And a funeral: 60 British eccentric funerocentrics
Why do some many movies from the UK revolve around a funeral?
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- DirectorFrank OzStarsMatthew MacfadyenPeter DinklageEwen BremnerChaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.Includes one of the funniest drug-taking scenes ever filmed.
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsMichael CaineBob HoskinsTom CourtenayA group of old friends reminisce about their lives over the years after the death of one of their crew.Ending... it ain't nuffin.
- DirectorPeter MedakStarsPeter O'TooleAlastair SimArthur LoweA member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.Some brilliant dialogue. "How do you know you’re God?" "Simple – when I pray to him, I find I am talking to myself."
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMaggie SmithAlec McCowenLouis Gossett Jr.At his mother's funeral, banker Henry meets his Aunt Augusta, an eccentric old woman who takes him on a wild adventure to rescue an old lover.Maggie Smith at her most magnificent.
- DirectorJohn JencksStarsRoger AllamTim CharlesRod GlennDisgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.Swerves around in tone between highly comedic and highly sentimental.
- DirectorJames Cellan JonesStarsTara FitzgeraldOwen TealeDaniel MasseyWhen Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and learns much about love's true meaning. The film is based on a novel by the same name by Mary Wesley.The characters' behaviours and motives are quite bizarre.
- DirectorAndy HamiltonGuy JenkinStarsRosamund PikeDavid TennantBilly ConnollyA family of five heads to Granddad's big 75th-birthday party at an uncle's estate in rural Scotland. The parents are separated and hope their three kids won't mention it. The kids love, can talk with, and would do anything for Granddad.Taking the funeral into their own hands.
- DirectorMarc EvansStarsMatthew RhysMarta LubosNahuel Pérez BiscayartA young Welsh couple travel to Argentina to work on their relationship.Funereally like What We Did on Our Holiday.
- DirectorNiklaus HilberStarsNick MoranKeeley HawesSteve HuisonTwo young newlyweds, geeky Edward and innocent but alluring Samantha, turn up at a majestic and remote country house hotel for their honeymoon, which has been taken over by the high-spirited members of an Undertakers' Annual Convention. Their attempts at romance are quickly dampened as they become helplessly embroiled in an intriguing whodunit when the Head of the Funeral Directors' Association dies under bizarre circumstances. Featuring a top-notch cast including Nick Moran (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Rik Mayall (The Young Ones), Steve Huison (The Full Monty), and Hugh Fraser (TV's Poirot), you'll die laughing with this hilarious and dark romantic comedy!Perhaps they would have preferred a honeymoon in Gravesend.
- DirectorPeter SykesStarsWilfrid BrambellHarry H. CorbettDiana DorsFather and son London junk dealers must buy a replacement horse for them to stay in business. Instead they buy a greyhound, confident they will earn a fortune on the race track.Funereal japery.
- DirectorJohn MillsStarsHayley MillsAnnette CrosbieLaurence NaismithA young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier.John Mills' vehicle for his daughter Hayley, it is over-egged but nonetheless an unusual and touching story.
- DirectorP.J. HoganStarsKathy BatesRupert EverettJonathan PryceWhen Grace's husband leaves her after 25 years, she flies to England for her singer idol's funeral. She meets his lover and they return to Chicago to hunt down the idol's killer.Never regret, never forget.
- DirectorRob ReedAidan SynnottStarsSteve MarshAidan SynnottJoseph KennedyDown The Road is the feature film debut from co-writer/directors Rob Reed and Aidan Synnott, devised with and starring Steve Marsh. In the vein of 'Withnail and I' and 'The Trip', this part improvised comedy explores the fragile friendship between the cocky, loud mouthed Terry (Steve Marsh) and his reluctant friend Mark (Aidan Synnott) as they travel across the English countryside in old black cab in search of fun and adventure.An uncomfortable wake on an uncomfortable road trip.
- DirectorNick WhitfieldStarsEd GaughanAndrew BuckleyTuppence MiddletonTwo exorcists literally remove the skeletons from the cupboards of people's homes. Some fairly embarrassing secrets are revealed along the way. A case where the skeletons have hidden themselves upends the lives of all those involved.Obliquely funereal and wonderfully eccentric.
- DirectorLynne RamsayStarsSamantha MortonKathleen McDermottLinda McGuireAfter her beloved boyfriend's suicide, a mourning supermarket worker and her best friend hit the road in Scotland, but find that grief is something that you can't run away from forever.A brilliant strange atmospheric adaptation of a brilliant novel.
- DirectorRoy BattersbyStarsBarry JacksonMaurice DenhamMargaret TyzackA mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.You've always got to watch the quiet ones.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsVincent PriceAlister WilliamsonChristopher LeeAristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.More comedy than horror with the terrible twins Vincent Price and Christopher Lee.
- DirectorPeter MullanStarsDouglas HenshallGary LewisRosemarie StevensonFour siblings gathered together for their mother's funeral in Glasgow face individual torments over night during a tumultuous storm that rips the roof off the church.Nobody wants to outlive their children.
- DirectorHugh HudsonStarsColin FirthRosemary HarrisIrène JacobMemoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.Poshly offhand about everything, including the funeral.
- DirectorJohn RobinsStarsBill FraserRaymond HuntleyDavid BattleyThe animosity between two rival undertakers is amplified when drug traffickers attempt to use coffins and hearses to smuggle their wares.Presages Saving Grace.
- DirectorNigel ColeStarsBrenda BlethynCraig FergusonMartin ClunesA small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.Classic case of a death setting off a comic adventure.
- DirectorNick HurranStarsBrenda BlethynAlfred MolinaChristopher WalkenA woman, whose husband is cheating on her, and an undertaker, who has been in love with her since their childhood, decide to fake her death so they can be together.Brenda Blethyn, always funny and kind, rolls again. And Christopher Walken puts the "fun" back into funeral.
- DirectorUberto PasoliniStarsEddie MarsanJoanne FroggattKaren DruryA council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.In praise of the humble.
- DirectorTony RichardsonStarsRobert MorseJonathan WintersAnjanette ComerSatire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.The odd star turns (Liberace?) make up for the highly contrived script.
- DirectorArmando IannucciStarsSteve BuscemiSimon Russell BealeJeffrey TamborMoscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.Love love love the accents.