Channel 4's Ultimate Film collection (71)

71 titles found

The search for the definitive film list continues and this time Channel 4 has teamed up with the BFI to create the top 100 films based entirely on ticket sales. Containing a wealth of films, both old and new, this really is the ultimate guide to what the UK cinema-going public have been watching.

1
The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers - Extended Version

The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers - Extended Version (3 discs) (2002)

  • 90
  • from 47,023 members
The extended edition (over 40 extra minutes) of the second film in Peter Jackson's epic big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring has now ... Read more
Director: Peter Jackson
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
2
The Godfather

The Godfather (1972)

  • 80
  • from 74,371 members
Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan's ... Read more
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
3
Star Wars Trilogy

Star Wars Trilogy (4 discs) (1977)

  • 80
  • from 82,602 members
The first three Star Wars films reworked as creator George Lucas had intended. Using state of the art technology, Lucas and his team cleaned up the prints, updated the special effects and added new ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
4
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2 discs) (2001)

  • 80
  • from 82,597 members
Part one of the fantasy trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Frodo (Elijah Wood) is a hobbit living in the Shire, a quiet, peaceful part of Middle Earth. When it turns out that his elderly relative Bilbo (Ian ... Read more
Director: Peter Jackson
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
5
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (2 discs) (1975)

  • 80
  • from 68,367 members
With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to ... Read more
Director: Milos Forman
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
6
Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo (2 discs) (2003)

  • 80
  • from 84,080 members
Life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of dangers when you are a tiny clown fish. And for Marlin, a single parent determined to protect his only son Nemo, there are constant fears and anxieties. ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
7
Jaws

Jaws (2 discs) (1975)

  • 70
  • from 45,825 members
Seventies blockbuster movie, directed by Steven Spielberg. A large man-eating shark wreaks havoc off the coast of Long Island whilst local sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) finds himself caught ... Read more
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
8
Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park (1993)

  • 70
  • from 47,105 members
Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
9
ET - The Extra-Terrestrial

ET - The Extra-Terrestrial (2 discs) (1982)

  • 70
  • from 43,561 members
Steven Spielberg's own re-cut and digitally enhanced version of the 1982 film. Effects have been made more special and certain elements of the original film toned down (particularly the weapons ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
10
Love Actually

Love Actually (2003)

  • 70
  • from 83,929 members
Richard Curtis (writer of 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' and 'Notting Hill') turns his hand to directing with this British rom-com. Eight stories involving the love lives of more than a dozen ... Read more
Director: Richard Curtis
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
11
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 discs) (2002)

  • 70
  • from 48,864 members
Harry Potter has not had a good summer. Not only has he had to put up with his overbearing Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon Dursley and their dread of his magical abilities, but also it seems as if ... Read more
Director: Chris Columbus
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
12
The Lion King

The Lion King (2 discs) (1994)

  • 80
  • from 23,450 members
Wild Africa is the setting for this animated tale of a young lion cub whose evil uncle usurps his father's crown and lets hyenas overrun the kingdom. Dodging danger and befriending some oddball ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
13
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2 discs) (2001)

  • 70
  • from 48,082 members
Harry Potter has learned to live with his bullying Uncle Vernon, his callous Aunt Petunia and the constant whining of his greedy, spoiled cousin Dudley. He's even learned to live with sleeping in the ... Read more
Director: Chris Columbus
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
14
Four Weddings And A Funeral

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1993)

  • 70
  • from 56,435 members
This hugely popular comedy established Hugh Grant as Hollywood's favourite bumbling Brit and garnered Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Richard Curtis' screenplay. Shy Londoner Charles (Grant) ... Read more
Director: Mike Newell
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
15
The Third Man

The Third Man (2 discs) (1949)

  • 80
  • from 21,958 members
Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles in which a writer sets about investigating the death of a friend in post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a pulp ... Read more
Director: Carol Reed
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
16
Lawrence Of Arabia

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

  • 80
  • from 23,279 members
This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made ... Read more
Starring: , , ,
Director: David Lean
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
17
Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

