Top 150 British Movies
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1. A Room with a View(1985) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:13 Dec 1985 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | Italian | Rating:UR |
Description:When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting...
Director:
James Ivory
Stars:
Maggie Smith
, Helena Bonham Carter
, Denholm Elliott
, Julian Sands
Tags:
Based On Book Self Discovery Female Protagonist Based On Novel
2. Henry V(1989) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Romance|Drama|Action|War|Biography|History | Release Date:05 Oct 1989 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | French | Rating:PG-13 |
Description:Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
Stars:
Derek Jacobi
, Kenneth Branagh
, Simon Shepherd
, James Larkin
Tags:
Violence Based On Play Tragedy Reference To William Shakespeare Medieval Times
3. Great Expectations(1946) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance|Adventure|Mystery | Release Date:26 Dec 1946 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:NR |
Description:A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Director:
David Lean
Stars:
John Mills
, Tony Wager
, Valerie Hobson
, Jean Simmons
Tags:
Based On Novel Family Relationships Boxing Insanity Friendship Voice Over Narration
5. The Lavender Hill Mob(1951) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Comedy|Crime | Release Date:21 Jun 1951 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | French | Portuguese | Rating:AP |
Description:A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Director:
Charles Crichton
Stars:
Alec Guinness
, Stanley Holloway
, Sidney James
, Alfie Bass
Tags:
Heist Reference To William Shakespeare
6. Kind Hearts and Coronets(1949) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Comedy|Crime | Release Date:01 Jan 1949 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:NR |
Description:A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director:
Robert Hamer
Stars:
Dennis Price
, Valerie Hobson
, Joan Greenwood
, Alec Guinness
Tags:
Black Comedy Plot Twist Family Relationships Satire Revenge Friendship
7. The Hill(1965) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War | Release Date:22 Jun 1965 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:AP |
Description:In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Stars:
Sean Connery
, Harry Andrews
, Ian Bannen
, Alfred Lynch
Tags:
World War Two Racism Based On Play British Military
8. Paddington 2(2017) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Comedy|Animation|Adventure|Family | Release Date:05 Nov 2017 |
| Countries: UK| France| USA | Language:English | Rating:PG |
Description:Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
Director:
Paul King
Stars:
Michael Gambon
, Imelda Staunton
, Ben Whishaw
, Madeleine Harris
Tags:
Courtroom Escape From Prison
9. The Ladykillers(1955) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Comedy|Crime | Release Date:08 Dec 1955 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:NA |
Description:Five diverse oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Director:
Alexander Mackendrick
Stars:
Alec Guinness
, Cecil Parker
, Herbert Lom
, Peter Sellers
Tags:
Criminal Mastermind Heist Gangster
10. Black Narcissus(1947) |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:01 Jan 1947 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:NR |
Description:After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.
Directors:
Michael Powell
, Emeric Pressburger
Stars:
Deborah Kerr
, Flora Robson
, Jenny Laird
, Judith Furse
Tags:
Family Relationships Insanity F Rated
12. Local Hero(1983) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Comedy | Release Date:17 Feb 1983 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | Russian | Japanese | Rating:PG |
Description:An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Director:
Bill Forsyth
Stars:
Burt Lancaster
, Peter Riegert
, Fulton Mackay
, Denis Lawson
Tags:
Surprise Ending Cult Film Friendship
13. Starred Up(2013) |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:30 Aug 2013 |
| Countries: UK| Ireland | Language:English | Rating:NR |
Description:Eric Love (O'Connell) is a 19 year old teenager who is so violent he has been 'Starred Up' (Moved to Adult prison) where he finds his father Neville (Mendelsohn) who Eric hasn't seen since ...
Director:
David Mackenzie
Stars:
Jack O'Connell
, Gilly Gilchrist
, Frederick Schmidt
, Edna Caskey
14. The Third Man(1949) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Mystery|Film-Noir|Thriller | Release Date:31 Aug 1949 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | German | Russian | Rating:NR |
Description:An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.
