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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. 34 -

    Get Carter

    1971, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 59 -

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968, in 45 top lists Check
  3. 62 -

    The Long Good Friday

    1980, in 12 top lists Check
  4. 15 -

    Withnail & I

    1987, in 14 top lists Check
  5. 84 -

    Orlando

    1992, in 7 top lists Check
  6. 31 -

    Peeping Tom

    1960, in 20 top lists Check
  7. 30 -

    The Wicker Man

    1973, in 13 top lists Check
  8. 48 +1

    Blow-Up

    1966, in 20 top lists Check
  9. 12 -

    Brief Encounter

    1945, in 22 top lists Check
  10. 83 -

    Dr. No

    1962, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 61 -

    Blackmail

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  12. 80 -

    Billy Liar

    1963, in 7 top lists Check
  13. 88 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  14. 20 -

    Life of Brian

    1979 — a.k.a. Monty Python's Life of Brian, in 18 top lists Check
  15. 76 -

    Four Weddings and a Funeral

    1994, in 13 top lists Check
  16. 1 -

    Don't Look Now

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  17. 10 -

    Trainspotting

    1996, in 18 top lists Check
  18. 23 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  19. 19 -

    Barry Lyndon

    1975, in 24 top lists Check
  20. 32 -

    The Ladykillers

    1955, in 8 top lists Check
  21. 13 -

    The 39 Steps

    1935, in 16 top lists Check
  22. 24 -

    Brazil

    1985, in 23 top lists Check
  23. 2 -

    The Third Man

    1949, in 37 top lists Check
  24. 56 -

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  25. 36 -

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  26. 96 -

    24 Hour Party People

    2002, in 5 top lists Check
  27. 99 -

    28 Days Later...

    2002, in 9 top lists Check
  28. 72 -

    Bad Timing

    1980, in 7 top lists Check
  29. 16 -

    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
  30. 92 -

    Blue

    1993, in 5 top lists Check
  31. 17 -

    A Canterbury Tale

    1944, in 8 top lists Check
  32. 58 -

    Caravaggio

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  33. 85 -

    A Cottage on Dartmoor

    1929 — a.k.a. Escape from Dartmoor, in 4 top lists Check
  34. 52 -

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  35. 94 -

    Dead Man's Shoes

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  36. 70 -

    Dead of Night

    1945, in 9 top lists Check
  37. 64 -

    Deep End

    1970, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 3 -

    Distant Voices, Still Lives

    1988, in 11 top lists Check
  39. 67 -

    Dracula

    1958 — a.k.a. Horror of Dracula, in 8 top lists Check
  40. 100 -

    Dunkirk

    2017, in 8 top lists Check
  41. 73 -

    Edvard Munch

    1974, in 9 top lists Check
  42. 47 +1

    The Fallen Idol

    1948, in 10 top lists Check
  43. 44 +1

    Fires Were Started

    1943, in 8 top lists Check
  44. 86 -

    Fish Tank

    2009, in 8 top lists Check
  45. 50 +1

    Gallivant

    1996, in 5 top lists Check
  46. 91 -

    The Go-Between

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  47. 87 -

    God's Own Country

    2017, in 2 top lists
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  48. 25 -

    Great Expectations

    1946, in 17 top lists Check
  49. 60 -

    Gregory's Girl

    1980, in 10 top lists Check
  50. 49 +1

    Hunger

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
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