# List of British films of 2024

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

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:

### In-Year releases

    * Denotes films still running in cinemas worldwide
Highest-grossing U.K. independent films of 2024 :
| 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

Highest-grossing U.K. qualifying films of 2024 :
| 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
### January–March

| Opening | Opening | Title | Cast and crew | Details |
| J A N U A R Y | 1 | Arthur's Whisky | Director: Stephen Cookson Cast: Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge, Lulu | Sky Cinema |
| J A N U A R Y | 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 |
| J A N U A R Y | 12 | The Beekeeper | Director: David Ayer Cast: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Phylicia Rashad, Jeremy Irons | Sky Cinema |
| J A N U A R Y | 18 | Eno | Director: Gary Hustwit Cast: Bilal Hasna, Louis Greatorex, Safiyya Ingar | Based on the life of Brian Eno |
| J A N U A R Y | 18 | 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 |
| J A N U A R Y | 18 | Layla | Director: Amrou Al-Kadhi Cast: Bilal Hasna, Louis Greatorex, Safiyya Ingar | |
| J A N U A R Y | 19 | The Outrun | Director: Nora Fingscheidt Cast: Saoirse Ronan | StudioCanal Based on The Outrun by Amy Liptrot |
| J A N U A R Y | 19 | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Director: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui Cast: Christopher Reeve | Warner Bros. Pictures Based on the life of Christopher Reeve |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | 10 Lives | Director: Chris Jenkins Cast: Mo Gilligan, Simone Ashley, Sophie Okonedo, Zayn Malik, Dylan Llewellyn, Jeremy Swift, Tabitha Cross, Bill Nighy | Sky Cinema |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Black Box Diaries | Director: Shiori Itō | MTV Documentary Films |
| J A N U A R Y | 20 | Love Lies Bleeding | Director: Rose Glass Cast: Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Dave Franco, Ed Harris | A24 |
| J A N U A R Y | 21 | Sebastian | Director: Mikko Mäkelä Cast: Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Jonathan Hyde, Lara Rossi, Leanne Best | LevelK |
| J A N U A R Y | 26 | American Star | Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego Cast: Ian McShane, Nora Arnezeder, Adam Nagaitis, Andrés Gertrúdix | Vertigo Releasing |
| F E B R U A R 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+ |
| F E B R U A R Y | 8 | Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son | Director: Lorna Tucker Cast: Colin Firth | |
| F E B R U A R Y | 16 | Last Swim | Director: Sasha Nathwani Cast: Deba Hekmat, Narges Rashidi, Solly McLeod, Jay Lycurgo | Indie Sales |
| F E B R U A R Y | 16 | 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 |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | The Visitor | Director: Bruce LaBruce Cast: Bishop Black, Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill | Best Friend Forever Based on Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| F E B R U A R Y | 18 | Another End | Director: Piero Messina Cast: Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams | Newen Connect |
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | Reawakening | Director: Virginia Gilbert Cast: Jared Harris, Erin Doherty, Juliet Stevenson | Signature Entertainment |
| M A R C H | 8 | Timestalker | Director: Alice Lowe Cast: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Nick Frost, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Mike Wozniak, Kate Dickie | Vertigo Films |
| M A R C H | 8 | Vindication Swim | Director: Elliott Hasler Cast: Kirsten Callaghan, John Locke, Victoria Summer | Picnik Entertainment Based on the life of Mercedes Gleitze |
| M A R C H | 9 | Magpie | Director: Sam Yates Cast: Daisy Ridley, Shazad Latif, Matilda Lutz | Signature Entertainment |
| M A R C H | 18 | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 | Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield Cast: Scott Chambers, Tallulah Evans, Ryan Oliva, Teresa Banham | Based on Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard Altitude Film Distribution |
| M A R C H | 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 |

