List of British films of 2009

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A list of British films released in 2009.

Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Release date | Notes

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44 Inch Chest | Malcolm Venville | Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson | Gangster drama | 15 January |
Awaydays | Pat Holden | Stephen Graham | Drama | 22 May |
The Boat That Rocked | Richard Curtis | Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Rhys Ifans | Period comedy | 1 April |
Boogie Woogie | Duncan Ward | Amanda Seyfried, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham | Comedy | 2 May |
A Boy Called Dad | Brian Percival | Kyle Ward, Louise Delamere | Drama | 30 April |
The Boys Are Back | Scott Hicks | Clive Owen, Emma Booth | Drama | 15 September | Co-production with Australia
Bright Star | Jane Campion | Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Thomas Sangster | Romance | 6 November |
Bronson | Nicolas Winding Refn | Tom Hardy | Gangster drama | 13 March |
Bunny and the Bull | Paul King | Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby | Comedy | 27 November |
Cherrybomb | Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn | Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan | Drama | 23 April |
City Rats | Steve M. Kelly | Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Ray Panthaki, Susan Lynch | Black comedy | 24 April |
Clubbed | Neil Thompson | Colin Salmon, Mel Raido, Shaun Parkes, Scot Williams, Maxine Peake | Drama | 16 January |
Cracks | Jordan Scott | Eva Green, Juno Temple | Period drama | 4 December |
Creation | Jon Amiel | Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Benedict Cumberbatch | Drama/biographical | 25 September |
The Damned United | Tom Hooper | Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Colm Meaney | Drama | 25 March |
Desert Flower | Sherry Horman | Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins | Biopic | 5 September | Co-production with Germany
Doghouse | Jake West | Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham, Lee Ingleby, Terry Stone, Noel Clarke | Comedy | 12 June |
Dorian Gray | Oliver Parker | Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall | Drama | 11 September |
An Education | Lone Scherfig | Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins, Dominic Cooper | Coming-of-age | 30 October | Academy Award nominated for Best Film; BAFTA winner for Best Actress
Endgame | Pete Travis | William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller | Drama | 15 January |
An Englishman in New York | Richard Laxton | John Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Jonathan Tucker | Drama/biographical | December | Screened on ITV1 in December
Exam | Stuart Hazeldine | Colin Salmon, Jimi Mistry, Gemma Chan | Psychological thriller | 8 January |
The Firm | Nick Love | Paul Anderson, Calum McNab, Daniel Mays | Crime drama | 18 September | Remake of 1989 TV film
Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | Michael Fassbender | Drama | 13 May | Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | Gareth Carrivick | Anna Faris, Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly | Comedy sci-fi | 24 April |
From Time to Time | Julian Fellowes | Alex Etel, Timothy Spall | Fantasy | 15 October |
Glorious 39 | Stephen Poliakoff | Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne | Drama | 20 November |
Harry Brown | Daniel Barber | Michael Caine, Ben Drew | Crime thriller | 11 November | Premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | David Yates | Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Alan Rickman | Fantasy adventure | 17 July |
Heartless | Philip Ridley | Jim Sturgess, Noel Clarke, Clémence Poésy | Fantasy |  |
Hippie Hippie Shake | Beeban Kidron | Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Sean Biggerstaff, Emma Booth | Comedy drama |  |
I Know You Know | Justin Kerrigan | Robert Carlyle, Arron Fuller, Karl Johnson, Howard Marks | Drama | TBA |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Terry Gilliam | Heath Ledger, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp | Fantasy | 16 October |
In the Loop | Armando Iannucci | Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Gina McKee | Comedy | 17 April | Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay
Iron Cross | Joshua Newton | Roy Scheider, Scott Cohen, Helmut Berger, Monica Cruz | Thriller | 19 November 2010 |
Is Anybody There? | John Crowley | Michael Caine, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff, Bill Milner | Drama | 1 May |
Jack Said | Michael Tchoubouroff | David O'Hara, Danny Dyer, Simon Phillips | Film noir | 25 September |
