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This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2023 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 previous years that have official release dates in 2023.
The highest-grossing UK-qualifying and U.K. independent British films according to the British Film Institute released in 2023, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: [1] [2] [3]
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross (£m) |
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1 | The Great Escaper | Warner Bros. | £5,310,000 |
2 | What's Love Got to Do with It? | StudioCanal UK | £4,810,000 |
3 | Empire of Light | Disney | £3,870,000 |
4 | Allelujah | Pathé UK/Warner Bros. | £3,690,000 |
5 | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | EONE FILMS | £3,380,000 |
6 | Sumotherhood | Paramount | £2,450,000 |
7 | The Miracle Club | Lionsgate | £1,920,000 |
8 | Greatest Days | Elysian Film Group | £1,550,000 |
9 | Rye Lane | Walt Disney | £1,230,000 |
10 | The Old Oak | Studiocanal UK | £1,100,000 |
* | Denotes films still running in cinemas worldwide |
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross (£m) |
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1 | Barbie | Warner Bros | £95,600,000 |
2 | Wonka | Warner Bros | £58,400,000 |
3 | The Little Mermaid | Walt Disney | £27,400,000 |
4 | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Paramount | £26,600,000 |
5 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Walt Disney | £20,400,000 |
6 | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Walt Disney | £19,300,000 |
7 | Fast X | Universal | £15,300,000 |
8 | Napoleon | Sony | £14,400,000 |
9 | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | eOne Films | £13,700,000 |
10 | Meg 2: The Trench | Warner Bros | £13,100,000 |
Title | Director | Release date | Ref. |
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Black Dog | George Jaques | 14 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
Breaking Point | Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini | 7 July 2023 | |
Cassius X: Becoming Ali | Muta'Ali Muhammad | 20 February 2023 | |
Celluloid Underground | Ehsan Khoshbakht | 5 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
A Clever Woman | Jon Sanders | 21 April 2023 | |
The Contestant | Clair Titley | 8 September 2023 (Toronto International Film Festival) | |
The Devil Went Down to Islington | Daniel Wilson | 23 October 2023 | |
Europa | Sudabeh Mortezai | 16 August 2023 (Sarajevo Film Festival) | |
Forever Young | Henk Pretorius | 24 June 2023 (Dances with Film Festival) | |
Gassed Up | George Amponsah | 10 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
The Goose's Excuse | Mahdy Abo Bahat, Abdo Zin Eldin | 5 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
Haar | Ben Hecking | 7 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
High & Low — John Galliano | Kevin Macdonald | 1 September 2023 (Telluride Film Festival) | |
Hitmen | Savvas D. Michael | 5 June 2023 | |
In Camera | Naqqash Khalid | 1 July 2023 (Karlovy Vary Film Festival) | |
Kindling | Connor O'Hara | 25 March 2023 | |
Lies We Tell | Lisa Mulcahy | 15 July 2023 (Galway Film Fleadh) | |
Lord of Misrule | William Brent Bell | 19 October 2023 (Screamfest Horror Film Festival) | |
Lore | James Bushe, Patrick Michael Ryder, Greig Johnson | 24 August 2023 (FrightFest London) | |
Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story | Barnaby Thompson | 2 June 2023 | |
Makeup | Hugo Andre | 26 June 2023 | |
Man In Black | Wang Bing | 22 May 2023 (Cannes Film Festival) | |
Mercy Falls | Ryan Hendrick | 14 May 2023 | |
The Moor | Chris Cronin | 26 August 2023 (FrightFest London) | |
My Everest | Carl Woods | 28 April 2023 | |
The Nettle Dress | Dylan Howitt | 3 March 2023 | |
Notes from a Low Orbit | Mark Lyken | 16 June 2023 | |
Red Herring | Kit Vincent | 2 March 2023 (True/False Film Festival) | |
Rewilding | Ric Rawlins | 13 January 2023 | [35] |
Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits | Ali Catterall, Jane Giles | 25 June 2023 (Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival) | |
Shoshana | Michael Winterbottom | 8 September 2023 | |
Speed Is Expensive: Philip Vincent and the Million Dollar Motorcycle | Lancaster David | 20 September 2023 | |
Sumotherhood | Adam Deacon | 13 October 2023 | |
The Taste of Mango | Chloe Abrahams | 3 March 2023 (True/False Film Festival) | |
Tish | Paul Sng | 1 June 2023 | |
Unmoored | Caroline Ingvarsson | 5 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition | David Bickerstaff | 18 April 2023 | |
Wilding | David Allen | 6 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
Wolf Garden | Wayne David | 28 February 2023 | |
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:
Title | Country of origin | Adaptation | Story setting | Film locations | British cast and crew |
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The Buckingham Murders | India | Buckinghamshire, UK | Buckinghamshire, UK | Keith Allen, Chris Wilson | |
The Little Mermaid | United States | British Caribbeans | London and Iver, UK | Jonah Hauer-King, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, Jessica Alexander, Simone Ashley | |
Peter Pan & Wendy | United States | Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie | Victorian England | Jude Law, Alexander Molony | |
Red, White & Royal Blue | United States | United Kingdom | United Kingdom | Nicholas Galitzine, Stephen Fry, Ellie Bamber, Sharon D Clarke | |
Surprised by Oxford | United States | United Kingdom | United Kingdom | Phyllis Logan, Simon Callow | |
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