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. 61 -

    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
  3. 79 -

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 13 -

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  5. 45 +1

    Sabotage

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
  6. 33 -

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  7. 40 -

    Went the Day Well?

    1942, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  9. 14 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  10. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  11. 12 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  12. 70 -

    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
  13. 26 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  14. 25 -

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  15. 6 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  16. 16 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  17. 39 -

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 47 +1

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  19. 5 -

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  20. 8 -

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    1949, in 20 top lists Check
  21. 2 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  22. 69 -

    Whisky Galore!

    1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check
  23. 89 -

    Night and the City

    1950, in 12 top lists Check
  24. 75 -

    The Man in the White Suit

    1951, in 5 top lists Check
  25. 32 -

    The Ladykillers

    1955, in 8 top lists Check
  26. 88 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  27. 67 -

    Dracula

    1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check
  28. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  29. 22 -

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    1960, in 9 top lists Check
  30. 18 -

    The Innocents

    1961, in 12 top lists Check
  31. 83 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 23 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  33. 38 -

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  34. 80 -

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  35. 37 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  36. 55 -

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  37. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  38. 95 -

    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
  39. 46 +1

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  40. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  41. 59 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  42. 9 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  43. 71 -

    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  44. 43 -

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  45. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  46. 64 -

    Deep End

    1970, in 7 top lists Check
  47. 7 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  48. 101 -

    The Railway Children

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  49. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  50. 34 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
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