THE BFI TOP 100 FILMS LIST

[LornaHansonForbes]

Came across this just now and thought some of you might find it interesting. usually these annoy me, but I'm not too mad at this list, other than to say DON'T LOOK NOW suuuuuuuuuuuucks and THE WICKER MAN should have been in the TOP TEN.

Full list

Rank	Title	Year	Director
1	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed
2	Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean
3	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean
4	The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock
5	Great Expectations	1946	David Lean
6	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	Robert Hamer
7	Kes	1969	Ken Loach
8	Don't Look Now	1973	Nicolas Roeg
9	The Red Shoes	1948	Powell and Pressburger
10	Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle
11	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean
12	if....	1968	Lindsay Anderson
13	The Ladykillers	1955	Alexander Mackendrick
14	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	1960	Karel Reisz
15	Brighton Rock	1947	John Boulting
16	Get Carter	1971	Mike Hodges
17	The Lavender Hill Mob	1951	Charles Crichton
18	Henry V	1944	Laurence Olivier
19	Chariots of Fire	1981	Hugh Hudson
20	A Matter of Life and Death	1946	Powell and Pressburger
21	The Long Good Friday	1980	John Mackenzie
22	The Servant	1963	Joseph Losey
23	Four Weddings and a Funeral	1994	Mike Newell
24	Whisky Galore!	1949	Alexander Mackendrick
25	The Full Monty	1997	Peter Cattaneo
26	The Crying Game	1992	Neil Jordan
27	Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean
28	Monty Python's Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones
29	Withnail and I	1987	Bruce Robinson
30	Gregory's Girl	1980	Bill Forsyth
31	Zulu	1964	Cy Endfield
32	Room at the Top	1959	Jack Clayton
33	Alfie	1966	Lewis Gilbert
34	Gandhi	1982	Richard Attenborough
35	The Lady Vanishes	1938	Alfred Hitchcock
36	The Italian Job	1969	Peter Collinson
37	Local Hero	1983	Bill Forsyth
38	The Commitments	1991	Alan Parker
39	A Fish Called Wanda	1988	Charles Crichton
40	Secrets & Lies	1996	Mike Leigh
41	Dr. No	1962	Terence Young
42	The Madness of King George	1994	Nicholas Hytner
43	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Fred Zinnemann
44	Black Narcissus	1947	Powell and Pressburger
45	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Powell and Pressburger
46	Oliver Twist	1948	David Lean
47	I'm All Right Jack	1959	John Boulting
48	Performance	1970	Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell
49	Shakespeare in Love	1998	John Madden
50	My Beautiful Laundrette	1985	Stephen Frears
51	Tom Jones	1963	Tony Richardson
52	This Sporting Life	1963	Lindsay Anderson
53	My Left Foot	1989	Jim Sheridan
54	Brazil	1985	Terry Gilliam
55	The English Patient	1996	Anthony Minghella
56	A Taste of Honey	1961	Tony Richardson
57	The Go-Between	1970	Joseph Losey
58	The Man in the White Suit	1951	Alexander Mackendrick
59	The Ipcress File	1965	Sidney J. Furie
60	Blow Up	1966	Michelangelo Antonioni
61	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	1962	Tony Richardson
62	Sense and Sensibility	1995	Ang Lee
63	Passport to Pimlico	1949	Henry Cornelius
64	The Remains of the Day	1993	James Ivory
65	Sunday, Bloody Sunday	1971	John Schlesinger
66	The Railway Children	1970	Lionel Jeffries
67	Mona Lisa	1986	Neil Jordan
68	The Dam Busters	1955	Michael Anderson
69	Hamlet	1948	Laurence Olivier
70	Goldfinger	1964	Guy Hamilton
71	Elizabeth	1998	Shekhar Kapur
72	Goodbye, Mr Chips	1939	Sam Wood
73	A Room with a View	1985	James Ivory
74	The Day of the Jackal	1973	Fred Zinnemann
75	The Cruel Sea	1953	Charles Frend
76	Billy Liar	1963	John Schlesinger
77	Oliver!	1968	Carol Reed
78	Peeping Tom	1960	Michael Powell
79	Far from the Madding Crowd	1967	John Schlesinger
80	The Draughtsman's Contract	1982	Peter Greenaway
81	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick
82	Distant Voices, Still Lives	1988	Terence Davies
83	Darling	1965	John Schlesinger
84	Educating Rita	1983	Lewis Gilbert
85	Brassed Off	1996	Mark Herman
86	Genevieve	1953	Henry Cornelius
87	Women in Love	1969	Ken Russell
88	A Hard Day's Night	1964	Richard Lester
89	Fires Were Started	1943	Humphrey Jennings
90	Hope and Glory	1987	John Boorman
91	My Name Is Joe	1998	Ken Loach
92	In Which We Serve	1942	Noël Coward and David Lean
93	Caravaggio	1986	Derek Jarman
94	The Belles of St Trinian's	1954	Frank Launder
95	Life Is Sweet	1990	Mike Leigh
96	The Wicker Man	1973	Robin Hardy
97	Nil by Mouth	1997	Gary Oldman
98	Small Faces	1995	Gillies Mackinnon
99	Carry On... Up the Khyber	1968	Gerald Thomas
100	The Killing Fields	1984	Roland Joffé

