing at their English home. ... The Wicker Man is a cult 1973 British film containing thriller, horror and musical elements, directed by Robin Hardy, written by Anthony Shaffer. ... The Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1971, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle. ... Murder on the Orient Express (Collins, London, 1934) also called Murder on the Calais Coach (Dodd Mead, New York, 1934) is a 1934 novel by Agatha Christie, made into a 1974 movie entitled The book was first published in Saturday Evening Post, from July 1 to September 30, 1933. ... The Rocky Horror Picture Show (RHPS) (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a comedy-horror musical film directed by Jim Sharman from a screenplay by Sharman and Richard OBrien, who also composed the songs. ... Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a comedy film from 1975. ... The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 film adapted from the Rudyard Kipling story of the same title. ... The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 film directed by Nicolas Roeg about an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought. ... Jabberwocky (1977) is a film by Monty Pythons resident animator, Terry Gilliam. ... Jubilee is a 1977 cult film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell (Little Nell), Toyah Willcox, Adam Ant, Jordan (the Malcolm McLaren protege), and Hermine Demoriane. ... A Bridge Too Far, a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1974, tells the story of Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem in the occupied Netherlands during World War II. The name for the book comes from a comment made by British... 2003 Penguin Books paperback edition The Spy Who Loved Me is a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming first published in 1962. ... Alien (1979), a science-fiction/horror film, directed by Ridley Scott, kicked off a long succession of sequel films and related works set in the fictional world it depicts. ... Life of Brian is a film from 1979 by Monty Python which deals with the life of Brian (played by Graham Chapman), a young man born at the nearly the same time as, and in a manger right down the street from Jesus. ... Tess is a 1979 romance and drama film based on the novel Tess of the dUrbervilles by Thomas Hardy and directed by Roman Polański. ...

1980s

• The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) [185]
• The Elephant Man (1980) [186]
• The Long Good Friday (1980) [187]
• Gregory's Girl (1980) [188]
• Time Bandits (1981) [189]
• An American Werewolf in London (1981) [190]
• Chariots of Fire (1981) [191]
• Privates on Parade (1982) [192]
• The Missionary (1982) [193]
• Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) [194]
• Gandhi (1982) [195]
• Educating Rita (1983) [196]
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983) [197]
• The Killing Fields (1984) [198]
• A Private Function (1984) [199]
• A Passage to India (1984) [200]
• Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) [201]
• My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) [202]
• Brazil (1985) [203]
• The Emerald Forest (1985) [204]
• When the Wind Blows (1986) [205]
• A Room with a View (1986) [206]
• Mona Lisa (1986) [207]
• 84 Charing Cross Road (1986) [208]
• The Mission (1986) [209]
• Clockwise (1986) [210]
• Withnail and I (1987) [211]
• Wish You Were Here (1987) [212]
• Hope and Glory (1987) [213]
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988) [214]
• Drowning by Numbers (1988) [215]
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) [216]
• My Left Foot (1989) [217]
• The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989) [218]

