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This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premiere in 2023 and were at least partly produced by the United Kingdom. It does not feature short films, medium-length films, made-for-TV films, pornographic films, filmed theater, VR films or interactive films, nor does it include films screened in previous years that have official release dates in 2023.

## British films box office

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The highest-grossing UK-qualifying and U.K. independent British films according to the British Film Institute released in 2023, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows:[1][2][3]

### In-Year releases

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Highest-grossing U.K. independent films of 2023[4] Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross (£m)

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1  | The Great Escaper | Warner Bros.  | £5,310,000
2  | What's Love Got to Do with It? | StudioCanal UK | £4,810,000
3  | Empire of Light | Disney  | £3,870,000
4  | Allelujah | Pathé UK/Warner Bros.  | £3,690,000
5  | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | EONE FILMS  | £3,380,000
6  | Sumotherhood | Paramount | £2,450,000
7  | The Miracle Club | Lionsgate  | £1,920,000
8  | Greatest Days | Elysian Film Group  | £1,550,000
9  | Rye Lane | Walt Disney  | £1,230,000
10  | The Old Oak | Studiocanal UK  | £1,100,000
*  | Denotes films still running in cinemas worldwide

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Highest-grossing U.K. qualifying films of 2023 [5][6][7] Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross (£m)

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1  | Barbie | Warner Bros  | £95,600,000
2  | Wonka | Warner Bros  | £58,400,000
3  | The Little Mermaid | Walt Disney  | £27,400,000
4  | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Paramount  | £26,600,000
5  | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | Walt Disney  | £20,400,000
6  | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Walt Disney | £19,300,000
7  | Fast X | Universal  | £15,300,000
8  | Napoleon | Sony | £14,400,000
9  | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | eOne Films | £13,700,000
10  | Meg 2: The Trench | Warner Bros  | £13,100,000

## Film premieres

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### January–March

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Opening  | Title  | Cast and crew  | Distributor  | Ref.

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Y  | 16  | Bank of Dave | Director: Chris Foggin
Cast: Joel Fry, Phoebe Dynevor, Rory Kinnear, Hugh Bonneville, Paul Kaye, Jo Hartley | Netflix | [8]
16  | Earth Mama | Director: Savanah Leaf
Cast: Tia Nomore, Erika Alexander, Doechii, Keta Price, Olivia Luccardi | A24
Based on The Heart Still Hums by Leaf and Taylor Russell |
19  | The Pod Generation | Director: Sophie Barthes
Cast: Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig, Vinette Robinson, Jean-Marc Barr |  |
21  | Polite Society | Director: Nida Manzoor
Cast: Ritu Arya, Priya Kansara | Focus Features | [9][10]
22  | Drift | Director: Anthony Chen
Cast: Cynthia Erivo, Alia Shawkat, Ibrahima Ba, Honor Swinton Byrne |  |
The Deepest Breath | Director: Laura McGann
| Netflix |
Girl | Director: Adura Onashile
Cast: Déborah Lukumuena, Le'Shantey Bonsu, Danny Sapani, Liana Turner | New Europe Film Sales |
23  | Rye Lane | Director: Raine Allen-Miller
Cast: Vivian Oparah, David Jonsson, Alice Hewkin, Munya Chawawa, Simon Manyonda | Searchlight Pictures |
Scrapper | Director: Charlotte Regan
Cast: Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun, Cary Crankson |  |
26  | Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey | Director: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
Cast: Craig David Dowsett, Chris Cordell, Amber Doig-Thorne, Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor | Altitude Film Distribution <br? Based on Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard |
27  | Unwelcome | Director: Jon Wright
Cast: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth | Charades  |

Y  | 7  | One Year Off | Director: Philippe Martinez
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Nathalie Cox, Chad Michael Collins, Ray Fearon | Grindstone Entertainment Group  |
18  | A Greyhound of a Girl | Director: Enzo D'Alò
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Sharon Horgan, Mia O'Connor, Charlene McKenna, Rosaleen Linehan | Dazzler Media  |
19  | Femme | Directors: Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping
Cast: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, George Mackay | Signature Entertainment |
Silver Haze | Director: Sacha Polak
Cast: Vicky Knight, Esmé Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Brigden, Angela Bruce | BFI |
22  | The Strays | Director: Nathaniel Martello-White
Cast: Ashley Madekwe, Bukky Bakray, Jorden Myrie | Netflix |
24  | Luther: The Fallen Sun | Director: Jamie Payne
Cast: Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis | Netflix | [11][12]