Director:
Carol Reed
Stars:
Joseph Cotten
, Alida Valli
, Orson Welles
, Trevor Howard
Tags:
Betrayal Good Versus Evil Reference To William Shakespeare Friendship Voice Over Narration
15. The African Queen(1951) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Romance|Drama|Adventure|War | Release Date:03 Dec 1951 |
| Countries: USA| UK | Languages:English | German | Swahili | Rating:PG |
Description:At the start of the first World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Director:
John Huston
Stars:
Humphrey Bogart
, Katharine Hepburn
, Robert Morley
, Peter Bull
Tags:
National Film Registry World War One Afi
16. The Lady Vanishes(1938) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Mystery|Thriller | Release Date:27 Jul 1938 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | German | French | Italian | Rating:PA |
Description:While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stars:
Margaret Lockwood
, Michael Redgrave
, Paul Lukas
, Dame May Whitty
Tags:
Female Protagonist Investigation Based On Novel Road Movie Psychological Missing Person
17. Brazil(1985) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Comedy|Sci-Fi | Release Date:20 Feb 1985 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:R |
Description:A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
Director:
Terry Gilliam
Stars:
Jonathan Pryce
, Robert De Niro
, Katherine Helmond
, Ian Holm
Tags:
Black Comedy Samurai Steampunk Cult Film Neo Noir Dystopia Satire Falling In Love Christmas
18. Lawrence of Arabia(1962) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|Adventure|Biography|History | Release Date:10 Dec 1962 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | Arabic | Turkish | Rating:PG |
Description:An epic about British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Director:
David Lean
Stars:
Peter O'Toole
, Alec Guinness
, Anthony Quinn
, Jack Hawkins
Tags:
National Film Registry Violence World War One Based On True Story Nonlinear Timeline British Military Afi Insanity Politics Blockbuster
22. My Left Foot(1989)Original Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography | Release Date:21 Jul 1989 |
| Countries: Ireland| UK | Language:English | Rating:R |
Description:In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life.
Director:
Jim Sheridan
Stars:
Daniel Day-Lewis
, Brenda Fricker
, Alison Whelan
, Kirsten Sheridan
Tags:
Based On Novel Family Relationships Reference To William Shakespeare
23. Stairway to Heaven(1946)Original Title: A Matter of Life and Death |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Fantasy|Romance|Comedy | Release Date:22 Aug 1946 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | French | Russian | Rating:PG |
Description:When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and despatch an angel to collect him.
Directors:
Michael Powell
, Emeric Pressburger
Stars:
David Niven
, Kim Hunter
, Robert Coote
, Kathleen Byron
Tags:
World War Two Falling In Love Reference To William Shakespeare
24. Goldfinger(1964) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Adventure|Thriller | Release Date:17 Sep 1964 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | Chinese | Spanish | Rating:AP |
Description:Special agent 007 (Sean Connery) comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Director:
Guy Hamilton
Stars:
Sean Connery
, Honor Blackman
, Gert Fröbe
, Shirley Eaton
Tags:
Criminal Mastermind Action Hero Organized Crime Revenge Martial Arts Good Versus Evil
25. God's Own Country(2017) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Romance|Drama | Release Date:23 Jan 2017 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:NA |
Description:A young farmer numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets him on a new path.
Director:
Francis Lee
Stars:
Josh O'Connor
, Alec Secareanu
, Gemma Jones
, Ian Hart
26. Brooklyn(2015) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:13 Sep 2015 |
| Countries: UK| Canada| Ireland | Language:English | Rating:PG-13 |
Description:In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Director:
John Crowley
Stars:
Saoirse Ronan
, Hugh Gormley
, Brid Brennan
, Maeve McGrath
Tags:
Female Protagonist Based On Novel Falling In Love Heartbreak Christmas Friendship
27. The Remains of the Day(1993) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:05 Nov 1993 |
| Countries: UK| USA | Languages:English | French | German | Rating:PG |
Description:A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
Director:
James Ivory
Stars:
John Haycraft
, Christopher Reeve
, Anthony Hopkins
, Emma Thompson
Tags:
Based On Novel Friendship Politics
28. If....(1968) |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:19 Dec 1968 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | Latin | Rating:X |
Description:In this allegorical story, a revolution lead by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Director:
Lindsay Anderson
Stars:
Malcolm McDowell
, David Wood
, Richard Warwick
, Christine Noonan
Tags:
Black Comedy Coming Of Age Violence Cult Film Vietnam War Family Relationships Teen Movie Betrayal Friendship
29. Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Fantasy|Comedy|Adventure | Release Date:13 Mar 1975 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | French | Latin | Rating:PG |
Description:King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Directors:
Terry Gilliam
, Terry Jones
Stars:
Graham Chapman
, John Cleese
, Eric Idle
, Terry Gilliam
Tags:
Black Comedy Violence Cult Film Monster Breaking The Fourth Wall Satire Medieval Times Voice Over Narration
30. From Russia with Love(1963)Original Title: From Russia With Love |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Adventure|Thriller | Release Date:11 Oct 1963 |
| Countries: UK| USA | Languages:English | Russian | Turkish | Romany | Rating:AP |
Description:James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.
