# List of British films of 1970

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1970 (see 1970 in film):

## 1970

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1970 |||||
| The Adventures of Gerard | Jerzy Skolimowski | Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale | Action/comedy | |
| And Soon the Darkness | Robert Fuest | Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès | Thriller | |
| Bartleby | Anthony Friedman | Paul Scofield, John McEnery | Drama | |
| Bombay Talkie | James Ivory | Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Aparna Sen, Zia Mohyeddin, Utpal Dutt | Drama | |
| The Beast in the Cellar | James Kelley | Beryl Reid, Flora Robson | Horror | |
| The Beloved | George P. Cosmatos | Raquel Welch, Richard Johnson | Drama | |
| The Body | Roy Battersby | Frank Finlay, Vanessa Redgrave | Documentary | |
| The Breaking of Bumbo | Andrew Sinclair | Richard Warwick, Joanna Lumley | Comedy | |
| The Buttercup Chain | Robert Ellis Miller | Hywel Bennett, Jane Asher | Drama | Entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival |
| Carry On Loving | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Sid James | Comedy | |
| Carry On Up the Jungle | Gerald Thomas | Frankie Howerd, Sid James | Comedy | |
| Clegg | Lindsay Shonteff | Gilbert Wynne, Gary Hope | Crime | |
| Connecting Rooms | Franklin Gollings | Bette Davis, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner | Drama | |
| Cool It Carol! | Pete Walker | Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn | Sex comedy/drama | |
| Country Dance | J. Lee Thompson | Peter O'Toole, Susannah York | Drama | |
| Crescendo | Alan Gibson | Stefanie Powers, James Olson | Horror | |
| Cromwell | Ken Hughes | Richard Harris, Alec Guinness | Biopic | Entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Cry of the Banshee | Gordon Hessler | Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner | Horror | |
| A Day at the Beach | Simon Hesera | Mark Burns, Beatie Edney | Drama | |
| Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski | Jane Asher, John Moulder Brown | Drama | |
| Doctor in Trouble | Ralph Thomas | Leslie Phillips, Robert Morley | Comedy | |
| Dorian Gray | Massimo Dallamano | Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom | Thriller | Co-production with Germany and Italy |
| Entertaining Mr Sloane | Douglas Hickox | Beryl Reid, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery | Black comedy | |
| Every Home Should Have One | Jim Clark | Marty Feldman, Judy Cornwell | Comedy | |
| The Executioner | Sam Wanamaker | George Peppard, Joan Collins, Judy Geeson | Spy | |
| Eyewitness | John Hough | Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George | Thriller | |
| Figures in a Landscape | Joseph Losey | Malcolm McDowell, Robert Shaw | Thriller | |
| Fragment of Fear | Richard C. Sarafian | David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt | Thriller | |
| Futtock's End | Bob Kellett | Michael Hordern, Ronnie Barker | Comedy | |
| The Games | Michael Winner | Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal | Drama | |
| Games That Lovers Play | Malcolm Leigh | Joanna Lumley, Penny Brahms | Comedy | |
| The Go-Between | Joseph Losey | Julie Christie, Alan Bates | Drama | Won the Grand Prix at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival |
| Groupie Girl | Derek Ford | Billy Boyle, Jimmy Beck | Sex comedy/drama | |
| Hell Boats | Paul Wenedkos | James Franciscus, Elizabeth Shepherd | World War II | |
| Hello-Goodbye | Jean Negulesco | Michael Crawford, Curt Jurgens | Comedy | |
| Hoffman | Alvin Rakoff | Peter Sellers, Sinéad Cusack | Drama | |
| The Horror of Frankenstein | Jimmy Sangster | Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara | Horror | |
| A Horse Called Nijinsky | Jo Durden-Smith | Nijinsky II | Documentary | |
| The House That Dripped Blood | Peter Duffell | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing | Portmanteau horror | |
| I Start Counting | David Greene | Jenny Agguter, Simon Ward | Thriller | |
| Julius Caesar | Stuart Burge | Charlton Heston, John Gielgud | Drama | Filmed Shakespeare play |
| The Last Grenade | Gordon Flemyng | Stanley Baker, Alex Cord | War | |
| Leo the Last | John Boorman | Marcello Mastroianni Billie Whitelaw | Drama | Boorman won Best Director at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. |
| Let It Be | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | The Beatles | Music documentary | |
| The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World | Vincent Patouillard | None | Documentary | |
| The Looking Glass War | Frank Pierson | Christopher Jones | Action, Thriller | |
