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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.
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]
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1 | Wicked Little Letters | StudioCanal | £9,297,017 |
2 | Back to Black | StudioCanal | £2,772,698 |
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Opening | Title | Cast and crew | Details | Ref. | |
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J A N U A R Y | 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 | ||
F E B R U A R Y | 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+ | [4] |
M A R C H | 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 | [5] |
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A P R I L | 5 | Seize Them! | Director: Curtis Vowell Cast: Aimee Lou Wood, Lolly Adefope, Nicola Coughlan, Jessica Hynes, Nick Frost | Entertainment Film Distributors | [6] |
Scoop | Director: Philip Martin Cast: Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper, Rufus Sewell, Romola Garai, Keeley Hawes | Netflix | [7] | ||
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 <br? Lionsgate | ||
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N O V E M B E R | 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 | [8] |
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 | ||
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2 0 2 4 | Lead Heads | Director: Giles Borg Cast: Olatunji Ayofe, Rupert Everett, Tom Felton, Derek Jacobi, Luke Newberry, Mark Williams | [9] | ||
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 | [10] | ||
Havoc | Director: Gareth Evans Cast: Tom Hardy | Netflix | [11] | ||
Wallace and Gromit 2 | Director: Nick Park Cast: | BBC Films | [12] |
Title | Director | Release date | Ref. |
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A Game of Two Halves | Khayam Khan | 23 February 2024 | |
Alien Interloper the Movie | Calvin Cassidy | 15 June 2024 | |
An Hour | Stephen Cartwright | 29 January 2024 | |
Another World | Sean Sadler | 14 February 2024 | |
Cookster: The Darkest Days | Stephen Roach | May 2024 | |
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger | David Hinton | 21 February 2024 | |
Who Is James Payton? | Oliver Guy-Watkins | 4 January 2024 | |
Witch | Craig Hinde, Marc Zammit | 29 April 2024 | |
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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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.
Guy Stuart Ritchie is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr.
Chicken Run is a 2000 animated adventure comedy film produced by Pathé and Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation. Aardman's first feature-length film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park from a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and based on an original story by Lord and Park. The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitrow. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, the plot centres on a group of British anthropomorphic chickens who see an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners want to turn them into chicken pies.
Parker is a 2013 American action thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and written by John J. McLaughlin. Starring Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez, the film is adapted from Flashfire, the 19th Parker novel written by Donald Westlake under the pen name Richard Stark. Primarily set in Palm Beach, Florida, Parker marked a departure for Hackford, who hoped to make it his first film noir. The film, produced on a $35 million budget, was conceived following Westlake's 2008 death, when producer Les Alexander secured the rights to it.
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Love, Death & Robots is an adult animated anthology television series created by Tim Miller and streaming on Netflix. Although the series is produced by Blur Studio, individual episodes are produced by different animation studios from a range of countries and explore diverse genres, particularly comedy, horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Each episode is connected to one or more of the three titular concepts. Miller serves as the showrunner and producer alongside Joshua Donen, David Fincher, and Jennifer Miller; most episodes are written by Philip Gelatt, and are adaptations of short stories.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is a 2023 American spy action film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) and the seventh installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. It stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, alongside an ensemble cast including Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Mariela Garriga, and Henry Czerny. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team face off against "the Entity", a powerful rogue AI.
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Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series on Netflix, written and created by Alice Oseman and based on her webcomic and graphic novel of the same name. The series primarily tells the story of Charlie Spring, a gay schoolboy who falls in love with classmate Nick Nelson, whom he sits next to in his new form. It also explores the lives of their friends Tao Xu, Elle Argent, Isaac Henderson, Tara Jones and Darcy Olsson.
Argylle is a 2024 spy action comedy film directed and produced by Matthew Vaughn, and written by Jason Fuchs. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose, John Cena, and Samuel L. Jackson. Its plot centers on a reclusive author who is drawn into the world of spies and espionage after she realizes that a new spy novel she is writing mirrors real-world events.
Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, or simply Matilda the Musical, or Matilda, is a 2022 musical film directed by Matthew Warchus from a screenplay by Dennis Kelly, based on the stage musical of the same name by Tim Minchin and Kelly, which in turn was based on the 1988 novel Matilda by Roald Dahl. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following Matilda (1996). The film stars Alisha Weir as the title character, alongside Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough, Sindhu Vee, and Emma Thompson. In the plot, Matilda Wormwood (Weir), who is neglected and mistreated by her parents, develops psychokinetic abilities to deal with Miss Trunchbull (Thompson), the ruthless and cruel headmistress of Crunchem Hall School.
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