Filmography
This is a personal list, but I think it highlights and demonstrates the main examples and movements of British Film.
Blackmail (1929)
Night Mail (1936)
An early Hitchcock (pre-Hollywood) – The Man who Knew Too Much (1934), The Lady Vanishes (1938), The 39 Steps (1935)
Things to Come (Korda – 1936) – sci-fi experiment
Goodbye Mr Chips (1939)
In Which We Serve (1942)
Henry V (1944) – Two Cities Studio
The Wicked Lady (1945)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (P&P 1943)
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Third Man (1949)
The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948) – hugely successful
Hamlet (1948) – best picture Oscar
Some Ealing – The Man In The White Suit (1951), Whisky Galore (1948), The Ladykillers (1955), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Reach for The Sky (1956)
Genevieve (1953)
Doctor In The House (1954)
A St Trinian film
A Hammer – Frankenstein, Dracula
New wave – A Taste of Honey (1961)
Swinging 60s – Darling (1965)
Portrayal of nudity/sex – Blowup (1966) – Antonioni
James Bond – Goldfinger (1964)
Kes (1969) – Loach
Get Carter (1971)
Clockwork Orange (1971)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) – influence from TV
Chariots of Fire (1981) – ‘The British are coming!’
Room With A View (1986)
My Beautiful Launderette (1986)
Withnail and I (1987)
Chaplin (1992) – Richard Attenborough, critical success
Wallace and Gromit (1993) – Aardman
The English Patient (1996) – bailed out by Miramax – is it still British?
Working Title – Four Weddings & A Funeral (1994), Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001)
The Full Monty (1997)
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Mike Leigh – Secrets and Lies (1996), Vera Drake (2004)
Trainspotting (1996) – regional
A Harry Potter
East is East (1999) – multi-cultural
New horror – The Descent (2005) Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002) – Stephen Frears
Atonement (2007) – Joe Wright (also directed Pride & Prejudice)
Miss Hurdley