[LornaHansonForbes]

Also, NO "A ROOM WITH A VIEW" or PASSAGE TO INDIA.

also I think RYAN'S DAUGHTER should be on the list.

[Roy Cronin]

Room With a View #73

Otherwise,  I need Dame Judith's input.

[LornaHansonForbes]

3 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:

Room With a View #73

Otherwise,  I need Dame Judith's input.

THANK YOU@!@!!

Amazing how I can read something 5 times and MISS IT EVERY DAMN TIME!!!!!

[LornaHansonForbes]

SADLY THO, NO NUNS ON THE RUN:

[Aritosthenes]

5 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

Came across this just now and thought some of you might find it interesting. usually these annoy me, but I'm not too mad at this list, other than to say DON'T LOOK NOW suuuuuuuuuuuucks and THE WICKER MAN should have been in the TOP TEN.

Full list

Rank	Title	Year	Director
1	The Third Man	1949	Carol Reed
2	Brief Encounter	1945	David Lean
3	Lawrence of Arabia	1962	David Lean
4	The 39 Steps	1935	Alfred Hitchcock
5	Great Expectations	1946	David Lean
6	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	Robert Hamer
7	Kes	1969	Ken Loach
8	Don't Look Now	1973	Nicolas Roeg
9	The Red Shoes	1948	Powell and Pressburger
10	Trainspotting	1996	Danny Boyle
11	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957	David Lean
12	if....	1968	Lindsay Anderson
13	The Ladykillers	1955	Alexander Mackendrick
14	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	1960	Karel Reisz
15	Brighton Rock	1947	John Boulting
16	Get Carter	1971	Mike Hodges
17	The Lavender Hill Mob	1951	Charles Crichton
18	Henry V	1944	Laurence Olivier
19	Chariots of Fire	1981	Hugh Hudson
20	A Matter of Life and Death	1946	Powell and Pressburger
21	The Long Good Friday	1980	John Mackenzie
22	The Servant	1963	Joseph Losey
23	Four Weddings and a Funeral	1994	Mike Newell
24	Whisky Galore!	1949	Alexander Mackendrick
25	The Full Monty	1997	Peter Cattaneo
26	The Crying Game	1992	Neil Jordan
27	Doctor Zhivago	1965	David Lean
28	Monty Python's Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones
29	Withnail and I	1987	Bruce Robinson
30	Gregory's Girl	1980	Bill Forsyth
31	Zulu	1964	Cy Endfield
32	Room at the Top	1959	Jack Clayton
33	Alfie	1966	Lewis Gilbert
34	Gandhi	1982	Richard Attenborough
35	The Lady Vanishes	1938	Alfred Hitchcock
36	The Italian Job	1969	Peter Collinson
37	Local Hero	1983	Bill Forsyth
38	The Commitments	1991	Alan Parker
39	A Fish Called Wanda	1988	Charles Crichton
40	Secrets & Lies	1996	Mike Leigh
41	Dr. No	1962	Terence Young
42	The Madness of King George	1994	Nicholas Hytner
43	A Man for All Seasons	1966	Fred Zinnemann
44	Black Narcissus	1947	Powell and Pressburger
45	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	1943	Powell and Pressburger
46	Oliver Twist	1948	David Lean
47	I'm All Right Jack	1959	John Boulting
48	Performance	1970	Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell
49	Shakespeare in Love	1998	John Madden
50	My Beautiful Laundrette	1985	Stephen Frears
51	Tom Jones	1963	Tony Richardson
52	This Sporting Life	1963	Lindsay Anderson
53	My Left Foot	1989	Jim Sheridan
54	Brazil	1985	Terry Gilliam
55	The English Patient	1996	Anthony Minghella
56	A Taste of Honey	1961	Tony Richardson
57	The Go-Between	1970	Joseph Losey
58	The Man in the White Suit	1951	Alexander Mackendrick
59	The Ipcress File	1965	Sidney J. Furie
60	Blow Up	1966	Michelangelo Antonioni
61	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	1962	Tony Richardson
62	Sense and Sensibility	1995	Ang Lee
63	Passport to Pimlico	1949	Henry Cornelius
64	The Remains of the Day	1993	James Ivory
65	Sunday, Bloody Sunday	1971	John Schlesinger
66	The Railway Children	1970	Lionel Jeffries
67	Mona Lisa	1986	Neil Jordan
68	The Dam Busters	1955	Michael Anderson
69	Hamlet	1948	Laurence Olivier
70	Goldfinger	1964	Guy Hamilton
71	Elizabeth	1998	Shekhar Kapur
72	Goodbye, Mr Chips	1939	Sam Wood
73	A Room with a View	1985	James Ivory
74	The Day of the Jackal	1973	Fred Zinnemann
75	The Cruel Sea	1953	Charles Frend
76	Billy Liar	1963	John Schlesinger
77	Oliver!	1968	Carol Reed
78	Peeping Tom	1960	Michael Powell
79	Far from the Madding Crowd	1967	John Schlesinger
80	The Draughtsman's Contract	1982	Peter Greenaway
81	A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick
82	Distant Voices, Still Lives	1988	Terence Davies
83	Darling	1965	John Schlesinger
84	Educating Rita	1983	Lewis Gilbert
85	Brassed Off	1996	Mark Herman
86	Genevieve	1953	Henry Cornelius
87	Women in Love	1969	Ken Russell
88	A Hard Day's Night	1964	Richard Lester
89	Fires Were Started	1943	Humphrey Jennings
90	Hope and Glory	1987	John Boorman
91	My Name Is Joe	1998	Ken Loach
92	In Which We Serve	1942	Noël Coward and David Lean
93	Caravaggio	1986	Derek Jarman
94	The Belles of St Trinian's	1954	Frank Launder
95	Life Is Sweet	1990	Mike Leigh
96	The Wicker Man	1973	Robin Hardy
97	Nil by Mouth	1997	Gary Oldman
98	Small Faces	1995	Gillies Mackinnon
99	Carry On... Up the Khyber	1968	Gerald Thomas
100	The Killing Fields	1984	Roland Joffé

