List of British films of 2008

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A list of British films released in 2008.

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Adulthood | Noel Clarke | Noel Clarke, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Jacob Anderson | Drama |
Agent Crush | Sean Robinson | Brian Blessed, Neve Campbell | Animation |
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging | Gurinder Chadha | Georgia Groome, Alan Davies, Aaron Johnson | Romantic comedy |
The Bank Job | Roger Donaldson | Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows | Thriller |
Be Like Others | Tanaz Eshaghian |  | Documentary |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Mark Herman | David Thewlis, Asa Butterfield | World War II drama |
Brideshead Revisited | Julian Jarrold | Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon | Literary drama |
Broken Lines | Sallie Aprahamian | Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams | Drama | [1]
A Bunch of Amateurs | Andy Cadiff | Burt Reynolds, Samantha Bond | Comedy |
Cash and Curry | Sarjit Bains | Ameet Chana, Ronny Jhutti | Comedy |
Caught in the Act | Matt Lipsey | Steve Speirs, Sarah Barrand, Freddie Jones | Comedy | [2]
The Children | Tom Shankland | Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Hannah Tointon | Horror |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Andrew Adamson | Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley | Fantasy |
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures | Chris Waitt |  | Documentary |
The Cottage | Paul Andrew Williams | Andy Serkis, Reece Shearsmith | Comedy/horror |
The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan | Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman | Superhero/action |
Death Defying Acts | Gillian Armstrong | Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones | Romance/thriller | Co-production with Australia
Doomsday | Neil Marshall | Rhona Mitra Bob Hoskins Malcolm McDowell | Sci-fi/action |
The Duchess | Saul Dibb | Keira Knightley, Hayley Atwell, Ralph Fiennes | Historical drama | Winner of Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Costume Design
Easy Virtue | Stephan Elliott | Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas | Drama |
Eden Lake | James Watkins | Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O'Connell | Horror |
The Edge of Love | John Maybury | Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller | Drama |
The Escapist | Rupert Wyatt | Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Damian Lewis | Thriller |
Faintheart | Vito Rocco | Eddie Marsan, Ewan Bremner, Jessica Hynes | Comedy |
Fifty Dead Men Walking | Kari Skogland | Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess | Thriller |
Filth and Wisdom | Madonna | Eugene Hütz, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Richard E. Grant, Olegar Fedoro | Comedy-drama | Premiered at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival
Flashbacks of a Fool | Baillie Walsh | Daniel Craig, Harry Eden | Drama |
Franklyn | Gerald McMorrow | Ryan Phillippe, Eva Green, Sam Riley | Neo-noir |
Freebird | Jon Ivay | Phil Daniels, Gary Stretch | Comedy |
French Film | Jackie Oudney | Anne-Marie Duff, Hugh Bonneville | Comedy |
Gardens of the Night | Damian Harris | Gillian Jacobs, Evan Ross, Jeremy Sisto, Harold Perrineau, Kyle Gallner, John Malkovich, Kevin Zegers, Tom Arnold | Drama | Premiered at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival
The Gateway Meat | Ron DeCaro | David Barry, Baro Carvalho, Christianne Cicilio | Horror |
Good | Vicente Amorim | Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs | Drama |
The Grind | Rishi Opel | Jamie Foreman, Zoe Tapper, Danny John-Jules | Crime |
Happy-Go-Lucky | Mike Leigh | Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan | Drama | Winner of the Best Actress Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Robert B. Weide | Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Kirsten Dunst | Comedy |
Hunger | Steve McQueen | Michael Fassbender | Drama | Winner of the Caméra d'Or award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
In Your Dreams | Gary Sinyor | Dexter Fletcher, Elize du Toit, Parminder Nagra | Romance/comedy |
Incendiary | Sharon Maguire | Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor | Drama |
Inkheart | Iain Softley | Brendan Fraser, Eliza Bennett, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren | Fantasy | Co-production with the US
Lady Godiva | Vicky Jewson | Phoebe Thomas, Matthew Chambers, Natalie Walter | Romance/comedy |
Lecture 21 | Alessandro Baricco | John Hurt, Leonor Watling | Drama |
Love Live Long | Mike Figgis | Daniel Lapaine, Sophie Winkleman | Drama |
Mamma Mia! | Phyllida Lloyd | Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård | Musical | Highest grossing British film and highest selling DVD of all time in the UK
Man on Wire | James Marsh | Philippe Petit | Documentary | Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers; winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature), the BAFTA Award for Best British Film and the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film
Manolete | Menno Meyjes | Adrien Brody, Penélope Cruz | Biopic | Co-production with Spain
A Matter of Loaf and Death | Nick Park | Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay | Animated short | Winner of BAFTA for Best Animated Short
Of Time and the City | Terence Davies |  | Documentary |
The Other Man | Richard Eyre | Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas | Drama | Co-production with the US
The Oxford Murders | Álex de la Iglesia | Elijah Wood, John Hurt | Mystery |
Quantum of Solace | Marc Forster | Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench | Spy/action | James Bond Film
Revolutionary Road | Sam Mendes | Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour, Kathy Bates | Romantic drama | Co-production with the US
RocknRolla | Guy Ritchie | Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong, Thandie Newton | Crime drama |
Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor | Drama | Eight Oscar wins including Best Picture and Best Director
Son of Rambow | Garth Jennings | Bill Milner, Will Poulter | Family comedy-drama |
Three and Out | Jonathan Gershfield | Mackenzie Crook, Colm Meaney, Gemma Arterton, Imelda Staunton | Tragic comedy |
Transsiberian | Brad Anderson | Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley | Thriller |
Tropic Thunder | Ben Stiller | Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte | Satirical action comedy |
Wild Child | Nick Moore | Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer | Romantic comedy |

