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	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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Time Out 100 best British films

List breakdown

The list

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