Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
A Matter of Loaf and Death | Nick Park | Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay | Animated short | Winner of BAFTA for Best Animated Short |
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 | |
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 | |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Andrew Adamson | Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley | Fantasy | |
The Children | Tom Shankland | Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Hannah Tointon | Horror | |
A Complete History of My Sexual Failures | Chris Waitt | | Documentary | |
Cottage, The | 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 | Large-scale co-production with US |
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 | |
Duchess, The | 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 | |
Fifty Dead Men Walking | Kari Skogland | Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess | Thriller | |
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 | |
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 (artist) | Michael Fassbender | Drama | Winner of the Caméra d'Or award at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival |
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 |
In Your Dreams | Gary Sinyor | Dexter Fletcher, Elize du Toit, Parminder Nagra | Romance/Comedy | |
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 Skarsgard | Musical | This is the biggest grossing British film and biggest selling DVD of all-time in the UK |
Manolete | Menno Meyjes | Adrien Brody, Penélope Cruz | Biopic | Co-production with Spain |
Man on Wire | James Marsh | Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers | Documentary | winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Feature), the BAFTA Award for Best British Film and the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film |
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 |
RocknRolla | Guy Ritchie | Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Strong, Thandie Newton | Crime drama | |
Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle | Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor | Drama | 8 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 | |
Wild Child | Nick Moore | Emma Roberts, Alex Pettyfer | romantic comedy | |