The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ... The Great Rock n Roll Swindle is a 1979 documentary film directed by Julien Temple featuring The Sex Pistols. ... Joseph Merrick, sometimes called John Merrick, known as The Elephant Man. ... The Long Good Friday (1980) is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. ... Gregorys Girl is a 1981 movie written and directed by Bill Forsyth. ... Time Bandits (first released on July 13, 1981) is a fantasy film, produced and directed by Terry Gilliam (who created animations for Monty Pythons Flying Circus), and is one of the most famous of more than 30 theatrical features produced by Handmade Films, the London-based independent company backed... An American Werewolf in London is a comedy/horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis. ... Chariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981. ... The Missionary is a 1982 British comedy directed by Richard Loncraine, produced by George Harrison, Denis OBrian, Michael Palin (also the films writer) and Neville C. Thompson. ... The Wall is a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd. ... Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) (Devanagari: मोहनदास करमचन्द गांधी, Gujarati મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), called Mahatma Gandhi, was the charismatic leader who brought the cause of Indias independence from British colonial rule to world attention. ... Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell which premièred at The Warehouse, London, in 1980; and a film (1983) directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Julie Walters, Michael Caine, and Maureen Lipman with a screenplay by Russell. ... Merry Christmas, Mr. ... The Killing Fields (1984) is an award-winning dramatic British film based on the experiences of the journalists Dith Pran, who survived the Khmer Rouge regime, Sydney Schanberg, and Jon Swain. ... A Passage to India is a 1984 film directed by David Lean, based on the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster. ... DVD cover for 1984 1984 (sometimes Nineteen Eighty-Four) is a British film based upon the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, released in the eponymous year in the United Kingdom, although not until 1985 in the United States. ... My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 film directed by Stephen Frears. ... The Emerald Forest is a film set in the Brazilian Rainforest. ... When the Wind Blows (1982) is a graphic novel, by British artist Raymond Briggs, that shows a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs. ... A Room with a View is a 1986 Academy Award-winning feature film, adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the book of the same name by E. M. Forster. ... Mona Lisa is a 1986 British film which tells the story of a petty criminal who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl. ... 84, Charing Cross Road is the title of a book by Helene Hanff, published in 1970 about the long correspondence (1949-1969) between Hanff, a resident of New York City, and Frank Doel of the Marks & Co. ... The Mission can refer to: The film The Mission. ... Clockwise can refer to: Clockwise and counterclockwise Clockwise (movie) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Withnail and I is a cult British film made in 1987 by Handmade Films. ... Wish you were here is a 1987 British dramatic/comedy film starring Emily Lloyd and Tom Bell. ... Hope and Glory is a 1987 film which tells the story of a boy growing up in the Blitz in London during World War II. The film is a pseudoautobiographical account of writer/director John Boormans early life. ... A Fish Called Wanda is a movie released in 1988 by MGM. It was written by John Cleese and directed by Charles Crichton. ... Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 motion picture directed by Peter Greenaway. ... The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 film directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville (as the Baron), Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman, Robin Williams and a great many more. ... My Left Foot can refer to: My Left Foot is a book. ... The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 film by director Peter Greenaway starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the titular roles. ...

1990s

• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) [219]
• Memphis Belle (1990) [220]
• The Krays (1990) [221]
• Life is Sweet (1990) [222]
• Truly Madly Deeply (1991) [223]
• Hear My Song (1991) [224]
• Chaplin (1992) [225]
• Peter's Friends (1992) [226]
• Howards End (1992) [227]
• The Crying Game (1992) [228]
• Much Ado About Nothing (1993) [229]
• Shadowlands (1993) [230]
• Bhaji on the Beach (1993) [231]
• The Remains of the Day (1993) [232]
• Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) [233]
• Shallow Grave (1994) [234]
• The Madness of King George (1994) [235]
• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995) [236]
• Sense and Sensibility (1995)

