More films like "Fish Tank" "This is England" "Dead Mans Shoes" ? Anyone?

[Chopper]

If I say that I like films like:

"Fish Tank"
"Red Road"
"This is England" (movie and 86 TV series)
"Dead Mans Shoes"
"A Room for Romeo Brass"
"Snatch"
"Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"

you get a feel for what kind of stuff I like.
English, scottish or Irish workingclass with unemployment, dirty worn down flats, violence, crime, sadness as well as joy or comedy, friends and enemies, perhaps even some romance

Any suggestion what to watch?

[Steve Crook]

Any limit to the time period? Those are all quite recent (to my advanced years). If you go back a few more decades there are plenty of great working class dramas with plenty of unemployment - and usually with better stories and better performances

Steve

[Mortdecai]

NEDS - Non Educated Delinquents. At the cinemas now, by all accounts a great film.

[jimw1]

Made in Britain ...(TV 1982)...Tim Roth's debut






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7kIMZ2Yup0

[Mark O]

If I say that I like films like:

"Fish Tank"
"Red Road"
"This is England" (movie and 86 TV series)
"Dead Mans Shoes"
"A Room for Romeo Brass"
"Snatch"
"Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"

you get a feel for what kind of stuff I like.
English, scottish or Irish workingclass with unemployment, dirty worn down flats, violence, crime, sadness as well as joy or comedy, friends and enemies, perhaps even some romance

Any suggestion what to watch?

I most certainly do Chopper having lived 'kitchen sink' myself, worn down but not dirty (thanks to proud donkey stoning housewives) flats can be seen in 'Vera Drake', set in in 1949/50, deals with the class divide of the time also, I wont say too much if you've not seen it but Vera is, sadly, a criminal.

Lot's of films from the 50's and 60's fit the genre you're after in their own different ways, 'Hell is a city', 'This sporting life', 'Saturday night sunday morning', 'Room at the top', 'A taste of honey' etc; etc;

[GoggleboxUK]

I.D.
Tue$day
Love, Honour & Obey
Sexy Beast
Bronson

[Chopper]

Thanks for your replies, of course there must be lots of good film made a few years ago. It's just that it's the more recent movies you stumble across by a chance. I guess finding those older movies require a little bit of research.
I grew up having black and white television set as a kid in the seventies, so I don't mind old movies.

I searched the list of nominees for The British Independent Film Awards from previous years and found a few interesting films.

Since I don't live in the UK (and never have), there's probably a lot of well known films that I 've never heard about. Where I live, in Sweden, most TV-shows and movies are American, and I've become increasingly fed up with the rich and famous from Hollywood over the years.

[Mr Sloane]

That Sinking Feeling, Gregory's Girl,Love on The Dole,The Stars Look Down,Hindles Wake,The L Shaped Room,Brighton Rock

[Nick Dando]

Mike Leigh's Meantime with Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Alfred Molina, Gary Oldman and Pam Ferris.

Nick

[Steve Crook]

Chopper, have you seen Chopper (2000)? Is your choice of user name based on that or is it coincidence?

It deals with the rougher side of life in Australia

Steve

[Chopper]

A have a book called Chopper about an Austrailian criminal, but i didn't like the way it was written. Maybe the movie is better.
I think the book was only a lot of episodes where he smashed up people and bragged about it. It was a romantic discription of violence. But perhaps violence is more entertaining on film?

And no, my nickname's origin is chopper motorcycles, you now the custom built with long front end. I used to have a modified Triumph 1961

[Steve Crook]

A have a book called Chopper about an Austrailian criminal, but i didn't like the way it was written. Maybe the movie is better.
I think the book was only a lot of episodes where he smashed up people and bragged about it. It was a romantic discription of violence. But perhaps violence is more entertaining on film?

And no, my nickname's origin is chopper motorcycles, you now the custom built with long front end. I used to have a modified Triumph 1961

I haven't read the book, but I thought the film was very good. It is the story of Mark "Chopper" Read. Not overly or unnecessarily violent but it showed his life inside and outside prison very well

Steve

[GoggleboxUK]

I second that, Chopper is an excellent movie.

[Chopper]

I watched "Made in Britain" mensioned above and I really liked it. He had a lot of anger and absolutly no trust in other people.
Sometimes I wonder why I like these sad stories so much. Perhaps it is because my own life looks like a success in comparison.

[Jaguar]

Agree with the opinion that older films are often more entertaining eg., "Sapphire" introduces early race relations. Charlie.

[DeadlyStranger]

Try Nil by Mouth (1997), Raining Stones (1993) or Tyrannosaur (2011)

For a similar look and feel, but much, much lighter edge, see Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987), arguably one of the best films to come out of England in the 1980s.

Black & white era, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), still packs a helluva gritty punch.