A list of British films released in 2008.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adulthood | Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jacob Anderson | Drama | ||||||||
| Agent Crush | Sean Robinson | Brian Blessed, Neve Campbell | Animation | |||||||
| Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging | Romantic comedy | |||||||||
| The Bank Job | Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows | Thriller | ||||||||
| Be Like Others | Documentary | |||||||||
| The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | World War II drama | |||||||||
| Brideshead Revisited | Literary drama | |||||||||
| Broken Lines | Sallie Aprahamian | Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams | Drama | [1] | ||||||
| A Bunch of Amateurs | Andy Cadiff | Burt Reynolds, Samantha Bond | Comedy | |||||||
| Cash and Curry | Comedy | |||||||||
| Caught in the Act | Matt Lipsey | Steve Speirs, Sarah Barrand, Freddie Jones | Comedy | [2] | ||||||
| The Children | Horror | |||||||||
| Fantasy | ||||||||||
| A Complete History of My Sexual Failures | Documentary | |||||||||
| The Cottage | Comedy/horror | |||||||||
| The Dark Knight | Superhero/action | |||||||||
| Death Defying Acts | Gillian Armstrong | Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones | Romance/thriller | Co-production with Australia | ||||||
| Doomsday | Sci-fi/action | |||||||||
| The Duchess | Historical drama | Winner of Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Costume Design | ||||||||
| Easy Virtue | Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas | Drama | ||||||||
| Eden Lake | Horror | |||||||||
| The Edge of Love | Drama | |||||||||
| The Escapist | Thriller | |||||||||
| Faintheart | Vito Rocco | Comedy | ||||||||
| Fifty Dead Men Walking | Kari Skogland | Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess | Thriller | |||||||
| Filth and Wisdom | Madonna | Eugene Hütz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E. Grant, Olegar Fedoro | Comedy-drama | Premiered at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||||
| Flashbacks of a Fool | Baillie Walsh | Daniel Craig, Harry Eden | Drama | |||||||
| Franklyn | Neo-noir | |||||||||
| Freebird | Jon Ivay | Phil Daniels, Gary Stretch | Comedy | |||||||
| French Film | Jackie Oudney | Anne-Marie Duff, Hugh Bonneville | Comedy | |||||||
| Gardens of the Night | Drama | Premiered at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival | ||||||||
| The Gateway Meat | Ron DeCaro | David Barry, Baro Carvalho, Christianne Cicilio | Horror | |||||||
| Good | Vicente Amorim | Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs | Drama | |||||||
| The Grind | Crime | |||||||||
| Happy-Go-Lucky | Drama | Winner of the Best Actress Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) | ||||||||
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Comedy | |||||||||
| Hunger | Drama | Winner of the Caméra d'Or award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival | ||||||||
| Black Comedy | Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical), Academy Award Nominee for Best Original Screenplay | |||||||||
| In Your Dreams | Gary Sinyor | Dexter Fletcher, Elize du Toit, Parminder Nagra | Romance/comedy | |||||||
| Incendiary | Sharon Maguire | Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor | Drama | |||||||
| Inkheart | Fantasy | Co-production with the US | ||||||||
| Lady Godiva | Vicky Jewson | Phoebe Thomas, Matthew Chambers, Natalie Walter | Romance/comedy | |||||||
| Lecture 21 | Alessandro Baricco | John Hurt, Leonor Watling | Drama | |||||||
| Love Live Long | Mike Figgis | Drama | - | Mamma Mia! | Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård | Musical | Highest grossing British film and highest selling DVD of all time in the UK | |||
| Man on Wire | Documentary | Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers; winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature), the BAFTA Award for Best British Film and the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film | ||||||||
| Manolete | Menno Meyjes | Adrien Brody, Penélope Cruz | Biopic | Co-production with Spain | ||||||
| A Matter of Loaf and Death | Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay | Animated short | Winner of BAFTA for Best Animated Short | |||||||
| Of Time and the City | Documentary | |||||||||
| The Other Man | Richard Eyre | Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas | Drama | Co-production with the US | ||||||
| The Oxford Murders | Álex de la Iglesia | Elijah Wood, John Hurt | Mystery | |||||||
| Quantum of Solace | Spy/action | James Bond Film | ||||||||
| Revolutionary Road | Romantic drama | Co-production with the US | ||||||||
| RocknRolla | Crime drama | |||||||||
| Slumdog Millionaire | Drama | Eight Oscar wins including Best Picture and Best Director | ||||||||
| Son of Rambow | Family comedy-drama | |||||||||
| Three and Out | Tragic comedy | |||||||||
| Transsiberian | Thriller | |||||||||
| Tropic Thunder | Satirical action comedy | |||||||||
| Wild Child | Nick Moore | Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer | Romantic comedy |