This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2021 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 had official release dates in 2021.
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Cast: Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Merchant, Mindy Kaling, Lucy Boynton, Mark Gatiss, Claes Bang, Ben Stiller, Ben Kingsley | Warner Bros. Pictures
(co-produced by the United States) | [6] |
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| 15 | The Dig | Director: Simon Stone
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, Monica Dolan | Netflix
Based on The Dig by John Preston
(co-produced by the United States) | [7] |
| 28 | Censor | Director: Prano Bailey-Bond
Cast: Niamh Algar, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin, Sophia La Porta, Adrian Schiller, Michael Smiley | | [8] |
| Flee | Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Cast:Amin Nawabi, Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh | Curzon Artificial Eye
(co-produced by France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the United States) | [9] |
| 29 | In the Earth | Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia, John Hollingworth, Mark Monero | Universal Pictures
(co-produced by the United States) | [10] |
| Twist | Director: Martin Owen
Cast: Rafferty Law, Michael Caine, Lena Headey, Rita Ora, Sophie Simnett, Noel Clarke, David Walliams, Franz Drameh, Jason Maza | Sky Cinema
Loosely based on Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens | [11] |
| 30 | Passing | Director: Rebecca Hall
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, Bill Camp | Netflix
Based on Passing by Nella Larsen
(co-produced by the United States) | [12] |
| The Sparks Brothers | Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Ron Mael, Russell Mael, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Beck, Flea, Jonathan Ross, Patton Oswalt, Scott Aukerman, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Visconti, Mike Myers | Universal Pictures
Documentary about the band Sparks
(co-produced by the United States) | [13] |
| 31 | Misha and the Wolves | Director: Sam Hobkinson | Netflix
About Misha Defonseca's fraudulent Holocaust memoir
(co-produced by Belgium) | [14] |
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Cast: Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim, Shailene Woodley, Benedict Cumberbatch | Based on Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi
STXfilms
(co-produced by the United States) | [15] |
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| 19 | To Olivia | | Based on An Unquiet Life by Stephen Michael Shearer
Sky Cinema | [16] |
| 24 | Creation Stories | | About Alan McGee and Creation Records
Sky Cinema
(co-produced by the United States) | [17] |
| 27 | | Director: Nick Moran
Cast: Ruth Negga, Jonathan Ross, Kathleen Hanna, Neneh Cherry, Thurston Moore, Vivienne Westwood | | [18] |
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Cast: Jim Cummings, PJ McCabe, Virginia Newcomb, Jessie Barr | (co-produced with the United States) | [19] |
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| 6 | | Director: Jason Ferguson
Cast: Alex Ferguson | About Sir Alex Ferguson | [20] |
| 17 | The Feast | | Picturehouse Entertainment | |
| Here Before | Director: Stacey Gregg
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Jonjo O'Neill, Martin McCann, Eileen O'Higgins | | [21] |
| 20 | Granada Nights | Directors: Abid Khan
Cast: Antonio Aakeel, Quintessa Swindell, Óscar Casas, Julius Fleischanderl, Laura Frederico, Isabel Guardiola, Leticia Marín, Virgile Bramly | | [22] |
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Cast: Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Josh Hartnett, Laz Alonso | Lionsgate
Loosely based on Cash Truck by Nicolas Boukhrief
(co-produced by the United States) | [23] |
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| 28 | Voyagers | Director: Neil Burger
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Colin Farrell, Chanté Adams, Isaac Hempstead Wright | Lionsgate
(co-produced by Czech Republic, Romania and the United States) | |
