Can someone recommend...

[goldenthread]

I've just been watching the series of Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films, and would like to watch more British films with a cosy nostalgic feel about them, showing British life with a rose tinted feel. Are there any films like this out there??



Thank you

[CaptainWaggett]

You can't go wrong with an Ealing comedy especially Passport to Pimlico and The Titfield Thunderbolt

[CALF28]

Plenty like that out there, not quite so 'cosy' and un-realistic as the Marples but try 'This Happy Breed' A slice of lower middle class life between the wars. Some of the Group 3 productins might suit ,'The Oracle' , 'The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp', Brandy for the Parson' , they're all good.

[Steve Crook]

name='goldenthread']I've just been watching the series of Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple films, and would like to watch more British films with a cosy nostalgic feel about them, showing British life with a rose tinted feel. Are there any films like this out there??



Thank you

Margaret Rutherford has a nice cameo role in Norman Wisdom's Trouble in Store. They don't get much more cosily nostalgic that that



Steve

[Santonix]

Try watching Blithe Spirit (1945).

[kelp]

Just an aside....Diane Cillento (please correct my spelling if you wish) was my dream girl when I was a young man. "The Angel That Pawned Her Harp" was a film I watched over and over again.

[ican]

Some of my favouries are Miss Robin Hood, Happiest Days of Your Life, Brandy for the Parson, Titfield Thunderbolt, Passport to Pimlico, Its Not Cricket, No Smoking and, of course, Oh Mr Porter.

[Mark O]

John and Julie is a happy innocent colour film from the 50's, about two young children making their way to London for the Coronation and the little mishaps that happen along the way



The Fast Lady is a 'happy' colour film also, an England of the early 60's, both available on DVD.

[fluddite]

Genevieve

[Torquemada]

I always find the Dirk Bogarde Doctor films very nostalgic.

[smudge]

name='Mark O']



The Fast Lady is a 'happy' colour film also, an England of the early 60's, both available on DVD.

FATHER CAME TOO - similarly, with virtually the same cast...



THE GREEN MAN is a wonderfully cosy piece of chintz-laden anarchy.



Smudge

[Windyridge]

They don't get much cosier than "Please Turn Over" with Julia Lockwood, Jean Kent, Ted Ray and Lionel Jefferies. Not to mention Joan Sims' funniest performance ever, as a French maid.

[phil]

The Just William films, I always remember the children's guard dog with his tail tied to the alarm bell which rang when he wagged it.

[RinTinTin]

The SMALLEST SHOW on EARTH, LONDON BELONGS to ME, CUCKOO in the NEST, and so many more.



Rob

[jonpsych]

Time Gentlemen Please shows an England which has long gone, if it ever existed: Heaven's Above with Peter Sellers does much the same. Nostalgia for the late 60's can be satisfied with To Sir with Love and Peter Sellers again in the wonderful and much missed Optimists of Nine Elms. Try Melody for a nostalgia fest for the early 70s

[Monkeymanbob]

I woudl have to add to some of the fine films already mentioned by saying that I find Peter Sellers Brit movies prior to moving to the states to have a nice warm fuzzy feeling.

[DaveK]

Try 'It's Great to be Young'.