### April–June

| Opening | Opening | Title | Cast and crew | Details |
| A P R I L | 5 | Seize Them! | Director: Curtis Vowell Cast: Aimee Lou Wood, Lolly Adefope, Nicola Coughlan, Jessica Hynes, Nick Frost | Entertainment Film Distributors |
| A P R I L | 5 | Scoop | Director: Philip Martin Cast: Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper, Rufus Sewell, Romola Garai, Keeley Hawes | Netflix |
| A P R I L | 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 |
| A P R I L | 12 | Damaged | Director: Terry McDonough Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi, Laura Haddock, John Hannah, Kate Dickie | Signature Entertainment |
| A P R I L | 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 |
| A P R I L | 19 | Swede Caroline | Director: Finn Bruce, Brook Driver Cast: Jo Hartley, Aisling Bea, Ray Fearon | |
| M A Y | 16 | Bird | Director: Andrea Arnold Cast: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, Jason Buda | Mubi |
| M A Y | 16 | On Becoming a Guinea Fowl | Director: Rungano Nyoni Cast: Elizabeth Chisela, Henry B.J. Phiri, Susan Chardy | A24 |
| M A Y | 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 |
| M A Y | 19 | Sister Midnight | Director: Karan Kandhari Cast: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya Kadam, Smita Tambe | Altitude Film Distribution |
| M A Y | 19 | The Substance | Director: Coralie Fargeat Cast: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid | Mubi |
| M A Y | 20 | Santosh | Director: Sandhya Suri Cast: Shahana Goswami, Sanjay Bishnoi, Kushal Dubey | |
| M A Y | 21 | September Says | Director: Ariane Labed Cast: Mia Tharia, Rakhee Thakrar, Pascale Kann | Based on Sisters by Daisy Johnson |
| M A Y | 22 | To a Land Unknown | Director: Mahdi Fleifel Cast: Mahmood Bakri, Aram Sabbagh, Angeliki Papoulia | Watermelon Pictures |
| M A Y | 29 | The Commandant's Shadow | Director: Daniela Volker Cast: Jurgen Höss, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch | About Jurgen Höss, son of Rudolf Höss |
| M A Y | 29 | Touch | Director: Baltasar Kormákur Cast: Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, Palmi Kormakur | Based on Touch by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson Universal Pictures |
| M A Y | 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 |
| J U N E | 3 | This Time Next Year | Director: Nick Moore Cast: Lucien Laviscount, Sophie Cookson, John Hannah, Monica Dolan, Golda Rosheuvel, Mandip Gill, Will Hislop, Charlie Oscar, Keala Settle | Signature Entertainment |
| J U N E | 9 | Witches | Director: Elizabeth Sankey Cast: Catherine Cho, Sophia Di Martino, David Emson | |
| J U N E | 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 |
| J U N E | 14 | Blur: To the End | Director: Toby L. Cast: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree | About Blur |
| J U N E | 21 | Something in the Water | Director: Hayley Easton Street Cast: Hiftu Quasem, Natalie Mitson, Nicole Rietsu Setsuko, Lauren Lyle | StudioCanal UK |
| J U N E | 24 | The Wasp | Director: Guillem Morales Cast: Naomie Harris, Natalie Dormer, Lilly-Anne Marston-Smith | Based on The Wasp by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm |

### July–September

| Opening | Opening | Title | Cast and crew | Details |
| J U L Y | 3 | A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things | Director: Mark Cousins | Conic About artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham |
| J U L Y | 26 | Robin and the Hoods | Director: Phil Hawkins Cast: Naomie Harris, Gwendoline Christie, Darcey Ewart, Gloria Ishikawa, Dexter Sol Ansell, Bruno Edgington-Gibson | Sky Cinema |
| J U L Y | 26 | The Beast Within | Director: Alexander J. Farrelll Cast: Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, | |
| J U L Y | 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 |
| A U G U S T | 15 | Alien: Romulus | Director: Fede Álvarez Cast: Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, Spike Fearn | 20th Century Studios Sequel to Alien |
| A U G U S T | 19 | And Mrs | Director: Daniel Reisinger Cast: Aisling Bea, Colin Hanks | |
| A U G U S T | 20 | The Radleys | Director: Euros Lyn Cast: Damian Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Sophia Di Martino, Shaun Parkes | Cornerstone Based on The Radleys by Matt Haig |
| A U G U S T | 30 | Diciannove | Director: Giovanni Tortorici Cast: Manfredi Marini, Vittoria Planeta, Dana Giuliano, Zackari Delmas, Luca Lazzareschi | |
| A U G U S T | 31 | The End | Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Cast: Tilda Swinton, George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Michael Shannon, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny | |
| S E P T E M B E R | 1 | The Brutalist | Director: Brady Corbet Cast: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Alessandro Nivola, Jonathan Hyde, Guy Pearce | Focus Features |
| S E P T E M B E R | 3 | 2073 | Director: Asif Kapadia Cast: Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie, Hector Hewer | Based on La Jetée by Chris Marker Neon |
| S E P T E M B E R | 3 | Harvest | Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, Frank Dillane | Based on Harvest by Jim Crace Mubi |
| S E P T E M B E R | 4 | The Whip | Director: Christopher Presswell Cast: Shian Denovan, Gala Wesson, Tom Knight, Daniel Davids, Ray Bullock Jnr. | Workbus |
| S E P T E M B E R | 5 | The Cut | Director: Sean Ellis Cast: Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, John Turturro | |
| S E P T E M B E R | 5 | William Tell | Director: R. J. Cutler, David Furnish Cast: Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Ellie Bamber, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Rafe Spall, Emily Beecham | Based on William Tell by Friedrich Schiller |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Elton John: Never Too Late | Director: R. J. Cutler, David Furnish Cast: Elton John | Based on the story of Elton John Disney+ |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Hard Truths | Director: Mike Leigh Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin | StudioCanal |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | On Falling | Director: Laura Carreira Cast: Joana Santos | Conic |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | The Salt Path | Director: Marianne Elliott Cast: Jason Isaacs, Gillian Anderson | Based on The Salt Path by Raynor Winn Black Bear Pictures |
| S E P T E M B E R | 6 | We Live in Time | Director: John Crowley Cast: Florence Pugh, Andrew Garfield | StudioCanal |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | The Penguin Lessons | Director: Peter Cattaneo Cast: Steve Coogan | Based on The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell Lionsgate |
| S E P T E M B E R | 7 | The Return | Director: Uberto Pasolini Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Charlie Plummer | Based on The Odyssey by Homer |
| S E P T E M B E R | 8 | The Assessment | Director: Fleur Fortuné Cast: Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, Himesh Patel, Minnie Driver, Indira Varma | |
| S E P T E M B E R | 8 | Conclave | Director: Edward Berger Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Lucian Msamati | Based on Conclave by Robert Harris Black Bear Pictures |
| S E P T E M B E R | 8 | Bring Them Down | Director: Christopher Andrews Cast: Barry Keoghan, Colm Meaney, Christopher Abbott, Paul Ready | Mubi |
| S E P T E M B E R | 8 | Relay | Director: David Mackenzie Cast: Riz Ahmed, Lily James, Sam Worthington | Black Bear Pictures |
| S E P T E M B E R | 20 | Get Away | Director: Steffen Haars Cast: Nick Frost, Aisling Bea, Sebastian Croft | |
| S E P T E M B E R | 22 | Daddy's Head | Director: Benjamin Barfoot Cast: Rupert Turnbull, Julia Brown, Charles Aitken | Shudder |