## See also

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* 2008 in film
* 2008 in British music
* 2008 in British radio
* 2008 in British television
* 2008 in the United Kingdom
* List of 2008 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

## References

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1. ^ "Broken Lines - review". TheGuardian.com. 29 September 2011.
2. ^ "Caught in the Act (2008)". Archived from the original on October 26, 2020.

## External links

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* British films of 2008 at IMDb

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Production companies
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* Aardman Animations
* Arborfield Studios
* BBC Film
* Big Talk Studios
* British Lion Films
* DNA Films
* DNEG
* Ealing Studios
* Elstree Studios
* Eon Productions
* Film4 Productions
* Framestore
* Goldcrest Films
* Hammer Film Productions
* HandMade Films
* Heyday Films
* The Imaginarium
* London Films
* Longcross Studios
* Mister Smith Entertainment
* Number 9 Films
* Passion Pictures
* Pinewood Group
* Pinewood Studios
* Shepperton Studios
* Recorded Picture Company
* Scott Free Productions
* Shinfield Studios
* Syncopy Inc.
* S4C
* Thin Man Films
* Vertigo Films
* Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden
* Warp Films
* Wimbledon Studios
* Working Title Films

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Former|

* Amicus Productions
* Associated British Picture Corporation
* Astra Films
* British and Dominions
* British Instructional Films
* British National Films Company
* Butcher's Film Service
* Clapham Studios
* Clarendon Film Company
* Craven Park Studios
* Bryanston Films
* The Danzigers
* Denham Film Studios
* Eagle-Lion Films
* Eros Films
* Esher Studios
* G. B. Samuelson Productions
* Gainsborough Pictures
* Gate Studios
* General Film Distributors
* Halas and Batchelor
* Hemdale Film Corporation
* Hepworth Pictures
* Holmfirth Studios
* Ideal Film Company
* Jellyfish Pictures
* Kensington Studios
* London Film Company
* Mancunian Films
* MGM-British Studios
* Merton Park Studios
* The Rank Organisation
* Rock Studios
* Southall Studios
* Stoll Pictures
* Surbiton Studios
* Tempean Films
* Tigon British Film Productions
* Warwick Films
* Woodfall Film Productions
* Woolf & Freedman Film Service

Genres and
movements|

* British New Wave
* Horror films of Britain
* Documentary Film Movement
* Ealing comedies
* Free Cinema
* Kitchen sink realism
* Gainsborough melodramas

Organisations|

* British Academy of Film and Television Arts
* British Board of Film Classification
* British Film Institute
* BFI National Archive
* BFI Southbank
* British Society of Cinematographers
* Children's Film Foundation
* Cinema Exhibitors' Association
* Moving Image Archive
* National Film and Television School
* National Science and Media Museum
* Northern Ireland Screen
* UK Film Council

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