This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have had their premieres in 2018 and were at least partly produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom. It does not feature short films, medium-length films, made-for-TV films, pornographic films, filmed theater, VR films and interactive films like . It also does not include films screened in previous years that had official release dates in 2018.
British co-productions like Bohemian Rhapsody, , and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again garnered positive reviews and collectively grossed more than $1.5 billion in the Box Office worldwide.[1] Small independent films like The Wife, Three Identical Strangers and At Eternity's Gate performed well in the Specialty Box Office, screening in a limited number of theaters.[2] [3]
2018 was expected to be the best year for British box office since 1971 with , Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Incredibles 2, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, , Peter Rabbit and The Greatest Showman breaking £40 million at the British box office.[4] [5]
Also included is an overview of five awards ceremonies which are major events in British film: the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Opening | Title | Cast and crew | Details | Ref. | |
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J A N U A R Y | 8 | The Commuter | Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Cast: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Elizabeth McGovern, Sam Neill | StudioCanal UK (Co-produced by France and the United States) | [6] |
19 | American Animals | Director: Bart Layton Cast: Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Udo Kier, Ann Dowd | STXinternational (Co-produced by the United States) | [7] | |
Three Identical Strangers | Director: Tim Wardle Cast: Edward Galland, David Kellman, Robert Shafran | Neon (Co-produced by the United States) | [8] | ||
20 | Colette | Director: Wash Westmoreland Cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Aiysha Hart, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Robert Pugh, Rebecca Root, Eleanor Tomlinson | Bleecker Street Based on the life of Colette (Co-produced by Hungary and the United States) | [9] | |
Early Man | Director: Nick Park Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall | [10] | |||
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn | Director: Jim Hosking Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Emile Hirsch, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry, Craig Robinson | Universal Pictures (Co-produced by the United States) | [11] | ||
Yardie | Director: Idris Elba Cast: Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Akin Gazi, Mark Rhino Smith, Fraser James, Naomi Ackie | Based on Yardie by Victor Headley | [12] | ||
21 | The Happy Prince | Director: Rupert Everett Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Chancellor | Lionsgate UK Based on the life of Oscar Wilde (Co-produced by Belgium, Germany and Italy) | [13] | |
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. | Director: Stephen Loveridge Cast: M.I.A. | Dogwoof Based on the life of M.I.A. (Co-produced by Sri Lanka and the United States) | [14] | ||
22 | The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Director: Desiree Akhavan Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, John Gallagher, Jr., Forrest Goodluck, Jennifer Ehle, Quinn Shephard | Vertigo Releasing Based on The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth (Co-produced by the United States) | [15] | |
Ophelia | Director: Claire McCarthy Cast: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, Tom Felton, George MacKay, Dominic Mafham | GEM Entertainment Based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Ophelia by Lisa Klein (Co-produced by the United States) | [16] | ||
23 | Lords of Chaos | Director: Jonas Åkerlund Cast: Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Anthony De La Torre, Sky Ferreira, Jack Kilmer | Arrow Films Based on Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind (Co-produced by Norway, Sweden and United States) | [17] | |
29 | My Friend the Polish Girl | Directors: Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Mateusz Dymek Cast: Aneta Piotrowska, Emma Friedman-Cohen, Daniel Barry, Andy Abbott | Republic Film Distribution (Co-produced by Poland) | [18] | |
F E B R U A R Y | 3 | Director: Gary J. Tunnicliffe Cast: Damon Carney, Randy Wayne, Alexandra Harris, Heather Langenkamp, Paul T. Taylor | Lionsgate Home Entertainment | ||
