Beneath the iconic American style of Martin Scorsese lies a surprising devotion to British cinema, a love affair that began with a black-and-white TV in the 1940s.
When British filmmaker Edgar Wright reached out to Scorsese during the pandemic, [he asked] for a list of lesser-known British films worth watching, he wasn’t expecting to receive over 50 of his personal favourites – spanning from silent-era curiosities to cult horror to the haunting minimalism of ‘60s ghost stories.
Here, we have a look at the 50 British films Martin Scorsese considers among his personal favourites:
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- Station Six Sahara (Seth Holt, 1963)
- Brief Ecstasy (Edmond Gréville, 1937)
- The Halfway House (Basil Dearden, 1944)
- Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1942)
- Nowhere To Go (Seth Holt, 1958)
- The Nanny (Seth Holt, 1965)
- Madonna of the Seven Moons (Arthur Crabtree, 1945)
- The Man in Grey (Leslie Arliss, 1943)
- So Long at the Fair (Terence Fisher, 1950)
- Stolen Face (Terence Fisher, 1952)
- Four Sided Triangle (Terence Fisher, 1953)
- The Sound Barrier (David Lean, 1952)
- This Happy Breed (David Lean, 1944)
- Guns at Batasi (John Guillermin, 1964)
- Green for Danger (Sidney Gilliat, 1946)
- The Mind Benders (Basil Dearden, 1963)
- To the Public Danger (Terence Fisher, 1948)
- It Always Rains on Sunday (Robert Hamer, 1947)
- A High Wind in Jamaica (Alexander Mackendrick, 1965)