  • 70
  • from 48,256 members
Pity poor Bridget Jones (Renee Zellweger). She's the 1990s British everywoman: single, weight-obsessed, and very probably drunk on mid-price white wine. Her life goes from middling to worse when she ... Read more
Director: Sharon Maguire
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
18
Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins (2 discs) (1964)

  • 80
  • from 19,645 members
Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of Walt Disney, and the result is often considered the finest of Disney's personally ... Read more
Certificate: U
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Format: DVD
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19
Independence Day

Independence Day (2 discs) (1996)

  • 70
  • from 39,821 members
When massive spaceships appear, hovering above planet Earth, the world stands in awe and wonder. This soon turns to terror as the aliens launch an all-out attack, devastating the planet. The ... Read more
Director: Roland Emmerich
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
20
The Sting

The Sting (1973)

  • 80
  • from 12,972 members
Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford ... Read more
Director: George Roy Hill
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
21
A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life (1998)

  • 70
  • from 29,983 members
Life is no picnic for the ants on Ant Island! Each summer, a gang of greedy grasshoppers - led by the menacing and manipulative Hopper - descends upon the colony to demand a hefty portion of the ... Read more
Director: John Lasseter
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
22
A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

  • 70
  • from 32,648 members
Stanley Kubrick's controversial film triggered copycat violence on its initial release and as a result the director withdrew the film from circulation in Britain, keeping it suppressed right up to ... Read more
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
23
Ghost

Ghost (2 discs) (1990)

  • 70
  • from 26,963 members
An interesting hybrid of popular film genres, Ghost showcases the talents of its entire cast. While out on the town one evening, New York couple Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) are ... Read more
Director: Jerry Zucker
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
24
Goldfinger

Goldfinger (2 discs) (1964)

  • 70
  • from 18,805 members
James Bond (Sean Connery) pits his wits against the power-crazed criminal mastermind Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) in the third of the long-running spy series. Mr Finger has secured most of the gold in the ... Read more
Director: Guy Hamilton
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
25
Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind (2 discs) (1939)

  • 80
  • from 11,179 members
Epic romantic drama based on Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning novel set during the American Civil War. Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) often uses men to get what she wants, but is ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
26
The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai (2 discs) (1957)

  • 70
  • from 17,109 members
The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British ... Read more
Director: David Lean
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
27
The Sound Of Music

The Sound Of Music (2 discs) (1965)

  • 70
  • from 17,883 members
Austria in the 1930s. Ex-nun Maria (Julie Andrews) becomes the governess for a family of seven children who live in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father (Christopher Plummer). ... Read more
Director: Robert Wise
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
28
The Full Monty

The Full Monty (2 discs) (1997)

  • 70
  • from 26,224 members
Six guys with nothing left to lose try losing their clothing for fun and profit in this international hit comedy. Gaz (Robert Carlyle) and Dave (Mark Addy) are two former steelworkers in the British ... Read more
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
29
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (2 discs) (1977)

  • 70
  • from 19,853 members
Steven Spielberg presents the definitive collection of his classic movie. Power line repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) has a 'close encounter' with an alien spacecraft when he is sent out to ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
30
Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack Of The Clones

Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack Of The Clones (2 discs) (2002)

  • 70
  • from 41,490 members
Set ten years after the events of "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace", not only has the galaxy undergone significant change, but so have our familiar heroes Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padme Amidala, and ... Read more
Director: George Lucas
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
31
My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady (2 discs) (1964)

  • 70
  • from 11,755 members
At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy ... Read more
Director: George Cukor
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
32
The Exorcist

The Exorcist (1973)

  • 70
  • from 25,402 members
Actress Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn) has every reason to be content, having just completed a film with director Burke Dennings (Jack MacGowran). However, she becomes disturbed by the changes taking ... Read more
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
33
Oliver!

