I’ve seen (and loved) most of the movies listed here, but I just added 6 to my Netflix queue. 
For those who liked Brassed Off and The Full Monty, you might like The Snapper, with Colm Meaney.
A cousin of mine watched and loated Sliding Doors and we rented it and loved it. Came to realize that there are people who get british flicks and those that don’t.
Anything with John swoonHannah has got to be worth watching.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
Your gut feeling regarding Mickey Blue Eyes is good. You should go with that. Bad, bad movie.
I have to agree with the recommendations for Sliding Doors.
I liked Mickey Blue Eyes and Two Weeks Notice. However, I saw them on TV and did not shell out a dime for them, and the only thing else on was golf.
I’ll take Hugh Grant over golf any day.
Two older Scottish films you may like are Restless Natives and Gregory’s Girl.
Have you seen Shaun of the Dead?
Is it weird that I think that’s a romantic comedy?
I have two useless comments to add:
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“Ladies love the gray” (Spike - Notting Hill) has become a bit of a catchphrase around our home.
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Just after opening this thread, my mp3 player on random started playing “Christmas is All Around” from Love Actually
Carry on.
Hi - I’ve lurked here for quite some time and this is the thread to finally kick me into, at least, a Guest login.
I love Four Weddings and Love Actually - 2 of my favorite movies. I saw an advert on one of my cable channels for a made for cable movie by the director of these 2 films, coming out in July, starring Billy Nighy. I believe it’s called The Girl in the Cafe, but I’m not 100% on that, and I can’t remember which cable movie channel this will be on either. 
I see that someone else already suggested Saving Grace, which I had to purchase, because I adore that movie too. Very entertaining. Speaking of Brenda Blethyne (sp?), Secrets and Lies was a great movie too.
Along the lines of Saving Grace, I’d like to suggest 2 other movies, Blow Dry and The Big Tease. They’re not necessarily romantic comedies, but it strikes me that you will like them. They just coincidentally both have to do with hair dressing.
Blow Dry stars Billy Nighy, Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson (I think that’s the right one), and a couple youth American starlet types (I can’t think of their names right now.)
The Big Tease is another Craig Ferguson movie and is nothing but feel-good. It’s goofy and funny and now that I’ve remembered it, I may have to add it to my video library as well!
Hope this helps.
Good British flicks such as Sliding Doors are great but bad ones, such as anything Monty Python, are worse than anything America’s ever conceived.
And agreed on Hannah. I fell in love with him in Sliding Doors and have watched a good portion of his ouvre since. He’s always magnificent, even as the comic relief in the dreadful The Mummy.
Ok, it’s French, but it’s lovely. Amélie
I quite like The Actors- it’s an Anglo-Irish comedy starring Michael Caine, Dylan Moran and Michael Gambon.
I’d also recommend Intermission, another Irish comedy. It stars Colm Meaney, Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy (an Irishman for every taste), but it’s a bit darker and has buckets of bad language and some violence.
A tv show you might enjoy is Black Books a comedy show by Channel 4. I know the DVDs are available in Australia, but might not be elsewhere. It’s just very, very funny. Stars Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig.
Typical quotes here:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262150/quotes
My favourite:
Manny: There’s a girl.
Bernard: A what? You know I don’t approve of you seeing other girls- people. Who is she?
Manny: Roweena, a friend of Anne’s. I met her once and was hoping to meet her again.
Bernard: Oh, I see.
[Mockingly]
Bernard: Roweena! Roweeeeena! And what am I supposed to do while you’re doing the underpants charleston with this insane, blind tart?
Manny: Why are you getting so angry?
Bernard: I can’t help being angry when I’m furious! So, before you go off to raise your bearded freak circus, what’s she like?
Manny: She’s nice.
Bernard: She’s nice, she- dont make me sick into my own scorn. What are her prospects? Does she play the viola? Does she embroider? Is she kind to the servants?
Manny: I don’t know. All I know is I like her and there’s a good chance that she likes me.
Bernard: [Later] Well, we’re going to this party because I’m trying to picture this girl who likes you and all I can see is you in a dress.
Is Irish comedy okay? And without the romance? I really enjoyed The Commitments.
And I have to say that Shaun of the Dead was hilarious. And of course it’s romantic. In fact, the tag line was “A romantic comedy. With zombies.”
The Girl in the Cafe premieres on HBO tomorrow, June 25, and yes, it’s by the writer of Four Weddings, Notting Hill and Love Actually.
Another movie I like was Shooting Fish, which starred Kate Beckinsale.
Just popping in to say that when I read the title – in my pre-coffee state – I thought it was Four Wheeling and a Funeral. Interesting image…
How about…
About a Boy - Hugh again
Enchanted April - Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Alfred Molina. Four unhappy English women travel to Italy and find their hearts’ desires. Light comedy, touching romance, and gorgeous Tuscany locales.
An Ideal Husband - Rupert Everett in Oscar Wilde? Yum.
FWIW, some very enjoyable U.S. romantic comedies with the same quirky feel of Four Weddings… include Groundhog Day, When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail.
Though it’s set in America, if you like this sort of thing, see “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”. Could have been in London, no probs. And I’m married to a Greek Cypriot, I know!
Ooh, and that one has the swoonworthy Jeremy Northam in it, too.
It’s in the OP.
I’m really looking for romantic comedy. For the purposes of this thread, if it can be more appropriately described as “drama,” then I’ll pass.
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FWIW, some very enjoyable U.S. romantic comedies with the same quirky feel of Four Weddings… include Groundhog Day,
I’ve seen them both and in my view they definitely don’t have what I’m looking for. Harry’s comedy is very un-British – almost Henny-Youngman-like in comparison. (Not that I didn’t like it, but it’s not what I’m looking for here. You’ve Got Mail was, in my view, also very American (plot-focused) as opposed to English (character-focused).
I really enjoyed The Commitments too. In fact, it’s one of my all-time favourites. But I’m not just asking the question “suggest any movie I might like.” I’m looking for something more specific – English romantic comedies – all three characteristics are important. I wouldn’t put The Commitments in a genre category with Four Weddings and a Funeral.
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That was the original title - an important plot element being the ‘culture clash’ between oh so English Hugh and the Welsh villagers. They take it as (yet another) slight from the English that their mountain is ‘only’ a hill. [/nitpick]
Wow a lot of good films here - almost makes you proud to be a Brit, now if only we had an alternative to Hugh Grant for lead male …
Not a lot of comedy, but a pretty good movie.
Just watched The Girl in the Cafe last night on H.B.O. Fantastic movie. Bill Nighy’s performance was great.