List of British films of 2024 explained

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.

British films box office

The highest-grossing UK-qualifying and U.K. independent British films according to the British Film Institute released in 2024, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows:^{[1] [2] [3]}

In-Year releases

Highest-grossing U.K. independent films of 2024^[4]

Rank	Title	Distributor	UK gross (£m)
1	Back to Black	StudioCanal	£11,738,245
2	One Life	Warner Bros.	£10,000,000
	3	Wicked Little Letters	StudioCanal	£9,297,017
	4	All of Us Strangers	Walt Disney	£5,300,000
5	The Zone of Interest	A24	£3,400,000
6	The End We Start From	Signature Entertainment	£500,000
	7	Baltimore	Icon/Eclipse	£200,000
	8	Copa 71	Dogwoof	£200,000
	9	Gassed Up	Vertigo Releasing	£100,000
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UK qualifying

Highest-grossing U.K. qualifying films of 2024^{[5] [6]}

Rank	Title	Distributor	UK gross (£m)
1		Paramount	£17,100,000
2		Sony	£14,100,000
3	One Life	Warner Bros.	£10,000,000
4	Wicked Little Letters	Studiocanal	£9,300,000
5	Poor Things	Walt Disney	£7,600,000
6	Argylle	Universal Pictures	£5,900,000
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Film premieres

January–March

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
J A N U A R Y	1	Arthur's Whisky	Director: Stephen Cookson Cast: Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Lulu	Sky Cinema	^[7]
	5		Director: Stefano Mordini Cast: Daniel Brühl, Riccardo Scamarcio, Volker Bruch	Signature Entertainment Set during the 1983 World Rally Championship	^[8]
	12	The Beekeeper	Director: David Ayer Cast: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Phylicia Rashad, Jeremy Irons	Sky Cinema	^[9]
	18	Eno	Director: Gary Hustwit Cast: Bilal Hasna, Louis Greatorex, Safiyya Ingar	Based on the life of Brian Eno	^[10]
		Kneecap	Director: Rich Peppiatt Cast: Naoise Ó Cairealláin, Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh, JJ Ó Dochartaigh, Josie Walker	Curzon Film Based on the story of Kneecap	^[11]
		Layla	Director: Amrou Al-Kadhi Cast: Bilal Hasna, Louis Greatorex, Safiyya Ingar		^[12]
	19	The Outrun	Director: Nora Fingscheidt Cast: Saoirse Ronan	StudioCanal Based on The Outrun by Amy Liptrot	^[13]
			Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui Cast: Christopher Reeve	Warner Bros. Pictures Based on the life of Christopher Reeve	^[14]
	20	Black Box Diaries	Director: Shiori Itō	MTV Documentary Films	^[15]
		Love Lies Bleeding	Director: Rose Glass Cast: Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, Ed Harris	A24	^[16]
	21	Sebastian	Director: Mikko Mäkelä Cast: Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jonathan Hyde, Lara Rossi, Leanne Best	LevelK	^[17]
	26	American Star	Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego Cast: Ian McShane, Nora Arnezeder, Adam Nagaitis, Andrés Gertrúdix	Vertigo Releasing	^[18]
F E B R U A R Y	2	Argylle		Apple TV+	^[19]
	16	Last Swim		Indie Sales	^[20]
		Turn in the Wound		About the people of Kyiv during the Russian invasion of Ukraine	^[21]
	17	The Visitor	Director: Bruce LaBruce Cast: Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill	Best Friend Forever Based on Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini	^[22]
	18	Another End		Newen Connect	^[23]
M A R C H	8	Timestalker	Director: Alice Lowe Cast: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Nick Frost, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Mike Wozniak, Kate Dickie	Vertigo Films	^[24]
		Vindication Swim	Director: Elliott Hasler Cast: Kirsten Callaghan, John Locke, Victoria Summer	Picnik Entertainment Based on the life of Mercedes Gleitze	^[25]
	9	Magpie	Director: Sam Yates Cast: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz	Signature Entertainment	^[26]
	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	^[27]