H  | 1  | Bolan's Shoes | Director: Ian Puleston-Davies
Cast: Timothy Spall, Leanne Best, Mark Lewis Jones, Mathew Horne | Munro Films  |
11  | Little Bone Lodge | Director: Matthias Hoene
Cast: Joely Richardson, Sadie Soverall, Neil Linpow, Harry Cadby  | Signature Entertainment |
12  | Raging Grace | Director: Paris Zarcilla
Cast: Max Eigenmann, Leanne Best, David Hayman, Jaeden Paige Boadilla | Brainstorm  | [13]
15  | Tetris | Director: Jon S. Baird
Cast: Taron Egerton, Nikita Efremov, Roger Allam, Anthony Boyle, Togo Igawa, Toby Jones, Ken Yamamura, Ben Miles, Matthew Marsh | Apple TV+ | [14][15]
Wait For Me | Director: Keith Farrell
Cast: Karen Hassan, Aaron Cobham, Sean McGinley, Elva Trill, Neil Bell, Rebecca Atkinson | Munro Films  | [16]
18  | Polarized | Director: Shamim Sarif
Cast: Holly Deveaux, Maxine Denis | Blue Denim Films, Echo Lake Entertainment, Enlightenment Productions, Julijette
(Canada-UK coproduction)  | [17]
19  | Phantom Parrot | Director: Kate Stonehill |  |

### April–June

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Opening  | Title  | Cast and crew  | Distributor  | Ref.

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L  | 14  | The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die | Director: Edward Bazalgette
Cast: Alexander Dreymon, Harry Gilby, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius | Netflix |
19  | Coldplay – Music of the Spheres: Live at River Plate | Director: Paul Dugdale
Cast: Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, Golshifteh Farahani, H.E.R., Jin, Chris Martin | Trafalgar Releasing |
28  | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Director: Hettie Macdonald
Cast: Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton, Linda Bassett, Joseph Mydell | Entertainment One |

Y  | 17  | Occupied City | Director: Steve McQueen | 20th Century Studios
Based on Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940-1945 by Bianca Stigter |
19  | How to Have Sex | Director: Molly Manning Walker
Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley | Mubi |
The Zone of Interest | Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Medusa Knopf, Daniel Holzberg, Sascha Maaz, Max Beck | A24
Loosely based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis |
21  | Firebrand | Director: Karim Aïnouz
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Sam Riley, Eddie Marsan, Simon Russell Beale, Erin Doherty | STX International
Based on Queen's Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle |
22  | Club Zero | Director: Jessica Hausner
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Mathieu Demy, Elsa Zylberstein, Amir El-Masry, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Camilla Rutherford |  |
The Settlers | Director: Felipe Gálvez Haberle
Cast: Camilo Arancibia, Mark Stanley, Benjamin Westfall, Alfredo Castro, Marcelo Alonso, Sam Spruell | Mubi |
26  | The Old Oak | Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Debbie Honeywood, Reuben Bainbridge, Rob Kirtley  | StudioCanal |

| 9  | The Miracle Club | Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Cast: Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith, Stephen Rea | Lionsgate |
12  | Kensuke's Kingdom | Director: Neil Boyle, Kirk Hendry
Cast: Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy, Ken Watanabe, Raffey Cassidy | British Film Institute | [18]
16  | Greatest Days | Director: Coky Giedroyc
Cast: Aisling Bea, Alice Lowe, Amaka Okafor, Jayde Adams | Based on the musical of the same name
Bron Releasing  |
27  | Wham! | Director: Chris Smith
Cast: George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley | Netflix, Altitude | [19]
30  | My Extinction | Director: Josh Appignanesi
Cast: A. L. Kennedy, George Monbiot, Susie Orbach, Mark Rylance, Simon Schama, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith | Netflix, Dartmouth Films  |

### July–September

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Opening  | Title  | Cast and crew  | Distributor  | Ref.

