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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. 92 -

    Blue

    1993, in 5 top lists Check
  2. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
  3. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 73 -

    Edvard Munch

    1974, in 9 top lists Check
  5. 50 +1

    Gallivant

    1996, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 87 -

    God's Own Country

    2017, in 2 top lists
    Check
  7. 102 -

    In This World

    2002, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 39 -

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    1947, in 4 top lists Check
  9. 41 -

    London

    1994, in 5 top lists Check
  10. 28 -

    My Ain Folk

    1973, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 27 -

    My Childhood

    1972, in 6 top lists Check
  12. 29 -

    My Way Home

    1978, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 81 -

    The Offence

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 79 -

    Piccadilly

    1929, in 5 top lists Check
  15. 65 -

    Play for Today: Nuts in May

    1976, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 57 -

    Radio On

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  17. 101 -

    The Railway Children

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  18. 54 -

    Robinson in Space

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
  19. 77 -

    A Room for Romeo Brass

    1999, in 1 top list Check
  20. 78 new

    Scum

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 51 new

    The Souvenir

    2019, in 5 top lists
    Check
  22. 98 -

    Theatre of Blood

    1973 — a.k.a. Theater of Blood, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 82 -

    Under the Skin

    1997, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 68 -

    Wonderland

    1999, in 2 top lists Check
  25. 13 -

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  26. 25 -

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  27. 33 -

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  28. 6 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  29. 35 -

    Secrets & Lies

    1996, in 17 top lists Check
  30. 34 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  31. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  32. 99 -

    28 Days Later...

    2002, in 9 top lists Check
  33. 24 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  35. 19 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  36. 59 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  37. 56 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  38. 10 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  39. 20 -

    Life of Brian

    1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check
  40. 23 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  41. 88 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  42. 2 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  43. 8 -

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    1949, in 21 top lists Check
  44. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  45. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  46. 95 -

    Zulu

    1964, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 5 -

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  48. 12 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  49. 96 -

    24 Hour Party People

    2002, in 5 top lists Check
  50. 15 -

    Withnail & I

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
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