Top 20 British Films - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Peter O'Toole plays a real life British Army officer who played a crucial role in the Arab Revolt (David Lean, 1962)	Lawrence of Arabia	84%
Crime drama based on an Irvine Welsh novel about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh (Danny Boyle, 1996)	Trainspotting	82%
Charles Dickens classic with John Mills as Pip and Jean Simmons as Estella (David Lean, 1946)	Great Expectations	73%
The story of two athletes who compete at the 1924 Olympic Games, one a devout Christian running in honour of his faith, the other to overcome prejudice (Hugh Hudson, 1981)	Chariots of Fire	72%
Bullied and abused boy forges a close relationship with a Kestrel (Ken Loach, 1969)	Kes	68%
Early adaptation of a John Buchan novel as a man goes on the run from a murderous spy ring (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)	The 39 Steps	58%
British prisoners in World War Two Burma undergo forced labour and brutality as they build a vitally important railway link for the Japanese (David Lean, 1957)	The Bridge on the River Kwai	56%
A married woman begins an affair with a Doctor she meets at a Railway Station (David Lean, 1945)	Brief Encounter	52%
Shakespeare play adaptation about the Battle of Agincourt (Laurence Olivier, 1944)	Henry V	52%
Orson Welles plays a ruthless black marketeer in post-war Vienna (Carol Reed, 1949)	The Third Man	52%
Richard Attenborough plays Pinkie, a small time teenage gangster living in a popular seaside town (John Boulting, 1947)	Brighton Rock	51%
Moira Shearer plays a doomed ballet dancer torn between love and the need to dance (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1948)	The Red Shoes	45%
Black comedy which sees a criminal gang's robbery plans unwittingly foiled by their elderly landlady (Alexander Mackendrick, 1955)	The Ladykillers	43%
A London gangster returns home to investigate the death of his brother and sets out for revenge (Mike Hodges, 1971)	Get Carter	37%
Occult thriller that sees Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in Venice trying to deal with the death of their daughter (Nic Roeg, 1973)	Don't Look Now	35%
Black comedy with Alec Guinness playing eight members of the D'Ascoyne family, who Dennis Price plots to murder (Robert Hamer, 1949)	Kind Hearts and Coronets	35%
Malcolm McDowell leads a savage rebellion at a Boarding School (Lindsay Anderson, 1968)	If...	33%
'Kitchen sink' drama with Albert Finney as a young factory worker who begins an affair with the wife of a co-worker (Karel Reisz, 1960)	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	27%
Comedy that sees a bank clerk hatch a perfect plan to steal some gold bullion and enlist the help of a man who makes Eiffel Tower paperweights (Charles Crichton, 1951)	The Lavender Hill Mob	27%
A World War Two airman cheats death and must face a heavenly tribunal to decide his fate (Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger, 1946)	A Matter of Life and Death	21%