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. 97 -

    London to Brighton

    2006, in 1 top list Check
  2. 81 -

    The Offence

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 79 -

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 69 -

    Whisky Galore!

    1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check
  5. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  6. 32 -

    The Ladykillers

    1955, in 8 top lists Check
  7. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  8. 7 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  9. 34 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  10. 8 -

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    1949, in 20 top lists Check
  11. 61 -

    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  12. 94 -

    Dead Man's Shoes

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  13. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  14. 89 -

    Night and the City

    1950, in 12 top lists Check
  15. 90 -

    This Is England

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  16. 78 new

    Scum

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  17. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 83 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  19. 39 -

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
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