8 | Accident Man | Director: Jesse V. Johnson Cast: Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene, Ray Stevenson, Michael Jai White | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Based on Accident Man by Pat Mills and Tony Skinner | [19] | |
9 | Winter Ridge | Director: Dom Lenoir Cast: Matt Hookings, Michael McKell, Olwen Catherine Kelly, Hannah Waddingham, Alan Ford | Phoenix Worldwide Entertainment | [20] | |
17 | Profile | Director: Timur Bekmambetov Cast: Valene Kane, Shazad Latif, Christine Adams, Morgan Watkins | (Co-produced by Cyprus, Russia and the United States) | [21] | |
18 | The Real Estate | Director: Axel Petersén and Måns Månsson Cast: Léonore Ekstrand, Christer Levin, Christian Saldert, Olof Rhodin | Njutafilms (Co-produced by Sweden) | [22] | |
19 | Entebbe (a.k.a. 7 Days in Entebbe) | Director: José Padilha Cast: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Lior Ashkenazi, Denis Ménochet | Entertainment One Based on the Operation Entebbe (Co-produced by the United States) | [23] | |
23 | Annihilation | Director: Alex Garland Cast: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac, Benedict Wong, Sonoya Mizuno, David Gyasi | Netflix Based on Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Co-produced by the United States) | [24] | |
Mute | Director: Duncan Jones Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Seyneb Saleh | Netflix (Co-produced by Germany) | [25] | ||
24 | The Party's Just Beginning | Director: Karen Gillan Cast: Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, Matthew Beard, Paul Higgins | Mt. Hollywood Films (Co-produced by the United States) | [26] | |
26 | Mary Magdalene | Director: Garth Davis Cast: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim | Focus Features Based on the life of Mary Magdalene (Co-produced by Australia and the United States) | [27] | |
M A R C H | 1 | A Wizard's Tale (a.k.a. Here Comes the Grump) | Director: Andrés Couturier Cast: Toby Kebbell, Lily Collins, Ian McShane | GFM Films Based on animated series Here Comes the Grump (Co-produced by Mexico and the United States) | [28] |
2 | Tomb Raider | Director: Roar Uthaug Cast: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi | Warner Bros. Based on Tomb Raider by Crystal Dynamics (Co-produced by the United States) | [29] | |
4 | Nae Pasaran | Director: Felipe Bustos Sierra | Debasers Filums Based on short film Nae Pasaran by Felipe Bustos Sierra (Co-produced by Chile) | [30] | |
9 | Scott and Sid | Director: Scott Elliott, Sid Sadowskyj Cast: Tom Blyth, Richard Mason, Charlotte Milchard | Dreamchasers Film Ltd | [31] | |
Walk like a Panther | Director: Dan Cadan Cast: Stephen Graham, Jason Flemyng, Julian Sands | [32] | |||
15 | Sherlock Gnomes | Director: John Stevenson Cast: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mary J. Blige, Johnny Depp | Paramount Pictures Sequel to Gnomeo & Juliet (Co-produced by the United States) | ||
17 | Postcards from London | Director: Steve McLean Cast: Harris Dickinson, Ben Cura, Jonah Hauser-King, Leonardo Salerni, Raphael Desprez, Leemore Marrett Jr. | Peccadillo Pictures | [33] | |
24 | Boogie Man | Director: Andy Morahan Cast: Kush Khanna, Amy Jackson, Aston Merrygold, Jerry-Jane Pears |
Title | Director(s) | Release Date | Ref. | |
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Adrift in Soho | Pablo Behrens | 14 November 2018 | [126] | |
Amá | Lorna Tucker | 1 June 2018 | [127] | |
Aquarela | 1 September 2018 (Venice Film Festival) | [128] | ||
Astral | Chris Mul | 13 October 2018 (San Diego International Film Festival) | [129] | |
Await Further Instructions | Johnny Kevorkian | 22 June 2018 (Cinepocalypse) | [130] | |
Becoming Animal | Emma Davie, Peter Mettler | 20 March 2018 | [131] | |
Back to Berlin | Catherine Lurie | 5 May 2018 (Washington Jewish Film Festival) | [132] | |
The Ballymurphy Precedent | Callum Macrae | 11 June 2018 (Sheffield Doc/Fest) | [133] | |
Bare Knuckle | Duncan Napier-Bell | 4 June 2018 | [134] | |
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story | Steve Sullivan | 13 March 2018 (South by Southwest Film Festival) | [135] | |
Black Flowers | Martin Gooch | 7 October 2018 (Sitges Film Festival) | [136] | |
Black Site | Tom Paton | 27 August 2018 (Frightfest) | [137] | |
Breaking Habits | Robert Ryan | 15 October 2018 (Warsaw Film Festival) | [138] | |
Bride of Scarecrow | Louisa Warren | 3 October 2018 | [139] | |
Cleft Lip | Erik Knudsen | 13 July 2018 | [140] | |
Curse of the Scarecrow | Louisa Warren | 22 October 2018 | [141] | |
