# List of British films of 1988

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1988 (see 1988 in film):

## 1988

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1988 |||||||
| The Adventures of Baron Munchausen | Terry Gilliam | John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed | Adventure/fantasy | Co-production with the United States and West Germany |
| American Gothic | John Hough | Rod Steiger | Horror | Co-production with Canada |
| American Roulette | Maurice Hatton | Andy García, Kitty Aldridge | Thriller | |
| Burning Secret | Andrew Birkin | Klaus Maria Brandauer, Faye Dunaway | Drama | |
| Buster | David Green | Phil Collins, Julie Walters | Comedy/crime | |
| A Chorus of Disapproval | Michael Winner | Jeremy Irons, Anthony Hopkins | Comedy | |
| Consuming Passions | Giles Foster | Vanessa Redgrave, Jonathan Pryce | Comedy | |
| The Courier | Frank Deasy, Joe Lee | Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bannen | Action | |
| The Dawning | Robert Knights | Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Trevor Howard | Drama | Trevor Howard's final film |
| Distant Voices, Still Lives | Terence Davies | Lorraine Ashbourne, Jean Boht | Drama | |
| Dream Demon | Harley Cokeliss | Jemma Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Jimmy Nail | Horror | |
| The Deceivers | Nicholas Meyer | Pierce Brosnan, Shashi Kapoor, Saeed Jaffery | Drama | Cinecom Pictures |
| The Dressmaker | Jim O'Brien | Joan Plowright, Billie Whitelaw, Jane Horrocks | Drama | |
| Drowning by Numbers | Peter Greenaway | Joan Plowright, Juliet Stevenson, Joely Richardson | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Empire State | Ron Peck | Cathryn Harrison, Jason Hoganson | Crime | |
| A Fish Called Wanda | Charles Crichton | John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin | Comedy | |
| The Fruit Machine | Philip Saville | Emile Charles, Tony Forsyth | Thriller | |
| A Handful of Dust | Charles Sturridge | James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves | Drama | |
| Hawks | Robert Ellis Miller | Timothy Dalton, Anthony Edwards | Comedy | |
| Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Tony Randel | Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley | Horror | |
| High Hopes | Mike Leigh | Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen | Comedy drama | |
| High Spirits | Neil Jordan | Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg | Comedy | |
| Howling IV: The Original Nightmare | John Hough | Romy Windsor, Michael T. Weiss | Horror | |
| Imagine: John Lennon | Andrew Soft | Narrated by John Lennon | Documentary | |
| It Couldn't Happen Here | Jack Bond | Pet Shop Boys | Musical/drama | |
| Just Ask for Diamond | Stephen Bayly | Colin Dale, Saeed Jaffrey | Family | |
| The Lair of the White Worm | Ken Russell | Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Amanda Donohoe | Horror | |
| Little Dorrit | Christine Edzard | Derek Jacobi, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness | Literary drama | |
| Madame Sousatzka | John Schlesinger | Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry | Drama | |
| Mapantsula | Oliver Schmitz | Thomas Mogotlane, Marcel Van Heerden | Crime | Co-production with South Africa |
| Olympus Force | James Fortune, Robert Garofalo | Linda Thorson, Richard Todd, John Draikas | Action | Co-production with Greece |
| Paperhouse | Bernard Rose | Charlotte Burke, Ben Cross | Drama/fantasy/horror | |
| Paris by Night | David Hare | Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon | Thriller | |
| Pascali's Island | James Dearden | Ben Kingsley, Charles Dance, Helen Mirren | Drama | Entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Prisoner of Rio | Lech Majewski | Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman | Drama | |
| Run for Your Life | Terence Young | David Carradine, Lauren Hutton, George Segal, Franco Nero | Sport/drama | |
| Salome's Last Dance | Ken Russell | Glenda Jackson, Stratford Johns, Nickolas Grace | Drama | Based on Oscar Wilde's play Salome |
| Shag | Zelda Barron | Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish | Comedy/romance | Co-production with the United States |
| Soursweet | Mike Newell | Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun | Drama | Based on Timothy Mo's novel Sour Sweet |
| Stealing Heaven | Clive Donner | Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson, Denholm Elliott | Drama | Co-production with Yugoslavia |
| Stormy Monday | Mike Figgis | Melanie Griffith, Tommy Lee Jones, Sting | Drama | |
| A Summer Story | Piers Haggard | Imogen Stubbs, James Wilby | Romance | |
| Testimony | Tony Palmer | Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines | Biopic | |
| Verónico Cruz | Miguel Pereira | Juan José Camero, Gonzalo Morales | Drama | Co-production with Argentina |
| Without a Clue | Thom Eberhardt | Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley | Comedy | Sherlock Holmes spoof |
| A World Apart | Chris Menges | Jodhi May, Barbara Hershey, Jeroen Krabbé | Drama | Won three awards at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival |
| Yellow Pages | James Kenelm Clarke | Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons | Comedy | |