### October–December

| Opening | Opening | Title | Cast and crew | Details |
| O C T O B E R | 4 | Take Cover | Director: Ben Taylor Cast: Scott Adkins, Alice Eve, Jack Parr | Signature Entertainment |
| O C T O B E R | 5 | Joy | Director: Nick McKinless Cast: Bill Nighy, Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton | Netflix Based on the true story of the world's first IVF baby |
| O C T O B E R | 9 | Blitz | Director: Steve McQueen Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Elliot Heffernan, Leigh Gill, Harris Dickinson, Erin Kellyman, Stephen Graham, Paul Weller | Apple TV+ |
| O C T O B E R | 24 | Canary Black | Director: Pierre Morel Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Rupert Friend, Ray Stevenson, Saffron Burrows | Amazon MGM Studios |
| N O V E M B E R | 1 | Hitpig! | Director: Cinzia Angelini, David Feiss Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Lilly Singh, Rainn Wilson, Anitta, RuPaul, Hannah Gadsby | Based on Pete & Pickles by Berkeley Breathed |
| N O V E M B E 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 Sequel to Paddington 2 |
| N O V E M B E R | 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 Sequel to Gladiator |
| D E C E M B E R | 4 | That Christmas | Director: Simon Otto Cast leaders: Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker and Bill Nighy | Netflix Based on That Christmas and Other Stories by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb |
| D E C E M B E R | 6 | Mary | Director: D. J. Caruso Cast: Noa Cohen, Ido Tako, Ori Pfeffer, Hilla Vidor, Dudley O'Shaughnessy, Anthony Hopkins | Netflix |
| D E C E M B E R | 25 | Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | Director: Nick Park Cast: Ben Whitehead, Peter Kay, Reece Shearsmith | BBC Films Based on Wallace & Gromit by Nick Park |

### Other premieres

| Title | Director | Release date |
| A Game of Two Halves | Khayam Khan | 23 February 2024 |
| Alien Interloper the Movie | Calvin Cassidy | 15 June 2024 |
| Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe | Cosima Spender | 6 September 2024 (Toronto International Film Festival) |
| A Gangster's Kiss | Ray Burdis | 16 June 2024 |
| An Hour | Stephen Cartwright | 29 January 2024 |
| Another World | Sean Sadler | 14 February 2024 |
| Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story | Sinéad O'Shea | 7 September 2024 (Toronto International Film Festival) |
| Broken Bird | Joanne Mitchell | 22 August 2024 (FrightFest) |
| Collective Monologue | Jessica Sarah Rinland | 15 August 2024 (Locarno Film Festival) |
| Cookster: The Darkest Days | Stephen Roach | May 2024 |
| Devo | Chris Smith | 21 January 2024 (Sundance Film Festival) |
| Dirty Boy | Doug Rao | 17 May 2024 |
| Dragfox | Lisa Ott | 31 August |
| The Fisherman and the Banker | Sheena Sumaria | 17 February 2024 (Big Sky Documentary Film Festival) |
| 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 |
| The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland | Peter Baynton | 15 November 2024 |
| One to One: John & Yoko | Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards | 30 August 2024 (Venice Film Festival) |
| Paul and Paulette Take a Bath | Jethro Massey | 4 September 2024 (Venice Film Festival) |
| Portraits of Dangerous Women | Pascal Bergamin | 11 October 2024 |
| Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass | Brothers Quay | 29 August 2024 (Venice Film Festival) |
| Shikun | Amos Gitai | 18 February 2024 (Berlin International Film Festival) |
| Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands | Blair Young, Carla J. Easton | 21 August 2024 (Edinburgh 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

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:
* The film is adapted from a British source material.
* The story is at least partially set in the United Kingdom.
* The film was at least partially produced in the United Kingdom.
* Many of the film's cast and crew members are British.
| Title | Country of origin | Story setting | Film locations | British cast and crew |
| Better Man | Australia United States | Staffordshire and London, England | London, England | Robbie Williams, Jonno Davies, Steve Pemberton, Alison Steadman, Frazer Hadfield, Jake Simmance |
| Bob Marley: One Love | United States | London, UK | London, UK | Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole, Anthony Welsh |
| Young Woman and the Sea | 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 and Apartment 7A also fulfill two criteria, by having British cast and crew members and being produced in the UK.