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mizoguchi's "200+ Essential British films"

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Year order. Quite wide definition of British, with some American funded films like The Great Escape, Doctor Zhivago, The English Patient, Shakespeare in Love, as well as films by Kubrick and other non-British directors. I missed a few by mistake- the Welsh film Hedd Wyn, Remains of the Day, Sense + Sensibility, Bloody Sunday, Looking for Langston- so they’re not in correct placings. This is pretty well an objective list, with some i’m not too keen on but important viewing for any students of the subject

  1. 1.
  2. 2.
    South - Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition
    by Frank Hurley
  3. 3.
    ?
    The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
    by Maurice Elvey
  4. 4.
    The Lodger (1927)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  6. 6.
    Hindle Wakes (Fanny Hawthorne)
    by Maurice Elvey
  7. 7.
    ?
    Blackmail (1929)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  8. 8.
    A Cottage on Dartmoor / Silent Britain
    by Anthony Asquith
  9. 9.
    The Private Life of Henry VIII

  10. 10.
    ?
    Song of Ceylon
    by Basil Wright
  11. 11.
    The 39 Steps (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  12. 12.
    A Colour Box (1935)
    by Len Lye
  13. 13.
    First a Girl
    by Victor Saville
  14. 14.
    ?
    Birth of the Robot (Len Lye)

  15. 15.
    Rembrandt

  16. 16.
    Things to Come (1936)
    by William Cameron Menzies
  17. 17.
    ?
    Night Mail (short) (1936)
    by Harry Watt & Basil Wright
  18. 18.
    Oh, Mr. Porter!
    by Marcel Varnel
  19. 19.
    Pygmalion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Leslie Howard
  20. 20.
    The Lady Vanishes (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  21. 21.
    The Four Feathers (1939)
    by Zoltan Korda
  22. 22.
    Thief of Bagdad (1940)

  23. 23.
    ?
  24. 24.
    Gaslight

  25. 25.
    LISTEN TO BRITAIN, 1942

  26. 26.
    In Which We Serve
    by Noel Coward
  27. 27.
    Went the Day Well?
    by Cavalcanti
  28. 28.
    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings
  29. 29.
    ?
    Millions Like Us (1943)
    by Frank Lauder, Sidney Gilliat
  31. 31.
    ?
    Western Approaches (1944)
    by Pat Jackson
  32. 32.
    A Canterbury Tale (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Thompson
  33. 33.
    Henry V (The Criterion Collection)
    by Laurence Olivier
  35. 35.
    The Wicked Lady
    by Leslie Arliss
  36. 36.
    Dead of Night
    by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
  37. 37.
    I Know Where I'm Going! (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  39. 39.
    Green for Danger (The Criterion Collection)
    by Sidney Gilliat
  40. 40.
    ?
    A Diary for Timothy
    by Humphrey Jennings
  41. 41.
  42. 42.
    Odd Man Out
    by Carol Reed
  43. 43.
    Hue and Cry [Region 2]
    by Charles Crichton
  44. 44.
    Brighton Rock [Non-US Format, PAL, Region 2, Import]
    by John Boulting
  45. 45.
    They Made Me a Fugitive
    by Alberto Cavalcanti
  46. 46.
    Black Narcissus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Emeric Pressburger
  47. 47.
    The Fallen Idol (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andy Kelleher
  48. 48.
    Hamlet (The Criterion Collection)

  49. 49.
    Oliver Twist (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Lean
  50. 50.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell
  51. 51.
    Whisky Galore

  52. 52.
    The Third Man (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carol Reed
  53. 53.
    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    by Robert Hamer
  54. 54.
    The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
    by Frank Launder
  55. 55.
    Gone to Earth (Import - NTSC All Regions)
    by Emeric Pressburger Michael Powell
  56. 56.
    The Lavender Hill Mob
    by Charles Crichton
  57. 57.
    The Man in the White Suit
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  58. 58.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (The Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Asquith
  59. 59.
    Genevieve
    by Henry Cornelius
  60. 60.
    The Dam Busters
    by Michael Anderson
  61. 61.
    Hobson's Choice
    by David Lean
  62. 62.
    The Ladykillers
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  63. 63.
  64. 64.
    The Bridge on the River Kwai
    by David Lean
  65. 65.
  66. 66.
    Horror of Dracula
    by Terence Fisher
  68. 68.
    Room at the Top

  69. 69.
    I'm All Right Jack

  70. 70.
    Peeping Tom (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michael Powell
  71. 71.
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

  72. 72.
    The Innocents
    by Jack Clayton
  73. 73.
    Victim
    by Basil Dearden
  74. 74.
    Lawrence of Arabia (Single-Disc Edition)
    by David Lean
  75. 75.
    Dr. No

  76. 76.
    The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
    by Tony Richardson
  78. 78.
    Lolita

  79. 79.
    This Sporting Life (The Criterion Collection)
    by Lindsay Anderson
  80. 80.
    Tom Jones
    by Tony Richardson
  81. 81.
  82. 82.
    The Servant

  83. 83.
    The Great Escape
    by John Sturges
  84. 84.
    From Russia With Love [VHS]
    by Terence Young
  85. 85.
    Zulu

  87. 87.
    A Hard Day's Night
    by Richard Lester
  88. 88.
    The Pink Panther
    by Blake Edwards
  89. 89.
    Goldfinger
    by Guy Hamilton
  91. 91.
    The Ipcress File
    by Sidney J. Furie
  92. 92.
    A Shot in the Dark
    by Blake Edwards
  93. 93.
    Darling
    by John Schlesinger
  94. 94.
    Carry On Cleo

  95. 95.
    Repulsion
    by Roman Polanski
  96. 96.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by David Lean
  97. 97.
    The War Game (1965)
    by Peter Watkins
  98. 98.
    Blow Up

  99. 99.
    Cul-de-sac [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
    by Roman Polanski
  100. 100.
    You Only Live Twice [VHS]
    by Lewis Gilbert
  101. 101.
    Far from the Madding Crowd [Region 2]
    by John Schlesinger
  102. 102.
    ?
    Accident (Losey)

  103. 103.
    If... (The Criterion Collection)
    by Lindsay Anderson
  104. 104.
    Oliver!
    by Carol Reed
  105. 105.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick
  106. 106.
    Carry On Up The Khyber
    by Gerald Thomas
  107. 107.
    Witchfinder General
    by Michael Reeves
  108. 108.
    The Devil Rides Out

  109. 109.
    Yellow Submarine
    by George Dunning
  110. 110.
    The Lion in Winter
    by Anthony Harvey
  111. 111.
    Kes [Region 2]

  112. 112.
    The Italian Job

  113. 113.
    Women in Love

  114. 114.
    Performance
    by Nicolas Roeg
  115. 115.
    The Railway Children

  117. 117.
    Get Carter
    by Mike Hodges
  118. 118.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick
  119. 119.
    Sunday Bloody Sunday
    by John Schlesinger
  120. 120.
    ?
    The Devils (Special Uncut Restored Edition 1971)
    by Ken Russell
  121. 121.
    Sleuth
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  123. 123.
    Don't Look Now
    by Nicolas Roeg
  124. 124.
    The Wicker Man
    by Robin Hardy
  125. 125.
    O Lucky Man! (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Lindsay Anderson
  126. 126.
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Fred Zinnemann
  128. 128.
    Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
    by Terry Gilliam
  129. 129.
    Barry Lyndon

  130. 130.
    The Man Who Fell to Earth (The Criterion Collection)
    by Nicolas Roeg
  131. 131.
    Providence
    by Alain Resnais
  132. 132.
    Midnight Express

  133. 133.
    Monty Python's Life Of Brian
    by Terry Jones
  134. 134.
    Quadrophenia (Special Edition)

  135. 135.
    Tess (Special Edition)
    by Roman Polanski
  136. 136.
    Scum
    by Alan Clarke
  137. 137.
    Gregory's Girl

  138. 138.
    ?
    Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
    by Steve Roberts
  139. 139.
    The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Stanley Kubrick
  140. 140.
  141. 141.
    The Long Good Friday (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Mackenzie
  142. 142.
    Flash Gordon

  143. 143.
    Excalibur
    by John Boorman
  144. 144.
    Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Hugh Hudson
  145. 145.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman

  146. 146.
    Moonlighting
    by Jerzy Skolimowski
  147. 147.
    Gandhi
    by Richard Attenborough
  148. 148.
    The Draughtsman's Contract
    by Peter Greenaway
  149. 149.
    Local Hero

  150. 150.
    The Killing Fields

  151. 151.
    Heat and Dust
    by James Ivory
  152. 152.
    The Company of Wolves
    by Neil Jordan
  153. 153.
    Another Time, Another Place

  154. 154.
    Brazil

  155. 155.
    My Beautiful Laundrette

  157. 157.
    Street of Crocodiles (1986)
    by Stephen & Timothy Quay
  158. 158.
    Withnail and I (The Criterion Collection)
    by Bruce Robinson
  159. 159.
    The Singing Detective
    by Jon Amiel
  160. 160.
    Mona Lisa
    by Neil Jordan
  161. 161.
    Hope and Glory

  162. 162.
    Caravaggio (Special Edition)
    by Derek Jarman
  163. 163.
    Full Metal Jacket

  164. 164.
    Little Dorrit (1988)
    by Christine Edzard
  165. 165.
    Distant Voices, Still Lives [Region 2]
    by Terence Davies
  166. 166.
    A Fish Called Wanda

  167. 167.
    Henry V

  168. 168.
    My Left Foot (Special Edition)

  169. 169.
    The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
    by Peter Greenaway
  171. 171.
    Prospero's Books
    by Peter Greenaway
  172. 172.
    Edward II [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
    by Derek Jarman
  173. 173.
    Hidden Agenda
    by Ken Loach
  174. 174.
    Howards End - The Merchant Ivory Collection
    by Humphrey Dixon
  175. 175.
    The Crying Game
    by Neil Jordan
  176. 176.
    Orlando
    by Sally Potter
  177. 177.
    Long Day Closes [VHS]
    by Terence Davies
  178. 178.
    Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers
    by Nick Park
  179. 179.
    Naked - 1993 - Mike Leigh

  180. 180.
    Shadowlands
    by Richard Attenborough
  181. 181.
    In the Name of the Father

  182. 182.
    Four Weddings and a Funeral
    by Mike Newell
  183. 183.
    The Madness of King George

  184. 184.
    Shallow Grave

  186. 186.
    Institute Benjamenta
    by Stephen Quay
  187. 187.
    The English Patient

  188. 188.
    Trainspotting - Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)
    by Danny Boyle
  189. 189.
    Secrets and Lies
    by Mike Leigh
  190. 190.
    Mrs. Brown

  191. 191.
    ?
    Flatworld (1997)

  193. 193.
    Nil By Mouth

  194. 194.
    The Wings of the Dove
    by Iain Softley
  195. 195.
    The Full Monty
    by Peter Cattaneo
  196. 196.
    Gods and Monsters

  197. 197.
    Shakespeare in Love

  198. 198.
    Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Widescreen Edition)
    by Guy Ritchie
  199. 199.
    Topsy-Turvy

  200. 200.
  201. 201.
    Last Resort [Region 2]
    by Pawel Pawlikowski
  202. 202.
    Billy Elliot
    by Stephen Daldry
  203. 203.
    The Claim

  204. 204.
    In This World
    by Michael Winterbottom
  205. 205.
    Sweet Sixteen

  206. 206.
    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald
  207. 207.
    Vera Drake
    by Mike Leigh
  208. 208.
    The Power of Nightmares
    by Adam Curtis
  209. 209.
    Shaun of the Dead
    by Edgar Wright
  210. 210.
    Young Adam

  212. 212.
    The Descent (Original Unrated Widescreen Edition)
    by Neil Marshall
  213. 213.
    The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
    by Stephen Quay
  214. 214.
    The Queen
    by Stephen Frears
  215. 215.
    Casino Royale (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Martin Campbell
  216. 216.
    Red Road
    by Andrea Arnold
  217. 217.
    Children of Men (Widescreen Edition)
    by Alfonso Cuarón
  218. 218.
  219. 219.
    The Last King of Scotland (Widescreen Edition)
    by Kevin Macdonald
  220. 220.
    Atonement (Widescreen Edition)
    by Joe Wright
  221. 221.
    This is England

  222. 222.
    ?
    Hedd Wyn (by Paul Turner)

  223. 223.
    The Remains of the Day (Special Edition)
    by James Ivory
  224. 224.
    Sense & Sensibility (Special Edition)
    by Ang Lee
  225. 225.
    Bloody Sunday

  226. 226.
    Looking for Langston (B&W)
    by Isaac Julien
  227. 227.
    Hunger (2008)
    by Steve McQueen
  228. 228.
    ?
    Of Time and the City
    by Terence Davies
  229. 229.
    Slumdog Millionaire

  230. 230.
    Sleep furiously
    by Gideon Koppel
  231. 231.
    ?
    Outcast of the Islands (1952)
    by Carol Reed
  232. 232.
    The Pumpkin Eater

  233. 233.
    Comrades (1987) (2 Disc Set) [Blu-ray]
    by Bill Douglas
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