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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.

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Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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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
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The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers (1955)

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  • from 10,312 members
Alexander Mackendrick's last Ealing comedy and certainly one of the best, William Rose received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Alec Guinness stars in one of his most vivid ... Read more
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
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The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

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  • from 7990 members
Comedy about a meek bank clerk who plans a theft from his own bank.
Certificate: U
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
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Four Weddings And A Funeral

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1993)

  • 70
  • from 55,357 members
Charles (Hugh Grant, in what would become career-defining performance) is a confirmed British bachelor with a colourful romantic background who meets the perfect woman, Carrie (Andie MacDowell), at a ... Read more
Director: Mike Newell
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
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Whisky Galore!

Whisky Galore! (2 discs) (1949)

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  • from 3554 members
Filmed at Barra in the outer Hebrides, Whisky Galore was based upon a true incident, the foundering of a cargo ship off the Isle Of Eriskay with 50,000 cases of Scotch aboard. The Scottish islanders ... Read more
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
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The Full Monty

The Full Monty (2 discs) (1997)

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  • from 25,677 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
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Monty Python's Life Of Brian

Monty Python's Life Of Brian (1979)

  • 80
  • from 60,642 members
Monty Python delivers a scathing, anarchic satire of both religion and Hollywood's depiction of all things biblical with their second--and tightest--full-length film. The setting is the Holy Land in ... Read more
Director: Terry Jones
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
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Withnail And I

Withnail And I (1986)

  • 70
  • from 31,295 members
WITHNAIL AND I is a quirky semiautobiographical account of filmmaker Bruce Robinson's early years as an actor. In 1969 London, two unemployed thespians--Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul ... Read more
Director: Bruce Robinson
Certificate: 15
Format: DVD
Available on: BLU-RAY
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Gregory's Girl

Gregory's Girl (1980)

  • 60
  • from 9023 members
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
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Local Hero

Local Hero (1983)

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  • from 7512 members
A Texas oil company attempts to buy out a Scottish fishing village for a refinery, and the result is utter confusion. To make matters more complicated, one of the town's least prominent citizens owns ... Read more
Director: Bill Forsyth
Certificate: PG
Format: DVD

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