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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. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  2. 51 new

    The Souvenir

    2019, in 5 top lists
    Check
  3. 79 -

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  5. 26 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  6. 61 -

    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 40 -

    Went the Day Well?

    1942, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 84 -

    Orlando

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
  9. 3 -

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
  10. 39 -

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  11. 100 -

    Dunkirk

    2017, in 8 top lists Check
  12. 87 -

    God's Own Country

    2017, in 2 top lists
    Check
  13. 11 -

    Naked

    1993, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  15. 47 +1

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  16. 69 -

    Whisky Galore!

    1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check
  17. 29 -

    My Way Home

    1978, in 3 top lists Check
  18. 28 -

    My Ain Folk

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
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    My Childhood

    1972, in 6 top lists Check
  21. 98 -

    Theatre of Blood

    1973 — a.k.a. Theater of Blood, in 2 top lists Check
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    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
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    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
  24. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  25. 63 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  26. 49 +1

    Hunger

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
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    Deep End

    1970, in 7 top lists Check
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    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
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    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Innocents

    1961, in 12 top lists Check
  31. 78 new

    Scum

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 90 -

    This Is England

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  33. 68 -

    Wonderland

    1999, in 2 top lists Check
  34. 93 -

    Land and Freedom

    1995, in 6 top lists Check
  35. 86 -

    Fish Tank

    2009, in 8 top lists Check
  36. 46 +1

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  37. 59 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
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    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
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    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
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    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
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    Dead Man's Shoes

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
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    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  43. 33 -

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  44. 56 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
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    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
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    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  47. 23 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
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    Sabotage

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
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    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
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    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
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