# The best Powell and Pressburger films

The Archers, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, ranked from Flickchart, Letterboxd and Taste of Cinema. Only their joint films: Peeping Tom, which Powell made alone, is left out.

- 322 votes · 15 items
- Jan 20, 2021 · Kirsty Cox
- https://even.best/en/l/3461/the-best-powell-and-pressburger-films

## Top 15

1. **The Red Shoes (1948)** (36 · ▲37 ▼1) — Moira Shearer and the ballet; Oscars for art direction and music.
2. **The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)** (28 · ▲29 ▼1) — Forty years in the life of a British officer.
3. **I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)** (20 · ▲21 ▼1) — Wendy Hiller stranded on a Scottish island.
4. **Black Narcissus (1947)** (17 · ▲23 ▼6) — Nuns in the Himalayas; Oscars for colour cinematography and art direction.
5. **A Matter of Life and Death (1946)** (15 · ▲20 ▼5) — David Niven pleads for his life before a heavenly court.
6. **One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)** (14 · ▲17 ▼3) — A bomber crew escaping occupied Holland.
7. **The Battle of the River Plate (1956)** (14 · ▲16 ▼2) — The hunt for the Graf Spee.
8. **The Small Back Room (1949)** (13 · ▲17 ▼4) — David Farrar as a bomb-disposal expert.
9. **49th Parallel (1941)** (12 · ▲18 ▼6) — U-boat crew stranded in Canada; Oscar for Pressburger's story.
10. **A Canterbury Tale (1944)** (12 · ▲17 ▼5) — Three pilgrims in wartime Kent.
11. **Contraband (1940)** (12 · ▲14 ▼2) — Conrad Veidt in blacked-out London.
12. **Gone to Earth (1950)** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Jennifer Jones in the Shropshire hills.
13. **The Spy in Black (1939)** (8 · ▲12 ▼4) — Their first collaboration, with Conrad Veidt.
14. **The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)** (6 · ▲9 ▼3) — Offenbach's opera as a Technicolor ballet film.
15. **Ill Met by Moonlight (1957)** (4 · ▲10 ▼6) — Dirk Bogarde kidnaps a German general in Crete; their last joint film.

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