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London in film

London has been used frequently both as a filming location and as a film setting. These have ranged from historical recreations of the Victorian London of Charles Dickens and Sherlock Holmes, to the romantic comedies of Bridget Jones's Diary and Notting Hill, by way of crime films, spy thrillers, science fiction and the "swinging London" films of the 1960s.

Because of the dominant role played by the city in the British media, the number of British films set in London is huge. It has also been used many times in American films, and often recreated on a Hollywood studio backlot.

Historical London edit

Historical recreations of London on screen have been relatively frequent. The Tudor, Victorian, Edwardian and Second World War periods in the city's history have all been regularly depicted.

Pre-Victorian London edit

London in the Elizabethan Era has often been portrayed in films, including Fire Over England (1937), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), and Elizabeth (1998). Much of Shakespeare in Love (1998), a comedy involving Shakespeare in a fictionalised romance, was set around the original Globe Theatre, as was Laurence Olivier's 1944 Henry V.

The Tudor period has also been shown in other films, including the 1966 film of Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons, the 1990s adaptation of Orlando and various versions of Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.

Cromwell (1970) is one of the few films to show the city during the English Civil War, but several have been set during the subsequent restoration of the monarchy under Charles II. These include Nell Gwyn (1937), Forever Amber (1947) and Stage Beauty (2003). The 1995 film Restoration incorporates both the Great Plague and the Great Fire of 1665-66.

Late 18th and early 19th century London has been seen in a number of films, including Lady Hamilton (1941), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), A Bequest to the Nation (1973), Princess Caraboo (1994), Sense and Sensibility (1995), and the various versions of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Victorian London edit

One of the most popular images of the city is the Victorian era of Charles Dickens, Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes. There have been almost 200 films based on the novels of Charles Dickens alone, beginning with the silent short film Death of Nancy Sykes in 1897. The most memorable of these are probably the musical Oliver! and the two David Lean films of Oliver Twist (1948) and Great Expectations (1946). Other film adaptations include David Copperfield in 1935 and 1969, Nicholas Nickleby in 1947 and 2002, The Pickwick Papers in 1952 and Little Dorrit in 1987. There have also been many versions of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the best known of which is probably the 1951 Alastair Sim film Scrooge.

Many films have also been made of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Basil Rathbone played Holmes in a series of American films from 1939 to 1946, with London recreated in Hollywood at 20th Century Fox and later Universal Studios. Other notable Holmes films which have strongly featured London backgrounds and locations are Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), and the comedies The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) and Without a Clue (1988), as well as innumerable television films.

Holmes also dealt with the notorious Whitechapel serial killer Jack the Ripper in A Study in Terror in 1965 and Murder by Decree in 1978. The Ripper was also featured in Pandora's Box (1929), Jack the Ripper (1959), Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), Hands of the Ripper (1971), From Hell (2001) and several versions of The Lodger, including Hitchcock's silent film of 1926.

Much of the action in the Bram Stoker novel Dracula takes place in London, although several film adaptations have set it elsewhere. One notable exception is Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Other films set in Victorian London include the 1945 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Victoria the Great (1937), Sixty Glorious Years (1938), The Mudlark (1950), The Wrong Box (1966), The Assassination Bureau (1968), The First Great Train Robbery (1978), Topsy-Turvy (1999), An Ideal Husband (1999), Shanghai Knights (2003), the 1956 version and 2004 version of Around the World in Eighty Days, and the black-and-white film The Elephant Man (1980), based on the life of Joseph Merrick.

Other British cities, such as Edinburgh, or locations in other countries, are now often used for period films instead of filming in London itself. From Hell (2001), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) and Roman Polanski's 2005 film of Oliver Twist all recreated Victorian London in Prague in the Czech Republic.

Twentieth century edit

Edwardian London has been depicted in several films, notably 2010 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture The King's Speech, Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets in 1949, the Merchant Ivory E. M. Forster adaptation Howards End (1992) and the biopic Young Winston (1972).

Wartime London has featured in many films, with The Man Who Loved Redheads and Zeppelin (1971) among those set during the First World War. The 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp covered 40 years in the city, including the Edwardian era, the First World War and the Second World War. Several others made during the Second World War itself, featured London locations, including Millions Like Us (1943) and Waterloo Road (1944). The Blitz featured prominently in the Ealing drama The Bells Go Down (1943), and in Humphrey Jennings' drama-documentary Fires Were Started (1943). The latter featured real firemen recreating scenes from the bombings. At the same time, a number of London-set films were being made in Hollywood, like Waterloo Bridge (1940), Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Forever and a Day (1943). The latter followed several generations of owners of a London house until 1943. Later films set in the city during World War II include The Man Who Never Was (1955), I Was Monty's Double (1958), Battle of Britain (1969), Hanover Street (1979), Hope and Glory (1987), Shining Through (1992) and The End of the Affair (1999), as well as some low-budget Italian-made war films like Stukas Over London (1970) and From Hell to Victory (1979).

The 1950s has been recreated in several films including 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) and Shadowlands (1993). The 1960s has proved particularly popular with film makers in recent years, especially for crime films like Buster (1988), Scandal (1989), The Krays (1990), Honest (2000) and Gangster No. 1 (2000). Withnail and I (1987) economically recreated the Camden Town area in the 1960s.

Postwar London edit

The Ealing comedies of the 1940s and 1950s made repeated use of locations in the city. Hue and Cry (1947) and Passport to Pimlico (1949) were memorably set in the ruins and bombsites of post-war London. In the 1950s The Lavender Hill Mob made extensive use of London locations, as did the dramas The Blue Lamp and Pool of London, while The Ladykillers used King's Cross Station and its surrounding marshalling yards as the backdrop to its story. The 1952 film The Happy Family is set on the South Bank during the lead up to the Festival of Britain.

