List of British films of 2025

This article lists British feature-length films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2025 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 2025.

Film premieres

January–March

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
J A N U A R Y	13	Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare	Director: Scott Chambers Cast: Martin Portlock, Megan Placito, Kit Green, Peter DeSouza-Feighoney, Charity Kase, Teresa Banham	Altitude Film Distribution Based on Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
	24	Brides	Director: Nadia Fall Cast: Ebada Hassan, Safiyya Ingar, Yusra Warsama, Cemre Ebuzziya, Aziz Capkurt	Bankside Films
		Rabbit Trap	Director: Bryn Chainey Cast: Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen, Jade Croot
	25	The Ballad of Wallis Island	Director: James Griffiths Cast: Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden, Tim Key	Universal Pictures International
		The Thing with Feathers	Director: Dylan Southern Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Eric Lampaert	Based on Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
	26	Cactus Pears	Director: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade Cast: Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman
	27	Khartoum	Director: Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Timeea Mohamed Ahmed, Philip Cox
F E B R U A R Y	7	Becoming Led Zeppelin	Director: Bernard MacMahon Cast: Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Robert Plant	Sony Pictures Classics About the early years of Led Zeppelin
	13	Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy	Director: Michael Morris Cast: Renée Zellweger, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth	Universal Pictures Sequel to Bridget Jones’s Baby
		My Fault: London	Director: Dani Girdwood, Charlotte Fassler Cast: Asha Banks, Matthew Broome, Eve Macklin, Ray Fearon, Sam Buchanan	Amazon MGM Studios Based on Culpa mía by Mercedes Ron
	14	Hot Milk	Director: Rebecca Lenkiewicz Cast: Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez, Patsy Ferran	Mubi Based on Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
	21	Cleaner	Director: Martin Campbell Cast: Daisy Ridley, Taz Skylar, Clive Owen	Quiver Distribution
	26	Tornado	Director: John Maclean Cast: Kōki, Jack Lowden, Takehiro Hira, Tim Roth	Lionsgate UK
	28	Fight or Flight	Director: James Madigan Cast: Josh Hartnett, Charithra Chandran, Julian Kostov, Katee Sackhoff, Marko Zaror	Sky Cinema
		Last Breath	Director: Alex Parkinson Cast: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Djimon Hounsou	Entertainment Film Distributors Based on Last Breath by Alex Parkinson and Richard da Costa
M A R C H	6	Picture This	Director: Prarthana Mohan Cast: Simone Ashley, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Luke Fetherston, Sindhu Vee	Prime Video Based on Five Blind Dates by Shawn Seet
	7	Hallow Road	Director: Babak Anvari Cast: Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys, Paul Tylak	XYZ Films
	10	The Rivals of Amziah King	Director: Andrew Patterson Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Kurt Russell, Cole Sprouse, Owen Teague, Scott Shepherd, Rob Morgan, Tony Revolori	Black Bear Pictures

