"This is the complete list of the 100 best British films of the century, as voted for by 1,000 leading figures of the movie industry, and compiled by the British Film Institute."
- BBC
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Stream it on: AmazonMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Stream it on: AmazonThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Stream it on: AmazonA man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
Stream it on: AmazonA humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Stream it on: AmazonA distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Stream it on: AmazonA married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Stream it on: AmazonA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
Stream it on: AmazonRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Stream it on: AmazonAfter settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Stream it on: AmazonIn this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Five diverse oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Stream it on: AmazonA rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
Stream it on: AmazonPinkie Brown is a small-town hoodlum whose gang runs a protection racket based at Brighton race course. When Pinkie orders the murder of a rival, Fred, the police believe it to be suicide. ...
Stream it on: AmazonWhen his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
Stream it on: AmazonA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Stream it on:In the midst of the Hundred Years' War in 1415, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
Stream it on: AmazonTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Stream it on: AmazonA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court.
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his ...
Stream it on: AmazonThe aristocratic Tony moves to London and hires the servant Hugo Barrett for all services at home. Barrett seems to be a loyal and competent employee, but Tony's girlfriend Susan does not ...
Stream it on: AmazonOver the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Stream it on: AmazonScottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.
Stream it on: AmazonSix unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
Stream it on: AmazonA British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.
Stream it on: AmazonThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
Stream it on: AmazonBrian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Stream it on: AmazonLondon, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to ...
Stream it on: AmazonGregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection.
Stream it on: AmazonOutnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
Stream it on: AmazonAn ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Stream it on: AmazonAn unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Stream it on: AmazonGandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.
Stream it on: AmazonWhile traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Stream it on: AmazonComic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
Stream it on: AmazonAn American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Stream it on: AmazonWhen Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.
Stream it on: AmazonIn London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.
Stream it on: AmazonA successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a lower-class white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
Stream it on: AmazonA meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. As he ...
Stream it on: AmazonThe story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.
Stream it on: AmazonAfter opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension - both with the natives and also within their own group - as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings.
Stream it on: AmazonFrom the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
Stream it on:Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket ...
Stream it on: AmazonA naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labour union.
Stream it on: AmazonChas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. He finds the perfect cover in the form of guest house run by...
Stream it on: AmazonA young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Stream it on: AmazonAn ambitious Asian Briton and his white lover strive for success and hope, when they open up a glamorous laundromat.
Stream it on: AmazonIn eighteenth century England, "first cousins" Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature. Tom, the ...
Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
Stream it on: AmazonChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Stream it on: AmazonA bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
Stream it on: AmazonAt the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Stream it on: AmazonThe moving story of a plain young girl who becomes pregnant by a black sailor, befriends a homosexual, and gradually becomes a woman.
Stream it on:Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Stream it on: AmazonAn altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but both big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
Stream it on:In London, a counter espionage agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
A mod London photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park.
Stream it on:A juvenile offender impresses the reform school Governor with running abilities. He is in turn given special privileges to encourage him to win a race against the local public school, but he is therefore teased his fellow rebellious peers.
Stream it on: AmazonRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.
Stream it on: AmazonResidents of a part of London declare independence, when they discover an old treaty. This leads to the need for a 'Passport to Pimlico'.
Stream it on: AmazonA butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
Stream it on: AmazonDivorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...
Stream it on: AmazonAfter the enforced absence of their father, three children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where during their adventures they attempt to discover the reason for his disappearance.
George has just been released from prison, and manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer. Initially they don't get on; he doesn't fit in with the high class customers Simone services. Will they ever get on?
Stream it on: AmazonThe story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.
Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
Stream it on: AmazonInvestigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
Stream it on: AmazonA film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Stream it on: AmazonAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.
Stream it on: AmazonWhen Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting...
Stream it on: AmazonA professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
Stream it on: AmazonThe World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.
A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.
Stream it on: AmazonA young boy runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
Stream it on: AmazonA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Stream it on: AmazonBathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.
Stream it on:Mr. Neville, a cocksure young artist is contracted by Mrs. Herbert, the wife of a wealthy landowner, to produce a set of twelve drawings of her husband's estate, a contract which extends ...
Stream it on: AmazonIn future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.
Stream it on: AmazonThe second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on ...
Stream it on: AmazonA beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.
Stream it on: AmazonA young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches her to value her own insights while still being able to beat the exams. The change in ...
The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.
Stream it on: AmazonIt's time for the annual London to Brighton antique car rally, and Alan McKim and Ambrose Claverhouse are not going to let their friendship stop them from trying to humiliate each other. ...
Stream it on: AmazonThe battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian's industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Gerald Crich and Rupert Berkin are best friends who fall in love with a pair of ...
A 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs.
Stream it on: AmazonA new man joins the civilian firefighters at a London unit during the Second World War. He meets his fellow firemen and firewomen, manages to enjoy some leisure time with them, and then ...
A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...
Stream it on: AmazonTwo thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.
Stream it on: AmazonThis "story of a ship," the British destroyer HMS Torrin, is told in flash backs by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Stream it on: AmazonA retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Stream it on: AmazonThese schoolgirls are more interested in racing forms than books as they try to get-rich-quick. They are abetted by the head-mistress' brother, played by Alastair Sim, who also plays the head-mistress.
A waitress, her cook husband, & their twin daughters ponder their lives over a few weeks in a working-class suburb north of London.
A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
Stream it on: AmazonThe family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug ...
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and ...
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe. But the Khazi of Kalabar...
Stream it on: AmazonA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.
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