Many other comedies have used locations in the city, some of the best known being The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947), Doctor in the House (1954), The Horse's Mouth (1958), Mars Attacks!, Independence Day: Resurgence, Nuns on the Run, Mr. Bean, Bedazzled (1967), Brassed Off (1996), Billy Elliott (2000) and Bend It Like Beckham (2002).

Swinging London edit

With new developments in music, cinema and fashion, London found itself the centre of youth culture in the 1960s. The image of "swinging London", partly a creation of Time magazine, helped to fuel a production boom in the British film industry throughout the decade. The Beatles made memorable use of locations in the city in A Hard Day's Night (1964) (#1 in U.S.), and a huge number of other London-set films followed. These included The Pumpkin Eater, The Knack ...and How to Get It, Darling, Arabesque, Kaleidoscope, Georgy Girl, Morgan!, Alfie, Blowup, I'll Never Forget What's'isname, Casino Royale, Poor Cow, Up the Junction, Bedazzled, To Sir, with Love, The Jokers, Otley, Wonderwall, Smashing Time, Salt and Pepper and The Italian Job.

Romantic London edit

The city has often been used as the backdrop for romances like Indiscreet (1958) with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman and A Touch of Class (1973), and has become popular for romantic comedies in recent years. This is at least partly due to the television and film writer Richard Curtis, who has written some of the most successful British films of recent years — The Tall Guy (1989), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Notting Hill (1999) and Love Actually (2003), all set or partly set in the city. The films follow the awkward love lives of largely upper-middle class characters (aside from The Tall Guy, always including one played by Hugh Grant).

Curtis has been criticised for pandering to the American market by playing to the stereotype of the English as posh, socially awkward eccentrics. This hasn't stopped the films generally being a huge success in the American and British cinema box office charts. Other films which have followed in Curtis's footsteps include Sliding Doors (1998), Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998), About a Boy (2002), Wimbledon, and the American film What a Girl Wants (2002). Londinium (2001) used locations in Berkeley Square, Mayfair, Hyde Park, Primrose Hill Park and at Waterloo station.

Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen conducted their affairs around various parts of London in Closer (2004), which uses locations such as Clerkenwell, the London Aquarium, Bloomsbury, the River Thames and the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane.

Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), uses a very up-market view of the city to reflect the upper class lives of the protagonists, including locations in Notting Hill, Belgravia, Chelsea, St. James's Park and Tate Modern.

Thrillers edit

Alfred Hitchcock probably started the fashion for using London landmarks for spy films, starting with Blackmail in 1929, which was set entirely in the city and finished on the dome of the British Museum. Many of his other thrillers followed a similar pattern, including The Man Who Knew Too Much (both the 1934 and 1956 versions), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1937), Foreign Correspondent (1940), Stage Fright (1950) and Frenzy (1972). London has since featured in many other thrillers, including Hunted (1952) The Yellow Balloon (1953) Sapphire (1959), Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), The IPCRESS File (1965), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), The Deadly Affair (1966), Arabesque (1966), The Black Windmill (1974), The Whistle Blower (1987), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Blue Ice (1992), The Innocent Sleep (1995) and briefly in Mission: Impossible (1996). This trend was spoofed in the films Otley (1968) with Tom Courtenay, and more recently in The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) with Bill Murray and the Austin Powers films (#1 in U.S. box office). Anthony Minghella's film Breaking and Entering (2006) with Jude Law is named also a Romantic drama.

Landmarks featured in some of these films include the Royal Albert Hall, Westminster Abbey and Trafalgar Square. Both Night of the Demon (1957) and The IPCRESS File (1965) feature scenes filmed in the famous reading room at the British Museum. The 1978 version of The Thirty Nine Steps features a climax on the clock face of Big Ben, an idea borrowed from the 1943 Will Hay comedy My Learned Friend. A similar scene features in the 2003 Jackie Chan film Shanghai Knights.

Several American thrillers have also produced mangled versions of London's geography, including Twenty-Three Paces to Baker Street (1956), Midnight Lace (1960) and The Mummy Returns (2001) (#1 in U.S.), which features a chase across Tower Bridge on a double-decker bus and several scenes inside the British Museum. The 1944 version of The Lodger also features a scene by Tower Bridge, although the film was set several years before it was built.

Britain's most famous spy, James Bond, generally spends little time in London, other than to receive his orders from his boss 'M'. However, some of the films do feature locations in the city. These include On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) (#1 in U.S.) in which George Lazenby as Bond visits the College of Arms and For Your Eyes Only (1981) (#1 in U.S.), in which Roger Moore experiences a hair-raising helicopter flight over the Docklands area. In the more recent Pierce Brosnan films, the Secret Service's headquarters are identified as being the new MI6 building on the River Thames at Vauxhall. The 1999 film The World Is Not Enough (#1 in U.S.) opens with an extended boat chase from the MI6 building down the river to the Millennium Dome, while in Die Another Day (2002) (#1 in U.S.) Bond visits a secret base in a disused Underground station, and makes a rare trip to his club Blades. Also in the 2012 Bond movie Skyfall (#1 in U.S.), Bond spends more time in London. First while he visits M's house to get back to service. Then to new underground office of MI6, then to the Art Gallery to meet the new Quartermaster. After returning from Shanghai also, Bond spends time in London before going to Scotland. He chases Silva in London Tube and other areas in London. Also at the end of Movie, Bond sees London from his office terrace. The 1967 version of Casino Royale makes extensive use of London locations, including 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square (with Nelson's Column replaced by a flying saucer) as well as showing the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace.

Parts of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012) (#1 in U.S.) were also filmed in London.[1]

London Underground edit

London's underground railway system, known as the Tube, has featured in several films. The plot of the 1998 film Sliding Doors hinges on whether Gwyneth Paltrow's character catches a particular Tube train or not. Bulldog Jack (1934), Man Hunt (1941), The Good Die Young (1954), and 28 Weeks Later (2007) all include chase sequences across underground tracks.