April–June

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
A P R I L	4	Mr Burton	Director: Marc Evans Cast: Harry Lawtey, Toby Jones, Lesley Manville, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Aneurin Barnard	Based on the early life of Richard Burton
	25	Havoc	Director: Gareth Evans Cast: Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Cornwell, Luis Guzmán	Netflix	[1]
M A Y	2	Words of War	Director: James Strong Cast: Maxine Peake, Jason Isaacs, Ciarán Hinds, Ellie Bamber, Harry Lawtey, Naomi Battrick	Signature Entertainment Based on the life of Anna Politkovskaya
	15	Left-Handed Girl	Director: Shih-Ching Tsou Cast: Janel Tsai, Shih-Yuan Ma, Nina Ye, Brando Huang, Akio Chen	Netflix
	16	The Chronology of Water	Director: Kristen Stewart Cast: Imogen Poots, Thora Birch, Earl Cave, Kim Gordon, Jim Belushi	Based on The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
	17	Urchin	Director: Harris Dickinson Cast: Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked	Picturehouse Entertainment
	18	My Father's Shadow	Director: Akinola Davies Jr. Cast: Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Godwin Chiemerie Egbo, Chibuike Marvellous Egbo	Mubi
	20	The Disappearance of Josef Mengele	Director: Kirill Serebrennikov Cast: August Diehl, Max Bretschneider, David Ruland, Dana Herfurth, Burghart Klaussner	Based on The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez
	21	The History of Sound	Director: Oliver Hermanus Cast: Paul Mescal, Josh O'Connor	Universal Pictures Based on The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck
		A Pale View of Hills	Director: Kei Ishikawa Cast: Suzu Hirose, Fumi Nikaido, Yō Yoshida, Camilla Aiko	Based on A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
		Sentimental Value	Director: Joachim Trier Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning, Cory Michael Smith	Mubi
	23	The Mastermind	Director: Kelly Reichardt Cast: Josh O'Connor, Alana Haim	Mubi
J U N E	10	Stitch Head	Director: Steve Hudson Cast: Asa Butterfield, Joel Fry, Rob Brydon, Tia Bannon	Kazoo Films Based on Stitch Head by Guy Bass
	12	Deep Cover	Director: Tom Kingsley Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed, Paddy Considine, Ian McShane, Sean Bean	Amazon MGM Studios
	17	Chicken Town	Director: Richard Bracewell Cast: Laurence Rickard, Graham Fellows, Alistair Green	Verve Pictures
	20	28 Years Later	Director: Danny Boyle Cast: Alfie Williams, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Edvin Ryding, Chi Lewis-Parry, Jack O'Connell	Sony Pictures Releasing Sequel to 28 Weeks Later