Jackboots on Whitehall | Edward McHenry | Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Tom Wilkinson | Comedy | 8 October | Animated movie with dolls
Knife Edge | Anthony Hickox | Hugh Bonneville, Natalie Press | Thriller |  |
Knowing | Alex Proyas | Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury | Science fiction | 20 March |
The Last Station | Michael Hoffman | Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy | Biopic | 23 December | Co-produced with Germany and Russia
Lesbian Vampire Killers | Phil Claydon | James Corden, Mathew Horne | Comedy | 20 March |
Little Ashes | Paul Morrison | Javier Beltrán, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty | Drama/biographical | 8 May |
London River | Rachid Bouchareb | Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté | Drama | 10 February |
Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | Matthew McNulty | Drama/biographical | 12 June | Screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival
The Lovely Bones | Peter Jackson | Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan | Supernatural thriller drama | 24 November |
Malice in Wonderland | Simon Fellows | Maggie Grace, Danny Dyer | Fantasy |  |
Moon | Duncan Jones | Sam Rockwell | Sci-fi | 17 July |
My Last Five Girlfriends | Julian Kemp | Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris | Comedy | 19 March |
Nativity! | Debbie Isitt | Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins, Marc Wootton | Comedy | 27 November |
Nowhere Boy | Sam Taylor-Wood | Aaron Johnson | Drama | 26 December | Drama about the boyhood of John Lennon; closing night world premiere at London Film Festival
Perrier's Bounty | Ian Fitzgibbon | Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson | Thriller comedy | 26 March 2010 |
Planet 51 | Jorge Blanco | Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Gary Oldman | Animation | 20 November |
Pope Joan | Sönke Wortmann | Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham | Historical drama | 22 October | Co-production with Germany, Italy and Spain
Princess Kaiulani | Marc Forby | Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper | Biopic | 7 February | Co-production with the US
Rage | Sally Potter | Jude Law, Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi | Drama | 30 February | First shown at the Berlin International Film Festival
Rocketmen | Richard Dale  |  | Documentary  | 30 August  |
The Soloist | Joe Wright | Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, LisaGay Hamilton | Drama | 20 April |
St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson | Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, David Tennant, Talulah Riley, Sarah Harding Gemma Arterton | Comedy | 18 December |
The Secret of Moonacre | Gábor Csupó | Dakota Blue Richards, Tim Curry, Ioan Gruffudd | Adventure fantasy | 12 February |
Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams | Adventure | 25 December |
Shifty | Eran Creevy | Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng, Nitin Ganatra, Francesca Annis | Urban thriller | 26 April |
Telstar | Nick Moran | Con O'Neill, Carl Barât, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, Mathew Baynton | Drama | 19 June |
Tony | Gerard Johnson | Peter Ferdinando, Ricky Grover, Neil Maskell | Horror | 18 June |
Tormented | Jon Wright | Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Calvin Dean | Horror | 22 May |
Triangle | Christopher Smith | Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Rachael Carpani | Horror | 16 October |
The Young Victoria | Jean-Marc Vallée | Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson | Drama | 6 March | Won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design

## See also

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* 2009 in film
* 2009 in British music
* 2009 in British radio
* 2009 in British television
* 2009 in the United Kingdom
* List of 2009 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

## References

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## External links

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* British films of 2009 at IMDb

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Production companies
and studios|

| Active|

* 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

People|

* Actors
* Directors

Other|

* Box office
* British Academy Film Awards
* British Independent Film Awards
* Carry On
* Censorship
* Cinematograph Films Act 1927
* Eady Levy
* Harry Potter
* History of British film certificates
* UK Video Charts
* James Bond
* BFI London Film Festival
* Look at Life
* London in film
* National Theatre Live
* Telecinema

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