Your Top Ten London-Based Films

Let's nail this.

Melody (aka SWALK)
Blow Up
Alfie
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Quadrophenia
The Lavender Hill Mob
Smashing Time
The Long Good Friday
The Ipcress File
Performance

Any advance?

 

Never Let Go - 1960 - Peter Sellers

 

Victim
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Performance
Georgy Girl
Brief Encounter
The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp
Foreign Correspondent
Nil By Mouth
Naked
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Have to add:
Alfie
Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner

 

what a great film. as depressing as f**k though!

 

Yes it was, but Kathy Burke and Ray Winstone are brilliant in it. Burke especially gave a devastating performance.

 

agreed!

 

I'd also like to mention a British mystery called "The Third Secret" from 1964. Basically a who done it, it stars Stephen Boyd and a 13 year old Pamela Franklin (who also starred in "...Jean Brodie") who gives an award worthy performance. Very overlooked film but well worth seeing.

 

Never heard of it! Thanks for the recommendation!

 

'Sparrows Can't Sing' is a curio worth checking out. Not a classic by any means, but a slice of London long gone. I believe the Pub that features in the film was run by The Kray Twins.

 

Oh no! I forgot 'Up The Junction'!

 

O.K. I looked thru my blu ray/dvd collection and came up with these, I think they are all based in London.

Sitting Target - 1972
The Squeeze - 1977
Mona Lisa - 1986
Never Let Go - 1960
The Hidden Room / aka Obsession - 1949
Night and The City - 1950
An American Werewolf In London - 1981
A Fish Called Wanda - 1988
Harry Brown - 2009
Dirty Pretty Things - 2002

 

Piccadilly
It Always Rains on Sunday
Hue and Cry
Peeping Tom
Quatermass and the Pit
Repulsion
A Clockwork Orange
Moonlighting

 

classic!

 

British "kitchen sink" film, right? Missed that one.
Forgot about "To Sir With Love".

 

Oh yeah. Released as "Five Million Years To Earth" in the States. Great sci fi.

 

Another one to slip the net!

 

and -

The Fallen Idol
Deep End

 

brilliant!

 

Deep End with Tilda Swinton? Maybe I'm wrong but didn't that take place in California?

 

Never mind. I see there was a 1970 film with Jane Asher by that title. Sorry!

 

An American Werewolf in London.

Um . . . Attack the Block, maybe?
Snatch maybe?

John HP and Zen Archer mentioned a few more that I like:

A Clockwork Orange
A Fish Called Wanda
Mona Lisa

 

Just before he made The Third Man, Carol Reed made this excellent little film in London - also based on a Graham Greene story.

Deserves to be better known.

 

At Lake Tahoe I think

 

How I forgot this one, I'll never know. One of my fave films, period.

 

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