July–September

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
J U L Y	25	Bambi: The Reckoning	Director: Dan Allen Cast: Roxanne McKee, Tom Mulheron, Nicola Wright, Samira Mighty	ITN Studio Based on Bambi, a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten
A U G U S T	1	My Oxford Year	Director: Iain Morris Cast: Sofia Carson, Corey Mylchreest, Dougray Scott, Catherine McCormack, Harry Trevaldwyn, Hugh Coles, Poppy Gilbert	Based on My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan Netflix
	14	Bulk	Director: Ben Wheatley Cast: Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Noah Taylor, Mark Monero	Anti-Worlds Releasing
	16	Grow	Director: John McPhail Cast: Golda Rosheuvel, Priya-Rose Brookwell, Nick Frost, Joe Wilkinson, Tim McInnerny	Sky Cinema
	28	Bugonia	Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone	Focus Features Based on Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan
		Hijra	Director: Shahad Ameen Cast: Lamar Faden, Khairiah Nathmy, Nawaf Al-Dhufairy
		Orphan	Director: László Nemes Cast: Bojtorján Barabas, Grégory Gadebois, Andrea Waskovics	Mubi
	29	H Is for Hawk	Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Cast: Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Denise Gough, Sam Spruell, Lindsay Duncan	Lionsgate Based on H is for Hawk by Helen MacDonald
		The Roses	Director: Jay Roach Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman, Kate McKinnon, Andy Samberg	Searchlight Pictures Inspired by The War of the Roses by Warren Adler
	30	Ish	Director: Imran Perretta Cast: Farhan Hasnat, Yahya Kitana, Sudha Bhuchar, Avin Shah, Joy Crookes
		Rose of Nevada	Director: Mark Jenkin Cast: George MacKay, Callum Turner	BFI Distribution
	31	The Wizard of the Kremlin	Director: Olivier Assayas Cast: Paul Dano, Jude Law, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Jeffrey Wright	Based on The Wizard of the Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli
S E P T E M B E R	1	Straight Circle	Director: Oscar Hudson Cast: Luke Tittensor, Elliot Tittensor, Neil Maskell		[2]
		The Testament of Ann Lee	Director: Mona Fastvold Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Stacy Martin, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Beard	Based on the life of Ann Lee Searchlight Pictures
	3	In the Hand of Dante	Director: Julian Schnabel Cast: Oscar Isaac, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich	Based on In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches	[3]
	4	Saipan	Director: Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D’Sa Cast: Steve Coogan, Éanna Hardwicke	Based on the Saipan incident
	5	The Choral	Director: Nicholas Hytner Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent, Simon Russell Beale	Sony Pictures Classics
		Christy	Director: Brendan Canty Cast: Danny Power, Diarmuid Noyes, Emma Willis, Alison Oliver, Chris Walley, Helen Behan	Altitude	[4] [5]
		Fuze	Director: David Mackenzie Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Sam Worthington, Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Sky Cinema
		Good Boy	Director: Jan Komasa Cast: Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Anson Boon	Signature Entertainment
		Hamlet	Director: Aneil Karia Cast: Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, Joe Alwyn	Focus Features Based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare
		The Man in My Basement	Director: Nadia Latif Cast: Corey Hawkins, Willem Dafoe, Anna Diop, Tamara Lawrance	Hulu Based on The Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley
		Palestine 36	Director: Annemarie Jacir Cast: Hiam Abbass, Kamel El Basha, Yasmine Al Massri, Jalal Altawil, Robert Aramayo, Saleh Bakri	Curzon Film
		Steve	Director: Tim Mielants Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jay Lycurgo	Netflix Based on Shy by Max Porter
	6	100 Nights of Hero	Director: Julia Jackman Cast: Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe, Amir El-Masry, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant, Felicity Jones	Based on The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
		California Schemin'	Director: James McAvoy Cast: Samuel Bottomley, Séamus McLean Ross	StudioCanal Based on Straight Outta Scotland by Gavin Bain
		Sacrifice	Director: Romain Gavras Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Evans, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Ambika Mod, Sam Richardson, John Malkovich, Charli XCX
		Wasteman	Director: Cal McMau Cast: Tom Blyth, David Jonsson	Lionsgate UK
		Winter of the Crow	Director: Kasia Adamik Cast: Lesley Manville, Tom Burke, Zofia Wichłacz	Based on Professor Andrews Goes to Warsaw by Olga Tokarczuk
	7	& Sons	Director: Pablo Trapero Cast: Bill Nighy, George MacKay, Noah Jupe, Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn, Dominic West	Based on & Sons by David Gilbert
		Hamnet	Director: Chloé Zhao Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Emily Watson	Universal Pictures Based on Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
		The Son and the Sea	Director: Stroma Cairns Cast: Jonah West, Stanley Brock, Connor Tompkins, Lewis Tompkins
	8	Eternal Return	Director: Yaniv Raz Cast: Naomi Scott, Kit Harington, Simon Callow, Sonoya Mizuno, Jay Lycurgo
		Retreat	Director: Ted Evans Cast: Anne Zander, James Boyle, Sophie Leigh Stone, Ace Mahbaz
	9	Ballad of a Small Player	Director: Edward Berger Cast: Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Deanie Ip, Alex Jennings, Tilda Swinton	Based on The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
		Mare's Nest	Director: Ben Rivers Cast: The Word for Snow by Don DeLillo	Based on The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne
	11	Glenrothan	Director: Brian Cox Cast: Alan Cumming, Brian Cox, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Shipp	Lionsgate UK
	12	Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale	Director: Simon Curtis Cast: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Phyllis Logan, Robert James-Collier, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton, Paul Giamatti	Focus Features Sequel to Downton Abbey: A New Era
	26	Mother's Pride	Director: Nick Moorcroft Cast: Jonno Davies, Martin Clunes, James Buckley	Entertainment Film Distributors

October–December

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
O C T O B E R	10	The Woman in Cabin 10	Director: Simon Stone Cast: Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham, Kaya Scodelario, Gugu Mbatha-Raw	Netflix Based on The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
	17	The Twits	Director: Phil Johnston Cast: Margo Martindale, Johnny Vegas, Euan Morton, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ryan Lopez, Emilia Clarke	Based on The Twits by Roald Dahl Netflix
N O V E M B E R	7	The Running Man	Director: Edgar Wright Cast: Glen Powell, Katy O'Brian, Daniel Ezra, Karl Glusman, Josh Brolin, Lee Pace, Jayme Lawson, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones	Based on The Running Man by Stephen King
	12	Turn Up the Sun!	Director: Jamie Adams Cast: James McAvoy, Lucas Bravo, Aisling Franciosi, Almudena Amor
	14	Jay Kelly	Director: Noah Baumbach Cast: George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Grace Edwards, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Jim Broadbent, Isla Fisher, Stacy Keach, Greta Gerwig	Netflix	[6]
	28	Christmas Karma	Director: Gurinder Chadha Cast: Charithra Chandran, Kunal Nayyar, Hugh Bonneville, Eva Longoria	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
		Pillion	Director: Harry Lighton Cast: Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård, Douglas Hodge, Lesley Sharp, Jake Shears,Anthony Welsh	Warner Bros. Pictures Based on Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones
D E C E M B E R	5	Fackham Hall	Director: Jim O'Hanlon Cast: Damian Lewis, Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Radcliffe, Katherine Waterston, Tom Felton	Entertainment Film Distributors
		Universal	Director: Stephen Portland Cast: Joe Thomas, Kelley Mack, Rosa Robson
	26	Bowie: The Final Act	Director: Jonathan Stiasny	Dogwoof Based on the life of David Bowie