Oliver! (1968)

  • 70
  • from 11,981 members
Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what ... Read more
Director: Carol Reed
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
34
The Magnificent Seven

The Magnificent Seven (2 discs) (1960)

  • 70
  • from 10,550 members
Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai (1954) is westernized as The Magnificent Seven. Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual ... Read more
Director: John Sturges
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
35
Rebecca

Rebecca (1940)

  • 70
  • from 9426 members
The second Mrs. de Winter is a shy and naive young woman, besotted with charming and urbane Maxim de Winter. They meet and fall in love while vacationing on the Riviera, and after a speedy marriage, ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
36
Titanic

Titanic (1997)

  • 60
  • from 45,500 members
The journey of "Titanic" begins in the present, at the site of the ship's watery grave, two-and-a-half miles under the ocean surface. An ambitious fortune hunter (Bill Paxton) is determined to plumb ... Read more
Director: James Cameron
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
37
Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace (2 discs) (1999)

  • 60
  • from 36,917 members
This record-breaking global blockbuster was the first new instalment in the Star Wars serial for 16 years, and recounts the events which occured a generation before the original Star Wars film. Jedi ... Read more
Director: George Lucas
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
38
Pinocchio

Pinocchio (2 discs) (1940)

  • 70
  • from 9392 members
When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio (Dick Jones), is not yet a ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
39
The Dam Busters

The Dam Busters (1954)

  • 70
  • from 8271 members
The British The Dam Busters is the story of the development and utilization of the bouncing bombs in World War II. Michael Redgrave stars as Dr. Barnes Wallis, who developed these unorthodox ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
40
You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice (2 discs) (1967)

  • 70
  • from 13,099 members
James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure. When an American spacecraft disappears during a mission, it's widely ... Read more
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
41
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago (2 discs) (1965)

  • 70
  • from 8085 members
Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (... Read more
Director: David Lean
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
42
Live And Let Die

Live And Let Die (2 discs) (1973)

  • 70
  • from 12,852 members
Roger Moore makes his first appearance as Bond...James Bond in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is dispatched to the States to stem the activities of Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto), who plans to take over the ... Read more
Director: Guy Hamilton
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
43
101 Dalmatians

101 Dalmatians (2 discs) (1961)

  • 70
  • from 6087 members
A lovable litter of puppies, an enchanting London setting and animation's most flamboyant villainess all add up to '101 Dalmatians', Walt Disney's pedigree Classic! The fun starts the moment ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
44
Thunderball

Thunderball (2 discs) (1965)

  • 70
  • from 13,216 members
Thunderball finds James Bond matching wits with the sinister espionage organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E, (which stands for Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion). This ... Read more
Director: Terence Young
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
45
Chicken Run

Chicken Run (2000)

  • 70
  • from 12,751 members
'Wallace and Gromit' progenitor Nick Park's first big screen outing is an animated pastiche of 'The Great Escape'. Life on Tweedy's Chicken Farm is far from pleasant for the inmates; they are badly ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
46
Die Another Day

Die Another Day (2 discs) (2002)

  • 60
  • from 28,409 members
Pierce Brosnan's fourth outing in the 20th Bond film. 007 has spent the last 12 months in a North Korean prison - after being captured whilst on assignment by government agents - and when he is ... Read more
Director: Lee Tamahori
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
47
The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me (2 discs) (1977)

  • 70
  • from 12,655 members
Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of telling the story from the heroine's point of view; in fact, Bond doesn't ... Read more
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
48
Crocodile Dundee

Crocodile Dundee (1986)

  • 70
  • from 13,349 members
Accustomed to a simple life in the Australian Outback, a legendary crocodile hunter has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings when an American journalist brings him to New York City. This ... Read more
Director: Peter Faiman
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
49
The Guns Of Navarone

The Guns Of Navarone (1961)

  • 70
  • from 5438 members
The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of ... Read more
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
50
High Society

High Society (1956)

  • 70
  • from 5208 members
This musical remake of 'The Philadelphia Story' stars Grace Kelly as socialite Tracy Lord who, even as she prepares for her second marriage, still has obvious feelings for her ex-husband (Bing Crosby)... Read more
Director: Charles Walters
Certificate: U
Format: DVD

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