# List of British films of 1957

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1957 (see 1957 in film):

## 1957

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1957 |||||||
| The Abominable Snowman | Val Guest | Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell | Horror | |
| Account Rendered | Peter Graham Scott | Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman | Mystery | |
| Across the Bridge | Ken Annakin | Rod Steiger, Bernard Lee, Marla Landi | Thriller | |
| Action of the Tiger | Terence Young | Van Johnson, Martine Carol, Herbert Lom | Action | |
| The Admirable Crichton | Lewis Gilbert | Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes | Adventure/Comedy/Romance | Alternate title Paradise Lagoon |
| After the Ball | Compton Bennett | Patricia Kirkwood, Laurence Harvey, Jerry Verno | Biographical drama | |
| At the Stroke of Nine | Lance Comfort | Patricia Dainton, Stephen Murray, Dermot Walsh | Crime | |
| Barnacle Bill | Charles Frend | Alec Guinness, Maurice Denham | Comedy | Ealing Studios |
| The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Sidney Franklin | John Gielgud, Jennifer Jones, Bill Travers | Drama | |
| The Big Chance | Peter Graham Scott | Adrienne Corri, William Russell, Ian Colin | Drama | |
| The Birthday Present | Pat Jackson | Tony Britton, Sylvia Syms | Drama | |
| Black Ice | Godfrey Grayson | Paul Carpenter, Gordon Jackson | Adventure | |
| Blue Murder at St Trinian's | Frank Launder | George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Joyce Grenfell | Comedy | |
| The Bolshoi Ballet | Paul Czinner | Galina Ulanova, Raisa Struchkova, Nikolai Fadeyechev | Musical | |
| Booby Trap | Henry Cass | Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan | Crime | |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | David Lean | Alec Guinness, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa | World War II/POW | Number 11 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of seven Academy Awards |
| Brothers in Law | Roy Boulting | Richard Attenborough, Ian Carmichael | Comedy | |
| Campbell's Kingdom | Ralph Thomas | Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker | Western | |
| Carry On Admiral | Val Guest | David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins | Comedy | |
| Count Five and Die | Victor Vicas | Jeffrey Hunter, Nigel Patrick | World War II | |
| The Curse of Frankenstein | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee | Horror | First starring role For Christopher Lee |
| The Devil's Pass | Darcy Conyers | John Slater, Joan Newell, Archie Duncan | Drama | |
| Dangerous Exile | Brian Desmond Hurst | Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee | Historical | |
| Doctor at Large | Ralph Thomas | Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow | Comedy | |
| The End of the Line | Charles Saunders | Alan Baxter, Barbara Shelley | Crime | |
| The End of the Road | Wolf Rilla | Edward Chapman, Finlay Currie | Drama | |
| Face in the Night | Lance Comfort | Griffith Jones, Lisa Gastoni | Crime | |
| Fire Down Below | Robert Parrish | Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon, Robert Mitchum | Adventure | |
| The Flesh Is Weak | Don Chaffey | John Derek, Milly Vitale | Drama | |
| Fortune Is a Woman (USA as She Played with Fire) | Sidney Gilliat | Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl | Crime | |
| The Girl in the Picture | Don Chaffey | Donald Houston, Patrick Holt | Crime | |
| The Good Companions | J. Lee Thompson | Eric Portman, Celia Johnson | Musical | |
| The Heart Within | David Eady | James Hayter, Clifford Evans | Drama | |
| Hell Drivers | Cy Endfield | Stanley Baker, Peggy Cummins | Drama | |
| High Flight | John Gilling | Ray Milland, Bernard Lee | Drama | |
| High Tide at Noon | Philip Leacock | Betta St. John, William Sylvester | Drama | Entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival |
| Hour of Decision | C. M. Pennington-Richards | Jeff Morrow, Hazel Court | Mystery | |
| The House in the Woods | Maxwell Munden | Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc | Mystery | |
| How to Murder a Rich Uncle | Nigel Patrick | Nigel Patrick, Charles Coburn | Comedy/crime | |
| The Hypnotist | Montgomery Tully | Paul Carpenter, Patricia Roc | Thriller | |
| Ill Met by Moonlight | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, Cyril Cusack | World War II | |
| Interpol | John Gilling | Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg | Crime | |
| Just My Luck | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Jill Dixon | Sports/comedy | |
| Kill Me Tomorrow | Terence Fisher | Pat O'Brien, Lois Maxwell | Crime | |
| A King in New York | Charlie Chaplin | Charlie Chaplin, Dawn Addams | Comedy | |
| Lady of Vengeance | Burt Balaban | Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Sears | Crime | |
| Let's Be Happy | Henry Levin | Vera-Ellen, Tony Martin | Musical | |
