THE TEN BEST ENGLISH FILMS

 

The English films point out by their economic and historical topics. English cinema has much influence of American and European cinema. English cinema reached its peak in 1940 with the productions of  J. Arthur Rank and Alexander Korda. English cinema is made of the best actors and actresses in all the world.

At the beginning of the 20^th century,  British cinema reached its apogee but this apogee didn’t last a lot of time since British cinema was affected by the arrive of American cinema. Throughout this century, English cinema experimented some increases and declines due to the appearance of American films. Much of the growth was with the help from American financiers, eager to capitalize on British industry.

In the 19^th century, the first images in movement were created in London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, just the same year that the most important actor known in England, Charles Chaplin, was born.

Robert W. Paul and Birt Acres were the first persons who built and used a camera of film of 35mm in Great Britain. They created the first British film called Incident at Clovelly Cottage in 1895. This camera was called Paul-Acres which was the first done in United Kingdom.

Here, I’m going to show a graph where we can see the development of British cinema throughout the 20^th century and the 21^st century:

Today, the film industry remains an important earner for the British economy. Nowadays, the films that have obtained more spectators have been Harry Potter´s films which have been a massive success worldwide.

 

 

The more successful films in Great Britain have been:  

     *Titanic

      

      *The Lord of the rings

         *Pirates of the Caribbean

But the ten best British films are:

	1.      The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed
	2.       Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean
	3.       Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean
	4.       The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock
	5.       Great Expectations	1946	David Lean
	6.      Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	Robert Hamer
	7.      Kes	1969	Ken Loach
	8.      Don't Look Now	1973	Nicolas Roeg
	9.      The Red Shoes	1948	Powell and Pressburger
	10.  Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle