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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. 45 +1

    Sabotage

    1936, in 3 top lists Check
  2. 33 -

    The Lady Vanishes

    1938, in 15 top lists Check
  3. 13 -

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  4. 2 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  5. 88 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  6. 56 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  7. 23 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  8. 59 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  9. 19 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  10. 24 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  11. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  12. 49 +1

    Hunger

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 9 -

    If....

    1968, in 18 top lists Check
  14. 4 -

    Kes

    1969, in 11 top lists Check
  15. 20 -

    Life of Brian

    1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check
  16. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  17. 81 -

    The Offence

    1973, in 2 top lists Check
  18. 71 -

    Oliver!

    1968, in 7 top lists Check
  19. 63 -

    Walkabout

    1971, in 13 top lists Check
  20. 15 -

    Withnail & I

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
  21. 16 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  22. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  23. 12 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  24. 94 -

    Dead Man's Shoes

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  25. 67 -

    Dracula

    1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check
  26. 100 -

    Dunkirk

    2017, in 8 top lists Check
  27. 87 -

    God's Own Country

    2017, in 2 top lists
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  28. 25 -

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  29. 8 -

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    1949, in 21 top lists Check
  30. 6 -

    A Matter of Life and Death

    1946, in 22 top lists Check
  31. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  32. 5 -

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  33. 37 -

    The Servant

    1963, in 16 top lists Check
  34. 90 -

    This Is England

    2006, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 99 -

    28 Days Later...

    2002, in 9 top lists Check
  36. 86 -

    Fish Tank

    2009, in 8 top lists Check
  37. 10 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  38. 96 -

    24 Hour Party People

    2002, in 5 top lists Check
  39. 72 -

    Bad Timing

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  40. 80 -

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  41. 61 -

    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  42. 92 -

    Blue

    1993, in 5 top lists Check
  43. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  44. 58 -

    Caravaggio

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  45. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
  46. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
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    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
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    Deep End

    1970, in 7 top lists Check
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    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
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    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
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