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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. 68 -

    Wonderland

    1999, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 50 +1

    Gallivant

    1996, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 77 -

    A Room for Romeo Brass

    1999, in 1 top list Check
  4. 97 -

    London to Brighton

    2006, in 1 top list Check
  5. 65 -

    Play for Today: Nuts in May

    1976, in 2 top lists Check
  6. 82 -

    Under the Skin

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
  7. 54 -

    Robinson in Space

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
  8. 69 -

    Whisky Galore!

    1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check
  9. 92 -

    Blue

    1993, in 5 top lists Check
  10. 45 +1

    Sabotage

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 29 -

    My Way Home

    1978, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 28 -

    My Ain Folk

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 27 -

    My Childhood

    1972, in 6 top lists Check
  14. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  15. 60 -

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  16. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  17. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  19. 79 -

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  20. 61 -

    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  21. 3 -

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
  22. 89 -

    Night and the City

    1950, in 12 top lists Check
  23. 34 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  24. 76 -

    Four Weddings and a Funeral

    1994, in 13 top lists Check
  25. 26 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  26. 63 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  27. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  28. 49 +1

    Hunger

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  29. 90 -

    This Is England

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  30. 37 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  31. 14 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  32. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  33. 9 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  34. 7 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  35. 24 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  36. 53 -

    Local Hero

    1983, in 10 top lists Check
  37. 15 -

    Withnail & I

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
  38. 20 -

    Life of Brian

    1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check
  39. 59 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  40. 19 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  41. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  42. 1 -

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  43. 56 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  44. 46 +1

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  45. 98 -

    Theatre of Blood

    1973 — a.k.a. Theater of Blood, in 2 top lists Check
  46. 30 -

    The Wicker Man

    1973, in 13 top lists Check
  47. 43 -

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  48. 88 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  49. 83 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  50. 67 -

    Dracula

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