Time Out 100 best British films

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.

List breakdown

• The 1960s came out as the most popular decade, with 19 films (the 1940s and 1970s each had 17 films), and the most popular years were 1968, 1970, 1980, and 1999, with four films each. The earliest films chosen were from 1929 (Blackmail, Piccadilly, and A Cottage on Dartmoor). The most recent film was from 2009 (Fish Tank).

• The most popular director was Michael Powell, with seven films, six of which were directed with Emeric Pressburger as the team of Powell and Pressburger ("The Archers"). Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Mike Leigh, and Nicolas Roeg had four films each. Seven of the films were produced by Ealing Studios.

The list

Rank	Title	Year	Director
1	Don't Look Now	1973	RoegNicolas Roeg
2	ThirdThe Third Man	1949	ReedCarol Reed
3	Distant Voices, Still Lives	1988	DaviesTerence Davies
4	Kes	1969	LoachKen Loach
5	RedThe Red Shoes	1948	Powell and Pressburger
6	MatterA Matter of Life and Death	1946	Powell and Pressburger
7	Performance	1970	RoegNicolas Roeg Donald Cammell
8	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	HamerRobert Hamer
9	If…	1968	AndersonLindsay Anderson
10	Trainspotting	1996	BoyleDanny Boyle
11	Naked	1993	LeighMike Leigh
12	Brief Encounter	1945	LeanDavid Lean
13	39The 39 Steps	1935	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock
14	LifeThe Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Powell and Pressburger
15	Withnail and I	1987	RobinsonBruce Robinson
16	Black Narcissus	1947	Powell and Pressburger
17	CanterburyA Canterbury Tale	1944	Powell and Pressburger
18	InnocentsThe Innocents	1961	ClaytonJack Clayton
19	Barry Lyndon	1975	KubrickStanley Kubrick
20	Monty Python's Life of Brian	1979	JonesTerry Jones
21	Nil by Mouth	1997	OldmanGary Oldman
22	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	1960	ReiszKarel Reisz
23	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	LeanDavid Lean
24	Brazil	1985	GilliamTerry Gilliam
25	Great Expectations	1946	LeanDavid Lean
26	I Know Where I'm Going!	1945	Powell and Pressburger
27	Bill DouglasThe Bill Douglas Trilogy	1972, 1973, 1978	DouglasBill Douglas
28	WickerThe Wicker Man	1973	HardyRobin Hardy
29	Peeping Tom	1960	PowellMichael Powell
30	LadykillersThe Ladykillers	1955	MackendrickAlexander Mackendrick
31	LadyThe Lady Vanishes	1938	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock
32	Get Carter	1971	HodgesMike Hodges
33	Secrets & Lies	1996	LeighMike Leigh
34	ClockworkA Clockwork Orange	1971	KubrickStanley Kubrick
35	ServantThe Servant	1963	LoseyJoseph Losey
36	LonelinessThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	1962	RichardsonTony Richardson
37	It Always Rains on Sunday	1947	HamerRobert Hamer
38	Went the Day Well?	1942	Cavalcanti Alberto Cavalcanti
39	London	1994	KeillerPatrick Keiller
40	Ratcatcher	1999	RamsayLynne Ramsay
41	Witchfinder General	1968	ReevesMichael Reeves
42	Listen to Britain	1942	JenningsHumphrey Jennings
43	Fires Were Started	1943	JenningsHumphrey Jennings
44	Sabotage	1936	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock
45	Repulsion	1965	PolanskiRoman Polanski
46	FallenThe Fallen Idol	1948	ReedCarol Reed
47	Blowup	1966	AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni
48	Hunger	2008	McQueenSteve McQueen
49	Gallivant	1996	KöttingAndrew Kötting
50	Culloden	1964	WatkinsPeter Watkins
51	Local Hero	1983	ForsythBill Forsyth
52	Robinson in Space	1997	KeillerPatrick Keiller
53	SportingThis Sporting Life	1963	AndersonLindsay Anderson
54	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1974	JonesTerry Jones Terry Gilliam
55	Radio On	1980	PetitChris Petit
56	Caravaggio	1986	JarmanDerek Jarman
57	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968	KubrickStanley Kubrick
58	Gregory's Girl	1980	ForsythBill Forsyth
59	Blackmail	1929	HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock
60	LongThe Long Good Friday	1980	MackenzieJohn Mackenzie
61	Walkabout	1971	RoegNicolas Roeg
62	Deep End	1970	SkolimowskiJerzy Skolimowski
63	Nuts in May	1976	LeighMike Leigh
64	Topsy-Turvy	1999	LeighMike Leigh
65	Dracula	1958	FisherTerence Fisher
66	Wonderland	1999	WinterbottomMichael Winterbottom
67	Whisky Galore!	1949	MackendrickAlexander Mackendrick
68	Dead of Night	1945	CavalcantiAlberto Cavalcanti Charles Crichton Basil Dearden Robert Hamer
69	Oliver!	1968	ReedCarol Reed
70	BadBad Timing	1980	RoegNicolas Roeg
71	Edvard Munch	1974	WatkinsPeter Watkins
72	Goodbye, Mr. Chips	1939	WoodSam Wood
73	ManThe Man in the White Suit	1951	MackendrickAlexander Mackendrick
74	Four Weddings and a Funeral	1994	NewellMike Newell
75	A Room forA Room for Romeo Brass	1999	MeadowsShane Meadows
76	Penda'sPenda's Fen	1974	ClarkeAlan Clarke
77	Piccadilly	1929	DupontEwald André Dupont
78	Billy Liar	1963	SchlesingerJohn Schlesinger
79	OffenceThe Offence	1972	LumetSidney Lumet
80	Under the Skin	1997	AdlerCarine Adler
81	Dr. No	1962	YoungTerence Young
82	Orlando	1992	PotterSally Potter
83	CottageA Cottage on Dartmoor	1929	AsquithAnthony Asquith
84	Fish Tank	2009	ArnoldAndrea Arnold
85	I'm All Right Jack	1959	BoultingJohn Boulting
86	BridgeThe Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	LeanDavid Lean
87	Night and the City	1950	DassinJules Dassin
88	This Is England	2006	MeadowsShane Meadows
89	Go-BetweenThe Go-Between	1970	LoseyJoseph Losey
90	Blue	1993	JarmanDerek Jarman
91	Land and Freedom	1995	LoachKen Loach
92	Dead Man's Shoes	2004	MeadowsShane Meadows
93	Zulu	1964	EndfieldCy Endfield
94	24 Hour Party People	2002	WinterbottomMichael Winterbottom
95	London to Brighton	2006	WilliamsPaul Andrew Williams
96	Theatre of Blood	1973	HickoxDouglas Hickox
97	28 Days Later	2002	BoyleDanny Boyle
98	School for Scoundrels	1960	HamerRobert Hamer
99	RailwayThe Railway Children	1970	JeffriesLionel Jeffries
100	In This World	2002	WinterbottomMichael Winterbottom

See also

• BFI Top 100 British films

External links

• Time Out list
• "What's the Best British Film of All Time?" TIME Magazine