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86 Metascore. At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. Director Anthony Minghella Stars Ralph Fiennes Juliette Binoche Willem Dafoe.
Ten Best Picture nominees and two winners, a Golden Palm, a dozen comedy classics and a James Bond come-back, the nineties were quite a roaring decade for British cinema... so good luck with the next question. Which of these 1990s British movies is your favorite?
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- The Long Day Closes (1992) Director: Terence Davies. With its formal control, evocative use of music and foregrounding of mood and emotion over linear plot, Terence Davies’ autobiographical film The Long Day Closes is exhibit one in making the case for the Liverpudlian director and screenwriter as one of the greatest living British filmmakers.
- The Crying Game (1992) Director: Neil Jordan. A massive success both at the box office and at awards ceremonies, The Crying Game gave new impetus to Neil Jordan’s filmmaking career after the trio of critical and commercial failures that followed his 1986 neo-noir Mona Lisa.
- Orlando (1992) Director: Sally Potter. Witty, playful and daring, this loose take on Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando: A Biography is a feast for the eyes and the intellect alike.
- Bhaji on the Beach (1993) Director: Gurinder Chadha. Written by Meera Syal, and inspired by her childhood trips to Blackpool, Bhaji on the Beach centres on an intergenerational group of women of Indian descent and their various experiences while on a day trip to the seaside resort from Birmingham.
- The Long Day Closes (1992) It would be easy, and careless, to dismiss Terence Davis’ (seemingly forgotten) film as another love letter to cinema – the opening featuring a sound bite from The Ladykillers.
- Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Released in the U.K on May 14th 1994, this popular comedy written by Richard Curtis and directed by Mike Newel seemingly single-handedly changed the fortunes of British Cinema.
- Brassed Off (1996) Written and directed by Mark Herman, the socio-political issues at the film’s heart can in many ways be considered a pre-cursor to the Full Monty a year later.
- Shakespeare in Love (1998) A U.K/U.S co-production directed by Brit John Madden (who had directed Queen Victoria film Mrs Brown the previous year), written by American Marc Norman and co-scripted by playwright Tom Stoppard.
This is a chronological list of films produced in the United Kingdom split by decade. There may be an overlap, particularly between British and American films which are sometimes co-produced; the list should attempt to document films which are either British produced or strongly associated with British culture.
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