http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313113/

Not bad.

How about State of Play? - with an Aussie and a Brit thrown in for good measure (Russell Crowe and Helen Mirren). Good story.

I quite enjoyed 'Control' about ian curtis from joy division.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421082/

Hunger - about Bobby Sands. Brutal, but compelling. In DVD rental stores.

Nice. That reminded me of this one:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274309/

You need to get out more. To suggest that ALL American movies are shite is balderdash. You're functioning with a closed mind.

Rita, Sue, and Bob too

Inglorious Basterds (2009) - Clever and witty war-comedy by Q. Tarantino, set in France; German/French/Italian/English dialogue. Stars the ebullient Austrian Christoph Waltz.

The Proposition (2005) - Satiric western set in the Antipodes. Stars three poms (Pearce , Watson, Winstone). Written by some guy in a Cave . . .

The Descent (2005) - Refreshing horror flic from Geordie writer/director Neil Marshall. One of the best anti-chick-flicks with chicks I've seen since Russ Meyer's Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) - Brutal/beautiful Irish film (dir. Ken Loach). Examines Brit colonialism circa 1920's Eire. Barry Ackroyd's cinematography is memorable.

Hamlet 2 (2008) - "It's a slippery slope... beer, liquor, dope, coke, meth, chicks with dicks, then jail!" Set in USA - but play is set in Denmark. Deadpan Steve Coogan does a send-up of a failed actor-cum-drama teacher. Stages his own play with HS kids: Hamlet 2.

Dead Snow (2009) - Enjoyable gore-fest Norweigian zombie pic by Tommy Wirkola. Quite impressive for the genre. Include NAZIS as protagonists (q.v. Inglorious Basterds) .

Ginger snaps if you like werewolf movies.

That would be Canadian, or shite as Oink would say. For a Werewolf filum made in the Uk try dog soldiers.

Brilliant!!

Apart from the The Firm (waiting for the DVD in Feb) I've seen all the others but cheers anyway.

24 Hour Party People (funny)

Control (Good)

Hunger (ok)

This Is England (very good)

The Bank Job (awful)

Can't stand Simon Pegg.

The Damned United. Football (it was ok)

I also have seen,

Football Factory (v. good)
Rise of the Foot Solider (ok)
Clubbed (ok)

Snatch?

You are right, but I prefer to characterize it as discerning rather than closed mindedness. When it comes to films or music I know what I like and I've got too much to do to ponce about watching stuff I think is crap, just to feel well rounded.

Ones that have come out in the last year or two.