Recommended British classic movies
# Bridget Jones's Diary
年: 2001 | 国: IE
監督: Sharon Maguire
キャスト: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones
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Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance into whom Bridget cannot seem to stop running or help finding quietly attractive.
# Casino Royale
年: 2006 | 国: GB
監督: Martin Campbell
キャスト: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright
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Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
# Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
年: 2005 | 国: GB
監督: Steve Box
キャスト: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith
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Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
# Monty Python and the Holy Grail
年: 1975 | 国: GB
監督: Terry Gilliam
キャスト: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
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King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
# Billy Elliot
年: 2000 | 国: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
監督: Stephen Daldry
キャスト: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis
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County Durham England 1984 the miners strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green starting a class war with the lower classes suffering caught in the middle of the conf
# Four Weddings and a Funeral
年: 1994 | 国: GB
監督: Mike Newell
キャスト: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet
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Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
# Bohemian Rhapsody
年: 2018 | 国: GB
監督: Bryan Singer
キャスト: Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton
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Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
# Atonement
年: 2007 | 国: FR
監督: Joe Wright
キャスト: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave
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As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
# Love Actually
年: 2003 | 国: FR
監督: Richard Curtis
キャスト: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon
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Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
# The English Patient
年: 1996 | 国: United Kingdom, United States of America
監督: Anthony Minghella
キャスト: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews
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In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World W
# Chariots of Fire
年: 1981 | 国: United Kingdom
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In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in C
# Trainspotting
年: 1996 | 国: GB
監督: Danny Boyle
キャスト: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle
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Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seemingly towards a psychotic, drug-fuelled self-destruction.
# Barry Lyndon
年: 1975 | 国: United Kingdom, United States of America
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An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
# A Clockwork Orange
年: 1971 | 国: GB
監督: Stanley Kubrick
キャスト: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Carl Duering, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
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In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
# Lawrence of Arabia
年: 1962 | 国: GB
監督: David Lean
キャスト: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
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The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.