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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. 84 -

    Orlando

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
  2. 66 -

    Topsy-Turvy

    1999, in 6 top lists Check
  3. 42 -

    Ratcatcher

    1999, in 7 top lists Check
  4. 97 -

    London to Brighton

    2006, in 1 top list Check
  5. 64 -

    Deep End

    1970, in 7 top lists Check
  6. 75 -

    The Man in the White Suit

    1951, in 5 top lists Check
  7. 40 -

    Went the Day Well?

    1942, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 74 -

    The Long Day Closes

    1992, in 9 top lists Check
  9. 58 -

    Caravaggio

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  10. 80 -

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 91 -

    The Go-Between

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  12. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  13. 90 -

    This Is England

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  14. 86 -

    Fish Tank

    2009, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 55 -

    This Sporting Life

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  16. 43 -

    Witchfinder General

    1968, in 8 top lists Check
  17. 72 -

    Bad Timing

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 93 -

    Land and Freedom

    1995, in 6 top lists Check
  19. 26 -

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    1945, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 69 -

    Whisky Galore!

    1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check
  21. 38 -

    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    1962, in 6 top lists Check
  22. 3 -

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
  23. 70 -

    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
  24. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  25. 47 +1

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  26. 53 -

    Local Hero

    1983, in 10 top lists Check
  27. 100 -

    Dunkirk

    2017, in 8 top lists Check
  28. 37 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  29. 89 -

    Night and the City

    1950, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 18 -

    The Innocents

    1961, in 12 top lists Check
  31. 45 +1

    Sabotage

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 16 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  33. 9 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  34. 94 -

    Dead Man's Shoes

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 14 -

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    1943, in 16 top lists Check
  36. 7 -

    Performance

    1970, in 16 top lists Check
  37. 49 +1

    Hunger

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  38. 22 -

    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    1960, in 9 top lists Check
  39. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  40. 1 -

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  41. 61 -

    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  42. 46 +1

    Repulsion

    1965, in 17 top lists Check
  43. 83 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  44. 76 -

    Four Weddings and a Funeral

    1994, in 13 top lists Check
  45. 71 -

    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 67 -

    Dracula

    1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 63 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  48. 60 -

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  49. 32 -

    The Ladykillers

    1955, in 8 top lists Check
  50. 30 -

    The Wicker Man

    1973, in 13 top lists Check
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