What would your all time classic British movie collection contain & who gave the finest performances?

Most of the British films I have seen and what particularly stands out at the moment are the Bond films, especially those of Sean Connery as 007. . .

A Clockwork Orange

Shaun of the Dead

Threads (technically a TV movie, but still excellent)

Atonement

films:
hamlet, 1944
clockwork orange, 1971
the third man, 1949
dr. strangelove, 1954
the adventures of baron munchausen, 1988
dr. no, 1962

actors:
dame elizabeth taylor
cary grant
charlie chaplin
sir laurence olivier

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Alfie
Wuthering Heights
Lawrence of Arabia
Tom Jones
The Full Monty
Brief Encounter
Mrs. Miniver
Kind Hearts and Coronets

- are just a few that come to mind. There are so, so many great ones!

@janbb There certainly are,although they were well before my time I love the Ealing comedies in particular.The Ladykillers & The Lavender Hill Mob being two classic examples…...why am I telling you this? They weren’t in your list…oh well there you go.

@ucme I thought of including them but ran out of steam; they definitely make the cut!

hobson’s choice! how can this one be left out! charles laughton and wendy hiller. 1930’s my mums favourite boo hoo I miss her

Speaking of Wnedy Hiller, there is an adorable old movie called I Know Where I’m Going that is just great!

For the record my personal favourites include;
The Bridge On The River Kwai
Zulu
Get Carter
The Italian Job
No coincidence Michael Caine features in three of those methinks.

Lawrence Of Arabia and Peter O’Toole.

Also a big big fan of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Python was kind of a gimme.

Michael Palin on his own has done some really nice work. After all, he was The Sun in Wind of the Willows. Of course.

A Private Function and The Missionary are two small, but brilliant films he starred in.

I think Truly Madly Deeply has to be up there. Alan Rickman is the bomb.

Secrets & Lies
Trainspotting
Shallow Grave
Naked
Life Is Sweet
The Crying Game
The Elephant Man
Gregory’s Girl
Educating Rita

I mean, dude, c’mon. I can’t list them all. I can’t. There’s too many. And tell someone to put David Tennant as a leading man in a film, stat. It’s time he moved up to Premiere League.

Oh, and I recently saw Damian Lewis in the 2003 series The Forsyte Saga. He’s fantastic! His portrayal of Soames Forsyte was pitch perfect, my god. There’s too many great actors in the UK as well; Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Eccleston, Sophie Okonedo, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ewan McGregor, and on and on and on…

We used to get a kick out of the Carry On movies.