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

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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

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  * Denotes films still running in cinemas worldwide
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

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Highest-grossing U.K. qualifying films of 2024[5][6]
Rank Title Distributor UK gross (£m)
1 Bob Marley: One Love Paramount £17,100,000
2 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 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

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January–March

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Opening Title Cast and crew Details Ref.
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Y 		1 Arthur's Whisky Director: Stephen Cookson
Cast: Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Lulu 		Sky Cinema [7]
5 Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia 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]
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 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 ,br /> 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]
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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+ [19]
16 Last Swim Director: Sasha Nathwani
Cast: Deba Hekmat, Narges Rashidi, Solly McLeod, Jay Lycurgo		 Indie Sales [20]
Turn in the Wound Director: Sasha Nathwani
Cast: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Andriy Yermak, Patti Smith		 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 Director: Piero Messina
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams		 Newen Connect [23]
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Cast: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Nick Frost, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Mike Wozniak, Kate Dickie 		Picnik Entertainment
Based on the life of Mercedes Gleitze 		[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

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Opening Title Cast and crew Details Ref.
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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]
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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]
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 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 Federer: Twelve Final Days 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 Director: Toby L.
Cast: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree		 About Blur [41]

July–September

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 28 Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps Director: Michael Hines
Cast: Tami Stronach, Greg Steinbruner, Sean Astin, Bill Bailey, Eddie Izzard, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Emerson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Christopher Lloyd 		Fathom Events
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T 		15 Alien: Romulus Director: Fede Álvarez
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn 		20th Century Studios
Sequel to Alien
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Cast: Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield 		StudioCanal

October–December

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Opening Title Cast and crew Details Ref.
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 9 Blitz Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Elliot Heffernan, Leigh Gill, Harris Dickinson, Erin Kellyman, Stephen Graham, Paul Weller 		Apple TV+
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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 [42]
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

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Title Cast and crew Details Ref.
Lead Heads Director: Giles Borg
Cast: Olatunji Ayofe, Rupert Everett, Tom Felton, Derek Jacobi, Luke Newberry, Mark Williams		 [43]
Havoc Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Cornwell, Luis Guzmán		 Netflix [44]
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Director: Nick Park
Cast: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Reece Shearsmith 		BBC Films [45]

Other premieres

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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

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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
Bob Marley: One Love United States United States London, UK London, UK Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole, Anthony Welsh
Young Woman and the Sea United States 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

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References

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  1. ^ "U.K. and Ireland current top 15". Film Association. 1 February 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Official statistics release Callander". British Film Institute. 2024. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  3. ^ "Weekend box office figures". British Film Institute Box Office. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  4. ^ "The UK box office, January – March (Q1) 2024". British Film Institute. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  5. ^ "The UK box office, January – March (Q1) 2024". British Film Institute. 2 May 2024. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  6. ^ "UK and Ireland Current Top 15". FDA. 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Arthur's Whisky". CK Films. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  8. ^ "2 Win". Signature Entertainment. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  9. ^ "The Beekeeper". Sky Cinema. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Eno". Film First Co. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Kneecap". Curzon Film. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Layla". Film4. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  13. ^ "The Outrun". BBC Films. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  14. ^ "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story". Passion Pictures. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  15. ^ "Black Box Diaries". Cineric Creative. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  16. ^ "Love Lies Bleeding". Love Lies Bleeding. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  17. ^ "Sebastian". BFI. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  18. ^ "American Star". Emu Films. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  19. ^ Weintraub, Steve (26 August 2021). "John Cena on 'Vacation Friends,' Balancing the Crazy with Heart, and Matthew Vaughn's Spy Movie 'Argylle'". Collider. Archived from the original on 27 August 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  20. ^ "Last Swim". Official Site. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  21. ^ "Turn in the Wound". British Council Film. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  22. ^ "The Visitor". A/POLITICAL. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  23. ^ "Another End". Indigo Film. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  24. ^ "Timestalker". Western Edged Pictures. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  25. ^ "Vindication Swim". Official Website. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  26. ^ "Magpie". Laura Bellingham Cinematographer. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  27. ^ "The Beautiful Game". Blueprint Pictures. 15 January 2024.
  28. ^ "Seize Them!". DJ Films. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  29. ^ "Scoop". Voltage Films. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  30. ^ "Back to Black". StudioCanal. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  31. ^ "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare". Official Site. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  32. ^ "Bird". BBFC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  33. ^ "On Becoming a Guinea Fowl". BBFC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  34. ^ "Kinds of Kindness". Official Site. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  35. ^ "The Substance". BBFC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  36. ^ "September Says". BBFC. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  37. ^ "The Commandant's Shadow". Warner Bros. Pictures. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  38. ^ "Midas Man". Studio Pow. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  39. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (26 April 2023). "Sophie Cookson & Lucien Laviscount Underway On Rom-Com 'This Time Next Year'; Protagonist Launching For Cannes Market". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  40. ^ "Federer: Twelve Final Days". Amazon Prime Studio. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  41. ^ "Blur: To the End". Blur. Retrieved 20 July 2024.
  42. ^ Tinson, Emma (23 October 2023). "Paddington 3 finally confirms November 2024 release date". Digital Spy. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  43. ^ Barraclough, Leo (8 December 2020). "Rupert Everett, Derek Jacobi, Tom Felton Join Giles Borg's 'Lead Heads'". Variety. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  44. ^ Forgrave, Andrew (10 July 2021). "New Netflix thriller to create Havoc in Wales and leave 'lasting legacy' for filmmakers". North Wales Live. Archived from the original on 10 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  45. ^ "New 'Wallace and Gromit' Movie to Premiere on Netflix in 2024 and Here's the First Synopsis". Collider. 20 January 2022.
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