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- A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.
- Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society.
- A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.
- London 1895: Cabinet minister, Sir Chiltern, and bachelor, Lord Goring, are victims of scheming women.
- June 1916. The British Army is planning a big offensive in the Somme region in France. We follow a platoon of British soldiers as they sit in a forward trench, anxiously awaiting the order to go over the top.
- In 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
- Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.
- A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
- Unsatisfied with her life in England, young mother Julia relocates to Morocco with her small daughters, Lucy and Bea. Although the family enjoys various adventures, they struggle to make ends meet.
- The sudden reappearance of his best friend Toni, after a ten year absence, causes Chris to remember his past, to question some of his lifestyle decisions and to re-evaluate his life and marriage to Marion.
- Two robbers are persecuted by the law, whose servants are not much better and even worse.
- The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
- Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.
- A prospector who sold his wife and infant daughter in exchange for a mining claim, tries desperately to win them back as he helps to build the Pacific Railroad with a group of pioneer friends.
- Two girls thrown together by their boyfriends' violence accidentally kill one of them.
- An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot the film like a classic 1930s musical. It tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.
- Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money.
- Vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to redeem him.
- A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.
- Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. However, through football, and some special boots, he manages to gain the confidence to succeed.
- After stopping 12 y.o. Romeo and Gavin from being beaten up, Morell drives them home and meets Romeo's adult sister and falls in love. The boys "help" him in his pursuit.
- In this sensuous romance, Minnie Driver stars as a governess who is hired into a remote Scottish household and strongly affects all those she comes into contact with.
- The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.
- Two con artists' plan to steal enough for a house are twisted when a pretty girl enters the picture.
- A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish.
- The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor FitzPiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still loves Giles.
- Henry is about to jump off a bridge when he hears a cry for help. He helps Karen, who had also planned suicide. They're both on Tower Bridge, London, because somebody wronged them. Revenging each other gives them a reason to live.
- Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery. He guesses that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child trafficking. He involves a reluctant Nathalie to hunt "the Austrian," the shadowy head of the business. Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose.
- Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
- Photographer Charles Castle is dazed with grief after the death of his girlfriend. He goes off to war and works in the trenches as photographer. After the war, still grieving, Charles receives some photographs that claim to be of fairies.
- A scriptwriter comes to Paris to work on her film. There she takes up tango lessons and forms a relationship with the dancer.
- In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees; one of the families improbably becomes involved with a Balkan refugee through the England vs. Holland match.
- Friendship and betrayal between two poets during the French Revolution.
- Black romantic comedy set around the troubled "peace process" and its effect on a cynical Belfast hack.
- Giles De'Ath (Sir John Hurt) is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with movie star Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestly). He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that, he travels to Long Island City, where Ronnie lives, and meets him, pretending that Ronnie is a great actor, and that's why Giles admires him.
- Filmed adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1996 version of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
- A woman drifter finds her soul-mate while working with an all-male crew painting giant electrical-generator towers.
- Simon (Noah Taylor) is an outcast from his Jewish community, because he claims that the devil talks to him, and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid (Stuart Townsend) asks the "Squire" (Rutger Hauer) to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighboring Gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land, so he can "persuade" him otherwise.
- After her father suffers a stroke, his daughter is forced to take care of him.
- Experience Elena's world, navigating autism's challenges, friendship, and bullying. This film champions inclusivity, urging support for all to thrive
- A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in the early 1920s, in London.
- Prometheus is a contemporary quest story set in end-of-millennium Britain and continental Europe. It asks what humanity has made of Prometheus' gift of fire - energy, technology, expertise, but also destruction, pollution and war.
- Harold Smith (Sir Tom Courtenay), a quiet middle-aged Englishman becomes an instant celebrity when he suddenly starts exhibiting psychic and telekinetic powers. After he is arrested for accidentally killing three pensioners by causing their pacemakers to stop, his lawyer brings in an extremely skeptical scientist to test whether or not Harold's powers are real. Meanwhile, Harold's son Vince (Michael Legge), a disco devotee, is pining for his co-worker Joanna (Laura Fraser), who also happens to be the daughter of the scientist testing Vince's dad.
- Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. Thus, Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style; Linda, a very sexy young blonde model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator; and Miss Stevenson, who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long-dead Egyptian lover. All the while Ali is in search of an elusive British visa which unexpectedly leads to finding the love of his life.
- A rivalry develops between a showbiz veteran and an upstart newcomer.
- Inspired by the drowning of 23 Chinese undocumented cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay (northwest England). Mazu, goddess of the sea, floats over the tragedy.
- Explores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.
- A Jewish girl in nineteenth century London, dreams of becoming a stage actress.
- Bobby Mahon is an actor playing a notorious serial killer on prime-time television. The show becomes a hit, which encourages the real-life murderer on whom it's based, to go on a spree to make it on screen.
- A modern adaptation and interpretation of the story of Exodus.