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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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Fidel - you're getting your names all mixed up. Too much celebrating the 4th? Ga9497 asked for movies that included many scenes of London. I posted those. I do not understand your sarcastic reply.
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Anne of the Thousand Days. A Man for All Seasons. Elizabeth. Any of the Sherlock Holmes films (and the fine TV series with Jeremy Brett). There are dozens and dozens.
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Don't want to turn this into a fight, but the "London" in Bridget Jones and Notting Hill (and, I suspect, similar movies) is not exactly realistic.
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Couldn't agree more Patrick -- there are so many many great British films and actors, to hold Hollywood's version of "London" in equal or high esteem is the equivalent of touting McDonald's on a Paris food thread. And I'm not a film buff or anything, but I see British movies as a way to know the place a little, otherwise sterling opportunities lost.
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Bend It Like Beckham
Lassiter 4 Weddings Re-make of The Parent Trap |
Bride and Prejudice, the Bollywood version of Pride and Prejudice.
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Match Point (Creepy movie)
Love Absolutely Watch the new Doctor Who series |
Oops Love Actually
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Adding a few newer movies:
<u>28 weeks later</u> (sequel to 28 days later) <u>Scoop</u> <u>Run Fatboy Run</u> (lots of great scenes) <u>Garfield Tale of two Kitties </u> |
didn't see the Bourne films mentioned. I think it is the most recent that has a great scene in Waterloo (not sure if it was shot onsite, but it looked like what I recall of Waterloo). Also, in the first Bourne (I think) there is a scene that I believe was in the liverpool street station, but someone can correct me.
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ALfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy"
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Just watched <u>Bourne Ultimatum</u> on TV - great scenes of Waterloo station.
Watched <u>Love Actually</u> the other day. It's been mentioned earlier in this thread, but just listing it again. Like this movie a lot, and some lovely scenes from South Bank (towards East at St Paul's Cathedral) and Millennium Bridge. |
A touch of Class,
Sunday, Bloody Sunday 4 weddings and a funeral |
<b>Last Chance Harvey</b> has some scenes of the South Bank (they kept walking back and forth along the Thames), but otherwise very boring movie.
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Hanover Street
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Let him Have It...lots of scenes of some areas of London looked like in the 1950's....
It is the true story of the barbaric hanging of Dereck Bentley for a crime he did not commit. |
Help! / A Hard Day's Night
Gosford Park, which I'm watching right now, had some shots filmed at Syon House near the Thames. Hook--at least the Peter Pan statue The Great Train Robbery Rumpole of the Bailey (PBS series) Oliver! My Fair Lady Bleak House Nicholas Nickleby Great Expectations and I'm sure other movies/TV miniseries based on Dickens novels Shakespeare in Love |
Waterloo Brisge
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"It is the true story of the barbaric hanging of Dereck Bentley for a crime he did not commit."
It's the highly slanted story or the strasightforward hanging of Derek Bentley for a murder he was present at and encouraged the perpetrator to commit. Which at the time was a capital offence Amazing though it might seem, the innocent sod who was actually murdered at Berntley's instigation has never been the subject of one of these "ah poor victim" travesties. Only murderers - or their accomplices - get turned into heroes. |
flanneruk...
Who shot PC Miles? Let him have it, Chris was Bentley's plea to the real perp to hand over the gun? Bentley was 19 years old with a mentality of an 11 year old....even in the barbaric USA we're not allowed to execute the mentally retarded. |
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