asjwalsh

Valid point Reg

nettlebed

What de ya think yer ganna find up there, eh?

tonrob

Films:

24 Hour Party People
Twin Town
Trainspotting
Snatch
Lock, Stock


TV:

Alan Partridge
Bo Selecta
Teachers
Peep Show
Gavin and Stacey


And, if Mrs tontob's around then let's add in:

Sliding Doors
About a Boy
Bridget Jones
Notting Hill
Eastenders

Macca67

Other than the missus' stuff you must be my twin. All of those would be on my list with Peep Show at the top.

Good choices, Sprouty.

mikehope

Snatch.
My other favorites have already been said.

Thydney

Full Monty
how about Life on Mars etc

NAR14

I'd highly recommend "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace". It's really really funny.

My other favourites have been mentioned (Alan Partridge, Peep Show, The Inbetweeners).

How about Fawlty Towers? Dads Army?

Bill_S

Dentist on the Job

scrubbedexpat097

The Damned United.

Good movie

coastieexpat

Just a note. If any of you buy from Amazon UK, you can often find lots of films and series unavailable in the U.S.

The only drawback is you may have to watch them on your computer.

I just got the whole 7 series of Shameless for about $75.00 inc. $5 shipping. Amazon U.S. wanted about $80.00 for just the 1st series , the future series were not even available, I suspect there a number of similar deals out there, shipping does take a couple of weeks though.

Mick

Gannett

Ah for the days when BBC 2 showed these cheesy black-n-white British films in the early evening!

Depends on what you're looking for in a film. For me it's simply seeing stuff like cars, street scenes, train, familiar stuff.

My selection would be:
Made in Britain
Boys in Blue (Canon and Ball film - bloody awful, but very British)
Get Carter (alright, a bit of a cliche now, but look at all the Britishness of it)
and the On The Buses films, which, apart from a few ropey scenes, aren't all that bad (apparently Mutiny on the Buses was the biggest grossing film in the UK in 1972!)

chartreuse

Ah, yes.

Also - Stormy Monday, Our Friends in the North, Inspector George Gently, Finney, Spender, The Likely Lads, When The Boat Comes In...

Cape Blue

you just look online for the multi-region hack for you DVD player

cluedweasel

And Blu-Ray tends to be region free. I buy a lot of Blu-ray disks from Amazon UK because they are a fair bit cheaper than the US site when a sale is on.

As for very British movies, the original Italian Job always leaves my U.S. friends more than a little perplexed.

"You must have shot an awful lot of tigers, sir."
"Yes. I used a machine gun."
Classic.

Cape Blue

"you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"