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| 9  | Barbie | Director: Greta Gerwig
Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Cera, Issa Rae | Warner Bros. Pictures |
11  | Oppenheimer | Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh | Universal Pictures | [20]
20  | Haunting of the Queen Mary | Director: Gary Shore
Cast: Alice Eve, Joel Fry | Imagination Design Works  | [21]

T  | 1  | Dreams in Nightmares | Director: Shatara Michelle Ford
Cast: Denée Benton, Mars Storm Rucker, Dezi Bing, Sasha Compère, Charlie Barnett |  |
18  | Chuck Chuck Baby | Director: Janis Pugh
Cast: Annabel Scholey, Louise Brealey, Sorcha Cusack, Celyn Jones, Emily Fairn, Edyta Budnik |  |
31  | All of Us Strangers | Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell | Searchlight Pictures | [22]
Saltburn | Director: Emerald Fennell
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe | Warner Bros. Pictures | [23]

R  | 1  | Baltimore | Director: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy
Cast: Imogen Poots, Jude McClean, Jack Meade, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Lewis Brophy, Patrick Martins, Dermot Crowley, John Kavanagh | Bankside Films  |
The Pigeon Tunnel | Director: Errol Morris | Apple TV+
Based on the life and career of John le Carré |
Poor Things | Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Mark Ruffalo, Jerrod Carmichael, Margaret Qualley, Christopher Abbott | Searchlight Pictures | [24]
The Royal Hotel | Director: Kitty Green
Cast: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Toby Wallace, Hugo Weaving | Based on Hotel Coolgardie by Pete Gleeson  |
Tuesday | Director: Daina O. Pusic
Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lola Petticrew, Arinzé Kene, Leah Harvey | A24 | [25]
2  | Hoard | Director: Luna Carmoon
Cast: Hayley Squires, Joseph Quinn, Saura Lightfoot Leon, Lily-Beau Leach |  |
Tatami | Director: Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Cast: Arienne Mandi, Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Jaime Ray Newman, Nadine Marshall, Lirr Katz, Ash Goldeh | WestEnd Films  |
3  | Pet Shop Days | Director: Olmo Schnabel
Cast: Darío Yazbek Bernal, Jack Irv, Tal Chatterjee, Willem Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard, Grace Brennan, Emmanuelle Seigner |  |
4  | Sky Peals | Director: Moin Hussain |  |
7  | The Convert | Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Guy Pearce, Te Kohe Tuhaka  | Cinesky
Based on Wulf by Hamish Clayton  |
Copa 71 | Director: James Erskine, Rachel Ramsay
Cast: Brandi Chastain, Alex Morgan, Elena Schiavo, Elba Selva, Carol Wilson |  |
The Critic | Director: Anand Tucker
Cast: Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville, Romola Garai, Ben Barnes, Alfred Enoch | BKStudios
Based on Curtain Call by Anthony Quinn  | [26]
North Star | Director: Kristin Scott Thomas
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johansson, Freida Pinto, Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham, Sindhu Vee |  |
8  | Unicorns | Director: Sally El Hosaini, James Krishna Floyd
Cast: Ben Hardy, Jason Patel  |  |
9  | Defiant | Director: Karim Amer | Warner Bros. Pictures
Focusing on Dmytro Kuleba and the Russian invasion of Ukraine |
Lee | Director: Ellen Kuras
Cast: Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Josh O'Connor, Andy Samberg, Noémie Merlant | Sky Original
Adapted from The Lives of Lee Miller by Antony Penrose | [27]
One Life | Director: James Hawes
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Lena Olin, Jonathan Pryce, Romola Garai, Alex Sharp | Warner Bros. Pictures
Based on If It’s Not Impossible…The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton  |
The Teacher | Director: Farah Nabulsi
Cast: Saleh Bakri, Imogen Poots, Muhammad Abed Elrahman, Muayyad Abd Elsamad, Stanley Townsend | Front Row Filmed Entertainment

Wicked Little Letters | Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Anjana Vasan, Joanna Scanlan, Hugh Skinner, Gemma Jones, Lolly Adefope, Malachi Kirby, Alisha Weir, Eileen Atkins | StudioCanal |
10  | Close To You | Director: Dominic Savage
Cast: Elliot Page, Hillary Baack, Wendy Crewson, Peter Outerbridge |  |
The End We Start From | Director: Mahalia Belo
Cast: Jodie Comer, Katherine Waterston, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong | Signature Entertainment
Based on The Ed We Start From by Megan Hunter |
Next Goal Wins | Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Beulah Koale, Lehi Falepapalangi, Semu Filipo, Uli Latukefu, Rachel House, Kaimana, Will Arnett, Elisabeth Moss | Searchlight Pictures | [28]
11  | A Haunting in Venice | Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michelle Yeoh | 20th Century Studios
Loosely based on Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie and sequel to Death on the Nile |
Pain Hustlers | Director: David Yates
Cast: Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Catherine O'Hara, Andy García, Jay Duplass | Netflix
Based on Pain Hustlers by Evan Hughes  |
Widow Clicquot | Director: Thomas Napper
Cast: Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge, Sam Riley | Vertical
Based on The Widow Clicquot by Tilar Mazzeo  |
20  | The Great Escaper | Director: Oliver Parker
Cast: Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson | Warner Bros. Pictures |
22  | The Canterville Ghost | Director: Kim Burdon, Robert Chandler
Cast: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Freddie Highmore, Emily Carey, Imelda Staunton, Toby Jones, Miranda Hart, David Harewood, Meera Syal |  | [29]
24  | Stopmotion | Director: Robert Morgan
Cast: Stella Gonet, Tom York, Therica Wilson-Read, Caoilinn Springall |  |
30  | Dance First | Director: James Marsh
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Fionn O'Shea, Aidan Gillen, Maxine Peake, Sandrine Bonnaire | Sky Cinema
Based on the life of Samuel Beckett |
Foe | Director: Garth Davis
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre | MGM
Based on Fpe by Iain Reid |

