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This article lists feature-length British films and full-length documentaries that have their premieres in 2017 and were at least partly made by Great Britain or the United Kingdom. It does not feature short films, medium-length films, made-for-TV films, pornographic films, filmed theater, VR films and interactive films. It does not include films screened in previous years that had official release dates in 2017.
Also included is an overview of the major events in British film, including awards ceremonies, as well as a list of notable British film artists who died in 2017.
Title | Director | Release date | Ref. |
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Access All Areas | Bryn Higgins | 30 June 2017 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [110] |
Alan Hinkes: The First Briton To Climb The World's Highest Mountains | Terry Abraham | 14 October 2017 | [111] |
Almost Heaven | Carol Salter | 15 February 2017 (Berlin International Film Festival) | [112] |
Amazon Adventure | Mike Slee | 18 April 2017 | [113] |
Another News Story | Orban Wallace | 4 July 2017 (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival) | [114] |
Arcadia | Paul Wright | 8 October 2017 | [115] |
Bad Day for the Cut | Chris Baugh | 22 January 2017 (Sundance Film Festival) | [116] |
The Book of Birdie | Elizabeth E. Schuch | 30 January 2017 (Göteborg Film Festival) | [117] |
Borstal | Steven M. Smith | 6 March 2017 | [118] |
Canaries | Peter Stray | 26 August 2017 (Horror Channel FrightFest) | [119] |
Caught | Jamie Patterson | February 2017 (Fantasporto International Film Festival) | [120] |
A Change in the Weather | Jon Sanders | 7 July 2017 | [121] |
Damascene | Freddy Syborn | 15 October 2017 (New Orleans Film Festival) | [122] |
Dangerous Game | Richard Colton | 26 June 2017 | [123] |
Dark Beacon | Coz Greenop (as Corrie Greenop) | 13 October 2017 | [124] |
Double Date | Benjamin Barfoot | 30 June 2017 (Edinburgh International Film Festival) | [125] |
Eat Locals | Jason Flemyng | 6 April 2017 | [126] |
Eating Animals | Christopher Dillon Quinn | 2 September 2017 (Telluride Film Festival) | [127] |
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars | Lili Fini Zanuck | 8 September 2017 (Toronto International Film Festival) | [128] |
Fanged Up | Christian James | 25 August 2017 | [129] |
Ferrari: Race To Immortality | Daryl Goodrich | 29 October 2017 (Rome Film Festival) | [130] |
Freehold (a.k.a. Two Pigeons) | Dominic Bridges | 10 March 2017 (South by Southwest Film Festival) | [131] |
Gatwick Gangsters | Sid Clack, David Manning | 6 November 2017 | [132] |
Gholam | Mitra Tabrizian | 25 May 2017 (Seattle International Film Festival) | [133] |
Gloves Off | Steven Nesbit | 8 October 2017 (Sitges International Festival of Fantastic and Horror Cinema) | [134] |
Going for Golden Eye | Jim Miskell | 25 August 2017 (Hebden Bridge) | [135] |
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami | Sophie Fiennes | 7 September 2017 (Toronto International Film Festival) | [136] |
Granny of the Dead | Tudley James | 14 July 2017 | [137] |
Habit | Simeon Halligan | 5 October 2017 (Grimmfest) | [138] |
The Hatching | Michael Anderson | 2 September 2017 (DVD premiere) | [139] |
Here to Be Heard: The Story of the Slits | William E. Badgley | 14 October 2017 (London Film Festival) | [140] |
Hex | George Popov, Jonathan Russell | 17 November 2017 | [141] |
Hi-Lo Joe | James Kermack | 24 November 2017 | [142] |
The Howling | Steven M. Smith | 9 October 2017 | [143] |
The Iconoclast | King Adz | 16 November 2017 (DOC NYC) | [144] |
In Extremis | Steve Stone | 12 October 2017 (American Horror Film Festival) | [145] |
Island | Steven Eastwood | 7 October 2017 (London Film Festival) | [146] |
Kenny | Stewart Sugg | 20 November 2017 | [147] |
King Arthur: Excalibur Rising | Antony Smith | 1 March 2017 | [148] |
Leaning in the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy | Thomas Riedelsheimer | 8 April 2017 (San Francisco International Film Festival) | [149] |
Lek and the Dogs | Andrew Kötting | 14 October 2017 (London Film Festival) | [150] |
Lies We Tell | Mitu Misra | 21 September 2017 (Raindance Film Festival) | [151] |
The Little Vampire 3D | Richard Claus, Karsten Kiilerich | 1 October 2017 | [152] |
London Heist (a.k.a. Gunned Down) | Mark McQueen | 17 July 2017 | [153] |
A Love That Never Dies | Jimmy Edmonds, Jane Harris | 16 March 2017 | [154] |
Michelangelo: Love and Death | David Bickerstaff | 13 June 2017 | [155] |
Penny Slinger: Out of the Shadows | Richard Kovitch | 4 March 2017 | [156] |
Pickups | Jamie Thraves | 18 February 2017 (Dublin Film Festival) | [157] |
Pili | Leanne Welham | 1 October 2017 (Dinard Festival of British Cinema) | [158] |
Pride | Ashley Joiner | 25 March 2017 (BFI Flare London LGBTQ+ Film Festival) | [159] |
Psycho Vertical | Jen Randall | 3 November 2017 (Banff Mountain Film Festival) | [160] |
Retreat | Tom Nicoll | 26 August 2017 (Screenplay Festival) | [161] |
Rise of the Footsoldier 3 | Zackary Adler | 3 November 2017 | [162] |
The Royal Exchange | Marc Dugain | 27 December 2017 | [163] |
