BFI's Top 100 British Films

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The best 100 British films were chosen by 1,000 people from the UK's film industry, including producers, directors, writers, actors, technicians, academics, exhibitors, distributors, executives and critics. The final selection spans seven decades and accommodates the work of 70 film directors. Unsurprisingly, literary adaptations feature strongly - ranging from Shakespeare and Dickens to Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh - and the highbrow mixes easily with the low.

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  1. 63 -

    Passport to Pimlico

    1949, in 3 top lists Check
  2. 36 -

    The Italian Job

    1969, in 4 top lists Check
  3. 92 -

    In Which We Serve

    1942, in 6 top lists Check
  4. 46 -

    Oliver Twist

    1948, in 6 top lists Check
  5. 93 -

    Caravaggio

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 17 -

    The Lavender Hill Mob

    1951, in 9 top lists Check
  7. 89 -

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  8. 80 -

    The Draughtsman's Contract

    1982, in 8 top lists Check
  9. 68 -

    The Dam Busters

    1955, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 75 -

    The Cruel Sea

    1953, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 97 -

    Nil by Mouth

    1997, in 4 top lists Check
  12. 18 -

    The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth...

    1944 — a.k.a. Henry V, in 12 top lists Check
  13. 38 -

    The Commitments

    1991, in 3 top lists Check
  14. 66 -

    The Railway Children

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  15. 71 -

    Elizabeth

    1998, in 5 top lists Check
  16. 87 -

    Women in Love

    1969, in 7 top lists Check
  17. 58 -

    The Man in the White Suit

    1951, in 5 top lists Check
  18. 24 -

    Whisky Galore!

    1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check
  19. 67 -

    Mona Lisa

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  20. 95 -

    Life Is Sweet

    1990, in 4 top lists Check
  21. 50 -

    My Beautiful Laundrette

    1985, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 83 -

    Darling

    1965, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 52 -

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  24. 15 -

    Brighton Rock

    1948, in 8 top lists Check
  25. 31 -

    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
  26. 32 -

    Room at the Top

    1958, in 10 top lists Check
  27. 76 -

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  28. 48 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  29. 14 -

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    1960, in 9 top lists Check
  30. 13 -

    The Ladykillers

    1955, in 8 top lists Check
  31. 96 -

    The Wicker Man

    1973, in 13 top lists Check
  32. 57 -

    The Go-Between

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  33. 21 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  34. 69 -

    Hamlet

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  35. 30 -

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  36. 7 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  37. 16 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  38. 37 -

    Local Hero

    1983, in 10 top lists Check
  39. 82 -

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
  40. 51 -

    Tom Jones

    1963, in 13 top lists Check
  41. 22 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  42. 35 -

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  43. 62 -

    Sense and Sensibility

    1995, in 11 top lists Check
  44. 78 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  45. 20 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  46. 44 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  47. 12 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  48. 60 -

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  49. 45 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  50. 8 -

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
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