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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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40 - Don't Look Now (1973)
Chilling but moving classic of British cinema. Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland star as a couple who move to Venice after the death of their daughter, only to encounter forebodings of death amid its dank off-season canals.

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39 - Carry On Up The Khyber (1968)
A series of jokes based around the word Khasi, appalling racial stereotyping, bawdy sexism, Kenneth Williams looking like a wilted lettuce…The most classic of all Carry Ons.

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38 - Brazil (1985)
Undoubtedly Gilliam's masterpiece. Visual brilliance combines with snappy satirical humour to create one of the best films of the 80s.

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37 - The Killing Fields (1984)
The staggering story of the Cambodian Holocaust, and of the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran - who bear witness as the country is turned into one horrific, giant death camp.

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36 - The Long Good Friday (1980)
Tough London gangster movie in which Bob Hoskins is an underworld boss undertaking an elaborate doublecross.

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