Kes
Dead Mans Shoes
The Commitments
Tyrannasaur
A Sense of Freedom
My Name Is Joe
Rita, Sue and Bob To
Looking For Eric
Man About A Dog
Let Him Have It
Sweet Sixteen
Mr.Turner
Riff-Raff

Kind Hearts and Coronets, obviously.

Small Faces
Life Of Brian
Gandhi

Passport to Pimlico

Withnail and I

Zulu
The Italian job
Love honour and obey
In Bruges
As well as a few of the above mentioned

McVicar

Brassed Off

Letter to Brezhnev

What we did on our Holiday

Holiday On The Buses

Room for Romeo Brass

Any of the Carry Ons

Big fan of Ken Loach then Mutley?

I would add, I Daniel Blake to that, surely the only Ken Loach film to have a Pools supporter in it and my own personal favourite Get Carter, not least because the final scene was shot on Blackhall beach.

I love Ken Loach films and I really liked Daniel Blake but I thought the acting by the main character was really poor!!!!

The Man in the White Suit
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Maggie
Ice cold in Alex

Alfie
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Funeral in berlin
Goldfinger

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is worth a shout as is Room At The Top. Kes and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner are superb as well.

On the music front I'd go for Flame, the much neglected Slade classic, and Babylon featuring Brinsley Forde from Aswad and The Double Deckers as well as some very rare footage from a Jah Shaka session.

My Beautiful Laundrette and My Left Foot are both decent as well.

Big Loach fan myself, got a chance to meet him when on the set of I Daniel Blake, and spoke to him again at this years Durham Big Meeting, lovely bloke , no airs and graces at all. Hidden Agenda and Wind That Shakes The Barley are favourites of mine. Got the box set and watched them all, except the Cantona one, which came out after the box set.

Dave Johns is a local comedian not an actor, Loach often recruits that way, as he feels it gives the role more of a realistic feel rather than if it had been a renowned actor. I tend to agree with that view. In view of that I thought Johns did really well. Hayley Squires the other co-star I think has a big future ahead of her. You see a lot of what at the time were unknown actors in Loach films, who later go onto become future stars, Cillian Murphy for instance.

And Sean of the Dead.

riff raff
raining stones
nuts in may
naked
in bruges
the van

Restless Natives
The Long Good Friday
The Mona Lisa

Commitments is one of my all time favourite films. Big fan of all the Shane Meadows films, Somers Town is such a simple but great film.

Spike Island

One of my favourite films of all time. I made my mate from Nottingham sit down and watch it with me a few months ago, and he loved it. He was even more over the moon that he'd taught in a school in the area it was filmed. Definitely underrated.

+1 for dead man's shoes


Snatch

Big Loach fan too tbh, anything with Malcolm Macdowell/Albert Finney in also....

If (1968)
Clockwork Orange
Kes
One Day Removals(2008)
Great Expectations (1946)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Ice Cold in Alex
Rita Sue and Bob Too
Withnail and I
Village of the Damned (1960)
Quatermass and the Pit.
The Day of the Triffids.
2001 A Space Odyssey.
The General (1998)
The Guard (2011).
The Dam Busters.
Get Carter
Zulu.
The Time Machine (1960).
The Wickerman.
Lock Stock...
And many more too numerous to mention.

Zulu, or was it Bedknobs And Broomsticks, first film I saw at the old Odeon around 1971 time.

It's not even that good but I always find myself watching Gregory's Girl at least once a year.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Trainspotting yet either.

Trainspotting

Good shout for The Time Machine. Used to be on telly a lot. And just remembered the Wicker Man starring Britt Eklund's arse that wasn't her arse really!

Oh you.

Good shout Paulus with The General!!!!
Also Ken Stott played the General in a TV Drama/Film which is just as good....I can't find it anywhere though!!!!

It's not even referenced on the internet....I must have dreamt it!!!!

Anything with Michael Caine in it!!!!

Trainspotting

Has anybody seen Trainspotting 2? I meant to go but never got round to it.

Bloody hell yes The General - Brendan Gleason is tremendous in it.

Faves not mentioned yet:

UK - Performance

Ireland - Veronica Guerin

Das Boot
The Cruel Sea.
Wonderful life
This Happy Breed

One thing that amuses me is my two lads, still in the juniors, liked Carry on films and we'd buy them for birthdays or stocking fillers. I told me Mam to buy them as stocking fillers too. They loved their new Carry on films till I twigged on the sniggering was because they were Confessions films she'd bought them. Oh dear

Goodnight Mister Tom

Was just thinking about how good the British film industry was and the I remembered The Railway Children. What a bag of shite that was, possibly the dullest film ever. Apart from Ben Hur which took dullness to biblical proportions but did have a chariot race after about three hours.

Das Boot? Isn't it a bit German for a British or Irish film Snowy?

Good film, well worth a watch. Its less about drug addiction and more about middle-aged male despair...

Is the first one any good?

Good film, well worth a watch. Its less about middle-aged male despair and more about drug addiction...

Sounds ideal...

Can't believe no one has mentioned 'This is England' yet.

Meadows will hopefully carry on the good work done by Ken Loach.

Life is Sweet

Confessions of a Window Cleaner.
The Belles of St Trinians
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Adventures of a Plumber's Mate
Mister Bean's Holiday
Eskimo Nell (featuring the actor Christopher Timothy)
The Amorous Milkman
The Early Bird

A lot of the 'Comic Strip Presents' were crackers too - 'Didn't You Kill My Brother', 'The Yob' etc

The Italian job

Quadrephenia