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The best British films of 2002

The top 3 according to 11 votes from people: All or Nothing (2002) · Dirty Pretty Things (2002) · 24 Hour Party People (2002). (Updated Jan 28, 2023.)

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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Top 10

  1. 1

    All or Nothing (2002)

    Mike Leigh. A working-class London family falling apart.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  2. 2

    Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

    Stephen Frears. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Okwe, a Nigerian doctor working nights in a London hotel.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  3. 3

    24 Hour Party People (2002)

    Michael Winterbottom. Tony Wilson, Factory Records and the Manchester scene.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  4. 4

    Morvern Callar (2002)

    Lynne Ramsay. Samantha Morton wakes up at Christmas to find her boyfriend dead.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  5. 5

    Sweet Sixteen (2002)

    Ken Loach. A Greenock teenager fights for a better life for his imprisoned mother.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  6. 6

    28 Days Later (2002)

    Danny Boyle. A man wakes from a coma into an empty, infected London.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  7. 7

    Dog Soldiers (2002)

    Neil Marshall. Soldiers versus werewolves in the Scottish Highlands.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  8. 8

    Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

    Gurinder Chadha. Jess wants to play football professionally, whatever her family says.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  9. 9

    About a Boy (2002)

    Chris and Paul Weitz. Hugh Grant as a London bachelor befriended by a 12-year-old, from Nick Hornby.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  10. 10

    Spider (2002)

    David Cronenberg. Ralph Fiennes in London's East End, from Patrick McGrath's novel.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

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