British Film Institute's top 100 (100)

100 titles found

Early in 1999, the British Film Institute produced a selection booklet and sent copies to 1,000 people embracing all strands of the film, cinema and television industries throughout the UK - producers, directors, writers, actors, technicians, academics, exhibitors, distributors, executives and critics. Participants were asked to consider (and vote for up to 100) 'culturally British' feature films, released in cinemas during the 20th century, which they felt had made a strong and lasting impression. Altogether, more than 25,700 votes were cast, covering 820 different films.

The Long Good Friday (2 discs) (1979)

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Acclaimed gangster thriller starring Bob Hoskins as a top London crime boss whose attempts to launch a legitimate business enterprise are disrupted by a number of bombs from an unknown adversary. ... Read more
Director: John Mackenzie
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY

Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection (7 discs)

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Box-set featuring classic Dirk Bogarde movies. In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (... Read more
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1993)

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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

Whisky Galore! (2 discs) (1949)

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Classic Ealing comedy. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of a small Hebridean island are wilting under a chronic shortage of whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY

The Full Monty (2 discs) (1997)

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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

The Crying Game (1992)

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In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA volunteer ... Read more
Director: Neil Jordan
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY

Doctor Zhivago (2 discs) (1965)

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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

Monty Python's Life Of Brian (1979)

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On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the ... Read more
Director: Terry Jones
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY

Withnail And I (1986)

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Bruce Robinson's celebrated cult comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. It's the end of the 1960s and two out-of-work actors, Withnail (Grant) and 'I' (McGann), subsist on a diet of booze, ... Read more
Director: Bruce Robinson
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY

Gregory's Girl (1980)

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The sophomore film of Scottish director Bill Forsyth was his first international hit, a typically quirky comedy set amongst colorful Scottish teenagers. Gregory (John Gordon Sinclair) is a normal, ... Read more
Director: Bill Forsyth
Certificate: 12
Format: DVD