List of British films of 2009
A list of British films released in 2009.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Release date | Notes |
| 44 Inch Chest | Malcolm Venville | Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson | Gangster drama | 15 January | |
| Awaydays | Pat Holden | Stephen Graham | Drama | 22 May | |
| The Boat That Rocked | Richard Curtis | Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Rhys Ifans | Period comedy | 1 April | |
| Boogie Woogie | Duncan Ward | Amanda Seyfried, Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham | Comedy | 2 May | |
| A Boy Called Dad | Brian Percival | Kyle Ward, Louise Delamere | Drama | 30 April | |
| The Boys Are Back | Scott Hicks | Clive Owen, Emma Booth | Drama | 15 September | Co-production with Australia |
| Bright Star | Jane Campion | Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Thomas Sangster | Romance | 6 November | |
| Bronson | Nicolas Winding Refn | Tom Hardy | Gangster drama | 13 March | |
| Bunny and the Bull | Paul King | Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby | Comedy | 27 November | |
| Cherrybomb | Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn | Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan | Drama | 23 April | |
| City Rats | Steve M. Kelly | Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Ray Panthaki, Susan Lynch | Black comedy | 24 April | |
| Clubbed | Neil Thompson | Colin Salmon, Mel Raido, Shaun Parkes, Scot Williams, Maxine Peake | Drama | 16 January | |
| A Congregation of Ghosts | Mark Collicott | Edward Woodward, Nicholas Gleaves, Natasha Little | Drama | ||
| Cracks | Jordan Scott | Eva Green, Juno Temple | Period drama | 4 December | |
| Creation | Jon Amiel | Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Benedict Cumberbatch | Drama/biographical | 25 September | |
| The Damned United | Tom Hooper | Michael Sheen, Jim Broadbent, Colm Meaney | Drama | 25 March | |
| Desert Flower | Sherry Horman | Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins | Biopic | 5 September | Co-production with Germany |
| Doghouse | Jake West | Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham, Lee Ingleby, Terry Stone, Noel Clarke | Comedy | 12 June | |
| Dorian Gray | Oliver Parker | Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall | Drama | 11 September | |
| An Education | Lone Scherfig | Carey Mulligan, Emma Thompson, Sally Hawkins, Dominic Cooper | Coming-of-age | 30 October | Academy Award nominated for Best Film; BAFTA winner for Best Actress |
| Endgame | Pete Travis | William Hurt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jonny Lee Miller | Drama | 15 January | |
| An Englishman in New York | Richard Laxton | John Hurt, Cynthia Nixon, Jonathan Tucker | Drama/biographical | December | Screened on ITV1 in December |
| Exam | Stuart Hazeldine | Colin Salmon, Jimi Mistry, Gemma Chan | Psychological thriller | 8 January | |
| The Firm | Nick Love | Paul Anderson, Calum McNab, Daniel Mays | Crime drama | 18 September | Remake of 1989 TV film |
| Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | Michael Fassbender | Drama | 13 May | Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival |
| Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | Gareth Carrivick | Anna Faris, Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly | Comedy sci-fi | 24 April | |
| From Time to Time | Julian Fellowes | Alex Etel, Timothy Spall | Fantasy | 15 October | |
| Glorious 39 | Stephen Poliakoff | Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne | Drama | 20 November | |
| Harry Brown | Daniel Barber | Michael Caine, Ben Drew | Crime thriller | 11 November | Premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | David Yates | Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Alan Rickman | Fantasy adventure | 17 July | |
| Heartless | Philip Ridley | Jim Sturgess, Noel Clarke, Clémence Poésy | Fantasy | ||
| Hippie Hippie Shake | Beeban Kidron | Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Sean Biggerstaff, Emma Booth | Comedy drama | ||
| I Know You Know | Justin Kerrigan | Robert Carlyle, Arron Fuller, Karl Johnson, Howard Marks | Drama | TBA | |
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | Terry Gilliam | Heath Ledger, Jude Law, Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp | Fantasy | 16 October | |
| In the Loop | Armando Iannucci | Tom Hollander, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Gina McKee | Comedy | 17 April | Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Iron Cross | Joshua Newton | Roy Scheider, Scott Cohen, Helmut Berger, Monica Cruz | Thriller | 19 November 2010 | |
| Is Anybody There? | John Crowley | Michael Caine, David Morrissey, Anne-Marie Duff, Bill Milner | Drama | 1 May | |
| Jack Said | Michael Tchoubouroff | David O'Hara, Danny Dyer, Simon Phillips | Film noir | 25 September | |
| Jackboots on Whitehall | Edward McHenry | Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Tom Wilkinson | Comedy | 8 October | Animated movie with dolls |
| Knife Edge | Anthony Hickox | Hugh Bonneville, Natalie Press | Thriller | ||
| Knowing | Alex Proyas | Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury | Science fiction | 20 March | |
| The Last Station | Michael Hoffman | Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy | Biopic | 23 December | Co-produced with Germany and Russia |
| Lesbian Vampire Killers | Phil Claydon | James Corden, Mathew Horne | Comedy | 20 March | |
| Little Ashes | Paul Morrison | Javier Beltrán, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty | Drama/biographical | 8 May | |
| London River | Rachid Bouchareb | Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté | Drama | 10 February | |
| Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | Matthew McNulty | Drama/biographical | 12 June | Screened in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival |
| Malice in Wonderland | Simon Fellows | Maggie Grace, Danny Dyer | Fantasy | ||
| Moon | Duncan Jones | Sam Rockwell | Sci-fi | 17 July | |
| My Last Five Girlfriends | Julian Kemp | Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris | Comedy | 19 March | |
| Nativity! | Debbie Isitt | Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins, Marc Wootton | Comedy | 27 November | |
| Nowhere Boy | Sam Taylor-Wood | Aaron Johnson | Drama | 26 December | Drama about the boyhood of John Lennon; closing night world premiere at London Film Festival |
| Perrier's Bounty | Ian Fitzgibbon | Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson | Thriller comedy | 26 March 2010 | |
| Planet 51 | Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Gary Oldman | Animation | 20 November | ||
| Pope Joan | Sönke Wortmann | Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham | Historical drama | 22 October | Co-production with Germany, Italy and Spain |
| Princess Kaiulani | Marc Forby | Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper | Biopic | 7 February | Co-production with the US |
| Rage | Sally Potter | Jude Law, Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi | Drama | 30 February | First shown at the Berlin International Film Festival |
| Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson | Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, David Tennant, Talulah Riley, Sarah Harding Gemma Arterton | Comedy | 18 December | ||
| The Secret of Moonacre | Gábor Csupó | Dakota Blue Richards, Tim Curry, Ioan Gruffudd | Adventure fantasy | 12 February | |
| Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams | Adventure | 25 December | |
| Shifty | Eran Creevy | Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng, Nitin Ganatra, Francesca Annis | Urban thriller | 26 April | |
| Telstar | Nick Moran | Con O'Neill, Carl Barât, Kevin Spacey, Pam Ferris, Mathew Baynton | Drama | 19 June | |
| Tony | Gerard Johnson | Peter Ferdinando, Ricky Grover, Neil Maskell | Horror | 18 June | |
| Tormented | Jon Wright | Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Calvin Dean | Horror | 22 May | |
| The Vampires of Bloody Island | Allin Kempthorne | Pamela Kempthorne, Oliver Gray, Leon Hamilton | Comedy | 22 August | |
| Triangle | Christopher Smith | Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Rachael Carpani | Horror | 16 October | |
| The Young Victoria | Jean-Marc Vallée | Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson | Drama | 6 March | Won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design |