April–June

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
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	^[28]
		Scoop	Director: Philip Martin Cast: Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper, Rufus Sewell, Romola Garai, Keeley Hawes	Netflix	^[29]
	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	^[30]
	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 Lionsgate	^[31]
M A Y	16	Bird	Director: Andrea Arnold Cast: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Buda	Mubi	^[32]
		On Becoming a Guinea Fowl	Director: Rungano Nyoni Cast: Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri, Susan Chardy	A24	^[33]
	17	Kinds of Kindness	Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer	Searchlight Pictures	^[34]
	19	The Substance	Director: Coralie Fargeat Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid	Mubi	^[35]
	21	September Says	Director: Ariane Labed Cast: Mia Tharia, Rakhee Thakrar, Pascale Kann	Based on Sisters by Daisy Johnson	^[36]
	29	The Commandant's Shadow	Director: Daniela Volker Cast: Jurgen Höss, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch	About Jurgen Höss, son of Rudolf Höss	^[37]
	30	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	^[38]
J U N E	3	This Time Next Year	Director: Asif Kapadia, Joe Sabia Cast: Lucien Laviscount, Sophie Cookson, John Hannah, Monica Dolan, Golda Rosheuvel, Mandip Gill, Will Hislop, Charlie Oscar, Keala Settle	Signature Entertainment	^[39]
	10		Director: Asif Kapadia, Joe Sabia Cast: Roger Federer, Mirka Federer, Leo Federer, Myla Federer, Lenny Federer, Charlene Federer	Amazon Prime Video About Roger Federer	^[40]
	14	Blur: To the End		About Blur	^[41]
	24	The Wasp	Director: Guillem Morales Cast: Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Lilly-Anne Marston-Smith	Based on The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm	^[42]

July–September

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
J U L Y	26	Robin and the Hoods	Director: Phil Hawkins Cast: Naomie Harris, Gwendoline Christie, Darcey Ewart, Gloria Ishikawa, Dexter Sol Ansell, Bruno Edgington-Gibson	Sky Cinema	^[43]
		The Beast Within	Director:Alexander J. FarrelllCast: Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings,		^[44]
	28		Director: Michael Hines Cast: Tami Stronach, Greg Steinbruner, Sean Astin, Bill Bailey, Eddie Izzard, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Emerson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Lloyd	Fathom Events	^[45]
A U G U S T	15		Director: Fede Álvarez Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn	20th Century Studios Sequel to Alien	^[46]
	20	The Radleys	Director: Euros Lyn Cast: Damian Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Sophia Di Martino, Shaun Parkes	Cornerstone Based on The Radleys by Matt Haig	^[47]
S E P T E M B E R		We Live in Time	Director: John Crowley Cast: Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield	StudioCanal	^[48]
		Relay			^[49]	url=https://blackbearpictures.com/film-and-tv/relay	website=Black Bear Pictures

October–December

Opening		Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
O C T O B E R	9	Blitz	Director: Steve McQueen Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Elliot Heffernan, Leigh Gill, Harris Dickinson, Erin Kellyman, Stephen Graham, Paul Weller	Apple TV+
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	^[50]
	22	Gladiator II	Director: Ridley Scott Cast: Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, May Calamawy, Derek Jacobi, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Pedro Pascal	Paramount Pictures

TBA

Title	Cast and crew	Details	Ref.
Lead Heads			^[51]
Havoc		Netflix	^[52]
	Director: Nick Park Cast: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Reece Shearsmith	BBC Films	^[53]

Other premieres

Title	Director	Release date	Ref.
A Game of Two Halves	Khayam Khan	23 February 2024
Alien Interloper the Movie	Calvin Cassidy	15 June 2024
A Gangster's Kiss	Ray Burdis	16 June 2024
An Hour	Stephen Cartwright	29 January 2024
Another World	Sean Sadler	14 February 2024
Cookster: The Darkest Days	Stephen Roach	May 2024
Devo	Chris Smith	21 January 2024 (Sundance Film Festival)
Dirty Boy	Doug Rao	17 May 2024
The Hexagonal Hive and a Mouse in a Maze	Bartek Dziadosz, Tilda Swinton	June 2024
The Last Breath	Joachim Hedén	12 June 2024
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger	David Hinton	21 February 2024
Santosh	Sandhya Suri	20 May 2024
Shikun	Amos Gitai	18 February 2024 (Berlin International Film Festival)
Something in the Water	Hayley Easton Street	22 March 2024
Strike: An Uncivil War	Daniel Gordon	16 June 2024 (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
Who Is James Payton?	Oliver Guy-Watkins	4 January 2024
Witch	Craig Hinde, Marc Zammit	29 April 2024
X Trillion	Eleanor Church	1 May 2024

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
	United States		London, UK	London, UK	Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole, Anthony Welsh
Young Woman and the Sea	United States		UK	UK	Daisy Ridley, Stephen Graham, Christopher Eccleston, Amelia Warner, Sian Clifford

Wicked fulfills two of the criteria as it has British cast and crew members and was filmed in Elstree and Buckinghamshire. Civil War fulfills two of these criteria as it was produced in the UK and has 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.

