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Top 10 British Films



Top 10 British films according to the British Film Institute. Films that are "culturally British".

Quiz


  1. Who directed Trainspotting?
  2. Name the author of the 1993 novel Trainspotting?
  3. Trainspotting follows a group of heroin addicts in which Scottish city?
  4. Can you name the director of the 1949 film The Third Man?
  5. Who wrote the book and then the screenplay for The Third Man?
  6. What was the name of the character played by Orson Welles in The Third Man?
  7. Which film is based on the 1936 play Still Life by Noel Coward?
  8. Can you name the two main stars of the 1945 film Brief Encounter?
  9. Which 1962 film epic was influenced by the 1926 book 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'?
  10. Which fictional character created by John Buchan was further made popular by a 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film?
  11. Scottish actor Wylie Watson played "Mr Memory" in which classic British film?
  12. Which actor played Pip in the 1946 film Great Expectations?
  13. Who starred as the adult Estella in the 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations and Edith D'Ascoyne in Kind Hearts and Coronets?
  14. Who played eight members of the D'Ascoyne family in the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets?
  15. Kind Hearts and Coronets was filmed in which television facilities?
  16. Who directed the 1969 British coming-of-age drama film Kes?
  17. Which English actress and television personality played Mrs. Casper in the 1969 film Kes?
  18. Who won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Mr. Farthing in Kes?
  19. Which 1973 psychological horror film starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie follows John and Laura Baxter, a married couple grappling with the accidental drowning of their young daughter, Christine?
  20. In which 1948 film does ballerina Victoria Page (played by Moira Shearer) join the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov?


Answers



  1. Danny Boyle (director)
  2. Irvine Welsh (author)
  3. Edinburgh
  4. Carol Reed (director)
  5. Graham Greene (author)
  6. Harry Lime
  7. Brief Encounter (directed by David Lean)
  8. Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard
  9. Lawrence of Arabia
  10. Richard Hannay
  11. The 39 Steps (1935)
  12. John Mills
  13. Valerie Hobson
  14. Alec Guinness
  15. Ealing Studios (1949)
  16. Ken Loach
  17. Lynne Perrie
  18. Colin Welland
  19. Don't Look Now
  20. The Red Shoes