| The Little Hut | Mark Robson | Ava Gardner, David Niven, Stewart Granger | Comedy/romance | Co-production with the United States |
| The Long Haul | Ken Hughes | Victor Mature, Gene Anderson | Drama | |
| Lucky Jim | John Boulting | Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas | Comedy | |
| Man from Tangier | Lance Comfort | Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni | Crime | |
| The Man in the Sky | Charles Crichton | Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars | Thriller | |
| The Man Without a Body | Charles Saunders | Robert Hutton, George Coulouris | Horror | |
| Manuela | Guy Hamilton | Trevor Howard, Elsa Martinelli | Drama | Entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Miracle in Soho | Julian Amyes | John Gregson, Belinda Lee | Romance | |
| Morning Call | Arthur Crabtree | Greta Gynt, Ron Randell | Thriller | Original title The Strange Case of Dr. Manning |
| The Naked Truth | Mario Zampi | Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount | Comedy | |
| Night of the Demon | Jacques Tourneur | Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins | Horror | |
| No Road Back | Montgomery Tully | Skip Homeier, Sean Connery | Crime | |
| No Time for Tears | Cyril Frankel | Anna Neagle, George Baker | Drama | |
| Not Wanted on Voyage | Maclean Rogers | Ronald Squire, Brian Rix | Comedy | |
| The One That Got Away | Roy Ward Baker | Hardy Krüger, Michael Goodliffe, Alec McCowen | World War II | |
| The Passionate Stranger | Muriel Box | Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson | Drama | |
| The Prince and the Showgirl | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe | Comedy/romance | |
| Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, Sid James | Science-fiction | |
| Robbery Under Arms | Jack Lee | Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis | Crime | Filmed in Australia |
| Rockets Galore! | Michael Relph | Jeannie Carson, Donald Sinden, Roland Culver | Comedy | |
| Rogue's Yarn | Vernon Sewell | Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond, Elwyn Brook-Jones | Thriller | |
| Saint Joan | Otto Preminger | Jean Seberg, Richard Widmark, Richard Todd | Historical | |
| The Scamp | Wolf Rilla | Richard Attenborough, Jill Adams | Drama | |
| Sea Wife | Bob McNaught | Joan Collins, Richard Burton | Thriller | |
| Second Fiddle | Maurice Elvey | Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters | Comedy | |
| The Secret Place | Clive Donner | Belinda Lee, Ronald Lewis | Drama | |
| Seven Thunders | Hugo Fregonese | Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice | World War II | |
| Seven Waves Away | Richard Sale | Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling | Adventure | |
| The Shiralee | Leslie Norman | Peter Finch, Dana Wilson | Drama | Filmed in Australia |
| Small Hotel | David MacDonald | Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr | Comedy | |
| The Smallest Show on Earth | Basil Dearden | Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Sellers | Comedy | |
| The Steel Bayonet | Michael Carreras | Leo Genn, Kieron Moore | World War II | |
| The Story of Esther Costello | David Miller | Joan Crawford, Heather Sears | Drama | |
| Stranger in Town | George Pollock | Alex Nicol, Anne Paige | Crime | |
| Strangers' Meeting | Robert Day | Peter Arne, Delphi Lawrence | Crime | |
| The Surgeon's Knife | Gordon Parry | Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri | Crime | |
| Suspended Alibi | Alfred Shaughnessy | Patrick Holt, Honor Blackman | Crime | |
| Tarzan and the Lost Safari | H. Bruce Humberstone | Gordon Scott Robert Beatty | African adventure | |
| That Woman Opposite | Compton Bennett | Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy | Crime | |
| There's Always a Thursday | Charles Saunders | Charles Victor, Jill Ireland | Crime | |
| These Dangerous Years | Herbert Wilcox | George Baker, Frankie Vaughan | Comedy | |
| Time Lock | Gerald Thomas | Robert Beatty, Betty McDowall, Sean Connery | Thriller | |
| The Tommy Steele Story | Gerard Bryant | Tommy Steele, Patrick Westwood | Musical | |
| Town on Trial | John Guillermin | John Mills, Charles Coburn | Mystery | |
| True as a Turtle | Wendy Toye | John Gregson, Cecil Parker | Comedy | |
| The Truth About Women | Muriel Box | Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris | Comedy | |
| The Vicious Circle | Gerald Thomas | John Mills, Lionel Jeffries | Thriller | |
| West of Suez | Arthur Crabtree | Keefe Brasselle, Kay Callard | Drama | |
| Windom's Way | Ronald Neame | Peter Finch, Mary Ure | Drama | |
| Woman in a Dressing Gown | J. Lee Thompson | Yvonne Mitchell | Drama | Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at Berlin. |
| Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst | Michael Anderson | Richard Todd, William Hartnell | Action | |
| You Pay Your Money | Maclean Rogers | Hugh McDermott, Jane Hylton | Crime | |