United Kingdom’s Best: A Look at the Top 10 Films

1. Kingsman: The Secret Service

• Release Date – January 29, 2015 (United Kingdom)
• MPAA – R
• Running Time – 2 hr 9 min
• Genres – Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 7.7/10

Cast –

• Adrian Quinton – as Adrian Quentin
• Colin Firth – Harry Hart/Galahad
• Mark Strong – Merlin
• Jonno Davies – Lee

Crew –

• Director – Matthew Vaughn
• Writers – Jane Goldman (screenplay) | Matthew Vaughn (screenplay)

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – $81,000,000 (estimated)
• US & Canada Collection – $128,261,724
• Gross worldwide – $414,351,546

Storyline (Plot) –

An over-secretive organization recruits an simple but promising street child into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program, just as a serious global threat emerges from a perverted technology genius. A detective organisation recruits a promising street child into the agency’s training programme.

2. Wilderness

• Release Date – August 11, 2006 (United Kingdom)
• MPAA Rating – R
• Running Time – 1 hr 33 min
• Genres – Action, Horror
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 6.1/10

Cast –

• Sean Pertwee – Jed
• Alex Reid – Louise
• Toby Kebbell – Callum
• Stephen Wight – Steve

Crew –

• Director – M.J. Bassett
• Writer – Dario Poloni
• Producers – Robert Bernstein, John McDonnell, Douglas Rae

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – £3,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross worldwide – $566,098

Storyline (Plot) –

The governor sends them to an uninhabited island to improve their relationships and characters under the command of the strict Monitor Jade. They meet a camp of female criminals under the command of veteran soldier Lewis And they camp in the another area. However, when they are attacked by a pack of dogs and a very mysterious man with a crossbow they join the fighting forces led by Callum fighting for survival.

3. Devil’s Playground :

• Release date – October 03, 2010
• Running time – 1hr 32 minutes
• Genres – Action, Horror
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 5.1/10

Cast –

• Danny Dyer -Joe
• Craig Fairbrass – Cole
• MyAnna Buring – Angela
• Jaime Murray – Lavinia

Crew –

• Directed – Mark McQueen
• Written – Bart Ruspoli
• Produced – Freddie Hutton-Mills, Bart Ruspoli, Jonathan Sothcott

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – $2,400,000 (estimated)
• Worldwide Collection – $62,695,489

Storyline (Plot) –

After a terrible mess in the final stages of human testing, test subjects from the fictional company “N-Gen” become violently ill. As the side effects get worse,
The subjects being tested become agressive and violent, until they become small but animals. What’s worse is that their bites are infected and in no time London is filled with forces of bloodthirsty monsters.

4. Doghouse

• Release Date – June 12, 2009 (United Kingdom)
• Running Time – 1 hr 29 min
• Genres – Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 6.0/10

Cast –

• Danny Dyer – as Neil
• Noel Clarke – as Mikey
• Emil Marwa – Graham
• Lee Ingleby – Matt

Crew –

• Director – Jake West
• Writer – Dan Schaffer
• Producer – Mike Loveday

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – $4,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross worldwide – $179,836

Storyline (Plot) –

Vince is sad by his recent divorce. Six of her friends—Neil, Mickey and Graham all of whom have their own female problems—decided to take her on a “boys weekend.” They rent a minibus driven by Kandy name to Moodley, a city where the number of women is reportedly 4 to 1 from men. Banky misses the bus and travels to the city very alone.

5. Hot Fuzz

• Release Date – February 16, 2007
• MPAA Rating – R
• Running Time – 2 hr 1 min
• Genres – Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 7.8/10

Cast –

• Simon Pegg – as Nicholas Angel
• Martin Freeman – as Met Sergeant
• Bill Nighy – as Met Chief Inspector
• Robert Popper – as Janine

Crew –

• Director – Edgar Wright (directed)
• Writers – Edgar Wright | Simon Pegg (written)
• Producers Tim Bevan (produced) | Eric Fellner (produced)

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – £8,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross worldwide – $80,581,021

Storyline (Plot) –

Recently promoted Metropolitan Police Sergeant Nicholas Engel has been reassigned to the village town of Sandford in “Gloucestershire” for being highly uniquenes. Angel arrested Danny Butterman for drink and drive, but later revealed that he is the son of Inspector name Frank Butterman and is a police officer himself. Engel is frustrated by the village’s worldliness, his and Frank’s incompetent colleagues, and the Neighborhood Watch Alliance’s prioritizing low crime statistics over law inenforcement.