### October–December

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Opening  | Title  | Cast and crew  | Distributor  | Ref.

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| 5  | Freelance | Director: Pierre Morel
Cast: John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba, Christian Slater | Signature Entertainment |
6  | Bonus Track | Director: Julia Jackman
Cast: Joe Anders, Samuel Small, Jack Davenport, Alison Sudol, Susan Wokoma, Ray Panthaki, Josh O'Connor |  |
12  | Starve Acre | Director: Daniel Kokotajlo
Cast: Morfydd Clark, Matt Smith | BFI Distribution
Based on Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley |
14  | Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Director: Sam Fell
Cast: Zachary Levi, Thandiwe Newton, Bella Ramsey, Romesh Ranganathan, David Bradley, Daniel Mays, Jane Horrocks, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, Nick Mohammed, Miranda Richardson, Peter Serafinowicz | Netflix
Aardman Animations | [30]
15  | The Kitchen | Director: Kibwe Tavares, Daniel Kaluuya
Cast: Kane Robinson, Jedaiah Bannerman, Hope Ikpoku Jr, Teija Kabs, Demmy Ladipo, Ian Wright | Netflix |
24  | Wonka | Director: Paul King
Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Keegan-Michael Key, Sally Hawkins, Jim Carter, Matt Lucas, Natasha Rothwell, Olivia Colman, Rowan Atkinson | Warner Bros. Pictures | [31]
26  | Cottontail | Director: Patrick Dickinson
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Lily Franky, Ciarán Hinds, Ryo Nishikido, Tae Kimura, Rin Takanashi | WestEnd Films  | [32]
27  | Boudica: The Queen of War | Director: Jesse V. Johnson
Cast: Olga Kurylenko, Clive Standen, Peter Franzén, Rita Tushingham, Nick Moran, Lucy Martin, James Faulkner, Leo Gregory, Harry Kirton | Saban Films
Signature Entertainment
Based on the Brythonic Celtic uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire |
Freud's Last Session | Director: Matthew Brown
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode, Liv Lisa Fries, Jodi Balfour, Jeremy Northam, Orla Brady | Vertigo Releasing
Based on Freud's Last Session by Mark St. Germain  |

R  | 1  | Locked In | Director: Nour Wazzi
Cast: Famke Janssen, Rose Williams, Alex Hassell, Finn Cole, Anna Friel | Netflix |
2  | The Trouble with Jessica | Director: James Handel
Cast: Shirley Henderson, Alan Tudyk, Rufus Sewell, Olivia Williams, Indira Varma |  |
3  | The Undertaker | Director: Michael Wright
Cast: Paul McGann, Tara Fitzgerald, Roger Barclay, Lily Frazer, Sean Gilder, Murray Melvin, Nicholas Rowe, Bob Cryer  | RRB Films  | [33]
14  | Napoleon | Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim | Sony Pictures Releasing | [34]

R  | 21  | The Iron Claw | Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Lily James, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Holt McCallany, Jeremy Allen White | Lionsgate
Based on the life of Kevin Von Erich and the Von Erich family |
28  | Baghead | Director: Alberto Corredor
Cast: Freya Allan, Peter Mullan, Anne Müller, Ruby Barker, Jeremy Irvine |  |

### Other premieres

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Title  | Director  | Release date  | Ref.

