The top 100 LONDON films of all time

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1. LONG GOOD FRIDAY

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

2. LONDON
3. ROBINSON IN SPACE

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

4. FRENZY (yes!)
5. DIRTY PRETTY THINGS

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

6. NIL BY MOUTH
7. THE LODGER
8. THE NINE LIVES OF THOMAS KATZ

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

This is of course highly subjective and that's why I say...

9. CLOSER

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 July 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone here seen THE LONDON NOBODY KNOWS? I've read the book, and I'd love to see the film too, but I don't know if it's available at all. Didn't St. Etienne organised a screening of it a couple of years back?

(for that matter, is the film version of Finisterre any good?)

Must get the Robinson In Space DVD some time.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

10. WITHNAIL & I

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

11. 39 STEPS (Donat one, first 20 mins anyway)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

12. CHRISTY MALRY'S OWN DOUBLE ENTRY
13. SABOTAGE

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Sunday, 10 July 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

14. the Lady Killers
15. Passport to Pimlico

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 10 July 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

16. london kills me

― ---BRuno, Sunday, 10 July 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

17. Billy Liar, just for the quote that starts "London's a very big place, Mr. Shadrack"

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 10 July 2005 07:33 (twenty years ago)

18. Bunny Lake Is Missing
19. Seven Days To Noon
20. Quatermass And The Pit

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 10 July 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

21. Spider

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Sunday, 10 July 2005 07:41 (twenty years ago)

22. Wonderland

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 July 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

23. Alfie

― JimD (JimD), Sunday, 10 July 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Why are you all using mixed case?

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

24. Oliver!

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

25. The Bed Sitting Room.
26. Mona Lisa.
27. The Crying game
28. An American werewolf in London

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

29. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

30. NIGHT AND THE CITY

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

31. Martin Clunes' STAGGERED (Filmed in HENDON!)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

(except for the bit filmed in Inverness Airport where my brother works!)

32. SHAUN OF THE DEAD!

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

33. FISH CALLED WANDA
34. BEAUTIFUL THING

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

35. bedazzled
36. naked

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

37 'sabotage'
38 'blow up'

― n_RQ, Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

39. prick up your ears

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

40. darling (even though i've never seen it)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

41. SPICEWORLD: THE MOVIE
42. MARY POPPINS
43. THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Chuck Tatum, is that your correct email address? I need to communicate with you re: literati tourney and my last mail just bounced.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 10 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

44. MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE

― Nevada Lime (nordicskilla), Sunday, 10 July 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

45 Sunday Bloody Sunday Glenda and Murray wiv da kidz in Greenwich Park.
46 Brannigan 68-y-o John Wayne legs it from one tourist attraction to another unadjacent one in 60 seconds in search of titular Laura (maybe).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 10 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

oop, i'm paulisaacs at gee-mail.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 10 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

47 The Ipcress file

― stet (stet), Sunday, 10 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

48. The Magic Christian

― mzui (mzui), Sunday, 10 July 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

49 Frenzy

― jones (actual), Sunday, 10 July 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

scratch that (my ctrl+f didn't catch it up there)

― jones (actual), Sunday, 10 July 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

50. 28 Days Later

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Monday, 11 July 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

bedazzled
quadrophenia - from London to London-by-sea in one film

― Frankist Swedehead, Monday, 11 July 2005 12:01 (twenty years ago)

i bought the london nobody knows, on ebay

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

51. performance

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

this happy breed

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

52. PEEPING TOM

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

53. GASLIGHT

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

54. Lock, Stock And Two Ol' Joannas (Lordyducks)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

55. Black People You Say? (Dir: Richard Curtis)

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

59. Tube Tales

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 11 July 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

60. Who Dares Wins
61. Notting Hill

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

62. repulsion

― dave q (listerine), Monday, 11 July 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

63. Blowup

― fiona, Monday, 11 July 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

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68. The Ladykillers

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

since we're scraping...

67. Rude Boy

66. Let Him Have It

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

65. The Krays

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

64. Prime Suspect/Prime Suspect 2/etc.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

63. Life Is Sweet

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Oops, shave one number off of all those: Ladykillers is up there at No. 14 broken into two words.

63. The Filth and the Fury
62. Westway to the World
61. The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
60. The Punk Rock Movie
59. A Clockwork Orange
58. The Lavender Hill Mob
57. [the Up Series] 28Up/35Up/42Up etc.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

81. All Or Nothing

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Oops, ha ha.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Actually that should be 80.

81. Topsy-Turvy

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

82 Young Soul Rebels

― timberlog (timberlog), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

83. From Hell

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

84. Young Sherlock Holmes (Well, if From Hell can make it on to the list)

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

85. Sliding Doors

86. Bullet Boy

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Have we had Bullfrog something or other? I haven't seen it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Deep End

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Never got to a hundred - even with the crap counting near the end.

