Time Out's The 100 Best British Films

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Other than location and accent, what signatures mark British cinema? Honestly, it’s hard to peg, if only because the UK movies industry hardly seems limited in the stories it tells and the cinematic experiences it puts onscreen. Want a sweeping, heart-swelling epic? Explore the films of David Lean or Powell and Pressburger. Prefer a smaller scale, more intimate drama? Try Joanna Hogg or Shane Meadows. Thrillers? Romantic period pieces? Sci-fi? Drug movies? You can find them, all with a specific, if sometimes intangible, English slant.

To put together this list of the best British movies of all-time, we polled over 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, critics and industry heavyweights, from the likes of Wes Anderson, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Sam Mendes and Terence Davies, David Morrissey, Sally Hawkins and Thandie Newton. The results are as diverse as the country itself. Here are the 100 greatest British films ever made.

Written by Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, David Jenkins, Derek Adams, Geoff Andrew, Adam Lee Davies, Paul Fairclough, Wally Hammond, Alim Kheraj, Matthew Singer & Phil de Semlyen

Last Updated: April 14, 2022

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  1. 14 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  2. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  3. 40 -

    Went the Day Well?

    1942, in 6 top lists Check
  4. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  5. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 88 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  7. 93 -

    Land and Freedom

    1995, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 95 -

    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
  9. 100 -

    Dunkirk

    2017, in 8 top lists Check
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