A number of horror films have also used the subterranean network of tunnels as an atmospheric location, most notably the John Landis hit An American Werewolf in London (1981) (#1 in U.S.), which contains a famous scene set in Tottenham Court Road tube station, and the 2004 film Creep. The eerie 1973 horror Death Line stars Donald Pleasence as a Scotland Yard detective who traces a series of murders to cannibals living in the network's tunnels.

Excavations on the Underground unearthed an ancient alien spacecraft in Quatermass and the Pit (1967), and dormant dragons in Reign of Fire (2002).

The 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day features a secret MI6 facility in a fictional disused Underground Station called Vauxhall Cross. The 2012 Bond film Skyfall sets a long chase scene in the London Underground near a makeshift underground MI6 base near the Old Bailey. Another fictional station, Hobbs End, features in the 1967 science fiction film Quatermass and the Pit. Deleted scenes for Shaun of the Dead features the fictional Crouch End station.

Other films to have featured the Underground include Passport to Pimlico (1949), The Yellow Balloon (1953), Georgy Girl (1966), The Fourth Protocol (1987), Hidden City (1988) and Tube Tales (1999). The makers of the children's film The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) managed to persuade London Underground to paint a tube train yellow.

A rare recreation of the network in the Edwardian era featured in the adaptation of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove in 1997. The London underground of the 1920s is also recorded in Anthony Asquith's silent classic Underground (1928), while the 1969 film Battle of Britain shows the tunnel network converted to provide shelter for Londoners during the Blitz.

Aldwych tube station, formerly on a branch of the Piccadilly line, has been used as the location for many films and television productions, especially since the branch and station closed in 1994 and the platforms have been left intact making it suitable for filming and photography purposes, due to the absence of a regular train service. A 1970s tube train permanently is based at the station and heritage rolling stock can be brought in for filming - London Underground have retained one of their 1938 trains which can be used for historic appearances. In more recent years filming has also taken place at the former Jubilee line platforms at Charing Cross station,[2] which were withdrawn from regular use when the line was extended in 1999 avoiding the station.

Science fiction edit

Nigel Kneale's Quatermass films and television series helped to popularise London as the setting for science fiction stories. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) ends with Professor Quatermass cornering an alien monster in Westminster Abbey, while Quatermass and the Pit (1967) begins with an alien space craft being discovered during the construction of a new London Underground station. The John Wyndham novel The Day of the Triffids was made into a film in 1962 which also features scenes in London, while the much-derided 1985 film Lifeforce involved vampires from space taking over the city.

The 1950 thriller Seven Days to Noon featured a scientist who threatens to destroy London with a nuclear bomb, and was notable for its scenes of the city's evacuated and deserted streets. Despite the great difficulties involved in achieving this, the feat was repeated for the horror film 28 Days Later in 2002, which begins with the hero waking from a coma and wandering across a deserted Westminster Bridge.

Another nuclear threat was explored in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) which has many notable scenes in London, including the Thames running dry. It also includes a lot of scenes inside the old Express Building on Fleet Street and Arthur Christiansen, the recently retired editor of the Daily Express, effectively plays himself.

Both Things to Come (1936) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) begin with the city being destroyed, by war and alien attack respectively, while the 2004 horror comedy Shaun of the Dead is set in the city during a zombie attack.

The 1960 film The Time Machine, based on the novel by H. G. Wells, featured an inventor in Victorian London named H. George Wells (played by Rod Taylor) who builds a time machine and time travels all the way to the year October 12, 802,701 where he finds that the human race has divided into two species - the surface dwelling Eloi and the underground dwelling Morlocks. While there, George falls in love with one of the Eloi named Weena (played by Yvette Mimieux).

The 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., based on the Doctor Who story The Dalek Invasion of Earth from 1964, is set in part in a future version of London, which has been nearly destroyed by alien invasion.

Futuristic London is terrorized in the 2006 film V for Vendetta (#1 in U.S.) by a mysterious, masked anarchist who wishes to destroy the fascist government. The film was based on the graphic novel V for Vendetta. In Children of Men (2006), the London of 2027 is a grim place, full of refugees, armed policemen and exploding bombs. Locations used include Tate Britain, Battersea Power Station, the Mall and Admiralty Arch.

The Bollywood sci-fi Superhero adventure Ra.One begins in London, where the protagonist Dr. Shekhar Subramanium (played by Shahrukh Khan) works at the fictional Barron Industries. Much of the film was shot in various parts of the city.

2013 American science fiction film Star Trek Into Darkness is partially set in London of the distant future.

Criminals edit

 
Thamesmead South Housing Estate features in A Clockwork Orange where Alex knocks his rebellious droogs into the lake in a sudden surprise attack.

Historic periods in the city's underworld have been portrayed in a small number of films. Examples include Where's Jack? (17th century), The First Great Train Robbery (Victorian era), Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (World War II) and The Krays (the 1960s), while 10 Rillington Place (1971) recreated 1940s London, filming in the actual street where John Christie carried out his infamous murders.

Other films have evoked London's underworld in the modern era, including Robbery (1967), Performance (1970), Villain (1971), Brannigan (1975), The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Face (1997), Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time (1999), Snatch (2000), Sexy Beast (2000) and Layer Cake (2004).

Set in a dystopian near-future Britain, A Clockwork Orange (1971), featuring youth gangs, was filmed in metropolitan London.

The other side of London edit

A number of films have depicted the underbelly of the city away from the familiar tourist sites. Examples of these include Up the Junction, Nil by Mouth, Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises and two out of every three films directed by Mike Leigh. The East End meanwhile, was shown in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Waterloo Road (1944), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) and A Kid for Two Farthings (1955), among others.

The 1967 documentary The London Nobody Knows, based on the book of the same name by Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher and presented by James Mason, attempted to show some unfamiliar aspects of the city, as did Patrick Keiller's 1994 documentary London. This approach has since been emulated by the Saint Etienne films Finisterre (2002) and What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day? (2005). The latter attempted to capture the state of the Lower Lea Valley prior to its transformation ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.

Other films have tried to use less familiar locations in a new way. The 1995 version of Richard III, starring Ian McKellen, which is set in a fictional 1930s fascist version of England, makes imaginative use of London locations such as St Cuthbert's church, St Pancras chambers (the old Midland Grand Hotel), the University of London's Senate House, and the two Gilbert Scott power stationsBankside serving for the Tower and the decrepit Battersea Power Station as the setting for the final battle scenes. Terry Gilliam's 1985 Orwellian fantasy Brazil also used the cooling towers of the same power station as a location, as did Michael Radford's 1984 film version of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

London Kills Me (1991) portrays the city's immigrant and drug subcultures in the early Thatcher years, in a similar vein as My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). The 2007 film by Ken Loach It's a Free World... considered the ethical dilemmas regarding London's vast trade in illegal workers.

The acclaimed 1996 film Beautiful Thing depicted the lives of two gay teenagers living on the South London housing estate of Thamesmead. Similar themes, as well as race, were part of the 1970s set Young Soul Rebels, the debut of Derek Jarman protege Isaac Julien (1991).

Breaking and Entering, a 2006 romantic drama, by Academy Award-winning director Anthony Minghella, shot and set in King's Cross, a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and a Bosnian woman. The mother in Breaking and Entering has a troubled teenage son who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Kids' London edit

London has been a popular location for children's (and especially Disney) films over the last 40 years. The animated features The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), Peter Pan (1953), One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), The Sword in the Stone (1963) and Basil, the Great Mouse Detective (known in North America as The Great Mouse Detective) (1986) were all set in the city, as were Mary Poppins (1964) (#1 in U.S.) and part of Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). These, however, were all filmed in the U.S.. The opening setting of Pocahontas (1995) is in London. The educational Disney short The Truth About Mother Goose (1957) featured London while showing the history behind the nursery rhymes Little Jack Horner and London Bridge Is Falling Down. The Mickey Mouse shorts Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and The Prince and the Pauper (1990) were set in London.

In more recent years The Parent Trap (1998 version), Winning London, The Great Muppet Caper, the 1996 live-action remake of 101 Dalmatians (#1 in U.S.) and the 2018 film Christopher Robin all used actual locations in the city, as did the 1975 Disney comedy One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, which was largely set around the Natural History Museum in the early 20th century. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) was set in Victorian London, but largely used Shepperton Studios. The film Melody (1970) (also known as S.W.A.L.K.) was filmed in and around Lambeth and Vauxhall and reunited Mark Lester and Jack Wild after their appearance in Oliver!.

Cars 2 was also set in London.

The Harry Potter films (#1 in U.S. box office) also feature some famous London locations. The London Zoo, King's Cross station, and Leadenhall Market (Diagon Alley) are among those used.

Stormbreaker, the first novel in the bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, was turned into a film in 2006. It features locations in London such as Hyde Park, Piccadilly Circus, and the Science Museum. The film also features several action sequences in the city, including a horse chase through central London and the main characters fighting on the rooftop of a skyscraper.

Paddington (2014) features several London locations, and includes modern landmarks such as The Shard and the London Eye.

Musical London edit

Cliff Richard was a film star with three successful musical comedies in the early 1960s. The first of these, The Young Ones (1961), was set in London. Cliff, The Shadows, and others need money to save their youth club, so they set up a pirate radio station to generate publicity for the show. Although Cliff's second hit, Summer Holiday (1963), mostly took place while driving across Europe, it prominently featured a red London AEC RT bus.

The success of some of these 1960s films helped to make up for London Town, Britain's first Technicolor musical, which was a high-profile flop in 1946.

Mary Poppins (1964) was a critical and popular success, winning multiple Oscars for its editing, music (including Best Song for "Chim Chim Cher-ee"), and visual effects (notably the scene combining live action and animation). Lead actress Julie Andrews won an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Also in 1964, Audrey Hepburn starred in My Fair Lady, the film of the musical of the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion. George Cukor's decision to award the role of Eliza Doolittle to Hepburn was perceived by many as a snub to Julie Andrews, who had played the part to great acclaim on Broadway. This is another film with some famous songs, including Wouldn't it be Loverly, I Could have Danced all Night and Get Me to the Church on Time. Marni Nixon's voice was used in place of Audrey Hepburn's for the songs.

In Half a Sixpence (1967), professional cheery cockney Tommy Steele plays Arthur Kipps, a cockney who unexpectedly comes into some money, in a musical version of H. G. Wells's novel Kipps.

Oliver! (1968), the musical based on Oliver Twist, includes the songs Food, Glorious Food, Consider Yourself and You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two. Two more Dickens stories turned into musicals were A Christmas Carol (filmed as Scrooge in 1970) and The Old Curiosity Shop, which became Mr Quilp in 1975.

The musical adaptation of Goodbye, Mr. Chips with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark made use of several London locations, including the dining room at the Savoy Hotel and the Salisbury pub in the heart of the West End.

Quadrophenia (1979) draws its soundtrack from the album of the same name, a rock opera by The Who. It tells the story of Jimmy, a disaffected teenager, taking his scooter to Brighton for the August bank holiday with a group of Mods, and taking part in one of the notorious 'battles' between Mods and Rockers.

Punk, one of London's notable contributions to pop music, is the subject of Sid and Nancy (1986), a biopic of Sid Vicious, bassist with the Sex Pistols. Gary Oldman stars as Vicious. Also see the punk-rockumentaries directed by Julien Temple, the first being band manager Malcolm McLaren's take on 'his' invention of punk in his The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and the more recent return volley by the estranged band members in The Filth and the Fury.

The South London reggae scene is notably represented in Babylon (1980).

SpiceWorld (1997) was a comedy starring pop girl group the Spice Girls. It was a commercial success but widely panned by critics.

Early Victorian London was the setting for 2007's musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

K-On! The Movie (2011) is the first Japanese animated musical film to be set in London, as it features a band whose music is inspired by British rock music. The band performs their original songs at Jubilee Gardens.

