Great American landscapes and gritty British life

Hello all.

I'm just after some film recommendations really, with the criteria mentioned in the title. Which good films should I watch if I want to see sweeping views of the great American outdoors? Any genre is fine. Westerns, road movies, anything with really inspiring US scenery...

Also, I'd quite like to show some of my Chinese friends that not all British people are polite and wear monocles. Can you recommend some good British films that show the dirtier side of life? Something like Harry Brown perhaps.

Cheers.

American landscapes - Badlands, Capricorn One, Easy Rider, Big Wednesday

British Grit - Harry Brown, Scum, Anything by Shane Meadows, Lock Stock/ Snatch

British grit has to be Trainspotting, although you'll have to put subtitles on!

American landscapes - Winter's Bone, True Grit, Fargo

British grit (btw these are nothing like Harry Brown, but are still the complete opposite to monocle-wearing toffs. All from the '50s and '60s and depict working class life in the north of England) - This Sporting Life, Kes, Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Billy Liar

Thanks for the suggestions. There's a few there for me to find online. Ta very much.

A lot of John Fords films were filmed in Monument Valley, Cliffhanger Stallone,
British Get Carter the Michael Caine version

There will be blood

US scenery - Brokeback Mountain

UK - This Is England, The Red Riding trilogy.

US Scenery - Call of the Wild. Lots of views of Alaska

UK - Nil By Mouth - Your friend may want to top himself after however!

try legends of the fall for amercian scenery

Quadrophenia for uk film

UK Gritty film: "A Way of Life" - Dir. Amma Asante - A horrifying portrayal of racism in Swansea.
"Neds" - Not seen this due to the Glasgow cineworld being sold out when I tried to.
"Red Road" - Odd film about surveillance but the plot unravels itself well.
Obvious suggestions include any film directed by Shane Meadows and if you want a fantasy representation then go for Trainspotting or a Kidulthood/Adulthood.

A great western film is what will give you good long shots of scenery. I really think that films that directed and shot with appreciation for scenery and atmosphere really set themselves above the rest. It's something that has been lost from mainstream cinema since the 1980's.

US Scenery - Take yer pick (though I recommend The Right Stuff. Great desert life scenery at Edwards AFB.)
UK Grit - Trainspotting although it pales compared to the "angry young man" stuff from the '60s.

How about Quadrophenia for non-polite Brits?

Il Gialloblu wrote:Also, I'd quite like to show some of my Chinese friends that not all British people are polite and wear monocles.

A good number of Yanks still think this, too.

Great American Landscapes - The Searchers, Into the Wild
British Grit - 'Distant Voices, Still Lives', Fish Tank

just out of intrest gialloblu what did you end up going for?

will go with recentish films

just saw a really gritty brit film recently called fish tank with fassbender

american ladnscapes -no country for old men or there will be blood