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. 71 -

    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 79 -

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 102 -

    In This World

    2002, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 91 -

    The Go-Between

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  5. 51 new

    The Souvenir

    2019, in 5 top lists
    Check
  6. 22 -

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    1960, in 9 top lists Check
  7. 14 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  8. 100 -

    Dunkirk

    2017, in 8 top lists Check
  9. 74 -

    The Long Day Closes

    1992, in 9 top lists Check
  10. 38 -

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 25 -

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  12. 63 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  13. 55 -

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  14. 69 -

    Whisky Galore!

    1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check
  15. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  16. 26 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  17. 80 -

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 15 -

    Withnail & I

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
  19. 98 -

    Theatre of Blood

    1973 — a.k.a. Theater of Blood, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 43 -

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  21. 70 -

    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
  22. 13 -

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  23. 60 -

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  24. 84 -

    Orlando

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
  25. 37 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  26. 3 -

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
  27. 21 -

    Nil by Mouth

    1997, in 4 top lists Check
  28. 7 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  29. 81 -

    The Offence

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 35 -

    Secrets & Lies

    1996, in 16 top lists Check
  31. 9 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  32. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  33. 34 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  34. 6 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  35. 42 -

    Ratcatcher

    1999, in 7 top lists Check
  36. 94 -

    Dead Man's Shoes

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  37. 72 -

    Bad Timing

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 27 -

    My Childhood

    1972, in 6 top lists Check
  39. 53 -

    Local Hero

    1983, in 10 top lists Check
  40. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  41. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  42. 11 -

    Naked

    1993, in 9 top lists Check
  43. 96 -

    24 Hour Party People

    2002, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 89 -

    Night and the City

    1950, in 12 top lists Check
  45. 95 -

    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
  46. 1 -

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  47. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  48. 18 -

    The Innocents

    1961, in 12 top lists Check
  49. 46 +1

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  50. 32 -

    The Ladykillers

    1955, in 8 top lists Check
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