# The best British films of the 1990s

From The Crying Game and The Remains of the Day to Trainspotting, Nil by Mouth and East Is East: the BFI's ten great British films of the 1990s, plus Mike Leigh's Naked.

- 157 votes · 11 items
- Jan 27, 2022 · A. Baker
- https://even.best/en/l/4605/the-best-british-films-of-the-1990s

## Top 11

1. **The Long Day Closes (1992)** (22 · ▲22 ▼0) — Terence Davies. A Liverpool childhood in the 1950s, told through music and old film dialogue.
2. **The Crying Game (1992)** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — Neil Jordan. An IRA man, a hostage and the secret of the hostage's lover.
3. **Orlando (1992)** (15 · ▲16 ▼1) — Sally Potter. Tilda Swinton lives four centuries and changes sex, after Virginia Woolf.
4. **Bhaji on the Beach (1993)** (15 · ▲15 ▼0) — Gurinder Chadha. A group of Asian women from Birmingham on a day trip to Blackpool.
5. **Brassed Off (1996)** (14 · ▲15 ▼1) — Mark Herman. A colliery brass band in a Yorkshire town as the pit closes.
6. **The Remains of the Day (1993)** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — James Ivory. Anthony Hopkins as a butler who never speaks of love, from Kazuo Ishiguro's novel.
7. **Trainspotting (1996)** (8 · ▲11 ▼3) — Danny Boyle. Renton and his friends in Edinburgh's heroin scene, from Irvine Welsh's novel.
8. **Naked (1993)** (7 · ▲10 ▼3) — Mike Leigh. David Thewlis as Johnny, adrift in night-time London. Best director at Cannes.
9. **Nil by Mouth (1997)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Gary Oldman. A south London family and its violence, with Ray Winstone and Kathy Burke.
10. **Ratcatcher (1999)** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — Lynne Ramsay. A boy in Glasgow during the 1970s bin strike.
11. **East Is East (1999)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — Damien O'Donnell. A Pakistani father and his British children in 1970s Salford. BAFTA for best British film.

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