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Swinging London 4 Romantic London 5 Thrillers 6 London Underground 7 Science fiction 8 Criminals 9 The other side of London 10 Kids London 11 Musical London 12 References 13 External linksHistorical London editHistorical recreations of London on screen have been relatively frequent The Tudor Victorian Edwardian and Second World War periods in the city s history have all been regularly depicted Pre Victorian London edit London in the Elizabethan Era has often been portrayed in films including Fire Over England 1937 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 1939 and Elizabeth 1998 Much of Shakespeare in Love 1998 a comedy involving Shakespeare in a fictionalised romance was set around the original Globe Theatre as was Laurence Olivier s 1944 Henry V The Tudor period has also been shown in other films including the 1966 film of Robert Bolt s play A Man for All Seasons the 1990s adaptation of Orlando and various versions of Mark Twain s The Prince and the Pauper Cromwell 1970 is one of the few films to show the city during the English Civil War but several have been set during the subsequent restoration of the monarchy under Charles II These include Nell Gwyn 1937 Forever Amber 1947 and Stage Beauty 2003 The 1995 film Restoration incorporates both the Great Plague and the Great Fire of 1665 66 Late 18th and early 19th century London has been seen in a number of films including Lady Hamilton 1941 Lady Caroline Lamb 1972 A Bequest to the Nation 1973 Princess Caraboo 1994 Sense and Sensibility 1995 and the various versions of The Scarlet Pimpernel Victorian London edit One of the most popular images of the city is the Victorian era of Charles Dickens Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes There have been almost 200 films based on the novels of Charles Dickens alone beginning with the silent short film Death of Nancy Sykes in 1897 The most memorable of these are probably the musical Oliver and the two David Lean films of Oliver Twist 1948 and Great Expectations 1946 Other film adaptations include David Copperfield in 1935 and 1969 Nicholas Nickleby in 1947 and 2002 The Pickwick Papers in 1952 and Little Dorrit in 1987 There have also been many versions of Dickens A Christmas Carol the best known of which is probably the 1951 Alastair Sim film Scrooge Many films have also been made of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle Basil Rathbone played Holmes in a series of American films from 1939 to 1946 with London recreated in Hollywood at 20th Century Fox and later Universal Studios Other notable Holmes films which have strongly featured London backgrounds and locations are Young Sherlock Holmes 1985 Billy Wilder s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 and the comedies The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother 1975 and Without a Clue 1988 as well as innumerable television films Holmes also dealt with the notorious Whitechapel serial killer Jack the Ripper in A Study in Terror in 1965 and Murder by Decree in 1978 The Ripper was also featured in Pandora s Box 1929 Jack the Ripper 1959 Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde 1971 Hands of the Ripper 1971 From Hell 2001 and several versions of The Lodger including Hitchcock s silent film of 1926 Much of the action in the Bram Stoker novel Dracula takes place in London although several film adaptations have set it elsewhere One notable exception is Bram Stoker s Dracula 1992 directed by Francis Ford Coppola Other films set in Victorian London include the 1945 version of The Picture of Dorian Gray Victoria the Great 1937 Sixty Glorious Years 1938 The Mudlark 1950 The Wrong Box 1966 The Assassination Bureau 1968 The First Great Train Robbery 1978 Topsy Turvy 1999 An Ideal Husband 1999 Shanghai Knights 2003 the 1956 version and 2004 version of Around the World in Eighty Days and the black and white film The Elephant Man 1980 based on the life of Joseph Merrick Other British cities such as Edinburgh or locations in other countries are now often used for period films instead of filming in London itself From Hell 2001 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 and Roman Polanski s 2005 film of Oliver Twist all recreated Victorian London in Prague in the Czech Republic Twentieth century edit Edwardian London has been depicted in several films notably 2010 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture The King s Speech Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets in 1949 the Merchant Ivory E M Forster adaptation Howards End 1992 and the biopic Young Winston 1972 Wartime London has featured in many films with The Man Who Loved Redheads and Zeppelin 1971 among those set during the First World War The 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp covered 40 years in the city including the Edwardian era the First World War and the Second World War Several others made during the Second World War itself featured London locations including Millions Like Us 1943 and Waterloo Road 1944 The Blitz featured prominently in the Ealing drama The Bells Go Down 1943 and in Humphrey Jennings drama documentary Fires Were Started 1943 The latter featured real firemen recreating scenes from the bombings At the same time a number of London set films were being made in Hollywood like Waterloo Bridge 1940 Mrs Miniver 1942 and Forever and a Day 1943 The latter followed several generations of owners of a London house until 1943 Later films set in the city during World War II include The Man Who Never Was 1955 I Was Monty s Double 1958 Battle of Britain 1969 Hanover Street 1979 Hope and Glory 1987 Shining Through 1992 and The End of the Affair 1999 as well as some low budget Italian made war films like Stukas Over London 1970 and From Hell to Victory 1979 The 1950s has been recreated in several films including 84 Charing Cross Road 1987 and Shadowlands 1993 The 1960s has proved particularly popular with film makers in recent years especially for crime films like Buster 1988 Scandal 1989 The Krays 1990 Honest 2000 and Gangster No 1 2000 Withnail and I 1987 economically recreated the Camden Town area in the 1960s Postwar London editThe Ealing comedies of the 1940s and 1950s made repeated use of locations in the city Hue and Cry 1947 and Passport to Pimlico 1949 were memorably set in the ruins and bombsites of post war London In the 1950s The Lavender Hill Mob made extensive use of London locations as did the dramas The Blue Lamp and Pool of London while The Ladykillers used King s Cross Station and its surrounding marshalling yards as the backdrop to its story The 1952 film The Happy Family is set on the South Bank during the lead up to the Festival of Britain Many other comedies have used locations in the city some of the best known being The Ghosts of Berkeley Square 1947 Doctor in the House 1954 The Horse s Mouth 1958 Mars Attacks Independence Day Resurgence Nuns on the Run Mr Bean Bedazzled 1967 Brassed Off 1996 Billy Elliott 2000 and Bend It Like Beckham 2002 Swinging London editWith new developments in music cinema and fashion London found