# List of British films of 1948

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1948:

## 1948

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1948 |||||||
| Against the Wind | Charles Crichton | Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner | World War II | |
| Anna Karenina | Julien Duvivier | Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore | Literary drama | |
| Another Shore | Charles Crichton | Robert Beatty, Moira Lister, Stanley Holloway | Comedy | |
| Blanche Fury | Marc Allégret | Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough | Drama | |
| Bless 'Em All | Robert Jordan Hill | Hal Monty, Max Bygraves | Musical comedy | |
| The Blind Goddess | Harold French | Eric Portman, Anne Crawford, High Williams | Drama | |
| Bond Street | Gordon Parry | Jean Kent, Derek Farr | Drama | |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | Anthony Kimmins | David Niven, Jack Hawkins | Historical drama | |
| Brass Monkey | Thornton Freeland | Carroll Levis, Carole Landis | Crime drama | |
| Broken Journey | Ken Annakin | Phyllis Calvert, James Donald | Drama | |
| But Not in Vain | Edmond T. Gréville | Raymond Lovell, Bruce Lester | World War II | |
| The Calendar | Arthur Crabtree | Greta Gynt, John McCallum | Drama | |
| Call of the Blood | John Clements, Ladislao Vajda | Kay Hammond, John Clements | Drama | Co-production with Italy |
| Calling Paul Temple | Maclean Rogers | John Bentley, Dinah Sheridan | Detective | |
| The Clouded Crystal | Alan Cullimore | Patrick Waddington, Lind Joyce | Mystery | |
| Colonel Bogey | Terence Fisher | Jack Train, Mary Jerrold | Fantasy | |
| Corridor of Mirrors | Terence Young | Eric Portman, Edana Romney | Drama | |
| Counterblast | Paul L. Stein | Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns | Thriller | |
| Cup-tie Honeymoon | John E. Blakeley | Sandy Powell, Dan Young | Sports/comedy | |
| The Dark Road | Alfred J. Goulding | Mackenzie Ward, Veronica Rose | Crime | |
| A Date with a Dream | Dicky Leeman | Terry-Thomas, Jeannie Carson | Musical/comedy | |
| Daughter of Darkness | Lance Comfort | Anne Crawford, Maxwell Reed | Crime | |
| Daybreak | Compton Bennett | Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed | Thriller | |
| Death in the Hand | A. Barr-Smith | Esme Percy, Ernest Jay, Cecile Chevreau | Short mystery | |
| Dick Barton: Special Agent | Alfred J. Goulding | Don Stannard | Action based on radio serial | |
| Easy Money | Bernard Knowles | Petula Clark, Mervyn Johns | Comedy/drama | |
| Elizabeth of Ladymead | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Hugh Williams | Drama | |
| Escape | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins | Thriller | |
| Escape from Broadmoor | John Gilling | John Le Mesurier, Victoria Hopper | Thriller | |
| Esther Waters | Ian Dalrymple | Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde | Historical drama | |
| The Fallen Idol | Carol Reed | Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Bobby Henrey | Drama | |
| The First Gentleman | Alberto Cavalcanti | Jean-Pierre Aumont, Joan Hopkins | Historical drama | |
| The Fool and the Princess | William C. Hammond | Bruce Lester, Lesley Brook | Drama | |
| Good-Time Girl | David MacDonald | Jean Kent, Herbert Lom, Dennis Price | Drama | |
| The Greed of William Hart | Oswald Mitchell | Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar | Horror | |
| The Guinea Pig | Roy Boulting | Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim | Drama | |
| A Gunman Has Escaped | Richard M. Grey | John Harvey, Maria Charles, Jane Arden | Crime | |
| Hamlet | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Basil Sydney | Shakespearean drama | Number 69 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; winner of four Academy Awards |
| Here Come the Huggetts | Ken Annakin | Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison | Comedy | |
| Holidays with Pay | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea | Comedy | |
| House of Darkness | Oswald Mitchell | Laurence Harvey, Lesley Brook | Horror | |
| Idol of Paris | Leslie Arliss | Michael Rennie, Christine Norden | Drama | |
| It's Hard to Be Good | Jeffrey Dell | Jimmy Hanley, Anne Crawford | Comedy | |
| The Little Ballerina | Lewis Gilbert | Yvonne Marsh, Marian Chapman | Drama | |