Other premieres

Title	Director	Release date	Ref.
The Balloonists	John Dower	7 September 2025 (Toronto International Film Festival)
Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger	Chris Foggin	5 January 2025
Broken English	Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard	30 August 2025 (Venice Film Festival)
Dreamers	Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor	15 February 2025 (Berlin International Film Festival)
I Saw the Face of God in the Jet Wash	Mark Jenkin	6 September 2025 (Toronto International Film Festival)
IRKALLA: Dreams of Gilgamesh	Mohamed Al-Daradji	12 August 2025 (Locarno Film Festival)
Marching Powder	Nick Love	7 March 2025
Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League	Richard Brown, Tebogo Malope	8 September 2025 (Toronto International Film Festival)
Sangre Del Toro	Yves Montmayeur	August 2025 (Venice Film Festival)
The Theft of the Caravaggio	Joshua Cassar Gaspar	August 2025

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:

• The film is adapted from a British source material.
• The story is at least partially set in the United Kingdom.
• The film was at least partially produced in the United Kingdom.
• Many of the film's cast and crew members are British.

Title	Country of origin	Adaptation	Story setting	Film locations	British cast and crew
Black Bag	United States		England	London, UK	Regé-Jean Page, Naomie Harris, Tom Burke, David Holmes
The Family Plan 2	United States		London, England	Watford and Shepperton, UK	Kit Harington, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Reda Elazouar, Daniel de Bourg, Simon Cellan Jones (director), Yan Miles (editor)
Frankenstein	United States	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley	Scotland	Edinburgh, UK	Mia Goth, David Bradley, Charles Dance
Hedda	United States		1950s England	United Kingdom	Imogen Poots, Tom Bateman, Nicholas Pinnock, Mirren Mack, Jamael Westman, Saffron Hocking, Sean Bobbitt (cinematographer)
Jingle Bell Heist	United States		England	London, UK	Connor Swindells, Lucy Punch, Peter Serafinowicz, Abby McDonald (screenwriter)
The King of Kings	United States	The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens	Victorian England		Kenneth Branagh, Roman Griffin Davis, Ben Kingsley

Mickey 17 , Primate , Wake Up Dead Man and Wicked: For Good fulfill two of the criteria.

See also

• Lists of British films
• 2025 in film
• 2025 in British music
• 2025 in British radio
• 2025 in British television
• 2025 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 2024
• List of British films of 2026

References

1. Forgrave, Andrew (10 July 2021). "New Netflix thriller to create Havoc in Wales and leave 'lasting legacy' for filmmakers". North Wales Live . Archived from the original on 10 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
2. "Straight Circle". Venice International Film Festival . Retrieved 23 August 2025.
3. "Straight Circle". Venice International Film Festival . Retrieved 23 August 2025.
4. Lodge, Guy (12 July 2025). "'Christy' Review: Brothers Estranged by the Care System Rebuild Their Bond in a Moving Irish Crowdpleaser". Variety .
5. "Christy". bbc.co.uk . Retrieved 1 November 2025.
6. Grobar, Matt (6 May 2025). "Netflix Dates Noah Baumbach's 'Jay Kelly' Starring George Clooney & Adam Sandler". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 6 May 2025.

External links

• British films of 2025 at IMDb