London Films

[Winot]

I was coming on to say Long Good Friday or Attack the Block but as they’ve already been done, this one:

Rocks: Drama starring schoolgirls wins British Independent Film Awards

Rocks, which cast unknown schoolgirls, wins five prizes at the British Independent Film Awards.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[porp]

Bend It Like Beckham - Wikipedia

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It's not the best film, but it's one of the few that properly conveys the look and feel of suburban West London Asian life caught at a point in time.

 

[porp]

Somers Town (film) - Wikipedia

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I watched this out of a love for Shane Meadows' films, and intrigued to see what a collaboration with Eurostar would come up with. Somers Town is a very obviously cinematic part of London (railway architecture, 60s estates etc) all of which adds to the film without it being rubbed in your face.

 

[D'wards]

Of course Mary Poppins with its authentic portrayal of the cockney people

 

[Sue]

Of course Mary Poppins with its authentic portrayal of the cockney people
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Gorblimey!

 

[D'wards]

I always thought Quadrophenia is a great London film, despite all the best bits being set in Brighton.
I think its a fantastic portrayal of a London youth culture in the 60s

 

[Sue]

A Kid for Two Farthings.
Dirty Pretty Things
Hue and Cry.

 

[porp]

Scenes of a Sexual Nature - Wikipedia

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A weird one this, from the era when loads of British films were getting funded through tax credits schemes/ scams including some that should not have been. You see it on minor channels at night, and it stars everyone you recognise off the telly plus Tom Hardy. SoASN should fulfil the brief of this thread, given that the whole thing is set on Hampstead Heath. But apart from one storyline set in that fancy Italian-y building on the West Heath, and a little bit of the Ponds, it might as well be anywhere.

 

[porp]

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... - Wikipedia

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It may seem strange to list this as a London film, but 3KG was hugely influential in Bollywood cinema for representing London as a kind of backdrop for the transnational ultra mobile lives of the Indian rich. It's a sanitised, commodified London that asks very little of its incurious visitors , except lots of money.

 

[Oula]

The trailer's trash but this is an underrated London film. Watch it again a few months ago and it still holds up.

I went to see the play of this as part of my drama GCSE. it was the best play we saw on the course, really good. Enjoyed the film too

 

[cloudyday]

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Wonderland. Gina Mckee crying on a night bus. Gets me every time. Nyman score.

 

[blossie33]

James Mason narrating - London in the 1960's

 

[Winot]

Wonderland. Gina Mckee crying on a night bus. Gets me every time. Nyman score.

YES YES YES
Saw it when it came out and showed it to my daughters recently. Had to buy a 2nd hand DVD to get it.

 

[Reno]

It Always Rains On Sunday (1947) noirish drama about a working class East End wife and mother who hides her ex-lover, an escaped convict, under the nose of her family to shield him from the police. Exteriors all shot in post war Bethnal Green, one of my favourite British films.

 

[Sue]

Night and the City. Directed by Jules Dassin, with Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney and post-WW2 London.

 

[MrSki]

Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris. Might not think from the title but the early part is set in London and it is available on Youtube. Angela Lansbury & Omar Shariff.

 

[Reno]

 

[D'wards]

Kidulthood all set around London. Never to see the light of day again now.

Oh dear how sad never mind

 

[oryx]

Wonderland. Gina Mckee crying on a night bus. Gets me every time. Nyman score.

Bah, I was going to post that one but you beat me to it! Great film. The long-range shots of London at night are one of the main things I remember it for.

Some good recommendations on here.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Lot of London, Lots of Melville, quite a mesmerising film with plenty of Waterloo, London Wall and other city locations.


This has been my lockdown survival film. Everything one needs is here.

 

[Orang Utan]

Lot of London, Lots of Melville, quite a mesmerising film with plenty of Waterloo, London Wall and other city locations.


This has been my lockdown survival film. Everything one needs is here.

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I’ve tried ‘I’d prefer not to’ at work but it doesn’t fly with them

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I’ve tried ‘I’d prefer not to’ at work but it doesn’t fly with them

It's not for every occasion

 

[krtek a houby]

Gorgo destroyed easily recognised London landmarks

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Some of that filmed off the coast of south Dublin, too

 

[krtek a houby]

Withnail and I, set in grungey end of 60s London.

 

[MrSki]

Breaking Glass is another good one for London locations & venues.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Brixton, Soho, New Cross, Phil Collins, Caine, Hoskins, a white rabbit, and various fancy West London gaffs..London is all over this (and it all ends miserably in Brighton - which is what happens when people think that there is better than London!!!!)

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Sparrows Can't Sing - Wikipedia

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The changing East End from Joan Littlewood and the


"first English language film to be released in the United States with subtitles"

 

[Orang Utan]

Few films show the REAL AUTHENTIC London better than Mary Poppins:

 

[MrSki]

Few films show the REAL AUTHENTIC London better than Mary Poppins:
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Bednobs & Broomsticks?