Director:
Terence Young
Stars:
Sean Connery
, Daniela Bianchi
, Pedro Armendáriz
, Lotte Lenya
Tags:
Action Hero Cult Film Based On Novel Martial Arts Blockbuster
31. Sleuth(1972) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Mystery|Thriller | Release Date:10 Dec 1972 |
| Countries: USA| UK | Languages:English | Italian | Rating:PG |
Description:A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars:
Laurence Olivier
, Michael Caine
, Alec Cawthorne
, John Matthews
Tags:
Cult Film Based On Play Minimal Cast Revenge
32. The 39 Steps(1935) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Mystery|Thriller | Release Date:01 Jun 1935 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:UR |
Description:A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Stars:
Robert Donat
, Madeleine Carroll
, Lucie Mannheim
, Godfrey Tearle
33. Peeping Tom(1960) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Horror|Thriller | Release Date:06 Apr 1960 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:NR |
Description:A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Director:
Michael Powell
Stars:
Karlheinz Böhm
, Moira Shearer
, Anna Massey
, Maxine Audley
Tags:
Violence Psycho Thriller Investigation Psychopath Family Relationships Insanity Serial Killer Psychopathic Killer
35. The Man Who Would Be King(1975) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Adventure | Release Date:03 Dec 1975 |
| Countries: UK| USA | Language:English | Rating:PG |
Description:A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as "godlike" rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.
Director:
John Huston
Stars:
Sean Connery
, Michael Caine
, Christopher Plummer
, Saeed Jaffrey
Tags:
1800S Self Discovery Action Hero Satire Friendship Spiritual Journey
36. The Long Good Friday(1980) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Action|Mystery|Thriller|Crime | Release Date:01 Nov 1980 |
| Country: UK | Languages:French | English | Rating:R |
Description:Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Director:
John Mackenzie
Stars:
Paul Freeman
, Leo Dolan
, Kevin McNally
, Patti Love
Tags:
Black Comedy Plot Twist Violence Cult Film Gangster Neo Noir Mafia Organized Crime Revenge Betrayal
37. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2(2011) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Fantasy|Adventure|Family | Release Date:07 Jul 2011 |
| Countries: USA| UK | Language:English | Rating:PG-13 |
Description:Harry, Ron and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts.
Director:
David Yates
Stars:
Ralph Fiennes
, Michael Gambon
, Alan Rickman
, Daniel Radcliffe
Tags:
Coming Of Age Violence Cult Film Based On Novel Based On Young Adult Novel Disaster Betrayal Tough Girl Good Versus Evil Friendship
38. Midnight Express(1978) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography|Crime | Release Date:06 Oct 1978 |
| Countries: UK| USA | Languages:English | Maltese | French | Turkish | Rating:R |
Description:The true story of Billy Hayes, an American college student who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Director:
Alan Parker
Stars:
Brad Davis
, Irene Miracle
, Bo Hopkins
, Paolo Bonacelli
Tags:
Based On Book Violence Courtroom Cult Film Based On True Story Family Relationships Racism Prison Escape Escape Plan Revenge Friendship
39. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp(1943) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance|Comedy|War | Release Date:10 Jun 1943 |
| Country: UK | Languages:English | French | German | Rating:PA |
Description:General Clive Candy lives through four decades of war and peace - from the Boer War to World War II - trying to stay true to his belief that "right will always defeat might" and trying to stay relevant while the world changes irrevocably around him.