Dagenham | Jo Morris | 13 October 2018 (LA Femme Film Festival) | [142] | |
A Dark Place (a.k.a. Steel Country) | Simon Fellows | 24 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [143] | |
A Deal with the Universe | Jason Barker | 26 March 2018 (BFI Flare London LGBT Film Festival) | [144] | |
Degas: Passion for Perfection | David Bickerstaff | 6 November 2018 | [145] | |
The Devil's Doorway | Aislinn Clarke | 25 May 2018 (Seattle International Film Festival) | [146] | |
Dirty Work | Louisa Warren | 3 February 2018 | [147] | |
Doozy | Richard Squires | 13 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [148] | |
The Eyes of Orson Welles | Mark Cousins | 9 May 2018 (Cannes Film Festival) | [149] | |
Featherweight | Simon Stolland, Olivia Warren | 1 May 2018 | [150] | |
Female Human Animal | Josh Appignanesi | 19 April 2018 (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) | [151] | |
A Fistful of Lead | Marc Price | December 2018 | [152] | |
Five Men and Caravaggio | Xiaolu Guo | 21 May 2018 (Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival) | [153] | |
The Gandhi Murder | Karim Traïdia, Pankaj Sehgal | 28 June 2018 | [154] | |
H is for Harry | Edward Owles, Jaime Taylor | 6 September 2018 (Open City Documentary Festival) | [155] | |
I Love My Mum | Alberto Sciamma | 27 October 2018 (Cambridge Film Festival) | [156] | |
The Ice King | James Erskine | 23 February 2018 | [157] | |
The Image You Missed | Donal Foreman | 28 January 2018 (International Film Festival Rotterdam) | [158] | |
Into the Mirror | Lois Stevenson | 25 August 2018 (New Renaissance Film Festival) | [159] | |
Irene's Ghost | Iain Cunningham | 13 October 2018 (BFI London Film Festival) | [160] | |
Island of the Hungry Ghosts | Gabrielle Brady | 19 April 2018 (Visions du Reel Film Festival) | [161] | |
The Isle | Matthew Butler-Hart | 3 March 2018 (Manchester Film Festival) | [162] | |
Jellyfish | James Gardner | 20 April 2018 (Tribeca Film Festival) | [163] | |
Kaiser: The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football | Louis Myles | 21 April 2018 | [164] | |
King of Crime | Matt Gambell | 2 November 2018 | [165] | |
Last Breath | Richard da Costa, Alex Parkinson | 1 December 2018 | [166] | |
Last Summer | Jon Jones | 29 September 2018 (Vancouver International Film Festival) | [167] | |
Looking for Lennon | Roger Appleton | 4 May 2018 | [168] | |
Lucid | Adam Morse | 23 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [169] | |
Mad World (a.k.a. Dystopia) | Paul Tanter | 2 January 2018 (DVD premiere) | [170] | |
Magic Medicine | Monty Wates | 1 July 2018 | [171] | |
Make Me Up | Rachel Maclean | 12 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [172] | |
Make Us Dream | Sam Blair | 15 November 2018 | [173] | |
Mari | Georgia Parris | 18 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [174] | |
Matriarchy | Scott Vickers | 2 November 2018 | [175] | |
McKellen: Play the Part | Joe Stephenson | 1 June 2018 | [176] | |
Message Man | Corey Pearson | 8 March 2018 (limited) | [177] | |
The More You Ignore Me | Keith English | 6 July 2018 | [178] | |
No Ifs or Buts | Sarah Lewis | 20 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [179] | |
No Shade | Clare Anyiam-Osigwe | 5 June 2018 | [180] | |
A Northern Soul | Sean McAllister | 7 June 2018 (Sheffield Doc/Fest) | [181] | |
Nureyev: An Orgy of One (a.k.a. Nureyev) | David Morris, Jacqui Morris | 25 September 2018 | [182] | |
Obey | Jamie Jones | 22 April 2018 (Tribeca Film Festival) | [183] | |
Of Fish and Foe | 28 April 2018 (Hot Docs Toronto) | [184] | ||
Old Boys | Toby Macdonald | 21 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [185] | |
One Man's Madness | Jeff Baynes | 22 May 2018 | [186] | |
Payne & Redemption | Fergle Gibson | 4 October 2018 | [187] | |
Peripheral | Paul Hyett | 31 October 2018 (Trieste Science+Fiction Festival) | [188] | |
Pistorius | Vaughan Sivell | 6 September 2018 | [189] | |
That Plan Came from the Bottom Up | Steve Sprung | 14 October 2018 (London Film Festival) | [190] | |
The Ponds | Patrick McLennan, Samuel Smith | 22 June 2018 | [191] | |
Princess Emmy | 8 November 2018 | [192] | ||
The Redeeming | Brian Barnes | 28 January 2018 (Horror-on-Sea Film Festival) | [193] | |
Robin Hood: The Rebellion | Nicholas Winter | 5 November 2018 | [194] | |
Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records | Nicolas Jack Davies | 16 November 2018 (Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival) | [195] | |
Scheme Birds | Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin | 1 December 2018 (Sweden) | [196] | |
