Filums set in a specific location

[not-bono-ever]

Thinking about films that are based in a town or area in the UK.Start you off:

Newcastle:

Get Carter
Stormy Monday
The Likely lads
(The Fucking awful ) Goal!!!

No *London* filums but individual boroughs accepted

 

[butchersapron]

The leveling. A film i'n quite torn about.

 

[N_igma]

Purely Belter

 

[Pickman's model]

Kings x lady killers

 

[not-bono-ever]

I need lists, not randoms, Lists with a proper heading and shit

 

[chilango]

Reading/Berkshire*

• Cemetery Junction
• David Brent: Life on the Road

Pretty shit huh?

*Not counting period dramas set in stately homes etc.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bracknell/Berkshire:

• The Offence

 

[5t3IIa]

Norwich

• Alpha Papa

 

[The Boy]

Edinburgh:

Trainspotting
Trainspotting 2
Shallow Grave

 

[Dr. Furface]

Notting Hill
Notting Hill
Performance
10 Rillington Place

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bristol:

• Paper Mask
• Radio On
• Starter For 10
• The Hawk
• Flying Blind
• Truly, Madly, Deeply
• The Titfield Thunderbolt
• I Saw You (TV pilot)
• The Medusa Touch (part filmed but not set in Bristol)

 

[DaveCinzano]

Edinburgh:

Trainspotting
Trainspotting 2
Shallow Grave

Are we accepting films which were largely filmed in locations other than their putative one?

 

[The Boy]

Are we accepting films which were largely filmed in locations other than their putative one?

The op says "..based in..." so was working on the understanding that we were.

I was going to add a disclaimer, but decided against. Forgot I was on the internet.

Edit: ie I was interpreting that phrase to be the same as "set in".

 

[Dr. Furface]

Nottingham
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Twenty Four Seven
Once Upon A Time In The Midlands
Weekend
I Believe In Miracles

 

[DaveCinzano]

Shropshire:

• The Black Panther

 

[DaveCinzano]

Clapham/Battersea:

• Sitting Target

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bethnal Green:

• Shiner
• Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
• The Krays

Hatton Garden:

• Snatch
• A Fish Called Wanda
• High Heels & Low Lifes

 

[Steel Icarus]

Liverpool:

Letter to Brezhnev

 

[DaveCinzano]

Liverpool:

Letter to Brezhnev

• No Surrender
• The Crew

 

[Orang Utan]

Leeds
Mischief Night
Tina Goes Shopping
Drifters (TV but fuck it)
Billy Liar
The Damned United
Red Riding (also TV)

 

[chilango]

Prestatyn, Wales

• Holiday on the Buses

 

[DaveCinzano]

Leeds
Mischief Night
Tina Goes Shopping

• Tina Takes A Break

 

[Casual Observer]

Clapham/Battersea:

• Sitting Target

Up The Junction

 

[DaveCinzano]

Matlock:

• Dead Man's Shoes
• Women In Love

 

[spitfire]

Bethnal Green:

• Shiner
• Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels
• The Krays

Hatton Garden:

• Snatch
• A Fish Called Wanda
• High Heels & Low Lifes

You can add Legend to the Bethnal Green list, the last Krays movie, it was filmed on our street amongst others round the "manor".

 

[Casual Observer]

Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill

Absolute Beginners
Performance
Notting Hill

Must be plenty of others with Trellick Tower somewhere in the background.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Ladbroke Grove/Notting Hill

Absolute Beginners
Performance
Notting Hill

Must be plenty of others with Trellick Tower somewhere in the background.

Vague zine was obsessed with W11 and its appearances in pop culture, lots of references throughout various issues

Tom Vague

 

[twentythreedom]

High Barnet

Confessions of a Windowcleaner

 

[kabbes]

Swansea

Twintown

 

[Casual Observer]

Apologies to Dr Furnace. Just seen I've repeated 2/3 of his earlier post.