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Cast: Suki Waterhouse, Madisen Beaty, Ella-Rae Smith, Inanna Sarkis | RLJE Films | |
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Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Dominic Monaghan, Ralph Ineson, Samo Rafael, Hannah New, Josie Ho, Bront Palarae | Based on the adventures of James Brooke
(co-produced by the United States, Malaysia and China) | [24] |
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| 12 | Everybody's Talking About Jamie | Director: Jonathan Butterell
Cast: Max Harwood, Sarah Lancashire, Lauren Patel, Shobna Gulati, Ralph Ineson, Adeel Akhtar, Samuel Bottomley, Sharon Horgan, Richard E. Grant | Amazon Studios
Based on: Everybody's Talking About Jamie by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae
(co-produced by the United States) | [25] |
| 18 | The Last Bus | Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Cast: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan | Parkland Entertainment | [26] |
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Y | 5 | Boiling Point | Director: Philip Barantini
Cast: Stephen Graham, Vinette Robinson, Alice Feetham, Hannah Walters | Vertigo Films | [27] |
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| 8 | The Souvenir Part II | Director: Joanna Hogg
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Richard Ayoade, Jaygann Ayeh, Ariane Labed, James Spencer Ashworth, Harris Dickinson, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn | Picturehouse Entertainment
(co-produced in Ireland and the United States) | |
| Cow | Director: Andrea Arnold | Mubi
Documentary about two cows | [28] |
| 9 | Mothering Sunday | Director: Eva Husson
Cast: Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Olivia Colman, Colin Firth | Lionsgate UK
Based on Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
(co-produced in Ireland and the United States) | [29] |
| 11 | Ali & Ava | Director: Clio Barnard
Cast: Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook | Altitude Film Distribution | [30] |
| 15 | Memoria | Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego, Daniel Giménez Cacho | Sovereign Films | |
| 23 | The Last Letter from Your Lover | Director: Augustine Frizzell
Cast: Felicity Jones, Callum Turner, Joe Alwyn, Nabhaan Rizwan, Shailene Woodley | Based on The Last Letter from Your Lover by Jojo Moyes
StudioCanal | [31] |
| Off the Rails | Director: Jules Williamson
Cast: Kelly Preston, Jenny Seagrove, Sally Phillips, Franco Nero | Screen Media Films | |
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Cast: Neil Maskell, David Hayman, Tamzin Outhwaite, Lois Brabin-Platt | Signature Entertainment | [32] |
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| 18 | | Director: Jack Clough
Cast: Allan Mustafa, Asim Chaudhry, Steve Stamp, Dan Sylvester, Hugo Chegwin | BBC Film | [33] |
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Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones | StudioCanal
Based on the life of Louis Wain
(co-produced in United States) | [34] |
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| The Rescue | Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Greenwich Entertainment
About Tham Luang cave rescue
(co-produced in United States) | [35] |
| The Power of the Dog | Director: Jane Campion
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, Keith Carradine, Frances Conroy | Netflix
Based on: The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
(co-produced in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States) | [36] |
| Belfast | Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Caitriona Balfe, Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Morgan, Jude Hill | Universal Pictures
(co-produced in Ireland) | [37] |
| Cyrano | Director: Joe Wright
Cast: Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Bashir Salahuddin, Ben Mendelsohn | Universal Pictures
Based on: Cyrano (2018 stage musical) by Erica Schmidt and Cyrano de Bergerac (1897 play) by Edmond Rostand
(co-produced in Canada and the United States) | [38] |
| 3 | Spencer | Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins | STXfilms
(co-produced in the United States, Germany and Chile) | [39] |
| Cinderella | Director: Kay Cannon
