Who knows awesome movies? I menat I want to learn English and I prefer British accent, so perhaps somebody know a ggod biritsh movies? 
The original Italian Job or James Bond. Also the Great Escape and other old war films.
If youâre into British humour, you canât do much better than check out the Norman Wisdom films from the 1950s and 1960s. Nowadays these can usually be bought as a complete boxed set of DVDs at a very reasonable price.
Here is a classic scene from âThe Early Birdâ:
And another classic Norman Wisdom scene:
I like âThe English Patientâ 1996.
Maybe it will be useful: 100 favorite British films of the 20th Century
http://www.filmsite.org/brit100_1.html
Watch âThe King´s Speechâ⌠It´s a good movie and you can a lot about pronunciation!!
Thank you for your information about British movies here! I am such a huge fan of British movies.
If you are a movie goer,as well as an English learner, I would recommend this podcast.
âKermode and Mayoâs Film Reviewâ
Note that any British movie pre-1970 will be in Received Pronunciation (careful standard English), anything afterwards is likely to contain regional dialects. A learner might find older films easier to understand.
I once sent a penfriend the film âEducating Ritaâ and she couldnât understand a word of it, as Julie Walters adopted a broad Liverpool accent throughout.
I recommend the old Agatha Christie Movies with Margareth Rutherford. They are great.
My husband says Iâm turning into Margaret Rutherford.
I would also recommend the Kingâs Speech! The day after, I had to do a bit of public speaking for a test and I maintain that I only did as well as I did with the help of that film.
Some great movies iâve watched recently are ânever let me goâ and âan educationâ. Just my tiny contribution ^.^
Glad to see âThe Third Manâ tops the list; the Ferris wheel sequence alone almost justifies that and the final scene still gives me goosebumps.
âKind Hearts and Coronetsâ - watch this. The sparkling dialogue is a joy: English, dry humour at its best.
Skyblueteapot is right - older films will definitely be easier to understand, although there are many films on the list from the sixties (Billy Liar, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning etc.) that have people with northern accents, where people donât in general speak the Queenâs English. Avoid these. Once you start allowing the northern, working classes to poke their noses in (i.e. British cinema from 1960 onwards) it makes it very difficult for learners of English to understand whatâs going on.
Stick with British films from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Oh yes, those were the days⌠well, they werenât really, but many of the films were damn good. Damn good eggs, the lot of them!
Jamie said: "Once you start allowing the northern, working classes to poke their noses in (i.e. British cinema from 1960 onwards) it makes it very difficult for learners of English to understand whatâs going on.
Stick with British films from the 30s, 40s and 50s. Oh yes, those were the days⌠well, they werenât really, but many of the films were damn good. Damn good eggs, the lot of them!"
Too jolly right, old chap!
These bally northern wallahs never did know their place, and its just too bad if we have them invading our pictures too! (I blame Mr McDonalds Labour Cooperative movement - country never has been the same ever since.)
If you ask me, we should build a jolly high wall just south of the Watford gap. Keep the blighters out - the whole lot of them!
not a movie but " a bit of fry and laurie" - awesome series!
âI once sent a penfriend the film âEducating Ritaâ and she couldnât understand a word of it, as Julie Walters adopted a broad Liverpool accent throughoutâ
I just had a look at some sample youtube clips from the movie, but even if she has a Liverpool accent I donât find it difficult at all to understand.
It seems as if second language learners sometimes make the mistake assuming that a language only has one âsoundâ. ONE Spanish, ONE German, ONE EnglishâŚ