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Movies that have London scenes
I am looking for suggestions on Movies that include a lot of scenes from London
Both family friendly and not. Two that I could think off the top of my head are Notting Hill and What a Girl Wants What others does everyone suggest? |
84 Charing Cross Road!
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Love Actually, Match Point, Closer
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About a Boy
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Wimbledon, Bridget Jones - both had scenes at The Stoke Park Club and London. The Wedding Date with Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney.
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What A Girl Wants
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A fish called Wanda, and Sliding doors. My favorite was Matchpoint.
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Were there really no films made before 1995, and do posters on this board really only watch Hollywood junk?
Because that's what a Martian would deduce from the recommendations so far -apart from Jamikins's near-definitive recommendation. Though anyone who seriously believes, as the author of the Wikipedia article seems to, that the awful, and rarely seen in the real world, |
Were there really no films made before 1995, and do posters on this board really only watch Hollywood junk?
Because that's what a Martian would deduce from the recommendations so far -apart from Jamikins's near-definitive recommendation. The Wikipedia article is - with one inexplicable omission - an almost perfect list of films shot here - all presenting an infinitely more interesting city than the trite nonsense churned out by films starring Cleese or Grant. By far the best cinematography of London in the Wikipedia list has to be the 1995 version of Richard III. The inexplicable omission? The BBC remake (not the 1962 original) of Day of the Triffids (on DVD from Amazon etc). Featuring, at one point, what was then my house. |
"Brazil" is it.
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See if you can get hold of some old British films (especially immediately postwar) on DVD to compare and contrast - I'm thinking Hue and Cry, Passport to Pimlico, and a little later Genevieve, A Kid for Two Farthings and the original Alfie (with Michael Caine). Somewhere I think Bill Bryson asks if it was compulsory in the 1960s for all British films to include an overhead shot of four pretty people crossing Tower Bridge in an open-top Mini....
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I like the Gwyneth Paltrow film "Sliding Doors"--not family friendly but a good date film.
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Go to
www.imdb.com/search type out "london" under word search select "Location" in the pull-down menu and then do a search. It listed 3774 movies. Some may be from London ONT or New London CONN, and I'm not sure if this a list of films shot in London or films whose story takes place in London. |
"Genevieve" [the one about the vintage car race ].
"Thirty nine steps". [the first one] "Rumpole" [yes I know that's telly, but it's available on DVD and is set in the Temple] "An American werewolf in London" Any old Sherlock Holmes movie. |
28 Days Later. Not at all family friendly but lots of interesting scenes of a deserted London in the first half.
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Agreed Patrick, Passport to Pimlico, a comedy showing the after-WWII neighborhood bombed out, is a stunning reality check. And the original Alfie, that is just a great window onto London life.
Debra Messing and Rene Bridget what? I don't think so. |
The Lady Killers - some marvellously evocative shots of some less salubrious areas about 50 years ago.
Also The Lavender Hill Mob. |
er.....101 Dalmatians?
(1996--family friendly despite Glen Close as Cruella De Vil) |
10 Rillington Place
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