Cast: Camila Cabello, Idina Menzel, Minnie Driver, Nicholas Galitzine, Billy Porter, Pierce Brosnan | Amazon Studios
Based on Cinderella by Charles Perrault
(co-produced in the United States) | [40] |
| Encounter | Director: Michael Pearce
Cast: Riz Ahmed, Octavia Spencer, Janina Gavankar, Rory Cochrane, Lucain-River Chauhan | Amazon Studios
(co-produced in the United States) | |
| 4 | Last Night in Soho | Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Michael Ajao, Terence Stamp, Diana Rigg | | [41] |
| True Things | Director: Harry Wootliff
Cast: Ruth Wilson, Tom Burke, Hayley Squires, Elizabeth Rider | Picturehouse Cinemas
Based on True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies | |
| 10 | Earwig | Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Cast: Paul Hilton, Romane Hemelaers, Romola Garai, Alex Lawther | Anti-Worlds
Based on Earwig by Brian Catling | |
| The Last Duel | Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck, Harriet Walter, Alex Lawther, Marton Csokas | 20th Century Studios
Based on by Eric Jager
(co-produced in the United States) | [42] |
| 12 | Benediction | Director: Terence Davies
Cast: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels | Vertigo Films
Based on the life of Siegfried Sassoon
(co-produced in the United States) | [43] |
| Nobody Has to Know | Director: Bouli Lanners
Cast: Michelle Fairley, Bouli Lanners, Cal MacAninch | Parkland Entertainment
(co-produced by France and Belgium) | |
| 13 | Dashcam | Director: Rob Savage
Cast: Annie Hardy | (co-produced in the United States) | [44] |
| 16 | Silent Night | Director: Camille Griffin
Cast: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis, Annabelle Wallis, Lily-Rose Depp, Sope Dirisu, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Lucy Punch, Rufus Jones | Altitude Film Distribution
(co-produced in the United States) | [45] |
| 28 | No Time to Die | Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes | Universal Pictures
Based on James Bond by Ian Fleming
(co-produced in the United States) | [46] | |
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Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney, Kylie Cantrall, Ricardo Hurtado, Olivia Colman | 20th Century Studios
(co-produced by the United States) | [47] |
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| 11 | All Is Vanity | Directors: Marcos Mereles
Cast: Sid Phoenix, Yaseen Aroussi, Isabelle Bonfrer, Rosie Steel, Christopher Sherwood | Verve Pictures | |
| 12 | The Phantom of the Open | Directors: Craig Roberts
Cast: Mark Rylance, Sally Hawkins, Rhys Ifans, Jake Davies, Christian Lees, Jonah Lees, Mark Lewis Jones | Entertainment One | |
| 13 | Munich – The Edge of War | Directors: Christian Schwochow
Cast: Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, Jannis Niewöhner, Sandra Hüller, Liv Lisa Fries, August Diehl, Jessica Brown Findlay, Anjli Mohindra | Netflix
Based on Munich by Robert Harris | [48] |
| 14 | Shepherd | Directors: Russell Owen
Cast: Tom Hughes, Kate Dickie, Gaia Weiss, Greta Scacchi | Darkland Distribution | [49] |
| 22 | Falling for Figaro | Director: Ben Lewin
Cast: Danielle Macdonald, Hugh Skinner, Joanna Lumley | Umbrella Entertainment
(Co-produced by Australia) | [50] |
| 31 | A Bird Flew In | | | [51] |
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| 7 | Father Christmas Is Back | | Netflix | [53] |
| 12 | The Colour Room | | Sky Cinema | |
| 19 | | | Sony Pictures Releasing
Based on Resident Evil by Capcom
(Co-produced by United States) | [54] |
| 21 | The Score | | | |
| 24 | The Unforgivable | | Netflix
Based on Unforgiven by Sally Wainwright
(Co-produced by Germany and the United States) | [55] |
| 26 | A Boy Called Christmas | Director: Gil Kenan
Cast: Henry Lawfull, Jim Broadbent, Kristen Wiig, Sally Hawkins, Toby Jones, Michiel Huisman, Maggie Smith, Zoe Colletti, Stephen Merchant | StudioCanal
Based on A Boy Called Christmas by Matt Haig | [56] |
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Cast: Aml Ameen, Aja Naomi King, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Warner Bros. Pictures | [57] |
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| 18 | Last Train to Christmas | Director: Julian Kemp