| Loot | Silvio Narizzano | Richard Attenborough, Lee Remick | Black comedy | Entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival |
| Love Is a Splendid Illusion | Tom Clegg | Simon Brent, Andrée Flamand | Drama | |
| The Man Who Had Power Over Women | John Krish | Rod Taylor, Carol White | Comedy | |
| The Man Who Haunted Himself | Basil Dearden | Roger Moore, Anton Rodgers, Thorley Walters | Thriller | |
| The McKenzie Break | Lamont Johnson | Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry | World War II/POW | |
| The Mind of Mr. Soames | Alan Cooke | Terence Stamp, Robert Vaughn | Sci-fi | |
| Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly | Freddie Francis | Michael Bryant, Ursula Howells, Vanessa Howard | Comedy horror | |
| My Lover, My Son | John Newland | Romy Schneider, Donald Houston | Drama | |
| Ned Kelly | Tony Richardson | Mick Jagger, Mark McManus | Adventure | |
| The Nine Ages of Nakedness | Harrison Marks | Rita Webb, Sue Bond | Sex comedy | |
| One Brief Summer | John Mackenzie | Clifford Evans, Felicity Gibson | Drama | |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Caspar Wrede | Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg | Drama | Co-production with Norway |
| Perfect Friday | Peter Hall | Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker | Crime | |
| Performance | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Mick Jagger, James Fox | Drama/crime | Number 48 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes | Billy Wilder | Robert Stephens, Christopher Lee | Detective drama | |
| The Railway Children | Lionel Jeffries | Jenny Agutter, Gary Warren | Family drama | Number 66 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer | Kevin Billington | Peter Cook, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser | Comedy/satire | |
| Ryan's Daughter | David Lean | Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Christopher Jones | Drama | Winner of two Academy Awards |
| Say Hello to Yesterday | Alvin Rakoff | Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting | Drama | |
| Scars of Dracula | Roy Ward Baker | Christopher Lee, Patrick Troughton, Jenny Hanley | Horror | |
| Scream and Scream Again | Gordon Hessler | Vincent Price, Christopher Lee | Horror thriller | |
| Scrooge | Ronald Neame | Albert Finney, Alec Guinness | Musical | |
| Secrets of Sex | Antony Balch | Richard Schulman, Janet Spearman | Sex fantasy | |
| A Severed Head | Dick Clement | Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough | Black comedy | |
| Simon, Simon | Graham Stark | Peter Sellers, Julia Foster | Comedy | Short film |
| Some Will, Some Won't | Duncan Wood | Ronnie Corbett, Leslie Phillips | Comedy | |
| Spring and Port Wine | Peter Hammond | James Mason, Diana Coupland | Drama | |
| Take a Girl Like You | Jonathan Miller | Hayley Mills, Oliver Reed | Comedy | |
| Tam-Lin | Roddy McDowall | Ava Gardner, Ian McShane | Horror | |
| Taste the Blood of Dracula | Peter Sasdy | Christopher Lee | Horror |
| Taste of Excitement | Don Sharp | Eva Renzi, David Buck | Crime | |
| There's a Girl in My Soup | Roy Boulting | Peter Sellers, Goldie Hawn | Comedy | |
| Three Sisters | Laurence Olivier, John Sichel | Jeanne Watts, Joan Plowright | Drama | Film of Chekhov play |
| Too Late the Hero | Robert Aldrich | Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson | World War II | |
| Trog | Freddie Francis | Joan Crawford, Michael Gough | Sci-fi | |
| Two a Penny | James F. Collier | Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan | Drama | |
| The Vampire Lovers | Roy Ward Baker | Ingrid Pitt, Kate O'Mara, Peter Cushing | Horror | |
| The Virgin and the Gypsy | Christopher Miles | Joanna Shimkus, Franco Nero | Drama | Screened at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Walking Stick | Eric Till | David Hemmings, Samantha Eggar | Crime | |
| Wuthering Heights | Robert Fuest | Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton | Drama | |
| The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go | Burgess Meredith | James Mason, Jack MacGowran | Thriller | |
| You Can't Win 'Em All | Peter Collinson | Tony Curtis, Charles Bronson | Comedy/war | |

## Top Box Office Films at British Box Office in 1970

Source:
* The Battle of Britain
* Paint Your Wagon
* On Her Majesty's Secret Service
* M*A*S*H
* Funny Girl
* Midnight Cowboy
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Oliver!
* Anne of the Thousand Days
* Cromwell
* Where Eagles Dare
* Women in Love
* Carry On Up the Jungle
* Every Home Should Have One
* The Lion in Winter
* Woodstock
* Hello, Dolly!