Genevieve.. ...is An Often Overlooked Ray.. of Sunshine... 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈

 If it were me (ha). Id Ratchet That SEVERAL Steps .. Higher ...

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Otherwise ..

 

    I dunno..

 

 

 

 

 

 

Said List Is Sans Some MIGHTY EXQUISITE, - TRANSCENDENTAL Titles and Stories ..

[skimpole]

When is this list from?  Where did you see it?

[Roy Cronin]

I agree about Passage to India.  

Should easily take Gandhi's spot, which can drop off completely,  leaving room for one more.

[kingrat]

Whistle Down the Wind is a glaring omission. Unfortunately, it is difficult to see this film. Perhaps the Lloyd Webber people have the rights tied up because of the musical version? This was shown at the second TCM festival to great acclaim, which made me think that the film would be shown on TCM and be available for purchase on DVD. Not so.

Are King Rat, The Hill, and The Man Who Would Be King British films? They have largely British casts, though made elsewhere, and have much to do with British history and society. What exactly does BFI consider a British film?

I'm shocked that the Powell & Pressburger films are rated so low.

Tried to watch Kes once or twice, but found it really dull. As for If . . . , if the extremely dated revolutionary fantasies of a closet queen are your thing . . . . Actually, that makes it sound more interesting than it is.

For all that, this BFI list is better than any AFI list I've ever seen. Granted, there aren't nearly as many British films to choose from, and there isn't the AFI bias toward more recent films because the British film industry has been is such bad shape for the last forty years or so.

[kingrat]

Hm. I like it a lot, but why is The Day of the Jackal an English film?

Also missing: Carol Reed's A Kid for Two Farthings, not like any other film on this list, and Reed's The Key, which stars William Holden and Sophia Loren but has a supporting cast of Englishmen, deals with English history during WWII, and is much more British than The Day of the Jackal. Olivier's Richard III is much better than his Hamlet. I would include The Pumpkin Eater for the brilliance of Oswald Morris' cinematography.

Three excellent specimens of Brit noir, The Long Memory, The Criminal, and Hell Drivers, would have my vote, as would the delightful comedy The Captain's Paradise.

Signs of changing tastes? I believe that twenty years ago Blow-Up and A Clockwork Orange would rank much higher, and Joseph Losey's Accident would have made the cut, probably the top half. In this case, I applaud the revisionist downgrading.

 

[Swithin]

12 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

Came across this just now and thought some of you might find it interesting. usually these annoy me, but I'm not too mad at this list, other than to say DON'T LOOK NOW suuuuuuuuuuuucks and THE WICKER MAN should have been in the TOP TEN.

 

What an interesting list, thanks! And Don't Look Now most certainly does NOT suck!

I agree that A Passage to India -- Lean's masterpiece -- should be on the list. Also although it's nice to see a Carry On film on the list, they didn't pick the best one (though I do like the one that they did select).

