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| 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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10 - Goldfinger (1964)
James takes on nasty Auric Goldfinger, who has a dastardly plan to irradiate the US gold reserves with the help of Pussy Galore, in the best of the early Bond movies.
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9 - Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)
Superlative multi-Oscar winning biography of T E Lawrence (played by Peter O'Toole), the Oxford-educated lieutenant, who united Arab tribes against the Ottoman Turks in WW1.
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8 - Oliver! (1968)
Ron Moody's quick-fingered Fagin steals the show in this Sunday afternoon telly favourite by the maker of The Third Man, Carol Reed.
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7 - A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Famous for the controversy surrounding copycat violence and Kubrick's decision to withdraw it in 1973, A Clockwork Orange can now be judged for what it is: an intelligent, visually stunning, disturbing and yet queasily entertaining adaptation of what was already a great work of literature.
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6 - Shakespeare In Love (1998)
Award-trawling period romantic comedy set in the Bard's London. Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow are the protagonists in the confused, troubled, but suitably entertaining, story of Shakespeare's love life.
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