The School in the Cloud | Jerry Rothwell, Ranu Ghosh | 20 March 2018 (CPH: Dox) | [197] | |
Scotch: The Golden Dram | Andrew Peat | 14 April 2018 (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema) | [198] | |
Shut Up and Play the Piano | Philipp Jedicke | 18 February 2018 (Berlin International Film Festival) | [199] | |
Sink | Mark Gillis | 5 October 2018 (premiere) | [200] | |
Solis | Carl Strathie | 27 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [201] | |
The Sonata | Andrew Desmond | 15 November 2018 | [202] | |
Songwriter | Murray Cummings | 23 February 2018 (Berlin International Film Festival) | [203] | |
Spitfire | David Fairhead, Ant Palmer | 15 July 2018 | [204] | |
Stanley a Man of Variety | Stephen Cookson | 15 June 2018 | [205] | |
Super November | Douglas King | 3 March 2018 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [206] | |
Surrender: the Art of Jan Fabre | Phil Griffin | 16 March 2018 (Cinedans Festival) | [207] | |
Tango One | Sacha Bennett | 19 March 2018 (UK) | [208] | |
Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me | Olivia Lichtenstein | 26 October 2018 | [209] | |
Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures | The Movie | David Stoten | 7 July 2018 (London) (premiere) | [210] |
Together | 12 January 2018 | [211] | ||
Tracks | Jamie Patterson | 4 October 2018 (Raindance Film Festival) | [212] | |
Train Set | Rob Burrows | 13 April 2018 | [213] | |
Transition | Rob Burrows | 15 February 2018 (International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema London) | [214] | |
Tucked | Jamie Patterson | 21 July 2018 (Outfest Film Festival) | [215] | |
Two for Joy | Tom Beard | 23 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [216] | |
Undercliffe | Lisa Mulcahy | 29 October 2018 (Austin Film Festival) | [217] | |
Under The Wire | Christopher Martin | 7 September 2018 | [218] | |
Unsettling | Iris Zaki | 21 March 2018 | [219] | |
The Viking War (a.k.a. Berserker: Death Fields) (Berserkers: Game Wars) | Louisa Warren | 5 February 2019 (DVD premiere) | [220] | |
Voyageuse | 1 March 2018 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [221] | ||
VS | Ed Lilly | 19 October 2018 | [222] | |
We The Kings | Lauren Mackenzie | 28 September 2018 (Raindance Film Festival) | [223] | |
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist | Lorna Tucker | 20 January 2018 (Sundance Film Festival) | [224] | |
Wild Honey Pie | Jamie Adams | 12 March 2018 (South by Southwest Film Festival) | [225] | |
Winterlong | David Jackson | 30 June 2018 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [226] | |
Witch | Trevor Hayward | 1 January 2018 | [227] | |
Women Making Films: A New Road Movie Through Cinema | 1 September 2018 (Venice Film Festival) | [228] | ||
Written by Mrs Bach: Broken Silence | Alex McCall | 8 October 2018 | [229] | |
The Yukon Assignment | Chris Lucas | 1 October 2018 | [230] | |
Yuli | 23 September 2018 (Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival) | [231] | ||
The following list comprises films not produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom but is strongly associated with British culture. The films in this list should fulfill at least 3 of the following criteria:
Listed here are the British winners and nominees at the four most prestigious film award ceremonies in the English-speaking world: the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, that were held during 2018, celebrating the best films of 2017. The British nominations were led by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Dunkirk, and Darkest Hour, with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri winning awards in the major categories and Dunkirk going on to win large numbers of technical awards, whilst Gary Oldman won multiple best leading actor awards for his portrayal of Sir Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. British films did, however, notably lose out to The Shape of Water from USA.
The 90th Academy Awards honoring the best films of 2017 were held on March 4, 2018.[233]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 71st British Academy Film Awards honoring the best films of 2017 were held on 18 February 2018.[234]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 23rd Critics' Choice Awards was presented on January 11, 2018.[235]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 75th Golden Globe Awards was presented on January 7, 2018.[236]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 24th Screen Actors Guild Awards was presented on January 21, 2018.[237] British winners:
British nominees: