Recommended British classic movies
# Bridget Jones's Diary
Ano: 2001 | País: IE
Diretor: Sharon Maguire
Elenco: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2006 | País: GB
Diretor: Martin Campbell
Elenco: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2005 | País: GB
Diretor: Steve Box
Elenco: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1975 | País: GB
Diretor: Terry Gilliam
Elenco: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2000 | País: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Diretor: Stephen Daldry
Elenco: Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Jean Heywood, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1994 | País: GB
Diretor: Mike Newell
Elenco: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow, James Fleet
Sinopse
Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
# Bohemian Rhapsody
Ano: 2018 | País: GB
Diretor: Bryan Singer
Elenco: Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2007 | País: FR
Diretor: Joe Wright
Elenco: James McAvoy, Keira Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave
Sinopse
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
Ano: 2003 | País: FR
Diretor: Richard Curtis
Elenco: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Martine McCutcheon
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1996 | País: United Kingdom, United States of America
Diretor: Anthony Minghella
Elenco: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1981 | País: 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
Ano: 1996 | País: GB
Diretor: Danny Boyle
Elenco: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1975 | País: 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
Ano: 1971 | País: GB
Diretor: Stanley Kubrick
Elenco: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Carl Duering, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Sinopse
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
Ano: 1962 | País: GB
Diretor: David Lean
Elenco: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Sinopse
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.