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. 1 -

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  2. 3 -

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
  3. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  4. 5 -

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 6 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  6. 7 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  7. 9 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 10 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  9. 11 -

    Naked

    1993, in 9 top lists Check
  10. 12 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  11. 14 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  12. 15 -

    Withnail & I

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
  13. 16 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  14. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 19 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  16. 21 -

    Nil by Mouth

    1997, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 22 -

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    1960, in 9 top lists Check
  18. 23 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  19. 25 -

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 18 top lists Check
  20. 26 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  21. 27 -

    My Childhood

    1972, in 6 top lists Check
  22. 28 -

    My Ain Folk

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  23. 29 -

    My Way Home

    1978, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  25. 35 -

    Secrets & Lies

    1996, in 16 top lists Check
  26. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  27. 37 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  28. 38 -

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
  29. 39 -

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 42 -

    Ratcatcher

    1999, in 7 top lists Check
  31. 43 -

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  32. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  33. 46 +1

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  34. 47 +1

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  35. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  36. 49 +1

    Hunger

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  37. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  38. 53 -

    Local Hero

    1983, in 10 top lists Check
  39. 55 -

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  40. 57 -

    Radio On

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  41. 58 -

    Caravaggio

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  42. 60 -

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  43. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  44. 63 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  45. 64 -

    Deep End

    1970, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 65 -

    Play for Today: Nuts in May

    1976, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 66 -

    Topsy-Turvy

    1999, in 6 top lists Check
  48. 68 -

    Wonderland

    1999, in 2 top lists Check
  49. 71 -

    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  50. 72 -

    Bad Timing

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
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