itself the centre of youth culture in the 1960s The image of swinging London partly a creation of Time magazine helped to fuel a production boom in the British film industry throughout the decade The Beatles made memorable use of locations in the city in A Hard Day s Night 1964 1 in U S and a huge number of other London set films followed These included The Pumpkin Eater The Knack and How to Get It Darling Arabesque Kaleidoscope Georgy Girl Morgan Alfie Blowup I ll Never Forget What s isname Casino Royale Poor Cow Up the Junction Bedazzled To Sir with Love The Jokers Otley Wonderwall Smashing Time Salt and Pepper and The Italian Job Romantic London editThe city has often been used as the backdrop for romances like Indiscreet 1958 with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman and A Touch of Class 1973 and has become popular for romantic comedies in recent years This is at least partly due to the television and film writer Richard Curtis who has written some of the most successful British films of recent years The Tall Guy 1989 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Notting Hill 1999 and Love Actually 2003 all set or partly set in the city The films follow the awkward love lives of largely upper middle class characters aside from The Tall Guy always including one played by Hugh Grant Curtis has been criticised for pandering to the American market by playing to the stereotype of the English as posh socially awkward eccentrics This hasn t stopped the films generally being a huge success in the American and British cinema box office charts Other films which have followed in Curtis s footsteps include Sliding Doors 1998 Martha Meet Frank Daniel and Laurence 1998 About a Boy 2002 Wimbledon and the American film What a Girl Wants 2002 Londinium 2001 used locations in Berkeley Square Mayfair Hyde Park Primrose Hill Park and at Waterloo station Natalie Portman Julia Roberts Jude Law and Clive Owen conducted their affairs around various parts of London in Closer 2004 which uses locations such as Clerkenwell the London Aquarium Bloomsbury the River Thames and the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane Woody Allen s Match Point 2005 uses a very up market view of the city to reflect the upper class lives of the protagonists including locations in Notting Hill Belgravia Chelsea St James s Park and Tate Modern Thrillers editAlfred Hitchcock probably started the fashion for using London landmarks for spy films starting with Blackmail in 1929 which was set entirely in the city and finished on the dome of the British Museum Many of his other thrillers followed a similar pattern including The Man Who Knew Too Much both the 1934 and 1956 versions The 39 Steps 1935 Sabotage 1937 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Stage Fright 1950 and Frenzy 1972 London has since featured in many other thrillers including Hunted 1952 The Yellow Balloon 1953 Sapphire 1959 Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965 The IPCRESS File 1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 The Deadly Affair 1966 Arabesque 1966 The Black Windmill 1974 The Whistle Blower 1987 The Fourth Protocol 1987 Blue Ice 1992 The Innocent Sleep 1995 and briefly in Mission Impossible 1996 This trend was spoofed in the films Otley 1968 with Tom Courtenay and more recently in The Man Who Knew Too Little 1997 with Bill Murray and the Austin Powers films 1 in U S box office Anthony Minghella s film Breaking and Entering 2006 with Jude Law is named also a Romantic drama Landmarks featured in some of these films include the Royal Albert Hall Westminster Abbey and Trafalgar Square Both Night of the Demon 1957 and The IPCRESS File 1965 feature scenes filmed in the famous reading room at the British Museum The 1978 version of The Thirty Nine Steps features a climax on the clock face of Big Ben an idea borrowed from the 1943 Will Hay comedy My Learned Friend A similar scene features in the 2003 Jackie Chan film Shanghai Knights Several American thrillers have also produced mangled versions of London s geography including Twenty Three Paces to Baker Street 1956 Midnight Lace 1960 and The Mummy Returns 2001 1 in U S which features a chase across Tower Bridge on a double decker bus and several scenes inside the British Museum The 1944 version of The Lodger also features a scene by Tower Bridge although the film was set several years before it was built Britain s most famous spy James Bond generally spends little time in London other than to receive his orders from his boss M However some of the films do feature locations in the city These include On Her Majesty s Secret Service 1969 1 in U S in which George Lazenby as Bond visits the College of Arms and For Your Eyes Only 1981 1 in U S in which Roger Moore experiences a hair raising helicopter flight over the Docklands area In the more recent Pierce Brosnan films the Secret Service s headquarters are identified as being the new MI6 building on the River Thames at Vauxhall The 1999 film The World Is Not Enough 1 in U S opens with an extended boat chase from the MI6 building down the river to the Millennium Dome while in Die Another Day 2002 1 in U S Bond visits a secret base in a disused Underground station and makes a rare trip to his club Blades Also in the 2012 Bond movie Skyfall 1 in U S Bond spends more time in London First while he visits M s house to get back to service Then to new underground office of MI6 then to the Art Gallery to meet the new Quartermaster After returning from Shanghai also Bond spends time in London before going to Scotland He chases Silva in London Tube and other areas in London Also at the end of Movie Bond sees London from his office terrace The 1967 version of Casino Royale makes extensive use of London locations including 10 Downing Street Whitehall Trafalgar Square with Nelson s Column replaced by a flying saucer as well as showing the Changing of the Guard outside Buckingham Palace Parts of Christopher Nolan s The Dark Knight Rises 2012 1 in U S were also filmed in London 1 London Underground editSee also List of London Underground related fiction London s underground railway system known as the Tube has featured in several films The plot of the 1998 film Sliding Doors hinges on whether Gwyneth Paltrow s character catches a particular Tube train or not Bulldog Jack 1934 Man Hunt 1941 The Good Die Young 1954 and 28 Weeks Later 2007 all include chase sequences across underground tracks A number of horror films have also used the subterranean network of tunnels as an atmospheric location most notably the John Landis hit An American Werewolf in London 1981 1 in U S which contains a famous scene set in Tottenham Court Road tube station and the 2004 film Creep The eerie 1973 horror Death Line stars Donald Pleasence as a Scotland Yard detective who traces a series of murders to cannibals living in the network s tunnels Excavations on the Underground unearthed an ancient alien spacecraft in Quatermass and the Pit 1967 and dormant dragons in Reign of Fire 2002 The 2002 James Bond film Die Another Day features a secret MI6 facility in a fictional disused