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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Don't Look Now
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Third Man
1949, in 37 top lists Check -
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988, in 11 top lists Check -
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Kes
1969, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Red Shoes
1948, in 27 top lists Check -
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A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 22 top lists Check -
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Performance
1970, in 16 top lists Check -
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 21 top lists Check -
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If....
1968, in 18 top lists Check -
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Trainspotting
1996, in 18 top lists Check -
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Naked
1993, in 9 top lists Check -
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Brief Encounter
1945, in 22 top lists Check -
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The 39 Steps
1935, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
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Withnail and I
1987 — a.k.a. Withnail & I, in 14 top lists Check -
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Black Narcissus
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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A Canterbury Tale
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Innocents
1961, in 12 top lists Check -
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Barry Lyndon
1975, in 24 top lists Check -
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Life of Brian
1979, in 18 top lists Check -
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Nil by Mouth
1997, in 4 top lists Check -
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960, in 9 top lists Check -
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962, in 40 top lists Check -
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Brazil
1985, in 22 top lists Check -
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Great Expectations
1946, in 17 top lists Check -
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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945, in 13 top lists Check -
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My Childhood
1972, in 6 top lists Check -
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My Ain Folk
1973, in 3 top lists Check -
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My Way Home
1978, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Wicker Man
1973, in 13 top lists Check -
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Peeping Tom
1960, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Ladykillers
1955, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Lady Vanishes
1938, in 15 top lists Check -
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Get Carter
1971, in 11 top lists Check -
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Secrets & Lies
1996, in 17 top lists Check -
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A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Servant
1963, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962, in 6 top lists Check -
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It Always Rains on Sunday
1947, in 4 top lists Check -
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Went the Day Well?
1942, in 6 top lists Check -
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London
1994, in 4 top lists Check -
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Ratcatcher
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
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Witchfinder General
1968, in 8 top lists Check -
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Fires Were Started
1943, in 8 top lists Check -
45 +1
Sabotage
1936, in 3 top lists Check -
46 +1
Repulsion
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
47 +1
The Fallen Idol
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
48 +1
Blow-Up
1966, in 20 top lists Check -
49 +1
Hunger
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
50 +1
Gallivant
1996, in 5 top lists Check
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