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Black Dog | George Jaques  | 14 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival)  |
Breaking Point | Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini  | 7 July 2023  |
Cassius X: Becoming Ali | Muta'Ali Muhammad  | 20 February 2023  |
Celluloid Underground | Ehsan Khoshbakht  | 5 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival)  |
A Clever Woman | Jon Sanders  | 21 April 2023  |
The Contestant | Clair Titley  | 8 September 2023 (Toronto International Film Festival)  |
The Devil Went Down to Islington | Daniel Wilson  | 23 October 2023  |
Europa | Sudabeh Mortezai  | 16 August 2023 (Sarajevo Film Festival)  |
Forever Young | Henk Pretorius  | 24 June 2023 (Dances with Film Festival)  |
Gassed Up | George Amponsah  | 10 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival)  |
The Goose's Excuse | Mahdy Abo Bahat, Abdo Zin Eldin  | 5 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival)  |
Haar | Ben Hecking  | 7 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival)  |
High & Low — John Galliano | Kevin Macdonald | 1 September 2023 (Telluride Film Festival)  |
Hitmen | Savvas D. Michael  | 5 June 2023  |
In Camera | Naqqash Khalid | 1 July 2023 (Karlovy Vary Film Festival)  |
Kindling | Connor O'Hara  | 25 March 2023  |
Lies We Tell | Lisa Mulcahy  | 15 July 2023 (Galway Film Fleadh)  |
Lord of Misrule | William Brent Bell  | 19 October 2023 (Screamfest Horror Film Festival)  |
Lore | James Bushe, Patrick Michael Ryder, Greig Johnson  | 24 August 2023 (FrightFest London)  |
Mad About the Boy: The Noel Coward Story | Barnaby Thompson  | 2 June 2023  |
Makeup | Hugo Andre  | 26 June 2023  |
Man In Black | Wang Bing | 22 May 2023 (Cannes Film Festival)  |
Mercy Falls | Ryan Hendrick | 14 May 2023  |
The Moor | Chris Cronin  | 26 August 2023 (FrightFest London)  |
My Everest | Carl Woods  | 28 April 2023  |
The Nettle Dress | Dylan Howitt  | 3 March 2023  |
Notes from a Low Orbit | Mark Lyken  | 16 June 2023  |
Red Herring | Kit Vincent  | 2 March 2023 (True/False Film Festival)  |
Rewilding | Ric Rawlins  | 13 January 2023  | [35]
Scala!!! Or, the Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World's Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced a Mixed-up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits | Ali Catterall, Jane Giles  | 25 June 2023 (Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival)  |
Shoshana | Michael Winterbottom | 8 September 2023  |
Speed Is Expensive: Philip Vincent and the Million Dollar Motorcycle | Lancaster David  | 20 September 2023  |
Sumotherhood | Adam Deacon  | 13 October 2023  |
The Taste of Mango | Chloe Abrahams  | 3 March 2023 (True/False Film Festival)  |
Tish | Paul Sng  | 1 June 2023  |
Unmoored | Caroline Ingvarsson  | 5 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival)  |
Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition | David Bickerstaff  | 18 April 2023  |
Wilding | David Allen  | 6 October 2023 (BFI London Film Festival)  |
Wolf Garden | Wayne David  | 28 February 2023  |

### Culturally British films

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The following list comprises films not produced by a British or UK film studio but is strongly associated with British culture. The films in this list should fulfil at least three of the following criteria:

* The film is adapted from a British source material.
* The story is at least partially set in the United Kingdom.
* The film was at least partially produced in the United Kingdom.
* Many of the film's cast and crew members are British.

Title  | Country of origin  | Adaptation  | Story setting  | Film locations  | British cast and crew

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The Buckingham Murders | India  |  | Buckinghamshire, UK  | Buckinghamshire, UK  | Keith Allen, Chris Wilson
The Little Mermaid | United States  |  | British Caribbeans  | London and Iver, UK  | Jonah Hauer-King, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, Jessica Alexander, Simone Ashley
Peter Pan & Wendy | United States  | Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie | Victorian England  |  | Jude Law, Alexander Molony
Red, White & Royal Blue | United States  |  | United Kingdom  | United Kingdom  | Nicholas Galitzine, Stephen Fry, Ellie Bamber, Sharon D Clarke
Surprised by Oxford | United States  |  | United Kingdom  | United Kingdom  | Phyllis Logan, Simon Callow

Mummies fulfills two of the criteria. The animated film is set in 21st century London and stars British actors including Joe Thomas, Eleanor Tomlinson, Celia Imrie, Hugh Bonneville, Sean Bean and Shakka.

## See also

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* Lists of British films
* 2023 in film
* 2023 in British music
* 2023 in British radio
* 2023 in British television
* 2023 in the United Kingdom
* List of British films of 2022
* List of British films of 2024

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