British comedy-drama films

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a 2019 period action comedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. It features an ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the film follows a fading actor and his adrenaline junkie stunt double as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry with the threat of the Tate murders looming.

2000 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1989 film directed by Jim Sheridan

2023 film directed by Paul King

2009 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2018 film directed by Will Gluck

2022 film by Martin McDonagh

2013 film by Stephen Frears

2021 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2011 film directed by John Madden

1999 film by Miloš Forman

1988 film by Emir Kusturica

2015 film by John Wells

2003 animated comedy film

1996 UK film by Mike Leigh

1991 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

2024 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

2000 film directed by Curtis Hanson

Saltburn is a 2023 dark comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Emerald Fennell, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe and Carey Mulligan. Set in Oxford and Northamptonshire, it focuses on a student at the University of Oxford who becomes fixated with a popular, aristocratic fellow student, who later invites him to spend the summer at his eccentric family's estate.

2009 film by Richard Curtis

2021 film directed by Radu Jude

1966 British film by Lewis Gilbert

2014 film directed by Matthew Warchus

1983 film by Bill Forsyth

1966 film by Roman Polanski

2012 film by Ken Loach

2005 film by Niall Johnson

2015 film directed by Nicholas Hytner

2008 film by Mike Leigh

2010 film directed by Chris Morris

2010 animated film about a French magician directed by Sylvain Chomet

2005 film by Stephen Frears

1983 film by Lewis Gilbert

2015 film directed by John Madden

2004 film by David O. Russell

2017 film directed by Sally Potter

2012 film directed by Dustin Hoffman

2006 film by Roger Michell

1987 film directed by Bruce Robinson

2003 film by Nigel Cole

2005 film by Neil Jordan

2012 film by Ken Kwapis

1999 film by Damien O'Donnell

2020 film directed by Armando Iannucci

2014 film directed by Lenny Abrahamson

2014 film directed by Pascal Chaumeil

2021 film directed by Will Sharpe

1997 film by Alain Berliner

1993 film directed by Derek Jarman

2002 film by Michael Winterbottom

2010 film by Mike Leigh

1996 film by Mark Herman

1966 film by Karel Reisz

1954 film directed by David Lean

1985 film by Peter Greenaway

2004 television film directed by Stephen Hopkins

2008 film by Richard Linklater

1954 film by Ronald Neame

I Swear is a 2025 British biographical comedy-drama film directed, written, and produced by Kirk Jones. It is based on the true life story of John Davidson, a Scottish man with severe Tourette syndrome who was the subject of the 1989 television documentary John's Not Mad. The film stars Robert Aramayo as Davidson, alongside Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson, and Peter Mullan in supporting roles. Scott Ellis Watson makes his acting debut as a young Davidson.

1972 film by Peter Medak