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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Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
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Get Carter
1971, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Servant
1963, in 16 top lists Check -
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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Fallen Idol
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943, in 16 top lists Check -
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Dunkirk
2017, in 8 top lists Check -
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Ladykillers
1955, in 8 top lists Check -
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Bad Timing
1980, in 7 top lists Check -
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Gallivant
1996, in 5 top lists Check -
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A Cottage on Dartmoor
1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check -
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My Way Home
1978, in 3 top lists Check -
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My Ain Folk
1973, in 3 top lists Check -
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My Childhood
1972, in 6 top lists Check -
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London to Brighton
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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Dead Man's Shoes
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
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This Is England
2006, in 4 top lists Check -
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Under the Skin
1997, in 3 top lists Check -
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Radio On
1979, in 3 top lists Check -
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Robinson in Space
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
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London
1994, in 5 top lists Check -
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Land and Freedom
1995, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962, in 6 top lists Check -
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
1988, in 11 top lists Check -
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A Matter of Life and Death
1946, in 23 top lists Check -
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Piccadilly
1929, in 5 top lists Check -
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Play for Today: Nuts in May
1976, in 2 top lists Check -
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Fish Tank
2009, in 8 top lists Check -
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This Sporting Life
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
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Ratcatcher
1999, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Long Good Friday
1980, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Wicker Man
1973, in 13 top lists Check -
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Blue
1993, in 5 top lists Check -
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Orlando
1992, in 7 top lists Check -
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Edvard Munch
1974, in 9 top lists Check -
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Naked
1993, in 9 top lists Check -
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Caravaggio
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
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Kes
1969, in 11 top lists Check -
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Repulsion
1965, in 17 top lists Check -
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960, in 9 top lists Check -
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Dracula
1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check -
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Black Narcissus
1947, in 15 top lists Check -
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Life of Brian
1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check -
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Deep End
1970, in 7 top lists Check -
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Hunger
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
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Trainspotting
1996, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Lady Vanishes
1938, in 15 top lists Check -
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The 39 Steps
1935, in 16 top lists Check -
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Secrets & Lies
1996, in 16 top lists Check
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