6. The World’s End

• Release Date – July 18, 2013 (Slovenia)
• MPAA Rating – R
• Running Time – 1 hr 49 min
• Genres – Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
• IMDB Rating – ⭐6.9/10

Cast –

• Thomas Law – Young Gary
• Zachary Bailess – Young Andy
• Jasper Levine – Young Steven
• James Tarpey – Young Peter

Crew –

• Director – Edgar Wright
• Writers – Simon Pegg (written) | Edgar Wright (written)

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – $20,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross worldwide – $46,092,117

Storyline (Plot) –

Gary King, a 40-year-old immature alcoholic, decides to relive his youth by contacting and inviting his childhood friends Oliver Chamberlain, Peter Page, Steven Prince and Andrew Knightley to complete the “Golden Mile”, Which is a pub encompassing 12 pubs in his hometown of Newton Haven. The group attempted to step in 1990 as a teenager, but failed and could not reach the final pub.

7. Shaun of the Dead

• Release Date – July 30, 2004
• MPAA Rating – R
• Running Time – 1 hr 39 min
• Genres – Comedy, Horror
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 7.9/10

Cast –

• Simon Pegg – Shaun
• Kate Ashfield – Liz
• Nick Frost – Ed
• Lucy Davis – Dianne

Crew –

• Director – Edgar Wright
• Writers – Simon Pegg (written) | Edgar Wright (written)

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – £4,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross worldwide – $31,636,877

Storyline (Plot) –

In London’s Crouch End area, 29-year-old electronics salesman Sean is insulted by his co-workers, He doesn’t get along with his stepfather name Philip, and his girlfriend name Liz has left him because he promised to better himself but failed to make good plans for his anniversary date.

8. Severance

• Release Date – August 25, 2006 (United Kingdom)
• MPAA Rating – R
• Running Time – 1 hr 36 min
• Genres – Comedy, Horror
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 6.4/10

Cast –

• Toby Stephens – as Harris
• Claudie Blakley – as Jill
• Andy Nyman – as Gordon
• Babou Ceesay – as Billy

Crew –

• Director – Christopher Smith
• Writers – James Moran (screenplay) (story) | Christopher Smith (screenplay)

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – £5,000,000 (estimated)
• Gross worldwide – $5,515,163

Storyline (Plot) –

The European sales division of “Palisade Defense Military Weapons Corporation” is going for a team building weekend at a lodge in “Mount Matra”, Hungary. When a tree felled on the road halts the progress of their bus, the driver refuses to go on a dirt road through the woods and, after an some moments , he drives the bus, leaving the group to walk to the lodge.

9. This Is Not a Love Song

• Release date – September 5, 2003 (United Kingdom)

• MPAA Rating – R
• Running Time – 1hr 34 minutes
• Genres – Thriller
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 6.5/10

Cast –

• Michael Colgan – Spike
• Kenneth Glenaan – Heaton(as Kenny Glenaan)
• David Bradley – Mr. Bellamy
• John Henshaw – Arthur

Crew –

• Director – Bille Eltringham
• Writer – Simon Beaufoy

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – *n/a

• Box Office – *n/a

Storyline (Plot) –

After spending a few months in jail due to being caught in a case, small-time criminal Heaton is awaiting the release of his close friend Spike. Heaton robs a truck, Outside the prison, he meets Spike and travels around the country with him to drink some beer and celebrate his freedom.

10. Scum(1979)

• Release Date – June 16, 2017 (Domestic)
• Running Time – 1 hr 38 min
• Genres – Crime Drama
• IMDB Rating – ⭐ 7.5/10

Cast –

• Ray Winstone – as Carlin
• Mick Ford – as Archer
• Julian Firth – as Davis
• John Blundell – as Banks

Crew –

• Director – Alan Clarke (directed)
• Writer Roy Minton (written)

Budget And Box Office Collection –

• Budget – £250,000 (estimated)
• Gross worldwide – $6,461

Storyline (Plot) –

Three young men arrive in Borstal in a prison van: “Carlin”, who has taken the blame for his brother’s theft of scraps metal and stealing cars; And Davis was blamed for fleeing an open institution. Each has been allotted a room; Engel and Davis get single rooms, while Carlin is sent to the dorm.