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Best British Film
Here's our list of the 50 greatest British movies ever. To keep things fair, we've restricted the list to only one film per director or 'stable'. So, there's only one Bond, one Ealing comedy and one Carry On. Don't like it? Tell us in the forums.

 
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35 - The Remains Of The Day (1993)
Antony Hopkins stars in this definitive Merchant-Ivory film, adpated from the novel about class, love and repression by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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34 - Sexy Beast (2000)
Ex-criminal Ray Winstone's idyllic retirement is disrupted when Ben Kingsley asks, nay demands, that he do one more job. Superlative Brit-gangster flick.

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33 - Secrets And Lies (1995)
Mike Leigh's superb comedy-drama of family relationships. Heart-rending, bitter and delightful by turn.

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32 - The Crying Game (1992)
Neil Jordan's Oscar-winning depiction of an IRA volunteer's attempt to escape his violent past. Startling, sophisticated and immensely satisfying drama dominated by a magnetic Stephen Rea.

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31 - Alfie (1966)
Thoroughly dated by its misogyny, but entertaining and finely-crafted nevertheless, Lewis Gilbert's tale of a cynical Cockney lecher contains a prime turn from Michael Caine. A great document of 60s London.

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