MC Consensus: British Isles

[Spinal]

Submit your TEN to TWENTY favorite films from the British Isles and .... eventually .... I will give you a list of the top films. Films should have UK or Ireland as a country of origin in IMDb:

The point system is as follows

1st Place- 20 points
2nd Place - 18 points
3rd Place - 16 points
4th Place - 14 points
5th Place - 12 points
6th Place - 10 points
7th Place - 9 points
8th Place - 8 points
9th Place - 7 points
10th Place - 6 points
11th Place - 5 points
12th Place - 4.5 points
13th Place - 4 points
14th Place - 3.5 points
15th Place - 3 points
16th Place - 2.5 points
17th Place - 2 points
18th Place - 1.5 points
19th Place - 1 point
20th Place - .5 points

(Point system is weighted to give your top films a boost and to minimize the discrepancy between the films in the bottom half of your list.)

There will be no restrictions on short films. A list must have ten films to be eligible. If you list more than twenty films, I will assume that the top twenty films are the ones you want to receive points. If you do not list your films 1-20, I will assign the points from the top on down.

If you decide to edit your ballot, please make a new post indicating the changes. I will give at least 24 hours warning before tallying votes.

If, for some reason, you would like to like to submit your ballot via private message, I will accept those as well. However, your ballot will be revealed after the final results are posted.

You may begin now.

[Spinal]

OK, let's try this. Please note the altered rules. I am letting you list as many as 20 films for this thread. Minimum is 10. UK and Ireland eligible. I will make a final list as large as the statistics warrant.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. The Man in the White Suit (1951)
2. The War Game (1965)
3. Lord of the Flies (1963)
4. Blow-Up (1966)
5. The Maggie (1954)
6. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
7. The Crying Game (1992)
8. The Duellists (1977)
9. Life of Brian (1979)
10. Kes (1969)

11. The Wrong Trousers (1993)
12. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
13. Shaun of the Dead (2004)
14. Peeping Tom (1960)
15. My Childhood (1972)
16. Time Bandits (1981)
17. Overlord (1975)
18. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
19. Sexy Beast (2000)
20. Frenzy (1972)

The Elephant Man and Children of Men didn't seem sufficiently British.

[Lazlo]

1. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. The Bridge on the River Kwai
5. Bright Star
6. Fish Tank
7. Sunshine
8. Brooklyn
9. Control
10. Hunger
11. 28 Days Later
12. Once
13. Senna
14. Wallace and Gromit in "The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"
15. In the Loop
16. Sweet Sixteen
17. In America
18. Gandhi
19. The Elephant Man
20. Far From the Madding Crowd (2015)

[Spinal]

1. Life of Brian
2. A Zed and Two Noughts
3. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
4. Brazil
5. The War Game
6. Once
7. Prospero's Books
8. A Clockwork Orange
9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10. Marat/Sade

11. Orlando
12. Drowning By Numbers
13. The Wrong Trousers
14. O Lucky Man!
15. Henry V
16. Shaun of the Dead
17. Lawrence of Arabia
18. The French Lieutenant's Woman
19. Happy Go Lucky
20. Prick Up Your Ears

[dreamdead]

1. The Red Shoes
2. A Zed and Two Noughts
3. Secrets and Lies
4. Naked
5. A Room with a View
6. Blow-Up
7. This is England
8. The Dead
9. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
10. 28 Days Later

11. Dead Man’s Shoes
12. Brief Encounter
13. O Lucky Man!
14. The Third Man
15. The Crying Game
16. Distant Voices, Still Lives
17. The War Game
18. Brooklyn
19. Ratcatcher
20. In the Name of the Father

Not quite: Bloody Sunday, Fish Tank

[Lazlo]

1. The Red Shoes
2. A Zed and Two Noughts
3. Secrets and Lies
4. Naked
5. A Room with a View
6. Blow-Up
7. This is England
8. The Dead
9. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
10. 28 Days Later

Regrettably absent:
Dead Man’s Shoes
The Third Man
The Crying Game
Brief Encounter
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Ratcatcher
Brooklyn
In the Name of the Father
Bloody Sunday
The War Game
O Lucky Man!
Fish Tank

You can do up to 20 this time, so you don't have to have quite so many regrets!

[dreamdead]

D'Oh. Clearly more reading skills are necessary.

