British independent films

2010 British film directed by Tom Hooper

2013 film directed by Steve McQueen

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1996 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1998 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1996 film by Danny Boyle

2010 film directed by Danny Boyle

1975 film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones

2015 film by Lenny Abrahamson

2008 film directed by Martin McDonagh

1998 film by Guy Ritchie

1978 film directed by Alan Parker

The Substance is a 2024 body horror film written and directed by Coralie Fargeat. It follows a fading celebrity who is fired by her producer due to her age and uses a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself with unexpected side effects.

28 Days Later is a 2002 British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. It stars Cillian Murphy as a bicycle courier who awakens from a coma to discover that the accidental release of a highly contagious, aggression-inducing virus has caused the breakdown of society. Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, and Brendan Gleeson appear in supporting roles.

1974 film by Sidney Lumet

2014 film directed by Alex Garland

2015 film directed by Todd Haynes

1997 film directed by Peter Cattaneo

1997 film directed by Mel Smith

2010 film by James Wan

1995 film directed by Mike Figgis

2023 historical drama film by Jonathan Glazer

2019 film directed by Noah Baumbach

2015 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

2011 film by Steve McQueen

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 independent musical comedy horror film produced by Lou Adler and Michael White, directed by Jim Sharman, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was written by Sharman and Richard O'Brien, who also played the supporting role Riff Raff. The film is based on the 1973 musical stage production The Rocky Horror Show, with music, book, and lyrics by O'Brien. The production is a tribute to the science fiction and horror B movies of the 1930s through to the early 1960s. The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Barry Bostwick. It is narrated by Charles Gray, with cast members from the original Royal Court Theatre, Roxy Theatre, and Belasco Theatre productions, including Nell Campbell and Patricia Quinn.

2003 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1984 film directed by Wim Wenders

Frenzy is a 1972 British neo-noir thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer is based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.

1977 film by Richard Attenborough

2022 film by Martin McDonagh

1973 film by Nicolas Roeg

1996 film by Agnieszka Holland

1987 film by Alan Parker

2018 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

2017 fully painted feature film

2001 film directed by Robert Altman

Following is a 1998 British independent neo-noir crime thriller film written, produced, directed, photographed, and edited by Christopher Nolan in his feature film directorial debut. It tells the story of a young man who follows strangers around the streets of London and is drawn into a criminal underworld when he fails to keep his distance.

1948 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

1989 animated film directed by Don Bluth

1985 film directed by James Ivory

2009 film directed by Duncan Jones

1984 film by Michael Radford

2013 film by Park Chan-wook

1992 film directed by Neil Jordan

2002 film by Gurinder Chadha

2015 film directed by Paolo Sorrentino

2014 film directed by Jon Favreau

2015 film directed by Robert Eggers

2011 film directed by John Madden

2011 film by Lynne Ramsay

2017 film by Yorgos Lanthimos

1981 film directed by Terry Gilliam

2013 film directed by Sofia Coppola

2013 film directed by Jim Jarmusch

1992 film by Roman Polanski

2023 film directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield

2013 film directed by Jonathan Glazer

2001 film by Terry Zwigoff

1996 UK film by Mike Leigh