Underground Station called Vauxhall Cross The 2012 Bond film Skyfall sets a long chase scene in the London Underground near a makeshift underground MI6 base near the Old Bailey Another fictional station Hobbs End features in the 1967 science fiction film Quatermass and the Pit Deleted scenes for Shaun of the Dead features the fictional Crouch End station Other films to have featured the Underground include Passport to Pimlico 1949 The Yellow Balloon 1953 Georgy Girl 1966 The Fourth Protocol 1987 Hidden City 1988 and Tube Tales 1999 The makers of the children s film The Boy Who Turned Yellow 1972 managed to persuade London Underground to paint a tube train yellow A rare recreation of the network in the Edwardian era featured in the adaptation of Henry James s The Wings of the Dove in 1997 The London underground of the 1920s is also recorded in Anthony Asquith s silent classic Underground 1928 while the 1969 film Battle of Britain shows the tunnel network converted to provide shelter for Londoners during the Blitz Aldwych tube station formerly on a branch of the Piccadilly line has been used as the location for many films and television productions especially since the branch and station closed in 1994 and the platforms have been left intact making it suitable for filming and photography purposes due to the absence of a regular train service A 1970s tube train permanently is based at the station and heritage rolling stock can be brought in for filming London Underground have retained one of their 1938 trains which can be used for historic appearances In more recent years filming has also taken place at the former Jubilee line platforms at Charing Cross station 2 which were withdrawn from regular use when the line was extended in 1999 avoiding the station Science fiction editNigel Kneale s Quatermass films and television series helped to popularise London as the setting for science fiction stories The Quatermass Xperiment 1955 ends with Professor Quatermass cornering an alien monster in Westminster Abbey while Quatermass and the Pit 1967 begins with an alien space craft being discovered during the construction of a new London Underground station The John Wyndham novel The Day of the Triffids was made into a film in 1962 which also features scenes in London while the much derided 1985 film Lifeforce involved vampires from space taking over the city The 1950 thriller Seven Days to Noon featured a scientist who threatens to destroy London with a nuclear bomb and was notable for its scenes of the city s evacuated and deserted streets Despite the great difficulties involved in achieving this the feat was repeated for the horror film 28 Days Later in 2002 which begins with the hero waking from a coma and wandering across a deserted Westminster Bridge Another nuclear threat was explored in The Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961 which has many notable scenes in London including the Thames running dry It also includes a lot of scenes inside the old Express Building on Fleet Street and Arthur Christiansen the recently retired editor of the Daily Express effectively plays himself Both Things to Come 1936 and The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 begin with the city being destroyed by war and alien attack respectively while the 2004 horror comedy Shaun of the Dead is set in the city during a zombie attack The 1960 film The Time Machine based on the novel by H G Wells featured an inventor in Victorian London named H George Wells played by Rod Taylor who builds a time machine and time travels all the way to the year October 12 802 701 where he finds that the human race has divided into two species the surface dwelling Eloi and the underground dwelling Morlocks While there George falls in love with one of the Eloi named Weena played by Yvette Mimieux The 1966 film Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A D based on the Doctor Who story The Dalek Invasion of Earth from 1964 is set in part in a future version of London which has been nearly destroyed by alien invasion Futuristic London is terrorized in the 2006 film V for Vendetta 1 in U S by a mysterious masked anarchist who wishes to destroy the fascist government The film was based on the graphic novel V for Vendetta In Children of Men 2006 the London of 2027 is a grim place full of refugees armed policemen and exploding bombs Locations used include Tate Britain Battersea Power Station the Mall and Admiralty Arch The Bollywood sci fi Superhero adventure Ra One begins in London where the protagonist Dr Shekhar Subramanium played by Shahrukh Khan works at the fictional Barron Industries Much of the film was shot in various parts of the city 2013 American science fiction film Star Trek Into Darkness is partially set in London of the distant future Criminals edit nbsp Thamesmead South Housing Estate features in A Clockwork Orange where Alex knocks his rebellious droogs into the lake in a sudden surprise attack Historic periods in the city s underworld have been portrayed in a small number of films Examples include Where s Jack 17th century The First Great Train Robbery Victorian era Chicago Joe and the Showgirl World War II and The Krays the 1960s while 10 Rillington Place 1971 recreated 1940s London filming in the actual street where John Christie carried out his infamous murders Other films have evoked London s underworld in the modern era including Robbery 1967 Performance 1970 Villain 1971 Brannigan 1975 The Long Good Friday 1980 Mona Lisa 1986 Face 1997 Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 G MT Greenwich Mean Time 1999 Snatch 2000 Sexy Beast 2000 and Layer Cake 2004 Set in a dystopian near future Britain A Clockwork Orange 1971 featuring youth gangs was filmed in metropolitan London The other side of London editA number of films have depicted the underbelly of the city away from the familiar tourist sites Examples of these include Up the Junction Nil by Mouth Dirty Pretty Things Eastern Promises and two out of every three films directed by Mike Leigh The East End meanwhile was shown in The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 Waterloo Road 1944 It Always Rains on Sunday 1947 and A Kid for Two Farthings 1955 among others The 1967 documentary The London Nobody Knows based on the book of the same name by Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher and presented by James Mason attempted to show some unfamiliar aspects of the city as did Patrick Keiller s 1994 documentary London This approach has since been emulated by the Saint Etienne films Finisterre 2002 and What Have You Done Today Mervyn Day 2005 The latter attempted to capture the state of the Lower Lea Valley prior to its transformation ahead of the 2012 London Olympics Other films have tried to use less familiar locations in a new way The 1995 version of Richard III starring Ian McKellen which is set in a fictional 1930s fascist version of England makes imaginative use of London locations such as St Cuthbert s church St Pancras chambers the old Midland Grand Hotel the University of London s Senate House and the two Gilbert Scott power stations