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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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50 - Performance (1970)
Gangland enforcer James Fox gets involved with decadent fading rock star Mick Jagger in Nicholas Roeg's and Donald Cammell's dazzling, ideas-rich, extraordinarily inventive full-stop to the 60s.
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49 - Saturday Night And Sunday Morning (1960)
A very young Albert Finney makes his debut as a prototypically Angry Young Man in this ground-breaking piece of Social Realism - experimental for its time, and still a fascinating study of youthful post-war disaffection.
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48 - The Ipcress File (1965)
Michael Caine's first, and best, excursion as Len Deighton's spy Harry Palmer. Redolent with 60s hip and a fine thriller to boot.
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47 - Local Hero (1983)
The finest of the whimsical Scottish films whose off-beat appeal kick-started the British film industry's revival in the mid 1980s.
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46 - A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)
Originally commissioned by the wartime Ministry of Information to bolster relations between Britain and the US, Michael Powell's compassionate and technically superb film about a pilot who cheats death has come to be regarded as a masterpiece in its own right.
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