Time Out 100 best British films

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In February 2011 Time Out surveyed 150 film industry experts to produce its list of "The 100 best British films." Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now topped the list.[1][2] An updated list was published in May 2021, retaining the same rankings but adding four films (The Souvenir, Scum, God's Own Country, and Dunkirk) in place of Listen to Britain, Penda's Fen, I'm All Right Jack, and School for Scoundrels.[3]

List breakdown[]

The list[]

Rank Title Year Director
1 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg
2 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed
3 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies
4 Kes 1969 Ken Loach
5 The Red Shoes 1948 Powell and Pressburger
6 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Powell and Pressburger
7 Performance 1970 Nicolas Roeg
Donald Cammell
8 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer
9 if… 1968 Lindsay Anderson
10 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle
11 Naked 1993 Mike Leigh
12 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean
13 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock
14 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Powell and Pressburger
15 Withnail and I 1987 Bruce Robinson
16 Black Narcissus 1947 Powell and Pressburger
17 A Canterbury Tale 1944 Powell and Pressburger
18 The Innocents 1961 Jack Clayton
19 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick
20 Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones
21 Nil by Mouth 1997 Gary Oldman
22 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz
23 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean
24 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam
25 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean
26 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 Powell and Pressburger
27 My Childhood
My Ain Folk
My Way Home		 1972
1973
1978		 Bill Douglas
28 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy
29 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell
30 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick
31 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock
32 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges
33 Secrets & Lies 1996 Mike Leigh
34 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick
35 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey
36 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson
37 It Always Rains on Sunday 1947 Robert Hamer
38 Went the Day Well? 1942 Alberto Cavalcanti
39 London 1994 Patrick Keiller
40 Ratcatcher 1999 Lynne Ramsay
41 Witchfinder General 1968 Michael Reeves
42 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings
43 Fires Were Started 1941 Humphrey Jennings
44 Sabotage 1936 Alfred Hitchcock
45 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski
46 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed
47 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni
48 Hunger 2008 Steve McQueen
49 Gallivant 1996 Andrew Kötting
50 Culloden 1964 Peter Watkins
51 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth
52 Robinson In Space 1997 Patrick Keiller
53 This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson
54 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1974 Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones
55 Radio On 1980 Chris Petit
56 Caravaggio 1986 Derek Jarman
57 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
58 Gregory's Girl 1981 Bill Forsyth
59 Blackmail 1929 Alfred Hitchcock
60 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie
61 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg
62 Deep End 1970 Jerzy Skolimowski
63 Nuts in May 1979 Mike Leigh
64 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh
65 Dracula 1958 Terence Fisher
66 Wonderland 1999 Michael Winterbottom
67 Whisky Galore! 1949 Alexander Mackendrick
68 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti
Charles Crichton
Basil Dearden
Robert Hamer
69 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed
70 Bad Timing 1980 Nicolas Roeg
71 Edvard Munch 1974 Peter Watkins
72 The Long Day Closes 1992 Terence Davies
73 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick
74 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell
75 A Room for Romeo Brass 1999 Shane Meadows
76 Penda's Fen 1974 Alan Clarke
77 Piccadilly 1929 E. A. Dupont
78 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger
79 The Offence 1972 Sidney Lumet
80 Under the Skin 1997 Carine Adler
81 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young
82 Orlando 1993 Sally Potter
83 A Cottage on Dartmoor 1929 Anthony Asquith
84 Fish Tank 2009 Andrea Arnold
85 I'm All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting
86 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean
87 Night and the City 1950 Jules Dassin
88 This Is England 2006 Shane Meadows
89 The Go-Between 1971 Joseph Losey
90 Blue 1993 Derek Jarman
91 Land and Freedom 1995 Ken Loach
92 Dead Man's Shoes 2004 Shane Meadows
93 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield
94 24 Hour Party People 2002 Michael Winterbottom
95 London to Brighton 2006 Paul Andrew Williams
96 Theatre of Blood 1973 Douglas Hickox
97 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle
98 School for Scoundrels 1960 Robert Hamer
99 The Railway Children 1970 Lionel Jeffries
100 In This World 2002 Michael Winterbottom

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References[]

  1. ^ Find out who contributed to our list of the 100 best British films - Time Out
  2. ^ Nicolas Roeg: 'I don't want to be ahead of my time'|Movies|The Guardian
  3. ^ The 100 best British movies - Time Out
  4. ^ What's the Best British Film of All Time? It's Not 'The King's Speech'|TIME.com
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