The Telegraph’s 75 best British films ever made (2019)

A list of the 75 best British films from The Telegraph newspaper. It’s listed on the paper’s website as published in February 2019 but appears to have been around some years before that, with the newest film listed having been released in 2013. The choices are listed in chronological order.

The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sabotage (1936)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Gaslight (1940)
That Hamilton Woman (1941)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Brief Encounter (1945)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
Great Expectations (1946)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)
The Third Man (1949)
The Dam Busters (1955)
The Ladykillers (1955)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Night of the Demon (1957)
Dracula (1958)
Peeping Tom (1960)
The Innocents (1961)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
This Sporting Life (1963)
From Russia with Love (1963)
Zulu (1964)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Accident (1967)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
If…. (1968)
Witchfinder General (1968)
Kes (1969)
Performance (1970)
Get Carter (1971)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)




The Devils (1971)
Bill Douglas Trilogy (1972-8)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Pressure (1976)
Life of Brian (1979)
Radio On (1979)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Gregory’s Girl (1980)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
Withnail & I (1987)
Howards End (1992)
Orlando (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Trainspotting (1996)
Secrets & Lies (1996)
The Full Monty (1997)
Gallivant (1996)
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
Ratcatcher (1999)
The House of Mirth (2000)
Gosford Park (2001)
Black Sun (2005)
Deep Water (2006)
Unrelated (2007)
Sleep Furiously (2008)
Hunger (2008)
Fish Tank (2009)
Weekend (2011)
Kill List (2011)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
The Selfish Giant (2013)
Under the Skin (2013)



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