Best Movies from UK by Director
2636
603
2003
various
Andrea Arnold, Stephen Daldry, Mike Leigh, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott
Short / Documentary / Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2219
442
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2862
703
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
2392
513
2010
Matthew Vaughn
Aaron Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage
Action / Crime / Thriller / Comic
USA / UK
English
2693
630
2004
Matthew Vaughn
Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
UK
English
2812
681
2007
Matthew Vaughn
Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
NR
-
2017
Matthew Vaughn
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry
Action | Adventure | Comedy / Thriller / Spy / Comic / Crime / Detective
UK / USA
English
NR
-
2014
Matthew Vaughn
Colin Firth, Michael Caine, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Spy / Comic
UK
English
2819
686
2009
Malcolm Venville
Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson, Stephen Dillane
Crime / Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2110
406
2006
Paul Verhoeven
Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Carice van Houten, Thom Hoffman, Sebastian Koch
Thriller / War / Drama
Netherlands / UK / Germany
Dutch
2809
680
2012
Jesse Vile
Jason Becker, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Ehren Becker, Gary Becker, Pat Becker
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2205
438
2017
Denis Villeneuve
Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright
Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller / Tech-Noir / Cult / Action
USA / UK / Canada
English
2819
686
2021
Eskil Vogt
Rakel Lenora Flottum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Norway / Sweden / Denmark / Finland / France / UK
Norwegian
2854
701
2006
Christian Volckman
Sean Barrett, Lachelle Carl, Daniel Craig, Patrick Floersheim, Ian Holm
Animation / Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
France / UK / Luxembourg
English
520
59
2003
Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Gangster
Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK
English
960
152
2000
Lars von Trier
Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
Musical / Drama
Denmark / Germany / Netherlands / USA / UK / France / Sweden / Finland / Iceland / Norway
English
2801
676
2013
Lars von Trier
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf
Drama
Denmark / Germany / Belgium / UK / France
English
2796
673
2021
Lana Wachowski
Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jonathan Groff
Action / Sci-Fi
USA / UK / Australia
English
2844
696
2008
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Sci-Fi / Sports
USA / UK / Germany / Japan
English
2758
654
1988
Jonathan Wacks
A Martinez, Gary Farmer, Joanelle Romero, Amanda Wyss, Sam Vlahos, Wayne Waterman
Adventure / Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2543
572
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2816
683
2007
Stephen Walker
Bob Cilman, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Patricia Linderme, Steve Martin
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
UK
English
2658
612
1998
Randall Wallace
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne
Action / Adventure / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
2515
564
1951
Raoul Walsh
Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Moultrie Kelsall, Terence Morgan
Action / Adventure / Drama / War
UK / USA
English
2424
525
2014
Matthew Warchus
Ben Schnetzer, Abram Rooney, Jim McManus, George MacKay, Monica Dolan
Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
2796
673
2022
Matthew Warchus
Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical
UK / USA
English
2785
666
1993
Vincent Ward
Jason Scott Lee, Robert Joamie, Anne Parillaud, Annie Galipeau, Patrick Bergin
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Epic
Australia / UK / Canada / France
English
2812
681
2018
Tim Wardle
Edward Galland, David Kellman, Robert Shafran
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Mystery
UK
English
1198
190
1965
Peter Watkins
Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Documentary
UK
English
2662
613
1967
Peter Watkins
Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, Max Bacon
Sci-Fi / Music / Drama
UK
English
1866
338
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
2566
580
1936
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2742
649
1951
Harry Watt
Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Meredith Edwards
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2818
685
2024
Jon Watts
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan
Crime / Thriller / Action / Adventure / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2386
509
2003
Peter Webber
Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy
Biography / Drama
USA / UK / Luxembourg
English
1563
261
2010
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas, Thanapat Saisaymar, Natthakarn Aphaiwonk
Comedy
UK / Thailand / France / Germany / Spain
Thai
2802
677
2021
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Tilda Swinton, Elkin Díaz, Jeanne Balibar, Juan Pablo Urrego
Drama
Colombia / Thailand / France / Germany / Mexico / Qatar / UK / China / Switzerland
English
2834
692
2015
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Petcharat Chaiburi
Drama / Fantasy / Mystery
Thailand / UK / Germany / France / Malaysia / South Korea / Mexico / USA / Norway
Thai
2679
625
2008
Robert B. Weide
Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Megan Fox
Comedy
UK
English
2791
670
1965
Jirí Weiss
James Booth, Anne Heywood, Rudolf Hrusínský
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Romance
Czechoslovakia / UK
English
2474
543
2002
Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz
Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz
Drama / Comedy / Romance
UK / USA / France / Germany
English
2785
666
2007
Chris Weitz
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore
Action / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1943
362
2022
Charlotte Wells
Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham, Ayse Parlak
Drama
UK / USA
English
325
31
1984
Wim Wenders
Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki
Drama
UK / France / West Germany / USA
English
1806
316
1999
Wim Wenders
Lázaro Villa, Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, Alberto 'Virgilio' Valdés
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / USA / UK / France / Cuba
English
2381
505
2011
Wim Wenders
Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Jorge Puerta Armenta
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / France / UK
German
NR
-
2001
Simon West
Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor, Daniel Craig
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller
USA / UK / Japan / Germany
English
2796
673
2018
Wash Westmoreland
Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh, Sloan Thompson
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2809
680
2011
Tanya Wexler
Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK / France / Germany / Luxembourg
English
2799
675
1930
James Whale
Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners, Billy Bevan, Anthony Bushell
Drama / War
UK / USA
English
2796
673
2020
Leigh Whannell
Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Australia / USA / Canada / UK
English
NR
-
2012
Ben Wheatley
Alice Lowe, Eileen Davies, Steve Oram, Roger Michael, Tony Way, Seamus O'Neill
Comedy / Thriller
UK
English
NR
-
2012
Susanna White
Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett
Action / Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
2487
551
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2692
629
1928
Herbert Wilcox
Sybil Thorndike, Marie Ault, Mary Brough, Ada Bodart, Dacia Deane, Haddon Mason
Drama / War
UK
English (Silent)
2692
629
1924
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
1179
188
1970
Billy Wilder
Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page, Christopher Lee
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Adventure / Thriller
UK
English
2809
680
1993
Richard Williams
Jennifer Beals, Matthew Broderick, Toni Collette, Kevin Dorsey, Donald Pleasence
Animation / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
UK / USA
English
2809
680
2002
Nick Willing
Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Miranda Otto, Sophie Stuckey
Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller / Detective
UK / France
English
2803
678
2004
Irwin Winkler
Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Sandra Nelson
Biography / Drama / Musical
USA / UK
English
2230
446
1967
Michael Winner
Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Michael Hordern
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2791
670
1967
Michael Winner
Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews, James Donald
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1960
369
2002
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Nigel Pivaro, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music / Period Film
UK / France / Netherlands
English
2521
566
2007
Michael Winterbottom
Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Edwin Reck, Scott A. Stevens, Irfan Khan
Drama / History / Thriller
USA / UK
English
2650
608
2003
Michael Winterbottom
Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri, Essie Davis
Romance / Sci-Fi / Drama
UK
English
2653
609
2005
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes, Shirley Henderson, Dylan Moran
Comedy / Period Film
UK
English
2691
628
2002
Michael Winterbottom
Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah, Imran Paracha, Hiddayatullah, Jamau, Wakeel Khan
Drama
UK
English
2700
635
2014
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rosie Fellner, Claire Keelan, Marta Barrio
Comedy / Drama
UK / Italy
English
2801
676
2006
Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross
Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui, Afran Usman, Shahid Iqbal, Sher Khan
Drama
UK
English
2803
678
1995
Michael Winterbottom
Amanda Plummer, Kathy Jamieson, Saskia Reeves, Des McAleer, Lisa Riley
Thriller / Drama / Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2803
678
2000
Michael Winterbottom
Peter Mullan, Milla Jovovich, Wes Bentley, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley
Drama / Romance / Western / Period Film
UK / France / Canada
English
2803
678
2011
Michael Winterbottom
Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Anurag Kashyap, Roshan Seth, Kalki Koechlin
