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A list of British films released in 1996.

## 1996

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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes

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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 |

## See also

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* 1996 in film
* 1996 in British music
* 1996 in British radio
* 1996 in British television
* 1996 in the United Kingdom
* List of 1996 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

## External links

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* British films of 1996 at IMDb

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