List of British films of 2024

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This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2024 and were at least partly produced by the United Kingdom. It does not feature short films, medium-length films, made-for-TV films, pornographic films, filmed theater, VR films or interactive films, nor does it include films screened in film festivals in previous years that have theatrical premieres in 2024.

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British films box office

The highest-grossing UK-qualifying and U.K. independent British films according to the British Film Institute released in 2024, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: [1] [2] [3]

In-Year releases

  * Denotes films still running in cinemas worldwide
Highest-grossing U.K. independent films of 2024 [4]
RankTitleDistributorUK gross (£m)
1 Back to Black StudioCanal£11,738,245
2 One Life Warner Bros. £10,000,000
3 Wicked Little Letters StudioCanal £9,297,017
4 All of Us Strangers Walt Disney £5,300,000
5 The Zone of Interest A24 £3,400,000
6 The End We Start From Signature Entertainment £500,000
7 Baltimore Icon/Eclipse £200,000
8 Copa 71 Dogwoof £200,000
9 Gassed Up Vertigo Releasing £100,000
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UK qualifying

Highest-grossing U.K. qualifying films of 2024 [5] [6]
RankTitleDistributorUK gross (£m)
1 Bob Marley: One Love Paramount £17,100,000
2 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Sony £14,100,000
3 One Life Warner Bros.£10,000,000
4 Wicked Little Letters Studiocanal £9,300,000
5 Poor Things Walt Disney£7,600,000
6 Argylle Universal Pictures £5,900,000
7TBD
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Film premieres

January–March

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1 Arthur's Whisky Director: Stephen Cookson
Cast: Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Lulu
Sky Cinema
20 Love Lies Bleeding Director: Rose Glass
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, Ed Harris
A24
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2 Argylle Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, John Cena, Samuel L. Jackson, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, Rob Delaney
Apple TV+ [7]
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29 The Beautiful Game Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Micheal Ward, Bill Nighy, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Kit Young, Callum Scott Howells, Valeria Golino, Susan Wokoma, Cristina Rodlo, Sian Reese-Williams
Netflix [8]

April–June

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5 Seize Them! Director: Curtis Vowell
Cast: Aimee Lou Wood, Lolly Adefope, Nicola Coughlan, Jessica Hynes, Nick Frost
Entertainment Film Distributors [9]
Scoop Director: Philip Martin
Cast: Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper, Rufus Sewell, Romola Garai, Keeley Hawes
Netflix [10]
12 Back to Black Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cast: Marisa Abela, Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, Juliet Cowan, Lesley Manville
Based on the life of Amy Winehouse
StudioCanal
13 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding, Alex Pettyfer
Based on Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis
Lionsgate
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16 Bird Director: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Buda
Mubi
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Director: Rungano Nyoni
Cast: Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri, Susan Chardy
A24
17 Kinds of Kindness Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer
Searchlight Pictures
19 The Substance Director: Coralie Fargeat
Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid
Mubi
21 September Says Director: Ariane Labed
Cast: Mia Tharia, Rakhee Thakrar, Pascale Kann
Based on Sisters by Daisy Johnson

July–September

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October–December

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8 Paddington in Peru Director: Dougal Wilson
Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas
StudioCanal [11]
22 Gladiator 2 Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, May Calamawy, Derek Jacobi, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Pedro Pascal
Paramount Pictures

TBA

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Lead HeadsDirector: Giles Borg
Cast: Olatunji Ayofe, Rupert Everett, Tom Felton, Derek Jacobi, Luke Newberry, Mark Williams
[12]
Midas Man Director: Sara Sugarman, Jonas Åkerlund
Cast: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Emily Watson, Eddie Marsan, Omari Douglas, Rosie Day, Lukas Gage, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Bill Milner, Jay Leno, Jonah Lees, Blake Richardson, Leo Harvey Elledge, Campbell Wallace, Adam Lawrence
Signature Entertainment [13]
Havoc Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Tom Hardy
Netflix [14]
Wallace and Gromit 2Director: Nick Park
Cast:
BBC Films [15]

Other premieres

TitleDirectorRelease dateRef.
A Game of Two HalvesKhayam Khan23 February 2024
Alien Interloper the MovieCalvin Cassidy15 June 2024
An HourStephen Cartwright29 January 2024
Another WorldSean Sadler14 February 2024
Cookster: The Darkest DaysStephen RoachMay 2024
Dirty BoyDoug Rao17 May 2024
Made in England: The Films of Powell and PressburgerDavid Hinton21 February 2024
Santosh Sandhya Suri 20 May 2024
Who Is James Payton? Oliver Guy-Watkins 4 January 2024
WitchCraig Hinde, Marc Zammit29 April 2024

Culturally British films

The following list comprises films not produced by a British or UK film studio but is strongly associated with British culture. The films in this list should fulfil at least three of the following criteria:

TitleCountry of originAdaptationStory settingFilm locationsBritish cast and crew

Civil War fulfills two of these criteria as it was produced in the UK and has a significant amount of British cast and crew members including Sonoya Mizuno, Rob Hardy, Jake Roberts and Alex Garland. Speak No Evil also fulfills two criteria by having British cast and crew members, and being produced in the UK.

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