British drama films

2000 film by Ridley Scott

2004 film by Oliver Stone

2015 film by Lenny Abrahamson

Dogville is a 2003 experimental arthouse drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the tiny mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.

2006 film by Kevin Macdonald

2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

1948 film directed by Laurence Olivier

2008 film directed by Sam Mendes

2008 film by Ron Howard

2023 historical drama film by Jonathan Glazer

2019 film directed by Noah Baumbach

1993 film directed by James Ivory

1982 British live-action/animated musical drama film

1986 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

1982 film directed by Alan J. Pakula

2018 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

Sentimental Value is a 2025 drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt. It follows sisters Nora and Agnes in their reunion with their estranged father Gustav. It also stars Elle Fanning.

2016 film directed by Ken Loach

1984 US/UK film directed by David Lean

1946 film by David Lean

1944 film by Laurence Olivier

1959 film by Jack Clayton

Manderlay is a 2005 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, the second and most recent part of von Trier's projected USA – Land of Opportunities trilogy. Unlike von Trier's other trilogies, the films' stories are connected and it is a direct sequel to Dogville. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, who replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan. Lauren Bacall, Željko Ivanek, Jeremy Davies, and Chloë Sevigny return portraying different characters from those in Dogville. Only John Hurt, Udo Kier, and Jean-Marc Barr re

2011 film by Roland Emmerich

2004 film by Mike Leigh

Murder! is a 1930 British mystery thriller film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman. Written by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Walter C. Mycroft, based on the 1928 novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, it is Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Blackmail (1929) and Juno and the Paycock (1930).

1963 film directed by Joseph Losey

2003 film by Vadim Perelman

1984 film directed by Roger Donaldson

2005 drama film directed by Roman Polanski

2002 film by Peter Mullan

1956 film by John Huston

2005 film by John Madden

1998 film directed by François Girard

2006 film directed by Richard Linklater

1983 film by Peter Yates

2005 film by Michael Caton-Jones

2018 film directed by Garth Davis

2015 film directed by Max Joseph

1971 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger

1996 film by Kenneth Branagh

1999 film by Franco Zeffirelli

1958 film by Roy Ward Baker

1963 film by Anthony Asquith

1958 film directed by Mark Robson

2002 film by Jim Sheridan

2016 film directed by William Oldroyd

1948 film directed by David Lean

1993 film by Agnieszka Holland

film by Wim Wenders (2000)

2019 film directed by James Kent

1964 film by Anthony Asquith

2019 film by Ken Loach

2000 film directed by James Ivory

2018 film by Claire Denis

1976 film by Stuart Rosenberg

2021 film directed by Simon Stone

2005 film by John Hillcoat

2021 film directed by Nora Fingscheidt

Sebastiane is a 1976 Latin-language British historical film directed by Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress and written by Jarman, Humfress and James Whaley. It portrays the events of the life of Saint Sebastian, including his iconic martyrdom by arrows. The film, which was aimed at a gay audience, was controversial for the homoeroticism portrayed between the soldiers and for having dialogue entirely in Latin.