# The best British films of 2002

From 24 Hour Party People and Bend It Like Beckham to Sweet Sixteen, Dirty Pretty Things and 28 Days Later: the BFI's ten great British films made in 2002.

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- Jan 28, 2023 · mangareader_lost
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## Top 10

1. **All or Nothing (2002)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mike Leigh. A working-class London family falling apart.
2. **Dirty Pretty Things (2002)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Stephen Frears. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Okwe, a Nigerian doctor working nights in a London hotel.
3. **24 Hour Party People (2002)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Michael Winterbottom. Tony Wilson, Factory Records and the Manchester scene.
4. **Morvern Callar (2002)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lynne Ramsay. Samantha Morton wakes up at Christmas to find her boyfriend dead.
5. **Sweet Sixteen (2002)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Ken Loach. A Greenock teenager fights for a better life for his imprisoned mother.
6. **28 Days Later (2002)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Danny Boyle. A man wakes from a coma into an empty, infected London.
7. **Dog Soldiers (2002)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Neil Marshall. Soldiers versus werewolves in the Scottish Highlands.
8. **Bend It Like Beckham (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gurinder Chadha. Jess wants to play football professionally, whatever her family says.
9. **About a Boy (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Chris and Paul Weitz. Hugh Grant as a London bachelor befriended by a 12-year-old, from Nick Hornby.
10. **Spider (2002)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — David Cronenberg. Ralph Fiennes in London's East End, from Patrick McGrath's novel.

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