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British Film Institute's top 100

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.

1
The Third Man

The Third Man (2 discs) (1949)

  • 80
  • from 21,211 members
This classic noir mystery, from the team of Carol Reed and Graham Greene, is generally considered to be the best filmwork of both of these estimable talents. THE THIRD MAN features Joseph Cotten as ... Read more
Director: Carol Reed
Certificate: PG
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2
Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter (1945)

  • 70
  • from 12,689 members
David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets ... Read more
Director: David Lean
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
3
Lawrence Of Arabia

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

  • 80
  • from 22,385 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
Director: David Lean
Certificate: 12
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4
The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps (1935)

  • 70
  • from 10,862 members
This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
5
Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1946)

  • 70
  • from 5375 members
David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a ... Read more
Director: David Lean
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
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6
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

  • 70
  • from 9172 members
Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a ... Read more
Certificate: TBC
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
7
Kes

Kes (1969)

  • 70
  • from 12,123 members
Rebellious Billy Casper (David Bradley) finds that training a kestrel takes his mind off his troubled home life and the bullies at school. Set in the Northern English town of Barnsley, the film is a ... Read more
Director: Ken Loach
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
8
Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now (1973)

  • 60
  • from 13,304 members
Nicolas Roeg's third film--after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and meditative WALKABOUT (1971)--is a haunting thriller that confirmed the director's status as a true visionary. Based on a story by ... Read more
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
9
The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes (2 discs) (1948)

  • 70
  • from 4762 members
This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
10
Trainspotting

Trainspotting (2 discs) (1995)

  • 80
  • from 64,271 members
Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's ... Read more
Director: Danny Boyle
Certificate: 18
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY

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