# List of British films of 2002

A list of British films released in 2002.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 24 Hour Party People | Michael Winterbottom | Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine, Ralf Little | Comedy/drama | Manchester party culture; entered at Cannes |
| 28 Days Later | Danny Boyle | Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston | Horror | |
| About a Boy | Chris Weitz | Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette | Comedy | |
| AKA | Duncan Roy | Matthew Leitch, Diana Quick, George Asprey | Drama | Eight awards and nominations |
| Ali G Indahouse | Mark Mylod | Sacha Baron Cohen, Martin Freeman, Michael Gambon, Charles Dance | Comedy | |
| All or Nothing | Mike Leigh | Timothy Spall, Sam Kelly | | Entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival |
| Anita and Me | Metin Hüseyin | Chandeep Uppal, Kabir Bedi, Anna Brewster | Comedy/drama | British Indian film |
| Before You Go | Lewis Gilbert | Julie Walters, John Hannah | Comedy | |
| Bend It Like Beckham | Gurinder Chadha | Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Drama/sports | |
| Deathwatch | Michael J. Bassett | Jamie Bell, Laurence Fox | Horror | |
| Die Another Day | Lee Tamahori | Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, John Cleese, Madonna | Spy/action | Last James Bond film starring Brosnan |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Drama | |
| Doctor Sleep (also known as Close Your Eyes) | Nick Willing | Goran Visnjic, Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine | Drama | |
| Dog Soldiers | Neil Marshall | Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd | Horror | |
| The Escapist | Gillies MacKinnon | Jonny Lee Miller, Andy Serkis | Thriller | |
| The Guru | Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Jimi Mistry, Heather Graham, Marisa Tomei | Comedy | |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Chris Columbus | Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson | Fantasy | |
| The Honeytrap | Michael G. Gunther | Emily Lloyd, Valerie Edmond, Anthony Green, Ed Harris | Thriller | |
| The Hours | Stephen Daldry | Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris | Drama | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oliver Parker | Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Judi Dench | Comedy | Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde |
| In This World | Michael Winterbottom | Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah | Drama | |
| The Last Great Wilderness | David Mackenzie | Alastair Mackenzie, Jonathan Phillips, Ewan Stewart, David Hayman, Victoria Smurfit | Dogme 95-esque thriller/dark humour | |
| Long Time Dead | Marcus Adams | Joe Absolom, Lukas Haas | Horror | |
| The Magdalene Sisters | Peter Mullan | Anne-Marie Duff, Nora Jane Noone, Geraldine McEwan | Drama | |
| Miranda | Marc Munden | Christina Ricci, John Simm | Romance/comedy | |
| Morvern Callar | Lynne Ramsay | Samantha Morton | Drama | |
| My Little Eye | Marc Evans | Sean Cw Johnson, Kris Lemche | Horror | |
| My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117 | Chris Morris | Paddy Considine | Comedy | Short film |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Douglas McGrath | Charlie Hunnam, Nathan Lane, Jim Broadbent | Comedy drama | |
| Once Upon a Time in the Midlands | Shane Meadows | Robert Carlyle, Shirley Henderson, Kathy Burke | Crime drama | |
| The One and Only | Simon Cellan Jones | Justine Waddell, Richard Roxburgh, Jonathan Cake | Comedy/romance | |
| The Pianist | Roman Polanski | Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay | Drama | |
| Pure | Gillies MacKinnon | David Wenham, Keira Knightley, Molly Parker | Drama | |
| The Revenger's Tragedy | Alex Cox | Christopher Eccleston, Eddie Izzard, Derek Jacobi | Drama | Adaptation of the play by Thomas Middleton |
| Ripley's Game | Liliana Cavani | John Malkovich, Dougray Scott | Crime | Co-production with Italy and the US |
| Silent Cry | Julian Richards | Emily Woof, Douglas Henshall | Thriller | |
| Solid Geometry | Denis Lawson | Ewan McGregor, Ruth Millar | Mystery | Short film |
| The Soul Keeper | Roberto Faenza | Emilia Fox, Iain Glen, Craig Ferguson | Romance/drama | Italian-French-British co-production |
| Spider | David Cronenberg | Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne | Psychological thriller | |
| Tomorrow La Scala! | Francesca Joseph | | | Screened at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival |
| Two Men Went to War | John Henderson | Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill | World War II comedy | |
| Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise | Danny Boyle | Timothy Spall, Michael Begley | Comedy/drama | |
| The Warrior | Asif Kapadia | Irrfan Khan | Adventure | Made in Hindi |