The first scene in Danny Boyle’s symbolic UK-set zombie fest is hairy in more ways than one: a group of animal activists descend on a biological vivisection centre and release a chimpanzee infected with rage, a contagious rabies-like virus. DAīuy, rent or watch ‘The Railway Children’Ĭast Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson Nice to see it make the list of best British movies, albeit in the penultimate spot. Naturally, the film won’t play well with today’s digital generation – it’s far too fusty and polite in both tone and colour – but it still has the capacity to generate fond childhood memories. Jenny Agutter and little Sally Thomsett are the film’s cornerstones, but a special mention to Bernard Cribbins’s archetypal British stationmaster. With a sudden urge to start life over in the country, the remaining family members – mother Dinah Sheridan and her three children – up sticks and settle alongside a quaint Yorkshire railway line where the film slowly begins to work its very English charm. Recommended: London and UK cinema listings, film reviews and exclusive interviews.Ĭast Dinah Sheridan, William Mervyn, Jenny AgutterĪs warm and cosy as a cup of Horlicks, Lionel Jeffries’s 1970 adaptation of E Nesbit’s Edwardian children’s novel centres on a well-to-do London family torn apart when its patriarch is arrested on suspicion of treason. Written by Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, David Jenkins, Derek Adams, Geoff Andrew, Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Wally Hammond, Alim Kheraj & Phil de Semlyen
To celebrate all things British cinema, we polled over 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, critics and industry bigwigs from the likes of Wes Anderson, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes and Terence Davies, David Morrissey, Sally Hawkins and Thandie Newton to put together a definitive list of 100 of the best British movies ever made. Not that there's anything wrong with those, it’s just that Britain has produced some of the world's greatest pieces of cinema. From the comic genius of Monty Python to the devastating horror of Don’t Look Now, British films are responsible for some iconic moments across all genres, from science-fiction to romance, historical epic to. Never mind the stereotypes, there’s much more to British movies than foppish romcoms written by Richard Curtis.
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