[237] See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from 2000 and 2001. ... DVD cover Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a humorous, absurdist, tragic and existentialist play by Tom Stoppard, first staged in 1966. ... The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 documentary film which documents the last (25th) bombing run of the B-17 bomber Memphis Belle. ... The Krays is a 1990 crime film based on the lives of the East End gangsters the Kray twins. ... Life Is Sweet is also the name of a film by Mike Leigh. ... Jackie is the coolest person ever and we all know it Truly, Madly, Deeply see Truly, Madly, Deeply Truly Madly Deeply was a 1997 hit song by Australian rock band Savage Garden. ... Hear My Song is a 1991 film, written by the actors Peter Chelsom (who directed) and Adrian Dunbar (who plays the lead), based on the true story of legendary Irish tenor, Josef Locke. ... Chaplin is a 1992 semi-biographical film about the life of Charles Chaplin. ... Peters Friends (1992) is a British comedy-drama film written by Rita Rudner and her husband Martin Bergman, and directed and produced by Kenneth Branagh. ... Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, which tells a story of class struggle in turn-of-the-century England. ... The Crying Game is a 1968 novel by John Braine. ... Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ... Shadowlands is a play, TV drama and film written by William Nicholson. ... Bhaji on the Beach is a 1993 film by director Gurinder Chadha. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell. ... Movie Poster Shallow Grave is a 1994 British thriller film, directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge. ... The Madness of King George is a 1994 film which tells the story of King George III of the United Kingdoms deteriorating mental health, and the equally declining relationship between him and his son, the Prince of Wales. ... The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 movie written by Ivor Monger, directed by Christopher Monger and starring Hugh Grant (Reginald Anson), Ian McNeice (George Garrad), Tara Fitzgerald (Betty), Colm Meaney (Morgan the Goat) and Kenneth Griffith (Reverend Robert Jones). The movie... For other uses, see Sense and Sensibility (disambiguation). ...

• Goldeneye (1995) [238]
• Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996) [239]
• Trainspotting (1996) [240]
• Secrets & Lies (1996) [241]
• The English Patient (1996) [242]
• Brassed Off (1996) [243]
• Wilde (1997) [244]
• Bean (1997) [245]
• Event Horizon (1997) [246]
• Mrs. Brown (1997) [247]
• The Full Monty (1997) [248]
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) [249]
• Little Voice (1998) [250]
• Shakespeare in Love (1998) [251]
• Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) [252]
• Elizabeth (1998) [253]
• Topsy-Turvy (1999) [254]
• Plunkett & Macleane (1999) [255]
• Tea with Mussolini (1999)

[256] GoldenEye is the seventeenth James Bond film and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings British secret service agent, James Bond. ... Movie poster for Trainspotting Trainspotting is a 1996 black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh and their passage through life. ... Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British film which tells the story of a successful black woman who, while tracing her family history, discovers that her mother is a lower-class white woman (whose brother is a photographer married to a petty house-proud suburban woman). ... The English Patient is a 1996 film adaptation of the novel by Michael Ondaatje. ... Brassed Off (1996) is a British film written and directed by Mark Herman. ... Mr. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1997 films | Best Actress Oscar Nominee (film) ... The Full Monty is a 1997 comedy film, a story of six unemployed British steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act. ... Tomorrow Never Dies is the eighteenth James Bond film made by EON Productions, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. ... Little Voice is a 1998 British film directed by Mark Herman, and adapted from Jim Cartwrights play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. ... Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 motion picture. ... Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) is a British film directed and written by Guy Ritchie, and produced by Matthew Vaughn. ... Elizabeth or Elisabeth is the name of: Several empresses: Elizabeth of Russia Elisabeth of Bavaria, wife of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, also known as Empress Elisabeth or Sissi; her life being told in Elisabeth, a Musical Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, as Empress of India, the wife of the King-Emperor... Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 film which tells the background story of the creation of The Mikado, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Plunkett and MacLeane. ... Tea With Mussolini (1999) is a semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Lucas upbringing by a kind Englishwoman and her circle of friends. ...

• The World is Not Enough [257]
• East is East (1999) [258]
• Notting Hill (1999) [259]

The World Is Not Enough is the nineteenth official James Bond film made by EON Productions and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond. ... East is East was a movie (released in 1999) of a mixed Pakistani-English household in Salford, Manchester in 1971. ... Notting Hill is a district of London located to the west of the centre and close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park. ...