See also

• Lists of British films
• 2024 in film
• 2024 in British music
• 2024 in British radio
• 2024 in British television
• 2024 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 2023

Notes and References

1. Web site: U.K. and Ireland current top 15 . Film Association. 1 February 2024. 16 April 2024.
2. Web site: Official statistics release Callander. British Film Institute. 2024. 16 April 2024.
3. Web site: Weekend box office figures. British Film Institute Box Office. 24 May 2024.
4. Web site: The UK box office, January – March (Q1) 2024 . British Film Institute. 2 May 2024. 24 May 2024.
5. Web site: The UK box office, January – March (Q1) 2024 . British Film Institute. 2 May 2024. 24 May 2024.
6. Web site: UK and Ireland Current Top 15. FDA. 2023. 1 June 2023.
7. Web site: Arthur's Whisky . CK Films. 15 July 2024.
8. Web site: 2 Win . Signature Entertainment. 15 July 2024.
9. Web site: The Beekeeper . Sky Cinema. 15 July 2024.
10. Web site: Eno . Film First Co. 15 July 2024.
11. Web site: Kneecap . Curzon Film. 15 July 2024.
12. Web site: Layla . Film4. 15 July 2024.
13. Web site: The Outrun . BBC Films. 15 July 2024.
14. Web site: Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story . Passion Pictures. 15 July 2024.
15. Web site: Black Box Diaries . Cineric Creative. 15 July 2024.
16. Web site: Love Lies Bleeding . Love Lies Bleeding. 15 July 2024.
17. Web site: Sebastian . BFI. 15 July 2024.
18. Web site: American Star . Emu Films. 15 July 2024.
19. Web site: John Cena on 'Vacation Friends,' Balancing the Crazy with Heart, and Matthew Vaughn's Spy Movie 'Argylle'. 26 August 2021. Steve. Weintraub. Collider. https://web.archive.org/web/20210827071225/https://collider.com/john-cena-vacation-friends-argylle-interview/. 27 August 2021. live. 28 January 2022.
20. Web site: Last Swim. Official Site. 15 July 2024.
21. Web site: Turn in the Wound. British Council Film. 15 July 2024.
22. Web site: The Visitor. A/POLITICAL. 15 July 2024.
23. Web site: Another End. Indigo Film. 15 July 2024.
24. Web site: Timestalker. Western Edged Pictures. 15 July 2024.
25. Web site: Vindication Swim. Official Website. 15 July 2024.
26. Web site: Magpie. Laura Bellingham Cinematographer. 15 July 2024.
27. Web site: The Beautiful Game. Blueprint Pictures. 15 January 2024.
28. Web site: Seize Them!. DJ Films. 20 July 2024.
29. Web site: Scoop. Voltage Films. 20 July 2024.
30. Web site: Back to Black. StudioCanal. 20 July 2024.
31. Web site: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Official Site. 20 July 2024.
32. Web site: Bird. BBFC. 20 July 2024.
33. Web site: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. BBFC. 20 July 2024.
34. Web site: Kinds of Kindness. Official Site. 20 July 2024.
35. Web site: The Substance. BBFC. 20 July 2024.
36. Web site: September Says. BBFC. 20 July 2024.
37. Web site: The Commandant's Shadow. Warner Bros. Pictures. 20 July 2024.
38. Web site: Midas Man. Studio Pow. 20 July 2024.
39. Web site: Sophie Cookson & Lucien Laviscount Underway On Rom-Com 'This Time Next Year'; Protagonist Launching For Cannes Market. Deadline Hollywood. 30 December 2023. Andreas. Wiseman. April 26, 2023 .
40. Web site: Federer: Twelve Final Days. Amazon Prime Studio. 20 July 2024.
41. Web site: Blur: To the End. Blur. 20 July 2024.
42. Web site: The Wasp. Tea Shop Productions. 6 August 2024.
43. Web site: Robin and the Hoods. Phil Hawkins Official. 30 July 2024.
44. News: Miller . Mike . June 18, 2024 . From dire wolf to man-wolf: See Kit Harington transform in The Beast Within trailer . .
45. Web site: Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps. Official Site. 30 July 2024.
46. Web site: Alien: Romulus. 20th Century Studios. 30 July 2024.
47. Web site: The Radleys. Genesius Pictures. 7 August 2024.
48. Web site: We Live in Time. StudioCanal. 30 July 2024.
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50. Web site: Paddington 3 finally confirms November 2024 release date. Emma. Tinson. Digital Spy. 23 October 2023. 21 January 2024.
51. Web site: Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Tom Felton Join Giles Borg's 'Lead Heads'. Leo. Barraclough. Variety. 8 December 2020. 28 January 2022.
52. Web site: New Netflix thriller to create Havoc in Wales and leave 'lasting legacy' for filmmakers . Forgrave . Andrew . . 10 July 2021 . 18 July 2021 . 10 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210710183650/https://www.dailypost.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/new-netflix-thriller-create-havoc-21005522 . live.
53. Web site: New 'Wallace and Gromit' Movie to Premiere on Netflix in 2024 and Here's the First Synopsis . . 20 January 2022 .