The London Nobody Knows is still not available on DVD it seems. This is a shame. If anyone ever stumbles upon a copy in any format please let me know.

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 9 September 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

I think I make it 90. Surely there's another 10?

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 9 September 2007 09:19 (eighteen years ago)

90. The Blue Lamp

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 9 September 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

91. Smashing Time

― DavidM, Sunday, 9 September 2007 09:38 (eighteen years ago)

92. Piccadilly

― DavidM, Sunday, 9 September 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

93. Shakespeare in Love

I'm not going to say 'Children of Men' because I haven't seen it. (and I'm not going to say 'Love Actually' because I have seen it)

― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 9 September 2007 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

94. 'Underground' [Anthony Asquith, 1928]

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 9 September 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

95. 'Night and the City'

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 9 September 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

oh redacted, someone did that.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 9 September 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

Gareth - I still have your copy of The London Nobody Knows. It's excellent, if completley mad ("and here's a handy egg-breaking factory.") Text me and get it back.

― Anna, Sunday, 9 September 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

or send it to me.

― blueski, Sunday, 9 September 2007 11:34 (eighteen years ago)

The 1956 Man Who Knew Too Much gives good London. Also Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 September 2007 11:42 (eighteen years ago)

a fair amount of early hitchcock: 'the lodger', 'the ring', 'blackmail', 'rich and strange', 'sabotage'.

heh:

12. CHRISTY MALRY'S OWN DOUBLE ENTRY
13. SABOTAGE
-- Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Sunday, July 10, 2005 8:04 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 9 September 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

lol I searched for it but I spelled Christie wrong the first time.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 September 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

We saw a mocked-up set for that Reign of Fire movie at Disneyland. That was nice too. Also the third Tomb Raider game if that's the one with the Underground levels.

― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 9 September 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

Gareth - I still have your copy of The London Nobody Knows. It's excellent, if completley mad ("and here's a handy egg-breaking factory.") Text me and get it back.

-- Anna, Sunday, September 9, 2007 10:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Ypu are the only person in the world with this film - look after it (by which I mean copy it onto several DVDs and send them to people like me).

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 10 September 2007 13:15 (eighteen years ago)

Actually I just one on ebay for a fiver - the same person has a few more copies if anyone's interested.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 10 September 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

The Bells Go Down
Up the Junction
A Kid for 2 Farthings

"Maggie Muggins" by Keith Waterhouse would make a great film

― bham, Monday, 10 September 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

So, we're at 95?

95. Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

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GAH xpost!

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 10 September 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

> The Bells Go Down

an odd but great choice. Tommy Trinder mugging like Arthur 'Where's Me Washboard?' Atkinson most of the way through but come the last reel...

Waterloo Bridge, duh!

watched The Sorcerors on sunday, Boris Karloff doing mind control on Ian Olgivy all over 1967 NW8. (um, NW8 appears on business card in the film, Kensington mentioned on IMDB)

― koogs, Monday, 10 September 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

I have a copy of London Nobody Knows.

― admrl, Monday, 10 September 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

It's mostly interiors, but I would also nominate The Servant. Very London.

― admrl, Monday, 10 September 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

also, i have Finisterre on doovd and it's aces.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 10 September 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

98. Obsession
99. Piccadilly (for the Limehouse scenes alone)

― Pete, Monday, 10 September 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, didn't see DavidM already bagged Piccadilly.

So I replace it with
99. Lifeforce

Nudey Space Vampires walking round London. Excellent!

― Pete, Monday, 10 September 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

100. Till Death Us Do Part

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 10 September 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah! That's at least 100!

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

And nobody even mentioned Run, Fatboy, Run.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

62. repulsion

I've not seen much (or any) other Polanski, but this was fucking shite of the most contrived, exploitative, pointless order.

― Just got offed, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

wrong

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

THE HORROR, pretty girl has sexual repression disorder, lives in all-female environment, keeps rotting rabbit-head as pet, ends up killing a load of men and then herself as well, everyone is all ;_;. Apologies if I missed some deep-lying complexity, but as a character-study it was one-dimensional and unsatisfying, and as a horror movie it was fairly yawnsome.

You just like it for Deneuve, ADMIT IT. Gosh, it would have been a handy bit of casting, being one of those extras who sticks their arms through the wall and gets to touch her up, amirite?

― Just got offed, Monday, 10 September 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

95. Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

This is set in Stevenage!

― Stevie T, Monday, 10 September 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Gareth - I still have your copy of The London Nobody Knows

you do? i thought ol had it, hmm..maybe she has finisterre

― Filey Camp, Friday, 14 September 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

Watching that last night - it was excellent. James Mason is perfect. I recommend it highly.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 14 September 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

LNK that is not Finisterre (which is also excellent and having know seen LNK I can see why they wanted to do something similar).

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 14 September 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

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