Directors:
Michael Powell
, Emeric Pressburger
Stars:
James McKechnie
, Neville Mapp
, Vincent Holman
, Roger Livesey
Tags:
Concentration Camp World War Two World War One Family Relationships Friendship
40. Sing Street(2016) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Comedy|Music | Release Date:24 Jan 2016 |
| Countries: Ireland| UK| USA | Language:English | Rating:PG-13 |
Description:A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Director:
John Carney
Stars:
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
, Aidan Gillen
, Maria Doyle Kennedy
, Jack Reynor
Tags:
Coming Of Age Family Relationships Falling In Love Friendship Bullying
42. The Pianist(2002) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|War|Biography | Release Date:24 Sep 2002 |
| Countries: France| Poland| Germany| UK | Languages:English | German | Russian | Rating:R |
Description:The Pianist is a film adapted from the biography of Wladyslaw Szpilman. A Jewish-Polish pianist who during the second world war lived and hid miraculously in Warsaw after having gone through a terrible tragedy. A film from Roman Polanski.
Director:
Roman Polanski
Stars:
Adrien Brody
, Emilia Fox
, Michal Zebrowski
, Ed Stoppard
Tags:
War Crime Survival Violence Nazi Occupation World War Two Based On True Story Police Brutality Prisoner Of War Motivational Holocaust
43. The Guns of Navarone(1961) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Drama|Adventure|War | Release Date:27 Apr 1961 |
| Countries: UK| USA | Languages:English | Greek | German | Rating:NA |
Description:A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Stars:
Gregory Peck
, David Niven
, Anthony Quinn
, Stanley Baker
Tags:
World War Two Betrayal Mixed Martial Arts
44. The King's Speech(2010) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography|History | Release Date:06 Sep 2010 |
| Countries: UK| USA| Australia | Language:English | Rating:R |
Description:The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
Director:
Tom Hooper
Stars:
Colin Firth
, Helena Bonham Carter
, Derek Jacobi
, Robert Portal
Tags:
Friendship Between Men World War Two Based On True Story Great Depression Family Relationships Christmas Reference To William Shakespeare Friendship Compassion Period Piece
45. Hamlet(1996) |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:25 Dec 1996 |
| Countries: UK| USA | Language:English | Rating:PG-13 |
Description:Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
Stars:
Riz Abbasi
, Richard Attenborough
, David Blair
, Brian Blessed
Tags:
Family Relationships Based On Play Tragedy Revenge Betrayal Insanity Friendship
46. Weekend(2011) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Romance | Release Date:22 Sep 2011 |
| Country: UK | Language:English | Rating:NR |
Description:After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Director:
Andrew Haigh
Stars:
Tom Cullen
, Chris New
, Jonathan Race
, Laura Freeman
Tags:
Friendship Between Men Dialogue Driven Friendship
47. Secrets & Lies(1996) |
| Runtime: | Genre:Drama | Release Date:24 May 1996 |
| Countries: France| UK | Language:English | Rating:R |
Description:A middle-aged London factory worker (Blethyn) is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Director:
Mike Leigh
Stars:
Timothy Spall
, Phyllis Logan
, Brenda Blethyn
, Claire Rushbrook
48. The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Adventure|War|History | Release Date:02 Oct 1957 |
| Countries: UK| USA | Languages:English | Japanese | Thai | Rating:PG |
Description:After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Director:
David Lean
Stars:
William Holden
, Alec Guinness
, Jack Hawkins
, Sessue Hayakawa
Tags:
World War Two Prisoner Of War British Military Japanese Military
49. Casino Royale(2006) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Action|Adventure|Thriller | Release Date:14 Nov 2006 |
| Countries: UK| Czech Republic| USA| Germany| Bahamas | Languages:French | English | Rating:PG-13 |
Description:Armed with a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007 and must defeat a weapons dealer in a high stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, but things are not what they seem.
Director:
Martin Campbell
Stars:
Daniel Craig
, Eva Green
, Mads Mikkelsen
, Judi Dench
Tags:
Plot Twist Violence Tough Guy Action Hero Cult Film Based On Novel Martial Arts Blockbuster
50. In the Name of the Father(1993) |
| Runtime: | Genres:Drama|Biography|History | Release Date:12 Dec 1993 |
| Countries: Ireland| UK| USA | Language:English | Rating:R |
Description:A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.
Director:
Jim Sheridan
Stars:
Alison Crosbie
, Daniel Day-Lewis
, Philip King
, Emma Thompson
Tags:
Based On Book Violence Courtroom Gangster Based On True Story Nonlinear Timeline Police Brutality Family Relationships Tragedy Friendship Politics Voice Over Narration