| London Belongs to Me | Sidney Gilliat | Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim | Drama | |
| Look Before You Love | Harold Huth | Margaret Lockwood, Griffith Jones | Drama | |
| Love in Waiting | Douglas Peirce | David Tomlinson, Andrew Crawford | Comedy | |
| Miranda | Ken Annakin | Glynis Johns, Googie Withers | Romance/fantasy | |
| The Monkey's Paw | Norman Lee | Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins | Horror | |
| Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill | Lawrence Huntington | David Farrar, Marius Goring | Drama | |
| My Brother Jonathan | Harold French | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray | Drama | |
| My Brother's Keeper | Alfred Roome | Jack Warner, George Cole | Crime | |
| My Sister and I | Harold Huth | Sally Ann Howes, Dermot Walsh | Drama | |
| No Orchids for Miss Blandish | St. John Legh Clowes | Linden Travers, Jack La Rue | Crime | |
| No Room at the Inn | Daniel Birt | Freda Jackson, Ann Stephens | Drama | |
| Noose | Edmond T. Gréville | Carole Landis, Derek Farr | Crime | |
| Nothing Venture | John Baxter | Patric Curwen, Wilfrid Caithness | Comedy | |
| Oliver Twist | David Lean | Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies | Literary drama | Number 46 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| One Night with You | Terence Young | Nino Martini, Patricia Roc | Musical | |
| Penny and the Pownall Case | Slim Hand | Peggy Evans, Diana Dors | Drama | |
| A Piece of Cake | John Irwin | Cyril Fletcher, Betty Astell | Comedy | |
| Portrait from Life | Terence Fisher | Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty | Drama | |
| Quartet | Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart | Cecil Parker, Dirk Bogarde, George Cole | Anthology | Adaptation of four short stories by W. Somerset Maugham |
| The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring | Drama | Number 9 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films. Winner of two Academy Awards |
| River Patrol | Ben R. Hart | John Blythe, Wally Patch | Crime | |
| Saraband for Dead Lovers | Basil Dearden | Joan Greenwood, Stewart Granger | Historical drama | |
| Scott of the Antarctic | Charles Frend | John Mills, James Robertson Justice, Barry Letts | Adventure/biopic | |
| Sleeping Car to Trieste | John Paddy Carstairs | Jean Kent, Albert Lieven | Thriller | |
| The Small Voice | Fergus McDonell | Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel | Drama/thriller | |
| Snowbound | David MacDonald | Dennis Price, Mila Parély, Stanley Holloway | Thriller | |
| So Evil My Love | Lewis Allen | Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald | Thriller | |
| The Small Back Room | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins | World War II | |
| Somewhere in Politics | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Tessie O'Shea | Comedy | |
| A Song for Tomorrow | Terence Fisher | Evelyn Maccabe, Ralph Michael | Drama | |
| Spring in Park Lane | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding | Romantic Comedy | |
| The Story of Shirley Yorke | Maclean Rogers | Derek Farr, Dinah Sheridan | Crime | |
| This Was a Woman | Tim Whelan | Sonia Dresdel, Walter Fitzgerald | Crime | |
| The Three Weird Sisters | Daniel Birt | Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Raymond Lovell | Melodrama | Screenplay by Dylan Thomas |
| Trouble in the Air | Charles Saunders | Freddie Frinton, Jimmy Edwards | Comedy | |
| Uneasy Terms | Vernon Sewell | Michael Rennie, Moira Lister | Thriller | |
| Vice Versa | Peter Ustinov | Roger Livesey, Anthony Newley | Comedy | |
| Waverley Steps | John Eldridge | | Documentary | |
| The Weaker Sex | Roy Ward Baker | Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker | Drama | |
| When You Come Home | John Baxter | Frank Randle, Leslie Sarony | Comedy | |
| Who Killed Van Loon? | Lionel Tomlinson | Raymond Lovell, Kay Bannerman | Crime | |
| William Comes to Town | Val Guest | William Graham, Garry Marsh, Jane Welsh | Comedy | |
| The Winslow Boy | Anthony Asquith | Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke | Drama | Adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan; filmed again in 1999 |
| Woman Hater | Terence Young | Stewart Granger, Edwige Feuillère, Ronald Squire | Romantic comedy | |