Bankside serving for the Tower and the decrepit Battersea Power Station as the setting for the final battle scenes Terry Gilliam s 1985 Orwellian fantasy Brazil also used the cooling towers of the same power station as a location as did Michael Radford s 1984 film version of George Orwell s novel Nineteen Eighty Four London Kills Me 1991 portrays the city s immigrant and drug subcultures in the early Thatcher years in a similar vein as My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 The 2007 film by Ken Loach It s a Free World considered the ethical dilemmas regarding London s vast trade in illegal workers The acclaimed 1996 film Beautiful Thing depicted the lives of two gay teenagers living on the South London housing estate of Thamesmead Similar themes as well as race were part of the 1970s set Young Soul Rebels the debut of Derek Jarman protege Isaac Julien 1991 Breaking and Entering a 2006 romantic drama by Academy Award winning director Anthony Minghella shot and set in King s Cross a blighted inner city neighbourhood of London examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and a Bosnian woman The mother in Breaking and Entering has a troubled teenage son who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina Kids London editLondon has been a popular location for children s and especially Disney films over the last 40 years The animated features The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad 1949 Peter Pan 1953 One Hundred and One Dalmatians 1961 The Sword in the Stone 1963 and Basil the Great Mouse Detective known in North America as The Great Mouse Detective 1986 were all set in the city as were Mary Poppins 1964 1 in U S and part of Bedknobs and Broomsticks 1971 These however were all filmed in the U S The opening setting of Pocahontas 1995 is in London The educational Disney short The Truth About Mother Goose 1957 featured London while showing the history behind the nursery rhymes Little Jack Horner and London Bridge Is Falling Down The Mickey Mouse shorts Mickey s Christmas Carol 1983 and The Prince and the Pauper 1990 were set in London In more recent years The Parent Trap 1998 version Winning London The Great Muppet Caper the 1996 live action remake of 101 Dalmatians 1 in U S and the 2018 film Christopher Robin all used actual locations in the city as did the 1975 Disney comedy One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing which was largely set around the Natural History Museum in the early 20th century The Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 was set in Victorian London but largely used Shepperton Studios The film Melody 1970 also known as S W A L K was filmed in and around Lambeth and Vauxhall and reunited Mark Lester and Jack Wild after their appearance in Oliver Cars 2 was also set in London The Harry Potter films 1 in U S box office also feature some famous London locations The London Zoo King s Cross station and Leadenhall Market Diagon Alley are among those used Stormbreaker the first novel in the bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz was turned into a film in 2006 It features locations in London such as Hyde Park Piccadilly Circus and the Science Museum The film also features several action sequences in the city including a horse chase through central London and the main characters fighting on the rooftop of a skyscraper Paddington 2014 features several London locations and includes modern landmarks such as The Shard and the London Eye Musical London editCliff Richard was a film star with three successful musical comedies in the early 1960s The first of these The Young Ones 1961 was set in London Cliff The Shadows and others need money to save their youth club so they set up a pirate radio station to generate publicity for the show Although Cliff s second hit Summer Holiday 1963 mostly took place while driving across Europe it prominently featured a red London AEC RT bus The success of some of these 1960s films helped to make up for London Town Britain s first Technicolor musical which was a high profile flop in 1946 Mary Poppins 1964 was a critical and popular success winning multiple Oscars for its editing music including Best Song for Chim Chim Cher ee and visual effects notably the scene combining live action and animation Lead actress Julie Andrews won an Academy Award for Best Actress Also in 1964 Audrey Hepburn starred in My Fair Lady the film of the musical of the George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion George Cukor s decision to award the role of Eliza Doolittle to Hepburn was perceived by many as a snub to Julie Andrews who had played the part to great acclaim on Broadway This is another film with some famous songs including Wouldn t it be Loverly I Could have Danced all Night and Get Me to the Church on Time Marni Nixon s voice was used in place of Audrey Hepburn s for the songs In Half a Sixpence 1967 professional cheery cockney Tommy Steele plays Arthur Kipps a cockney who unexpectedly comes into some money in a musical version of H G Wells s novel Kipps Oliver 1968 the musical based on Oliver Twist includes the songs Food Glorious Food Consider Yourself and You ve Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two Two more Dickens stories turned into musicals were A Christmas Carol filmed as Scrooge in 1970 and The Old Curiosity Shop which became Mr Quilp in 1975 The musical adaptation of Goodbye Mr Chips with Peter O Toole and Petula Clark made use of several London locations including the dining room at the Savoy Hotel and the Salisbury pub in the heart of the West End Quadrophenia 1979 draws its soundtrack from the album of the same name a rock opera by The Who It tells the story of Jimmy a disaffected teenager taking his scooter to Brighton for the August bank holiday with a group of Mods and taking part in one of the notorious battles between Mods and Rockers Punk one of London s notable contributions to pop music is the subject of Sid and Nancy 1986 a biopic of Sid Vicious bassist with the Sex Pistols Gary Oldman stars as Vicious Also see the punk rockumentaries directed by Julien Temple the first being band manager Malcolm McLaren s take on his invention of punk in his The Great Rock n Roll Swindle and the more recent return volley by the estranged band members in The Filth and the Fury The South London reggae scene is notably represented in Babylon 1980 SpiceWorld 1997 was a comedy starring pop girl group the Spice Girls It was a commercial success but widely panned by critics Early Victorian London was the setting for 2007 s musical Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street K On The Movie 2011 is the first Japanese animated musical film to be set in London as it features a band whose music is inspired by British rock music The band performs their original songs at Jubilee Gardens References edit Film locations for The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Archived from the original on 2012 08 21 Art Night Disused Jubilee Line Charing Cross Underground Station archive ica art External links edithttp www 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