50 British Films Recommended by Martin Scorsese : Film Illiterate

Edgar Wright recounted a lovely story on the Empire podcast about asking Martin Scorsese, offhand, if he had any British favourites to recommend. He produced this marvellously eclectic list.

This list is not ranked and is shown by release year.

Title	Year	Rating
Shooting Stars	1928
Underground	1928
Brief Ecstasy	1937
Went the Day Well?	1942
Man in Grey, The	1943
The Halfway House	1944
This Happy Breed	1944
Dead of Night	1945
Madonna of the Seven Moons	1945
Pink String and Sealing Wax	1945
The Seventh Veil	1945
Green for Danger	1946
Hue and Cry	1947
It Always Rains on Sunday	1947
Uncle Silas	1947
To the Public Danger	1948
Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949
The Queen of Spades	1949
So Long at the Fair	1950
The Blue Lamp	1950
Mandy	1952
Sound Barrier, The	1952
Stolen Face	1952
Four Sided Triangle	1953
Spaceways	1953
The Good Die Young	1954
Yield to the Night aka Blonde Sinner	1956
Nowhere to Go	1958
The Snorkel	1958
Sapphire	1959
The Flesh and the Fiends	1960
Innocents, The	1961
Scream of Fear	1961
Night of the Eagle	1962
Station Six Sahara	1963
The Damned	1963
The Mind Benders	1963
Guns at Batasi	1964
The Pumpkin Eater	1964
A High Wind in Jamaica	1965
The Nanny	1965
The Plague of the Zombies	1966
Quatermass and the Pit	1967
The Devil Rides Out	1968
Whistle and I'll Come to You	1968
Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde	1971
The Asphyx	1972
The Legend of Hell House	1973
Vampyres	1974
Long Good Friday, The	1980
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	1987
The Enfield Haunting	2015