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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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45 - Touching The Void (2003)
Stunning docudrama about a 1985 mountaineering expedition that went horribly wrong, told in the words of the survivors. From the director of the Oscar-winning One Day In September.

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44 - Brighton Rock (1947)
Vintage British crime thriller, featuring a chilling turn from Richard Attenborough as a brutal teenage racketeer.

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43 - My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Stephen Frears' witty, intelligent look at multi-ethnic life in Thatcher's Britain. A great piece of 1980s cinema, which launched the career of Daniel Day-Lewis.

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42 - A Man For All Seasons (1966)
A multi-Oscar-winning adaptation of Robert Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, the man who stood up to Henry VIII. Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, John Hurt and Orson Welles are among the high profile cast.

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41 - Gregory's Girl (1980)
Essential British 80s teen movie, starring John Gordon Sinclair as the goofy schoolboy infatuated with a fantastic female footballer in his class.

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