Four Weddings and a Funeral
Sense and Sensibility (Taiwanese director though I think)
The English Patient (major roles were British, correct?)
Billy Elliot (I think all were British)
Gosford Park
A Room WIth a View (Not sure about this one - director was American from Klammath Falls, OR)
Howard's End
Prime Suspect
84 Charing Cross Road
Waking Ned Devine (Irish - I loved this film!)
Saving Grace
The Constant Gardner
Bend It Like Beckham
Magdalene Sisters
Girl with a Pearl Earring

I may be wrong, but weren't in many cases the films an almost entirely Brit or Irish cast or at least the primary characters were actually British?







>>>One of the best attempts, almost perfect, was Gwyneth Paltrow in "Sliding Doors"
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>>I didn't see the movie, but wasn't Renée Zellweger praised for carrying it off in the first Bridget Jones Diary? From what I read, there was a real flap about giving the part to an American prior to it's release, but praise afterward.
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>They're both chick flicks so I haven't seen BJD (it's only been on terrestrial TV once and I missed it), so I wouldn't know, but Sliding Doors has been on a few times. You should see it - it's about how a girl's life changes depending on whether she catches the sliding doors on a Tube train or not - one she gets home early enough to catch her cheating boyfriend, and finds love with another guy, two she doesn't and carries on in ignorance - you're shown both scenarios in parallel, with a cute twist at the end.
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>As to US chicks getting the leads - I think the British film industry thinks that the only way to get a film aired in the US is to have a big US star in it - ALWAYS (few exceptions, such as the Full Monty)