Items18The creator’s order
  1. 1Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 9 Mar 1994The hit that opened the period, and the template Richard Curtis would refine for the rest of the decade. Hugh Grant's stammering, apologetic charm turned him into a star, and the film dominated the 1995 BAFTAs, taking best film, best director for Mike Newell and best actor for Grant. The set…0
  2. 2Shallow Grave (1994)Shallow Grave (1994) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased 22 Dec 1994Danny Boyle's first feature, from an original script by John Hodge, is a nasty, gleeful thriller about three Edinburgh roommates who find their new roommate dead beside a pile of cash. It is where a then-unknown Ewan McGregor first showed the cocky charm Trainspotting would make famous, and it won…0
  3. 3Trainspotting (1996)Trainspotting (1996) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Feb 1996If one film stands for the era, it is this. Boyle and Hodge took Irvine Welsh's novel about Edinburgh heroin users and made something that moves like a music video without losing its bleakness. It took around £48 million against a budget of about £1.5 million, proof that a hard British subject…0
  4. 4Brassed Off (1996)Brassed Off (1996) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased 1 Nov 1996The angriest of the decade's comedies from the north of England about lost work. Mark Herman's film follows a colliery brass band, the band of a coal-mining town, as their Yorkshire mine faces closure, drawing on the South Yorkshire mining community of Grimethorpe, with Pete Postlethwaite as the…0
  5. 5Twin Town (1997)Twin Town (1997) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased 11 Apr 1997With Trainspotting's Danny Boyle and Andrew Macdonald as executive producers, Kevin Allen's Swansea comedy follows the Lewis brothers, a pair of joyriding hustlers known as the twins, as a feud with a local big shot spirals out of control. Rhys Ifans plays one brother opposite his real brother,…0
  6. 6Fever Pitch (1997)Fever Pitch (1997) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased 4 Apr 1997Nick Hornby adapted his own best-selling memoir of soccer obsession into a romantic comedy, with Colin Firth as an English teacher whose devotion to Arsenal strains a new relationship with a colleague. It arrived just as following English soccer was turning from a working-class habit of the…0
  7. 7The Full Monty (1997)The Full Monty (1997) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased 13 Aug 1997Peter Cattaneo's comedy about laid-off Sheffield steelworkers who put on a strip show became the decade's great crowd-pleaser and traveled the world. Robert Carlyle leads as Gaz, with Tom Wilkinson and Mark Addy in a superb ensemble written by Simon Beaufoy. The scene in the line at the…0
  8. 8Face (1997)Face (1997) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 26 Sept 1997The most direct link on this list between the Britpop charts and the screen: Blur's Damon Albarn made his acting debut in Antonia Bird's London heist thriller. Robert Carlyle plays a disillusioned former socialist turned armed robber, with Ray Winstone beside him, and the job goes bloodily…0
  9. 9Nil by Mouth (1997)Nil by Mouth (1997) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Oct 1997Gary Oldman's only feature as director is the hardest watch here and one of the best. Ray Winstone plays a violent, drinking husband in working-class South London and Kathy Burke his wife, a performance that won her the best actress award at Cannes. There is nothing of Cool Britannia's sheen in…0
  10. 10Spice World (1997)Spice World (1997) 3.8/10 on IMDbReleased 18 Dec 1997The Spice Girls zip around London in a double-decker tour bus in a film that is less a story than a celebration of the band at its peak, released for Christmas 1997. It is silly, proudly ramshackle and not good cinema by any normal measure, and even fans watch it with a grin rather than a straight…0