# List of British films of 1996

A list of British films released in 1996.

## 1996

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1996 |||||||
| The Adventures of Pinocchio | Steve Barron | Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Martin Landau, Geneviève Bujold | Fantasy | |
| August | Anthony Hopkins | Anthony Hopkins, Rhys Ifans, Leslie Phillips | Drama | |
| Beautiful Thing | Hettie Macdonald | Scott Neal, Glen Berry, Linda Henry | Romance/comedy/drama | |
| Boyfriends | Tom Hunsinger | James Dreyfus, Mark Sands | Drama | |
| Brassed Off | Mark Herman | Ewan McGregor, Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald | Comedy | |
| Carla's Song | Ken Loach | Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas | Drama | |
| Clancy's Kitchen | Duncan Roy | Mark Aiken, Indira Varma, Rocky Marshall | Comedy | |
| Crimetime | George Sluizer | Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost | Thriller | |
| Different for Girls | Richard Spence | Steven Mackintosh, Rupert Graves | Comedy | |
| Dragonheart | Rob Cohen | Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, David Thewlis | Fantasy | |
| Element of Doubt | Christopher Morahan | Nigel Havers, Gina McKee | Thriller | |
| Emma | Douglas McGrath | Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo | Romance | |
| Fargo | Joel Coen | Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare | Black comedy/crime | American-British co-production |
| Glastonbury the Movie | | | Documentary | Glastonbury Festival |
| Hamlet | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi | Literary drama | Adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare |
| Hard Men | J. K. Amalou | | Crime drama | |
| Hellraiser: Bloodline | Kevin Yagher | Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley | Science fiction horror | |
| The Innocent Sleep | Scott Michell | Oliver Cotton, Tony Bluto | Thriller | |
| Intimate Relations | Philip Goodhew | Julie Walters, Rupert Graves | Black comedy | |
| James and the Giant Peach | Henry Selick | Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley | Fantasy/adventure | |
| Jane Eyre | Franco Zeffirelli | William Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg | Drama | |
| Jude | Michael Winterbottom | Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet | Drama | |
| The Leading Man | John Duigan | Jon Bon Jovi, Anna Galiena | Thriller | |
| Loch Ness | John Henderson | Ted Danson, Joely Richardson | Drama | |
| The Pillow Book | Peter Greenaway | Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata | Drama | |
| The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | The Rolling Stones | Documentary | |
| Saint-Ex | Anand Tucker | Bruno Ganz, Miranda Richardson | Biopic | |
| Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Timothy Spall | Drama | Won the Palme d'Or at Cannes |
| Small Faces | Gillies MacKinnon | Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden | Drama | |
| Space Truckers | Stuart Gordon | Dennis Hopper, Debi Mazar | Sci-fi | |
| Stealing Beauty | Bernardo Bertolucci | Joseph Fiennes, Jeremy Irons, Liv Tyler | Drama | Co-production with France and Italy |
| Stella Does Tricks | Coky Giedroyc | Kelly Macdonald, James Bolam | Drama | |
| The English Patient | Anthony Minghella | Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Juliette Binoche | Romantic war drama | |
| Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle | Drama | Number 10 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| True Blue | Ferdinand Fairfax | Johan Leysen, Geraldine Somerville | Sports drama | |
| Twelfth Night | Trevor Nunn | Imogen Stubbs, Toby Stephens | Comedy | |
| Victory | Mark Peploe | Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill | Drama | Co-production with France and Germany |
| White Squall | Ridley Scott | Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto, Balthazar Getty | Disaster survival | Co-production with the US |
| The Wind in the Willows | Terry Jones | Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones | Family | |