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. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 79 -

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  4. 14 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  5. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  6. 12 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  7. 26 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  8. 25 -

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  9. 6 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 23 top lists Check
  10. 16 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  11. 39 -

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  12. 47 +1

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  13. 5 -

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  14. 75 -

    The Man in the White Suit

    1951, in 5 top lists Check
  15. 88 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  16. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 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. 38 -

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
  20. 80 -

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  21. 37 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  22. 55 -

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  23. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  24. 95 -

    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
  25. 46 +1

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  26. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  27. 9 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  28. 71 -

    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  29. 43 -

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  30. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  31. 64 -

    Deep End

    1970, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 7 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  33. 101 -

    The Railway Children

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  34. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  35. 91 -

    The Go-Between

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  36. 63 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  37. 27 -

    My Childhood

    1972, in 6 top lists Check
  38. 1 -

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  39. 28 -

    My Ain Folk

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 81 -

    The Offence

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  41. 73 -

    Edvard Munch

    1974, in 9 top lists Check
  42. 19 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  43. 65 -

    Play for Today: Nuts in May

    1976, in 2 top lists Check
  44. 29 -

    My Way Home

    1978, in 3 top lists Check
  45. 57 -

    Radio On

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  46. 78 new

    Scum

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  47. 72 -

    Bad Timing

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  48. 60 -

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  49. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  50. 53 -

    Local Hero

    1983, in 10 top lists Check
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