[Melville]

Leaving off a bunch of American co-productions to thin the field,

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Third Man
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Bright Star
5. Deep End
6. The Servant
7. Hunger
8. The Wicker Man
9. Night and the City
10. The Devils

11. A Zed & Two Noughts
12. Naked
13. Kes
14. Another Year
15. A Passage to India
16. Once
17. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
18. The Lobster
19. Locke
20. 45 Years

Could've just as easily included Repulsion, Secrets and Lies, Odd Man Out, O Lucky Man!, The Deep Blue Sea, In the Loop, The Duke of Burgundy, Don't Look Now, The Browning Version, Under the Skin

[Gizmo]

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The War Zone
3. Barry Lyndon
4. The Life of Brian
5. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
6. Trainspotting
7. The Third Man
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. The Magdalene Sisters
10. Children of Men

11. Atonement
12. Brazil
13. Gosford Park
14. The Crying Game
15. The Bridge on the River Kwai
16. Ghandi
17. Once
18. Wallace and Grommit: Curse of the Wererabbit
19. The Elephant Man
20. 28 Days Later

[baby doll]

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
2. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terence Davies, 1988)
3. A Zed and Two Noughts (Peter Greenaway, 1985)
4. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
5. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell / Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
6. Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
7. The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
8. Providence (Alain Resnais, 1977)
9. The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
10. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)
    
11. The Draughtsman's Contract (Peter Greenaway, 1982)
12. Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968)
13. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)
14. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949)
15. Performance (Donald Cammell / Nicolas Roeg, 1970)
16. Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
17. The Browning Version (Anthony Asquith, 1951)
18. Brief Encounter (David Lean, 1945)
19. The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)
20. Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, 1936)

[Peng]

1. Brief Encounter
2. The Long Day Closes
3. The Descent
4. In America
5. Sunshine (2007)
6. The Red Shoes
7. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
8. The Innocents
9. The Lady Vanishes
10. Kind Hearts and Coronets

11. The Bridge on the River Kwai
12. Secrets and Lies
13. Romeo and Juliets (1968)
14. A Matter of Life and Death
15. Once
16. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
17. Happy-Go-Lucky
18. Lawrence of Arabia
19. The Third Man
20. Song of the Sea

[Yxklyx]

How are you making these lists? When I use UK on IMDB's search I get nearly all of Kubrick's films and a lot of other films that I would never have considered.

[Mysterious Dude]

I looked at all my highest-rated movies and picked out the British ones. IMDB wasn't very helpful this time.

[Grouchy]

Ok, I can do this now. So it's basically all British films?

1. Peeping Tom
2. The Third Man
3. The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. The World's End
6. Life of Brian
7. Trainspotting
8. The Man Who Would Be King
9. A Matter of Life and Death
10. This is England

11. The Long Good Friday
12. The Crying Game
13. Shaun of the Dead
14. Hope and Glory
15. The Fallen Idol
16. Melody
17. Performance
18. Ratcatcher
19. Withnail & I
20. The 39 Steps

[Grouchy]

Am I the first one to include The Man Who Would Be King? So sad.

[Spinal]

Apparently using the term 'British Isles' to refer to the United Kingdom and Ireland collectively is something of a controversial topic.

[Grouchy]

Well, d'oh. IIRC the Irish have blown a few people to pieces because of it.

[baby doll]

How are you making these lists? When I use UK on IMDB's search I get nearly all of Kubrick's films and a lot of other films that I would never have considered.

I did mine mostly from memory, though there were a few borderline cases (The River, Petulia, Providence) where I had to double check before adding them.

[Raiders]

1. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
2. The Servant (1963)
3. The War Game (1965)
4. O Lucky Man! (1973)
5. Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
6. The Butcher Boy (1997)
7. The House of Mirth (2000)
8. Naked (1993)
9. Brief Encounter (1945)
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
11. Barry Lyndon (1975)
12. Ratcatcher (1999)
13. The Red Shoes (1948)
14. The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
15. Mona Lisa (1986)
16. Accident (1967)
17. Another Year (2010)
18. Excalibur (1981)
19. Peeping Tom (1960)
20. A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)

[baby doll]

Edited my list to make it fully numerical.

[Spinal]

Edited my list to make it fully numerical.

I tally these as we go along. So when you edit without telling me what changed, I have to start all over again.

[baby doll]

I tally these as we go along. So when you edit without telling me what changed, I have to start all over again.

Sorry about that. It's the same films, I just put them in a numerical order (whereas before they were arranged chronologically).

[Spinal]

No problem. Thanks for the clarification.

[Spinal]

Anyone else?