And although I have thoughts about many of the selections -- and omissions , I do have to say, that Brazil, a load of pretentious twaddle, is possibly the worst film I've ever seen. 

 

 

[LornaHansonForbes]

I’ve never seen BRAZIL. 

[txfilmfan]

5 hours ago, skimpole said:

When is this list from?  Where did you see it?

Haven't seen an answer to your question, but it appears this is a BFI list of the 100 best 20th Century British films...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_Top_100_British_films

There's a more recent, more international BFI list here (film critics poll):

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/greatest-films-all-time

 

Here's the link to the BFI poll section, for more polls and details:

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys

 

 

 

[Aritosthenes]

20 minutes ago, txfilmfan said:

Haven't seen an answer to your question, but it appears this is a BFI list of the 100 best 20th Century British films...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFI_Top_100_British_films

There's a more recent, more international BFI list here (film critics poll):

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/greatest-films-all-time

 

Here's the link to the BFI poll section, for more polls and details:

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/polls-surveys

 

 

 

And This is in No Offense /Dissrespect to #LornaHansonForbes,, with this .. Thank You .

[Arsan404]

I also agree A Passage to India should be on the list, and high on the list. I don't get how The Crying Game and The Full Monty are ranked higher than The Lady Vanishes , Black Narcissus and Secrets and Lies.

[LornaHansonForbes]

13 hours ago, Arsan404 said:

I also agree A Passage to India should be on the list, and high on the list. I don't get how The Crying Game and The Full Monty are ranked higher than The Lady Vanishes , Black Narcissus and Secrets and Lies.

I saw THE FULL MONTY once.

I didn't get it.

(THE FILM or THE REACTION TO IT.)

[LornaHansonForbes]

Maybe A PASSAGE TO INDIA was financed by an AMERICAN STUDIO?

[LornaHansonForbes]

14 hours ago, Aritosthenes said:

And This is in No Offense /Dissrespect to #LornaHansonForbes,, with this .. Thank You .

NOT A PROBLEM.

I saw MONA LISA (1986) for the first time this weekend and it's WIKIPEDIA entry mentioned it was on this BFI LIST, which the article linked to. Apparently the BRITISH FILM INSTINTUTE made this list at the end of the 20th century, a practice popular at the time. I NOTICED QUITE  A FEW FILMS that we have been discussing in other threads lately on it and thought it would be interesting.

while I REALLY DISAGREE with the AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE'S list of top 100 titles, I was mostly okay with this list.

 

[LornaHansonForbes]

I would also rank KEN RUSSELL'S THE DEVILS (1971) high on the list, but I have issues.

Also the 1995 version of PERSUASION.

and THE WINSLOW BOY (1948)

AND THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES.

and

THE BOY FRIEND (1971)

 

[Det Jim McLeod]

On 4/19/2021 at 9:14 AM, LornaHansonForbes said:

Full list

Some of my favorites on here:

Brief Encounter

The Crying Game

Gregory's Girl

Dr No

The Remains Of The Day

Goldfinger

The Wicker Man

I would include these:

A Kind Of Loving (1962)

Horror Of Dracula (1958)

The Collector (1965) though maybe this is considered a Hollywood movie, though much was filmed in England

Victim (1961)

[Sepiatone]

17 hours ago, kingrat said:

Hm. I like it a lot, but why is The Day of the Jackal an English film?

 

Maybe because except for director Fred Zinnemann  it was mostly a British cast and produced movie based on a novel by a British novelist Frederick Forsyth?

Sepiatone

[LornaHansonForbes]

42 minutes ago, Det Jim McLeod said:

Some of my favorites on here:

Brief Encounter

The Crying Game

Gregory's Girl

Dr No

The Remains Of The Day

Goldfinger

The Wicker Man

I would include these:

A Kind Of Loving (1962)

Horror Of Dracula (1958)

The Collector (1965) though maybe this is considered a Hollywood movie, though much was filmed in England

Victim (1961)

This is not the only list GREGORYS GIRL has made. I made a point of watching it many many years ago, I don’t remember much about it now besides I liked it and thought the dialogue was pretty good.

[NipkowDisc]

I agree about Richard III.

"no one shall usurp the throne of England from her true king....

no one!

 

[NipkowDisc]

9 minutes ago, NipkowDisc said:

I agree about Richard III.

"no one shall usurp the throne of England from her true king....

no one!

 

2 interesting tidbits about this tenacious english monarch.

Richard III was the last Plantagenet king and the last english king to die on the battlefield.

[EricJ]

I was surprised to see Carry On make the list, for old-home value, but once on, for cultural-symbolic status, I wasn't surprised to see it be "Up the Khyber".  
That's the one that seems to be considered the Classic.