Brief Encounter (1945), The Chalk Garden (1964), Mrs Brown (1997), Blithe Spirit (1945), Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009), Callan (1974), Carry on Screaming (1966), The End of the Affair (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best British Style movies.
Storyline: At a café on a railway station, housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Although they are both already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet every Thursday in the small café, although they know that their love is impossible.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british film, black and white, classic, extramarital affair, train station ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A grandmother (Dame Edith Evans) seeks a governess for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Laurel (Hayley Mills), who manages to drive away everyone so far by exposing her past, with a record of three in one week. When an applicant with a mysterious past manages to get the job, Laurel vows to expose her. Meanwhile, Laurel's mother Olivia (Elizabeth Sellars) tries to get her back.—Nasser <NasKU@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, british, black and white, classic, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy crisis.
Plot Keywords: history, biography, drama, british, victorian era, royalty, queen ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: To get background for a new book, author Charles Condomine (Sir Rex Harrison) and his second wife Ruth (Constance Cummings) light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati (Dame Margaret Rutherford) to give a séance. The unfortunate result is that Charles' first wife Elvira (Kay Hammond) returns from beyond the grave to make his life something of a misery. Ruth too gets increasingly irritated with her supernatural rival, but Madame Arcati is at her wit's end as to how to sort things out.—J-26
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, romance, supernatural, ghost, marriage, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The script, written by Jamie Mathieson, follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub. Faris plays a girl from the future who sets the adventure in motion.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, time travel, british film, independent film, humor, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David Callan top agent/assassin for the S.I.S., was forced to retire because he had lost his nerve. Now, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman. His former boss promises Callan that he'll be returned to active status if he follows orders, but as always Callan refuses to act until he knows why Schneider has been marked for death.—Marg Baskin <marg@asd.raytheon.ca>
Plot Keywords: spy, action, thriller, crime, british film, cold war, assassin ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A British sleuth (Harry H. Corbett) and his sidekick find monsters at the mansion of a mad doctor (Kenneth Williams) and his sister (Fenella Fielding).
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, parody, british film, black and white, classic, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In war-torn London, Maurice Bendrix (Van Johnson) falls in love with neighbor Sarah Miles (Deborah Kerr). They begin an illicit romance behind Sarah's husband's back. While war does not last forever, neither does love in this existentialist tale.—Robert Bole <rjbmbv@teleport.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, british, 1950s, novel adaptation, extramarital affair, psychological conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british, black and white, classic, police, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, classic adaptation, british literature, 19th century, manor, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Desirous of an heir, the remote and cruel Lord Rohan (James Mason) marries pretty young Clarissa Marr (Phyllis Calvert). Soon after, Clarissa discovers old school friend Hesther Shaw (Margaret Lockwood), now impoverished in an acting troupe, and brings her home, unaware that Hesther has long nursed resentment of her good fortune. While the ambitious Hesther sets her sights on Rohan, she also secretly encourages Clarissa into a relationship with affable gypsy Peter Rokeby (Stewart Granger).
Plot Keywords: historical drama, melodrama, british film, 1940s, black and white, revenge, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, romance, british, royalty, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: School is out, and three girls head to the beach for vacation. Two of the girls are world-wise party-goers who attempt to loosen up their naive, virginal friend, whose uncle has allowed the girls to stay at his beach house. When the near-sighted, drug smuggling Captain Bly dumps his cargo of marijuana, the bales wash up on shore. The two party girls, Ginger and Ducky, quickly stuff the dope into giant bags and spirit it back to the beach house, where it fuels a party with assorted misfits, delivery persons, and passersby.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, rural life, dance, loneliness, marriage, social pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sir Richard (John Turner) and his second wife (Heather Sears) hear of 18th-century evil done by someone who looks like Sir Richard.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, gothic, british film, black and white, psychological horror, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two teens (Helen Shapiro, Craig Douglas) organize a jazz festival despite objections from the mayor (Felix Felton).
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, british film, dance, 1960s, nostalgia, romance ...
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