Cast: Michael Sheen, Thomas Law, Cary Elwes, Nathalie Emmanuel | Sky Cinema | [58] |
| 22 | The King's Man | | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Prequel to
(co-produced by the United States) | [59] |
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| The Afterlight | Charlie Shackleton | 15 October 2021 (BFI London Film Festival) | |
| Alone Together | Bradley & Pablo | 20 March 2021 (South by Southwest Film Festival) | [60] |
| Almost Liverpool 8 | Daniel Draper, Allan Melia | 6 June 2021 (Sheffield Doc/Fest) | |
| Approaching Shadows | Roque Cameselle, Andrew Turner | 3 December 2021 (BFI Busting the Bias Festival)
1 July 2022 (streaming)
22 April 2023 (Los Angeles) | [61] |
| Arsène Wenger: Invincible | Gabriel Clarke, Christian Jeanpierre | 11 November 2021 | [62] |
| Bank Job | Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell | 1 May 2021 | [63] |
| End of Term | Mat Menony | 10 December 2021 | |
| Fixed | Jez Alsop | 22 November 2021 | |
| The Football Monologues | Greg Cruttwell | October 2021 | [64] |
| Handsome | Luke White | 28 February 2021 (virtual cinema) (Glasgow Film Festival) | [65] |
| I Get Knocked Down | Dunstan Bruce, Sophie Robinson | 6 June 2021 (Sheffield Doc/Fest) | [66] |
| A Manchester Story | Anton Arenko | 22 August 2021 | [67] |
| Our River...Our Sky | Maysoon Pachachi | 19 August 2021 (Sarajevo Film Festival) | |
| Pelé | David Tryhorn, Ben Nicholas | 23 February 2021 | [68] |
| Quant | Sadie Frost | 9 October 2021 (BFI London Film Festival) | [69] |
| The Real Charlie Chaplin | Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Cast: Charlie Chaplin | 3 September 2021 (Telluride Film Festival) | [70] |
| Sava | Matthew Somerville | 5 August 2021 | |
| Sparkling: The Story of Champagne | Frank Mannion | 25 June 2021 | [71] |
| The Storms of Jeremy Thomas | Mark Cousins | 10 July 2021 (Cannes Film Festival) | [72] |
| Sparkling: The Story of Champagne | Frank Mannion | 25 June 2021 | [73] |
| The Storms of Jeremy Thomas | Mark Cousins | 10 July 2021 (Cannes Film Festival) | [74] |
| The Story of Film: A New Generation | Mark Cousins | 6 July 6 2021 (Cannes Film Festival) | |
| The Story of Looking | Mark Cousins | 12 June 2021 (Sheffield DocFest) | |
| Sweetheart | Marley Morrison | 3 March 2021 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [75] |
| The Toll | Ryan Andrew Hooper | 25 February 2021 (Glasgow Film Festival) | [76] |
| The United Way | Mat Hodgson | 10 May 2021 | [77] |
| A Violent Man | Ross McCall | 5 May 2021 (Massive Underground) | [78] |
| Zebra Girl | Stephanie Zari | 28 May 2021 | [79] |
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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 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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| 83 |  India | | London and Manchester, England | Kent, London, Buckingham and Glasgow, UK | Ray Burnet, Simon Balfour, Marek Hollands, Tony Richardson |
| Cruella |  United States | The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith | England | England | Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Emily Beecham, Mark Strong, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Kelly Marcel (story) |
| Eternals | United States | | England | Buckinghamshire, London and Oxford, UK | Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kit Harington, Ben Davis (cinematographer) |
| The Green Knight | United States
 Canada | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous | Medieval England | | Dev Patel, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Ralph Ineson, Erin Kellyman |
|  Australia
United States | Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter | England | Richmond, United Kingdom[80] | James Cordon, David Oyelowo, Dominic Lewis (composer) |
| Sardar Udham | India | | London, England | London, UK | Shaun Scott, Andrew Havill, Nicholas Gecks, Sam Retford, Simon Weir |
| The Tragedy of Macbeth | United States | Macbeth by William Shakespeare | Medieval Scotland | | Bertie Carvel, Alex Hassell, Harry Melling, Kathryn Hunter, Ralph Ineson |
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