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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In This World
2002, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Railway Children
1970, in 3 top lists Check -
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Dunkirk
2017, in 8 top lists Check -
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28 Days Later...
2002, in 9 top lists Check -
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Theatre of Blood
1973 — a.k.a. Theater of Blood, in 2 top lists Check -
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London to Brighton
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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24 Hour Party People
2002, in 5 top lists Check -
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Zulu
1964, in 8 top lists Check -
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Dead Man's Shoes
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
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Land and Freedom
1995, in 6 top lists Check -
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Blue
1993, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Go-Between
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
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This Is England
2006, in 4 top lists Check -
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Night and the City
1950, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957, in 32 top lists Check -
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God's Own Country
2017, in 2 top lists -
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Fish Tank
2009, in 8 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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Orlando
1992, in 7 top lists Check -
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Dr. No
1962, in 7 top lists Check -
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Under the Skin
1997, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Offence
1973, in 2 top lists Check -
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Billy Liar
1963, in 7 top lists Check -
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Piccadilly
1929, in 5 top lists Check -
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Scum
1979, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Room for Romeo Brass
1999, in 1 top list Check -
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Man in the White Suit
1951, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Long Day Closes
1992, in 9 top lists Check -
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Edvard Munch
1974, in 9 top lists Check -
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Bad Timing
1980, in 7 top lists Check -
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Oliver!
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
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Dead of Night
1945, in 9 top lists Check -
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Whisky Galore!
1949 — a.k.a. Whisky Galore, in 6 top lists Check -
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Wonderland
1999, in 2 top lists Check -
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Dracula
1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check -
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Topsy-Turvy
1999, in 6 top lists Check -
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Play for Today: Nuts in May
1976, in 2 top lists Check -
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Deep End
1970, in 7 top lists Check -
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Walkabout
1971, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Long Good Friday
1980, in 12 top lists Check -
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Blackmail
1929, in 7 top lists Check -
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Gregory's Girl
1980, in 10 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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Caravaggio
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
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Radio On
1979, in 3 top lists Check -
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975, in 23 top lists Check -
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This Sporting Life
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
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Robinson in Space
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
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Local Hero
1983, in 10 top lists Check
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