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British Film Institute Top 100 Films While the American Film Institute was the first to celebrate their nation's cinema, they naturally weren't the last. The BFI 100 lists the best British films of the 20th century, as selected by the British Film Institute. The source used to be on the BFI's website but I can't find it there any more, so I'm linking to a cached copy at the Wayback Machine. A live list can also be found at the Cinema Realm blog. The List # Title Year Director IMDb 1 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed IMDb 2 Brief Encounter 1946 David Lean IMDb 3 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean IMDb 4 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 5 Great Expectations 1946 David Lean IMDb 6 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer IMDb 7 Kes 1969 Kenneth Loach IMDb 8 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg IMDb 9 The Red Shoes 1948 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger IMDb 10 Trainspotting 1996 Danny Boyle IMDb 11 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean IMDb 12 If… 1968 Lindsay Anderson IMDb 13 The Ladykillers 1955 Alexander Mackendrick IMDb 14 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz IMDb 15 Brighton Rock 1947 John Boulting IMDb 16 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges IMDb 17 The Lavender Hill Mob 1951 Charles Crichton IMDb 18 Henry V 1944 Laurence Olivier IMDb 19 Chariots of Fire 1981 Hugh Hudson IMDb 20 A Matter of Life and Death 1946 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger IMDb 21 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie IMDb 22 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey IMDb 23 Four Weddings and a Funeral 1994 Mike Newell IMDb 24 Whisky Galore! 1949 Alexander Mackendrick IMDb 25 The Full Monty 1997 Peter Cattaneo IMDb 26 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan IMDb 27 Doctor Zhivago 1965 David Lean IMDb 28 Life of Brian 1979 Terry Jones IMDb 29 Withnail & I 1987 Bruce Robinson IMDb 30 Gregory's Girl 1980 Bill Forsyth IMDb 31 Zulu 1964 Cy Endfield IMDb 32 Room at the Top 1958 Jack Clayton IMDb 33 Alfie 1966 Lewis Gilbert IMDb 34 Gandhi 1982 Richard Attenborough IMDb 35 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 36 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson IMDb 37 Local Hero 1983 Bill Forsyth IMDb 38 The Commitments 1991 Alan Parker IMDb 39 A Fish Called Wanda 1988 Charles Crichton IMDb 40 Secrets and Lies 1996 Mike Leigh IMDb 41 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young IMDb 42 The Madness of King George 1994 Nicholas Hytner IMDb 43 A Man for All Seasons 1966 Fred Zinnemann IMDb 44 Black Narcissus 1947 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger IMDb 45 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger IMDb 46 Oliver Twist 1948 David Lean IMDb 47 I'm All Right Jack 1959 John Boulting IMDb 48 Performance 1970 Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell IMDb 49 Shakespeare in Love 1998 John Madden IMDb 50 My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 Stephen Frears IMDb 51 Tom Jones 1963 Tony Richardson IMDb 52 This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson IMDb 53 My Left Foot 1989 Jim Sheridan IMDb 54 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam IMDb 55 The English Patient 1996 Anthony Minghella IMDb 56 A Taste of Honey 1961 Tony Richardson IMDb 57 The Go-Between 1970 Joseph Losey IMDb 58 The Man in the White Suit 1951 Alexander Mackendrick IMDb 59 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie IMDb 60 Blow-up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni IMDb 61 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson IMDb 62 Sense and Sensibility 1995 Ang Lee IMDb 63 Passport to Pimlico 1949 Henry Cornelius IMDb 64 The Remains of the Day 1993 James Ivory IMDb 65 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971 John Schlesinger IMDb 66 The Railway Children 1970 Lionel Jeffries IMDb 67 Mona Lisa 1986 Neil Jordan IMDb 68 The Dam Busters 1955 Michael Anderson IMDb 69 Hamlet 1948 Laurence Olivier IMDb 70 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton IMDb 71 Elizabeth 1998 Shekhar Kapur IMDb 72 Goodbye, Mr Chips 1939 Sam Wood IMDb 73 A Room with a View 1985 James Ivory IMDb 74 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann IMDb 75 The Cruel Sea 1953 Charles Frend IMDb 76 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger IMDb 77 Oliver! 1968 Carol Reed IMDb 78 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell IMDb 79 Far from the Madding Crowd 1967 John Schlesinger IMDb 80 The Draughtsman's Contract 1982 Peter Greenaway IMDb 81 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 82 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies IMDb 83 Darling 1965 John Schlesinger IMDb 84 Educating Rita 1983 Lewis Gilbert IMDb 85 Brassed Off 1996 Mark Herman IMDb 86 Genevieve 1953 Henry Cornelius IMDb 87 Women in Love 1969 Ken Russell IMDb 88 A Hard Day's Night 1964 Richard Lester IMDb 89 Fires Were Started 1943 Humphrey Jennings IMDb 90 Hope and Glory 1987 John Boorman IMDb 91 My Name is Joe 1998 Ken Loach IMDb 92 In Which We Serve 1942 Noel Coward & David Lean IMDb 93 Caravaggio 1986 Derek Jarman IMDb 94 The Belles of St. Trinian's 1954 Frank Launder IMDb 95 Life is Sweet 1990 Mike Leigh IMDb 96 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy IMDb 97 Nil By Mouth 1997 Gary Oldman IMDb 98 Small Faces 1996 Gillies Mackinnon IMDb 99 Carry On... Up the Khyber 1968 Gerald Thomas IMDb 100 The Killing Fields 1984 Roland Joffé IMDb

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