21st century

• Chicken Run (2000) [260]
• Sexy Beast (2000) [261]
• The Beach (2000) [262]
• Billy Elliot (2000) [263]
• Snatch (2000) [264]
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) [265]
• Gosford Park (2001) [266]
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) [267]
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) [268]
• Dog Soldiers (2002) [269]
• Die Another Day (2002) [270]
• 28 Days Later (2002) [271]
• Bend It Like Beckham (2002) [272]
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) [273]
• Dirty Pretty Things (2002) [274]
• Calendar Girls (2003) [275]
• Love Actually (2003) [276]
• The Mother (2003) [277]
• Sylvia (2003) [278]
• Young Adam (2003) [279]
• 9 Songs (2004) [280]
• Creep (2004) [281]
• Dear Frankie (2004) [282]
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) [283]
• Layer Cake (2004) [284]
• Wimbledon (2004) [285]
• The Libertine (2004) [286]
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)

[287] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A chicken run is also an enclosed yard for keeping poultry. ... Sexy Beast (2000) is a British film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane. ... The Beach (1996) is a novel by Alex Garland about backpackers in Thailand. ... Billy Elliot is a 2000 movie written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. ... Snatch is a 2000 film by British writer-director Guy Ritchie. ... Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone in the United States) was a critically acclaimed and highly successful film released in 2001, based on the fantasy novel of the same name by best-selling author J.K. Rowling. ... Gosford Park is a 2001 film, directed by Robert Altman. ... Bridget Joness Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. ... Spoiler warning: Captain Corellis Mandolin is a novel by Louis de Bernières. ... For the novel by Robert Stone, see Dog Soldiers (book). ... Die Another Day is the twentieth James Bond film made by EON Productions and the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings James Bond. ... 28 Days Later (2002) is a low-budget post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. ... Bend It Like Beckham is a British film released in 2002 and re-released in America in March, 2003, directed by Gurinder Chadha based on the screenplay she wrote with Paul Berges, and Guljit Bindra. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This article is about the film Dirty Pretty Things. ... Calendar Girls is a British film of 2003, based on the true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produce a nude calendar to raise money for charity, under the auspices of the Womens Institute. ... Love Actually is a romantic comedy film first released in cinemas in October and November 2003. ... Movie poster for The Mother The Mother is a 2003 British movie directed by Roger Michell. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 2003 films | British films | Drama films | Romance films ... Young Adam film poster Young Adam is a 2003 film written and directed by David Mackenzie, based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Trocchi, which was first published in 1957. ... Film poster for 9 Songs 9 Songs is a 2004 British film, directed by Michael Winterbottom. ... Movie poster for Creep Creep (2004) is a British slasher film directed by Christopher Smith, starring the German actress Franka Potente. ... UK Movie poster for Dear Frankie Dear Frankie is a 2004 film directed by Shona Auerbach. ... Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) is the third in the Harry Potter film series and was directed by Alfonso Cuarón. ... Layer Cake (also spelled L4YER CAK3) is a 2004 British gangster thriller, directed by Matthew Vaughn. ... Wimbledon is a film released in September 2004. ... The Libertine is a movie that was released in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2005, & March 10, 2006 in the United States. ... Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy, or rom zom com as it dubs itself, released in 2004 (9 April in the United Kingdom, 24 September in the United States). ...

• Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) [288]
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) [289]
• Valiant (2005) [290]
• The Descent (2005) [291]
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) [292]
• Kinky Boots (2005) [293]
• Match Point (2005) [294]
• The Constant Gardener (2005) [295]

Mrs Henderson Presents is a musical comedy film of 2005 directed by Stephen Frears. ... Valiant can refer to Valiant, a British comic published between 1962 and 1976 Valiant, a 2005 movie Valiant Comics, a comic book publisher Valiant : A Modern Tale of Faerie, a book by Holly Black and Sammy Yuen Jr. ... The Descent is a 2005 British horror film, directed and written by Neil Marshall, known for the film Dog Soldiers (2002). ... Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth film in the popular Harry Potter series, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling. ... Kinky boots are boots which are intended for or by some people are connected to some kind of shoe fetishism and thus a form of fetish clothing. ... Match Point is a 2005 film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, and Matthew Goode. ... The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by John le Carré. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat who finds his wife (Tessa) murdered and possibly was cheating on him, and seeks to uncover the truth behind her death. ...

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