Is your fave among top 50 Brit films we like to view again and again?
With many new film releases delayed until 2021, there is sanctuary to be found in reliving the pleasures of favourite films.
A poll by Google Pixel 5 found more than half of us enjoy watching a film more than a second time.
So, to help people during the lockdown period, they have teamed up with the British Film Institute to help people re-discover the magic of British cinema. They have selected silver screen moments of the past with a selection of 50 top rewatchable films, broken down by genres, from the last 50 years.
LAUGH East is East (1999):
In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
Gosford Park (2001):
The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder.
Shaun of the Dead (2004): A man’s life is disrupted by the zombie apocalypse. Simon Pegg stars.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005): Wallace and his dog set discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village.
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008): A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher.
In the Loop (2009): A political satire about a group of sceptical American and British operatives.
Four Lions (2010): Four incompetent British terrorists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.
Sightseers (2012): Events conspire against a couple and their dream caravan holiday.
SCARE 28 Days Later (2002):
After a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
ROMANCE
A Room With A View (1985): Lucy meets George in Florence, sharing a brief romance before Lucy returns home, where she becomes engaged to Cecil. However, George unexpectedly enters her life again. Helena Bonham Carter stars.
Truly Madly Deeply (1990): A woman dealing with inconsolable grief over the death of her partner gets another chance when he returns to earth as a ghost.
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994): Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love. Hugh Grant stars.
Sense and Sensibility (1995): Rich Mr Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance.
Shakespeare in Love (1998): William Shakespeare meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Atonement (2007): Thirteen-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.
Weekend (2011): After a house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. He picks up Glen for a one-night stand.
Phantom Thread (2017): Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose life is disrupted by a young, woman.
DRAMA The Go-Between (1971):
Forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.
Barry Lyndon (1975): An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow in 18th-century England. Ryan O’Neal stars
The Long Good Friday (1980): A gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown threat.
Orlando (1992): After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world. Tilda Swinton stars.
The Remains of the Day (1993): A butler sacrificed body and soul to service.
The English Patient (1996): At the close of World War Two, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004): Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
This is England (2006):
A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads.
Fish Tank (2009): Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Locke (2013): Ivan Locke, a dedicated family man receives a phone call that changes his life.
Pride (2014): Gay activ
ists help miners during the 1984 strike.
The Souvenir (2019): A young film student becomes romantically involved with a complicated man.
Attack the Block (2011): A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.
Skyfall (2012): Daniel Craig’s James Bond defends the world.
CULT
Performance (1970): A gangster seeks refuge from the mob in the Bohemian home of a former rock star.
A Clockwork Orange (1971): In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conductaversion experiment,
The Wicker Man (1973): A puritan cop arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl.
Monty Python’s Life of
Brian (1979): Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Quadrophenia (1979): Jimmy seeks solace with his mod clique.
Babylon (1980): Trials and tribulations of young black youths in troubled London in the early eighties.
Withnail & I (1987): Two unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.
Trainspotting (1996): Life in the Edinburgh drug scene.
Dog Soldiers (2002): Routine military exercise turns into a nightmare.
Children of Men (2006): In 2027 women have become infertile. A former activist transports a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
Moon (2009): A man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a stint as a miner on the moon.
Under the Skin (2013): A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men.
Duke of Burgundy (2014): A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests her relationship with her lesbian lover.
BIOGRAPHY
24 Hour Party People (2002): Bio-pic on Tony Wilson, of Factory Records
Amy (2010): Portrait of late singer Amy Winehouse.
Good Vibrations (2012): A chronicle of Terri Hooley’s life on the Belfast punk scene.
Belle (2013): Life of black aristocrat in the 18th century.
The Theory of Everything (2014): Early life of scientist Stephen Hawkin.
The Favourite (2018): In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne.