With British Film Institute (BFI) Production Board (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Nunca Estiveste Aqui (2017)
M/16 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Ekaterina Samsonov, John Doman
Votes: 105,437 | Gross: $2.52M
2. Rocks (2019)
93 min | Drama
A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D'angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson
Votes: 2,280
3. The Incident (I) (2015)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
A successful young couple's sheltered, affluent world is shattered when they each make a decision to neglect the needs of a troubled teenage girl.
Director: Jane Linfoot | Stars: Ruta Gedmintas, Tom Hughes, Tasha Connor, Noma Dumezweni
Votes: 196
4. Bleak Moments (1971)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan, Joolia Cappleman
Votes: 1,272
5. Pressure (1976)
120 min | Drama
A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Director: Horace Ové | Stars: Herbert Norville, Oscar James, Frank Singuineau, Lucita Lijertwood
Votes: 188
6. Pop (III)
Short, Drama | Post-production
Pop follows a young boy, Jack, as he explores his own identity by befriending the recently released ex-convict, Pop. The pair bond, but Pop's past and his inability to control his emotions threaten to put Jack in danger.
Director: Laura Roe | Stars: Stephen Graham, Keeley Forsyth, Ash Palmisciano, Stacey Gough
7. Requiem for a Village (1976)
68 min | Drama
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard, in this extraordinary, film directed by David Gladwell. Although... See full summary »
Director: David Gladwell | Star: Roger Burroughes
Votes: 147
8. Nineteen Nineteen (1985)
99 min | Drama
Two former patients (Paul Scofield and Maria Schell) of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
Director: Hugh Brody | Stars: Paul Scofield, Maria Schell, Frank Finlay, Diana Quick
Votes: 85
9. One of the Missing (1969)
26 min | Short, War
A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Stephen Edwards, Ridley Scott
Votes: 175
11. Out of Order (1987)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
Director: Jonnie Turpie | Stars: Sharon Fryer, Pete Lee-Wilson, Natasha Williams, Cheryl Maiker
Votes: 10
12. The Burning (1968)
30 min | Short, Drama
A white South African is shocked on a weekly visit to her sister's farm.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Isobel Muller, Maxine Day, Cosmo Pieterse
Votes: 101
13. Magpie (2014)
16 min | Short, Thriller
Director: Stephen Fingleton | Stars: Martin McCann, Olivia Williams, Mia Goth, Paul Kennedy
Votes: 79
14. Random Acts of Intimacy (2002 TV Short)
15 min | Short
A group of people discuss chance encounters they have had that has led to sex with complete strangers. One girl recounts her experiences in the middle of a busy club, another being caught ... See full summary »
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Robert Beck, Sibyl Buck, Isla Fisher, Clare Gorham
Votes: 12
15. Antes da Guerra (1977)
82 min | Documentary
Director: Jonathan Lewis | Stars: Edgar Anstey, James Cameron, Jonathan Dimbleby, George Elvin
16. Flight to Berlin (1984)
91 min | Drama
A woman is being taken from her German hotel to be interrogated by police agents.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Tusse Silberg, Paul Freeman, Lisa Kreuzer, Jean-François Stévenin
Votes: 27
17. Rapunzel Let Down Your Hair (1978)
78 min
Rapunzel's story from Grimm's fairytales is retold and reinterpreted several times to examine feminist issues. There's the male voyeur as film noir detective; a raunchy cartoon Venus who's ... See full summary »
Stars: Jeanette Bateman, Lydia Blackman, Jean Boht, Martin Burrows
Votes: 7
18. San Francisco (1968)
15 min | Short, Music
One of the earliest music videos, the film shows various pictures of San Francisco in the psychedelic era, with rapid cuts and freeze-frames, and Pink Floyd's music.
Director: Anthony Stern
Votes: 192
19. The Song of the Shirt (1979)
135 min
Directors: Susan Clayton, Jonathan Curling | Stars: Martha Gibson, Geraldine Pilgrim, Anna McNiff, Liz Myers
20. Home Front Britain (2009– )
270 min | Documentary, History, War
A six-part documentary series using a collection of World War Two era shorts, designed by the Ministry of Information and produced by the Crown Film Unit, for the British civilian and ... See full summary »
Star: Jim Carter
Votes: 5
21. The Pleasure Garden (1953)
38 min | Short, Comedy
People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.
Director: James Broughton | Stars: Jean Anderson, Lindsay Anderson, Maxine Audley, Jill Bennett
Votes: 142
22. T. Dan Smith (1987)
85 min | Documentary, Drama
A powerful, experimental feature film juxtaposing political drama and challenging interviews with T Dan Smith and other key figures associated with his controversial reign as Leader of Newcastle City Council in the 1960s.
Director: Amber Production Team | Stars: T. Dan Smith, Arthur Davies, Dave Hill, Murray Martin
23. And it was the same with my Son (2018)
Documentary, Short
Director: Noémi Varga | Stars: Aayana Arora, Priyanka Arya, Sarah Beckett, Maryam Benyahia
24. Who Cares (1971)
17 min | Short
Documentarian Nick Broomfield examines the problems of slum demolition and the removal of residents to new housing blocks.
Director: Nick Broomfield
Votes: 64
25. Remora (2016)
Short, Drama
Behind the faded grandeur of a seaside resort, the vulnerable and poor become prey for local predators
Director: David Schofield | Stars: Josh Casswell, Matthew Mellalieu, Luke McGibney, Charlotte Rhodes
Votes: 21
26. Angel in the House (1978)
28 min | Short, Drama
Director: Jane Jackson | Stars: Maureen Bennett, Mary Maddox, Laura Mulvey, Jean Rimmer
27. Somewhere Near the North Cape
Drama, Fantasy | Announced
A man goes in search for redemption and closure somewhere near the north cape.
Director: Thomas Napper
28. Justine (1976)
90 min | Drama
Director: Stewart Mackinnon | Stars: Alison Hughes, Mary Barclay, Edward Bennett, Nat Bocking
29. Introducing Ealing Studios (2012 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Matthew Sweet, Mark Duguid, Danny Green, Alec Guinness
Votes: 5
30. Black Eyes (1996)
14 min | Short
Director: Dan Zeff | Stars: James Buckley, Desiree Densiti, Freda Dowie, Tilly Gerrard
31. '36 to '77 (1978)
97 min | Documentary
Companion film to The Nightcleaners, showing how conditions have changed in the time since its release, as well as providing a portrait of one of the cleaners, Myrtle Wardally.
Directors: Marc Karlin, Jon Sanders, James Scott, Humphrey Trevelyan | Stars: Alan Nielsson, Myrtle Wardally
32. Darling, Do You Love Me? (1968)
3 min | Short
A vampire-like woman harasses a deadpan young man until he succumbs to her.
Director: Martin Sharp | Stars: Alisdair Burke, Germaine Greer
Votes: 48
33. Dinosaur (1975)
67 min | Drama
While a near-future Britain is paralysed by a general strike, an experimental theatre group continue touring.
Director: Tony Bicât | Stars: Ann Engel, Will Knightley, Denis Lawson, Stephen Whittaker
34. Stepping Out (1977)
10 min | Short, Drama
A man and a woman get ready for the day ahead.
Director: Saxon Logan | Stars: Elisabeth Bawn, James Biddlecombe
Votes: 23
37. Viola (1967)
26 min | Short
A man believes that his dead wife has returned in the form of a cat to haunt him.
Director: Dunstan Pereira | Stars: John Aaron, Bonita Deniel, Sue Roberton
38. Skinflicker (1973)
44 min | Short
Presented as found footage à la The Blair Witch Project, this chilling and provocative fake home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on... See full summary »
Director: Tony Bicât | Stars: Brendan Barry, Hilary Charlton, Elizabeth Choice, William Hoyland
Votes: 16
39. Black and Silver (1981)
75 min | Drama, Fantasy
An experimental narrative based on Oscar Wilde's tale "The Birthday of the Infanta".
Directors: Marilyn Raban, William Raban | Stars: Jessica Bennett, Lily Dragalla, Jonathan Raban, Marilyn Raban
40. Portrait of David Hockney (1972)
14 min | Documentary, Short
Director: David Pearce | Star: David Hockney
41. Resistance (1976)
Directors: Ken McMullen, Christopher Rodrigues | Stars: Stuart Brisley, Marc Chaimowicz, Ian Kellgren, Lesley Pitt
Votes: 6
42. The Bodyguard (1969)
14 min | Short, Drama
Director: Mike Alexander | Stars: Keith Alexander, Mike Alexander
43. Growing Pains (2014)
4 min | Short, Drama
A bedsit in 1980 Purley plays host to the kind of social unrest spreading throughout the rest of the country.
Director: William De Ritter | Stars: Rosalind Lailey, Vivien Creegor, Jonathan Milshaw, George Stocks
44. Mirror (1970)
33 min | Short, Drama
Director: Jon Schorstein | Stars: Michael Bolland, Bill Forsyth, Alison Mackenzie, Alex McCall
Votes: 20
45. High Fidelity (1976)
3 min | Short
In this animated short, a half-naked woman dances with her black-suited partner.
Director: Antoinette Starkiewicz
Votes: 17
46. No Arks (1969)
Animation, Short
Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.
Directors: Abu, Johanna Drake, Alan Kitching | Star: Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 15
47. King of the Road (1998)
11 min | Drama, Short
Director: Laura Smith | Stars: Ged Simmons, Dena Smiles, Jonathan Waistnidge
48. Lady Lazarus (1991)
24 min | Short
A visually woven response to Sylvia Plath's own readings of her poetry - which celebrates her macabre humour and cinematic vision.
Director: Sandra Lahire | Star: Sylvia Plath
Votes: 5
49. Lichtenstein in London (1968)
22 min | Short
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Roy Lichtenstein, Alan Solomon, David Sylvester
50. The Watchers (1969)
27 min | Short, Drama
A Yorkshire girl begins to see and hear things that are apparently unseen by others.
Director: Richard Foster | Stars: Rosemary Lord, Helen Sorokou, Joanne Harding, Roland MacLeod
Votes: 5