Seat 25 | Nicholas Agnew | 14 April 2017 (London Independent Film Festival) | [164] |
The Small Woman in Grey | Christopher Downie | 1 October 2017 | [165] |
SOLO! | Nic Cornwall | 2017 | [166] |
Steven Berkoff's Tell Tale Heart | Stephen Cookson | April 2017 (Independent Horror Movie Awards) | [167] |
The Stolen | Niall Johnson | 23 November 2017 | [168] |
Tawai: A Voice from the Forest | Bruce Parry, Mark Ellam | 10 January 2017 (Calcutta International Cult Film Festival) | [169] |
Tides | Tupaq Felber | 14 October 2017 (London Film Festival) | [170] |
Transhuman | Nicholas Winter | 15 April 2017 (London Independent Film Festival) | [171] |
Undocument | Amin Bakhshian, Kyla Simone Bruce | 13 October 2017 (Heartland Film Festival) | [172] |
Us and Them | Joe Martin | 10 March 2017 (South by Southwest Film Festival) | [173] |
uk18 | Andrew Tiernan | 1 February 2017 (internet) | [174] |
Viking Siege | Jack Burton | 26 December 2017 | [175] |
We Are Tourists | O'ar Pali, Remy Bazerque | 1 January 2017 | [176] |
We Still Steal the Old Way | Sacha Bennett | 9 January 2017 | [177] |
Where the Skin Lies | Michael Boucherie | 26 August 2017 (Horror Channel FrightFest) | [178] |
The White Room | James Erskine | 23 June 2017 | [179] |
The following list comprises films not produced by Great Britain or the United Kingdom but is strongly associated with British culture. The films in this list should fulfill at least three of the following criteria:
Listed here are the British winners and nominees at the three most prestigious film award ceremonies in the English-speaking world: the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards and Golden Globe Awards, that were held during 2017, celebrating the best films of 2016. The British nominations were led by Lion, with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Florence Foster Jenkins going on to win a number of technical awards. British films did, however, notably lose out to Moonlight and La La Land from the United States.
The 89th Academy Awards honoring the best films of 2016 were held on February 26, 2017.[180]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 70th British Academy Film Awards honoring the best films of 2016 were held on February 12, 2017.[181]
British winners:
British nominees:
The 74th Golden Globe Awards honoring the best films of 2016 were held on January 8, 2017.[182]
British winner:
British nominees:
Month | Date | Name | Age | Nationality | Profession | Notable films |
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January | 9 | Teresa Ann Savoy | 61 | British-born Italian | Actress | |
17 | Philip Bond | 82 | English | Actor | ||
20 | John Watkiss | 55 | English | Animator | ||
23 | Gorden Kaye | 75 | English | Actor | ||
25 | Sir John Hurt | 77 | English | Actor | ||
February | 1 | Desmond Carrington | 90 | English | Actor | |
6 | Roy Forge Smith | 87 | English | Set designer | ||
17 | Michael Tuchner | 82 | English | Director | ||
25 | Neil Fingleton | 36 | English | Actor | ||
26 | David Rose | 92 | English | Executive producer | ||
28 | James Walker | 76 | English | Actor | ||
March | 9 | Ann Beach | 78 | English | Actress | |
9 | Jane Freeman | 81 | English-born Welsh | Actress | ||
10 | Tony Haygarth | 72 | English | Actor | ||
10 | John Forgeham | 75 | English | Actor | ||
17 | Robert Day | 94 | English | Director | ||
23 | Nigel Hutchinson | 75 | English-born New Zealand | Producer |
| |
27 | Richard Beale | 96 | English | Actor | ||
27 | David Storey | 83 | English | Screenwriter and novelist | ||
28 | Ronald Hines | 87 | English | Actor | ||
May | 2 | Moray Watson | 76 | Scottish-born American | Actress | |
5 | Quinn O'Hara | 88 | English | Actor | ||
10 | Geoffrey Bayldon | 93 | English | Actor | ||
21 | Andrew Dallmeyer | 73 | Scottish | Actor |
| |
23 | Roger Moore | 89 | English | Actor | ||
30 | Molly Peters | 75 | English | Actor | ||
June | 2 | Peter Sallis | 96 | English | Actor | |
4 | Bill Butler | 84 | English | Editor |
| |
12 | Sam Beazley | 101 | British | Actor | ||
19 | Brian Cant | 83 | English | Editor | ||
July | 1 | Heathcote Williams | 75 | English | Actor | |
3 | Joe Robinson | 90 | English | Actor and stuntman | ||
9 | Clare Douglas | 73 | English | Editor | ||
15 | William Hoyland | 73 | English | Actor | ||
16 | Trevor Baxter | 84 | English | Actor | ||
21 | Deborah Watling | 69 | English | Actress |
| |
25 | Hywel Bennett | 96 | Welsh | Actor | ||
August | 3 | Robert Hardy | 91 | English | Actor | |
16 | Jennifer Daniel | 81 | Welsh | Actress | ||
26 | Alan Root | 80 | British | Director |
| |
30 | Alan MacDonald | 61 | Welsh | Production designer | ||
September | 2 | Larrington Walker | 70 | Jamaican-born British | Actor | |
11 | Peter Hall | 86 | English | Actress | ||
21 | Suzan Farmer | 75 | English | Actress | ||
25 | Tony Booth | 85 | English | Actor | ||
28 | Benjamin Whitrow | 80 | English | Actor | ||
October | 21 | Rosemary Leach | 81 | English | Actress | |
November | 21 | Rodney Bewes | 79 | English | Actor | |
30 | Terence Beesley | 60 | English | Actor | ||
December | 11 | Keith Chegwin | 60 | English | Actor | |
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