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A Clockwork Orange (film)
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name.
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A Fish Called Wanda
A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 British-American heist comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and written by John Cleese.
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A Hard Day's Night (film)
A Hard Day's Night is a 1964 British musical comedy film directed by Richard Lester and starring the Beatles—John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr—during the height of Beatlemania.
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A Man for All Seasons (1966 film)
A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 British biographical drama film in Technicolor based on Robert Bolt's play of the same name and adapted for the big screen by Bolt himself.
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A Matter of Life and Death (film)
A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, and set in England during the Second World War.
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A Room with a View (1985 film)
A Room with a View is a 1985 British romance film, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, of E. M. Forster's novel of the same name (1908).
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A Taste of Honey (film)
A Taste of Honey is a 1961 British film adaptation of the play of the same name by Shelagh Delaney.
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Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter.
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Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.
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Alexander Mackendrick
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8, 1912 – December 22, 1993) was an American born Scottish director and teacher.
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Alfie (1966 film)
Alfie is a 1966 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Michael Caine.
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Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.
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Ang Lee
Ang Lee OBS (born October 23, 1954) is a Taiwanese film director and screenwriter.
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Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14
The 50 films you should see by the age of 14 is a list created by the British Film Institute in 2005 to inspire parents and educators to take movies as seriously as books and other forms of art.
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BFI TV 100
The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre to have been screened.
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Bill Forsyth
William David "Bill" Forsyth (born 29 July 1946) is a Scottish film director and writer known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983), and Comfort and Joy (1984).
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Billy Liar (film)
Billy Liar is a 1963 British black-and-white CinemaScope comedy-drama film based on the 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse.
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Black Narcissus
Black Narcissus is a 1947 NR Technicolor drama film by the British writer-producer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.
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Blowup
Blowup is a 1966 British-Italian mystery thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film.
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Boulting brothers
John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for their popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Brassed Off
Brassed Off is a 1996 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mark Herman and starring Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor.
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Brazil (1985 film)
Brazil is a 1985 dystopian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard.
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Brief Encounter
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War 2, centring on Laura, a married woman with children, whose conventional life becomes increasingly complicated because of a chance meeting at a railway station with a married stranger, Alec.
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Brighton Rock (1948 film)
Brighton Rock is a 1948 British gangster film noir directed by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough as violent gang leader Pinkie Brown (reprising his breakthrough West End creation of the character some three years earlier), Carol Marsh as the innocent girl he marries, and Hermione Baddeley as an amateur sleuth investigating a murder he committed.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.
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Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor.
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Caravaggio (1986 film)
Caravaggio is a 1986 British drama film directed by Derek Jarman.
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Carol Reed
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949).
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Carry On Up the Khyber
Carry On Up the Khyber is a British comedy and the sixteenth in the series of ''Carry On'' films to be made, released in 1968.
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Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film.
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Charles Crichton
Charles Ainslie Crichton (6 August 1910 – 14 September 1999) was an English film director and editor.
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Charles Frend
Charles Frend (21 November 1909, Pulborough, Sussex – 8 January 1977, London) was an English film director.
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Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a significant film industry for over a century.
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Cy Endfield
Cyril Raker Endfield (November 10, 1914 – April 16, 1995) was an American screenwriter, film director, theatre director, author, magician and inventor, based in Britain from 1953.
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Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs.
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Darling (1965 film)
Darling is a 1965 British drama film written by Frederic Raphael, directed by John Schlesinger, and starring Julie Christie with Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey.
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David Lean
Sir David Lean, CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, responsible for large-scale epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and A Passage to India (1984).
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Derek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.
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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Distant Voices, Still Lives is a 1988 British film directed and written by Terence Davies.
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Doctor Zhivago (film)
Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 British-Italian epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean.
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Don't Look Now
Don't Look Now (A Venezia...) is a 1973 independent British-Italian film directed by Nicolas Roeg.
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Donald Cammell
Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director.
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Dr. No (film)
Dr.
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Ealing Studios
Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London.
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Educating Rita (film)
Educating Rita is a British 1983 drama/comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his 1980 stage play.
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Elizabeth (film)
Elizabeth is a 1998 British biographical drama film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Fanny Ardant, and Richard Attenborough.
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Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger (5 December 19025 February 1988) was a Hungarian British screenwriter, film director, and producer.
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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)
Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 British epic drama film adapted from Thomas Hardy's book of the same name.
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Fires Were Started
Fires Were Started is a 1943 British film written and directed by Humphrey Jennings, filmed in documentary style, showing the lives of firefighters through the Blitz during the Second World War.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British romantic comedy film directed by Mike Newell.
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Frank Launder
Frank Launder (28 January 1906 – 23 February 1997) was a British writer, film director and producer, who made more than 40 films, many of them in collaboration with Sidney Gilliat.
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Fred Zinnemann
Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-born American film director.
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Gandhi (film)
Gandhi is a 1982 epic historical drama film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the leader of India's non-violent, non-cooperative independence movement against the United Kingdom's rule of the country during the 20th century.
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Gary Oldman
Gary Leonard OldmanBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005. (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker who has performed in theatre, film and television.
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Genevieve (film)
Genevieve is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Henry Cornelius and written by William Rose.
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Gerald Thomas
Gerald Thomas (10 December 1920 – 9 November 1993) was an English film director best known for the long-running Carry On series of bawdy British film comedies.
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Get Carter
Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne and Bryan Mosley.
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Gillies MacKinnon
Gillies MacKinnon (born 8 January 1948, Glasgow) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter.
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Goldfinger (film)
Goldfinger is a 1964 British spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film)
Goodbye, Mr.
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Great Expectations (1946 film)
Great Expectations is a 1946 British film directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.
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Gregory's Girl
Gregory's Girl is a 1981 Scottish coming-of-age romantic comedy film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn and Clare Grogan.
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Guy Hamilton
Mervyn Ian Guy Hamilton, DSC (16 September 1922 – 20 April 2016) was an English film director.
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Hamlet (1948 film)
Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier.
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Henry Cornelius
Henry Cornelius (born Owen Henry Cornelius 18 August 1913 – 2 May 1958) was a South African-born film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor.
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Henry V (1944 film)
Henry V is a 1944 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name.
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Hope and Glory (film)
Hope and Glory is a 1987 British comedy-drama-war film, written, produced and directed by John Boorman and based on his own experiences of growing up in the Blitz in London during the Second World War.
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Hugh Hudson
Hugh Hudson (born 25 August 1936) is an English film director.
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Humphrey Jennings
Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (19 August 1907 – 24 September 1950) was an English documentary filmmaker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organisation.
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I'm All Right Jack
I'm All Right Jack is a 1959 British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting from a script by Frank Harvey, John Boulting and Alan Hackney based on the novel Private Life by Hackney.
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If....
if.... is a 1968 British drama film produced and directed by Lindsay Anderson satirising English public school life.
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In Which We Serve
In Which We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by Noël Coward and David Lean.
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Jack Clayton
Jack Clayton (1 March 1921 – 26 February 1995) was a British film director and producer, who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.
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James Ivory
James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
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Jim Sheridan
Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer.
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John Boorman
John Boorman, CBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English filmmaker who is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General, The Tailor of Panama and Queen and Country.
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John Mackenzie (film director)
John Leonard Duncan Mackenzie (22 May 1928 – 8 June 2011) was a Scottish film director who worked in British film from the late 1960s, first as an assistant director and later as an independent director himself.
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John Madden (director)
John Philip Madden (born 8 April 1949) is an English director of theatre, film, television, and radio.
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John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor.
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Joseph Losey
Joseph Walton Losey III (January 14, 1909June 22, 1984) was an American theatre and film director, born in Wisconsin.
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Julie Christie
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress.
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Karel Reisz
Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a British filmmaker who was active in post–World War II Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English director of television and independent film.
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Ken Russell
Henry Kenneth Alfred "Ken" Russell (3 July 1927 – 27 November 2011) was an English film director, known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his flamboyant and controversial style.
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Kes (film)
Kes is a 1969 drama film directed by Ken Loach and produced by Tony Garnett.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy film.
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Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.
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Lawrence of Arabia (film)
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence.
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Lewis Gilbert
Lewis Gilbert (6 March 1920 – 23 February 2018) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter, who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
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Life Is Sweet (film)
Life Is Sweet is a 1990 British comedy-drama film directed by Mike Leigh, starring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks and Timothy Spall.
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Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave.
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Lionel Jeffries
Lionel Charles Jeffries (10 June 1926 – 19 February 2010) was an English actor, screenwriter and film director.
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List of films considered the best
This is a list of films considered "the best ever", so voted in a notable national or international survey of either critics or the public.
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Local Hero
Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, and Burt Lancaster.
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Mark Herman
Mark Herman (born 1954) is an English film director and screenwriter best known for writing and directing the 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
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Michael Anderson (director)
Michael Joseph Anderson Sr. (30 January 1920 – 25 April 2018) was an English film director, best known for directing the Second World War film The Dam Busters (1955), the epic Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and the dystopian sci-fi film Logan's Run (1976).
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Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr., 14 March 1933) is an English actor, producer, and author.
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Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) was an English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger.
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007), was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.
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Mike Hodges
Michael Tommy "Mike" Hodges (born 29 July 1932) is an English screenwriter, film director, playwright and novelist.
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.
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Mike Newell (director)
Michael Cormac "Mike" Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television.
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Mona Lisa (film)
Mona Lisa is a 1986 British neo-noir crime drama film about an ex-convict who becomes entangled in the dangerous life of a high-class call girl.
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Monty Python's Life of Brian
Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British religious satire comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin).
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My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette is a 1985 British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi.
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My Left Foot
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally and Fiona Shaw.
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My Name Is Joe
My Name Is Joe is a 1998 British film directed by Ken Loach.
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Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer.
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Nicholas Hytner
Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner (born 7 May 1956) is an English theatre director, film director, and film producer.
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Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg (born 15 August 1928) is an English film director and former cinematographer.
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Nil by Mouth (film)
Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British-French drama film portraying a family of characters living in South East London.
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Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
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Oliver Twist (1948 film)
Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels.
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Oliver! (film)
Oliver! is a 1968 musical drama film directed by Carol Reed and based on the stage musical of the same name, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart.
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Passport to Pimlico
Passport to Pimlico is a 1949 British comedy film made by Ealing Studios and starring Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford and Hermione Baddeley.
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Peeping Tom (film)
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological horror-thriller film directed by Michael Powell, written by Leo Marks, and starring Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, and Moira Shearer.
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Performance (film)
Performance is a 1970 British crime drama film directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg, written by Cammell and photographed by Roeg.
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Peter Cattaneo
Peter Joseph Cattaneo (born 1 July 1964) is an English filmmaker most famous for directing the British film The Full Monty (1997).
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Peter Collinson (film director)
Peter Collinson (1 April 1936 – 16 December 1980) was a British film director probably best remembered for directing The Italian Job (1969).
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Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942 in Newport, Wales) is a British film director, screenwriter, and artist.
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Powell and Pressburger
The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (29 August 1923 – 24 August 2014), was an English actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and politician.
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Richard Lester
Richard Lester (born Richard Lester Liebman; January 19, 1932) is an American film director based in Britain.
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Robert Hamer
Robert James Hamer (31 March 1911, Kidderminster, Worcestershire – 4 December 1963, London) was a British film director and screenwriter.
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Robin Hardy (film director)
Robin St.
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Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) is an English-French film director who is known for the Oscar-winning movies The Killing Fields and The Mission.
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Room at the Top (1959 film)
Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine.
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Sam Wood
Samuel Grosvenor Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 British drama film directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Tony Richardson.
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Secrets & Lies (film)
Secrets & Lies is a 1996 British drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.
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Sense and Sensibility (film)
Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 American period drama film directed by Ang Lee and based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name.
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Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 American romantic period comedy-drama film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard.
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Shekhar Kapur
Shekhar Kapur (born 6 December 1945) is an Indian film director, actor, and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema and international cinema.
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Sidney J. Furie
Sidney J. Furie (born February 28, 1933) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work in both British and American cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s.
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Small Faces (film)
Small Faces is a 1996 Scottish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon about gangs, specifically the Tongs, in 1960s Glasgow.
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
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Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is an English film and television director.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday (film)
Sunday Bloody Sunday is a 1971 British drama film written by Penelope Gilliatt, directed by John Schlesinger and starring Murray Head, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch and Peggy Ashcroft.
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Terence Davies
Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, novelist and actor.
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Terence Young (director)
Shaun Terence Young (20 June 1915 – 7 September 1994) was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing three James Bond films, including the first two films in the series, Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), as well as Thunderball (1965).
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Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor, comedian and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
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Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh actor, writer, comedian, screenwriter and film director.
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The 39 Steps (1935 film)
The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.
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The Belles of St Trinian's
The Belles of St Trinian's is a British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's school, released in 1954.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British-American epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952) by Pierre Boulle.
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The Commitments (film)
The Commitments is a 1991 musical comedy-drama film based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Roddy Doyle.
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The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film starring Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden, Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Liam Redmond, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister.
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The Crying Game
The Crying Game is a 1992 English-language thriller film written and directed by Neil Jordan.
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The Dam Busters (film)
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic war film starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd.
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The Day of the Jackal (film)
The Day of the Jackal is a 1973 British-French political thriller film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox and Michel Lonsdale.
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The Draughtsman's Contract
The Draughtsman's Contract is a 1982 British film written and directed by Peter Greenaway – his first conventional feature film (following the feature-length mockumentary The Falls).
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The English Patient (film)
The English Patient is a 1996 American romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje and produced by Saul Zaentz.
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The Full Monty
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber and Hugo Speer.
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The Go-Between (1971 film)
The Go-Between is a 1971 British romantic drama film, directed by Joseph Losey.
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The Ipcress File (film)
The Ipcress File is a 1965 British espionage film directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Michael Caine and featuring Guy Doleman and Nigel Green.
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The Italian Job
The Italian Job is a 1969 British comedy caper film, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, produced by Michael Deeley and directed by Peter Collinson.
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The Killing Fields (film)
The Killing Fields is a 1984 British biographical drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg.
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The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes is a 1938 British mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave.
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The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy crime film directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios.
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The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a 1943 romantic drama war film written, produced and directed by the British film making team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger under the production banner of The Archers.
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 film based on the short story of the same name.
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The Long Good Friday
The Long Good Friday is a British gangster film starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren.
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The Madness of King George
The Madness of King George is a 1994 British biographical historical comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner and adapted by Alan Bennett from his own play, The Madness of George III.
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The Man in the White Suit
The Man In The White Suit is a 1951 science-fiction satirical comedy film made by Ealing Studios.
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The Railway Children (1970 film)
The Railway Children is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel of the same name by E. Nesbit.
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The Red Shoes (1948 film)
The Red Shoes is a 1948 British drama film written, directed, and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers.
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The Remains of the Day (film)
The Remains of the Day is a 1993 British-American drama film adapted from the Booker Prize-winning 1989 novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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The Servant (1963 film)
The Servant is Harold Pinter's 1963 film adaptation of a 1948 novelette by Robin Maugham.
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The Third Man
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene.
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The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is a 1973 British mystery horror film directed by Robin Hardy.
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This Sporting Life
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British drama film based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award.
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Time Out 100 best British films
In February 2011 ''Time Out'' surveyed 150 film industry experts to produce its list of "The 100 best British films." Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now topped the list.
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Tom Jones (1963 film)
Tom Jones is a 1963 British adventure-comedy film, an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), starring Albert Finney as the titular hero.
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Tony Richardson
Cecil Antonio "Tony" Richardson (5 June 1928 – 14 November 1991) was an English theatre and film director and producer whose career spanned five decades.
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Trainspotting (film)
Trainspotting is a 1996 British black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, and Kelly Macdonald in her acting debut.
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Whisky Galore! (1949 film)
Whisky Galore! is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Gordon Jackson.
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Withnail and I
Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson.
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Women in Love (film)
Women in Love is a 1969 British romantic drama film directed by Ken Russell, and starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, and Jennie Linden.
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Zulu (1964 film)
Zulu is a 1964 British epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War.
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