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2809
680
2010
Michael Winterbottom
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Claire Keelan, Margo Stilley, Rebecca Johnson
Comedy
UK
English
2819
686
2010
Michael Winterbottom
Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Bill Pullman
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Period Film
USA / Sweden / UK / Canada
English
2854
701
1995
Michael Winterbottom
Robert Carlyle, Juliet Aubrey, James Nesbitt, Sophie Okonedo, Berwick Kaler
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2854
701
1996
Michael Winterbottom
Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, June Whitfield, Rachel Griffiths
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2854
701
1997
Michael Winterbottom
Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Emira Nusevic, Kerry Fox
Drama / War
UK / USA
English
2826
691
1976
Herbert Wise
Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, John Hurt
Drama / History / Epic
UK
English
NR
-
2007
Len Wiseman
Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q, Justin Long, Jeffrey Wright
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2641
605
2020
Jason Woliner
Sacha Baron Cohen, Maria Bakalova, Tom Hanks, Dani Popescu, Manuel Vieru
Comedy
UK / USA
English
2809
680
2009
Bruno Wollheim
David Hockney
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2742
649
1970
Caspar Wrede
Tom Courtenay, Espen Skjønberg, Alf Malland
Drama
UK / Norway
English
1931
357
2017
Edgar Wright
Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Eiza González, Jon Hamm
Action / Crime / Music / Thriller / Drama
UK / USA
English
2330
485
2004
Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran
Comedy / Horror / Romance
UK / France
English
2699
634
2013
Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Rosamund Pike, Thomas Law
Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi
UK
English
2798
674
2007
Edgar Wright
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Paddy Considine, Timothy Dalton
Action / Comedy / Mystery / Detective
UK / France
English
714
96
2007
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn
Drama / Romance / War / Period Film / Epic
UK
English
1908
350
2017
Joe Wright
Lily James, Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane
Biography / Drama / History / War
UK
English
2157
421
2005
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone
Drama / Romance / Comedy / Period Film
France / UK
English
2479
546
2021
Joe Wright
Haley Bennett, Peter Dinklage, Ben Mendelsohn, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Drama / Musical / Romance
UK / USA / Canada / Italy
English
2623
596
2011
Joe Wright
Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Vicky Krieps, Cate Blanchett, Paris Arrowsmith
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller
USA / UK / Germany
English
2818
685
2012
Joe Wright
Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Matthew MacFadyen, Domhnall Gleeson
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2283
467
1965
William Wyler
Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
Drama / Horror / Thriller
UK / USA
English
1840
328
2011
David Yates
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Family / Epic / Cult
UK / USA
English
2531
568
2009
David Yates
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent
Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Romance / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2776
661
2007
David Yates
Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Melling, Jason Boyd, Richard Macklin, Kathryn Hunter
Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Cult
UK / USA
English
2817
684
2010
David Yates
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Family / Epic / Cult
UK / USA
English
NR
-
2016
David Yates
Eddie Redmayne, Sam Redford, Scott Goldman, Tim Bentinck, Tom Clarke Hill
Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Action
UK / USA
English
NR
-
2018
David Yates
Johnny Depp, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, Wolf Roth, Eddie Redmayne
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
522
60
1983
Peter Yates
Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Drama
UK
English
NR
-
1968
Bud Yorkin
Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid, Barry Foster
Comedy / Crime / Detective
UK
English
1377
226
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1316
210
1962
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1347
215
1963
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2320
481
1965
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2791
670
1968
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
690
86
1968
Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK / Italy
English
2573
582
1990
Franco Zeffirelli
Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm
Drama
USA / UK / France
English
2692
629
1972
Franco Zeffirelli
Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Lee Montague
Drama / Biography / Religion / Period Film
Italy / UK
English
2803
678
1996
Franco Zeffirelli
Anna Paquin, Nic Knight, Nicola Howard, Sasha Graff, Fiona Shaw, John Wood
Drama / Romance / Period Film
France / Italy / UK
English
1236
198
2020
Florian Zeller
Olivia Colman, Anthony Hopkins, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots
Drama
UK / France
English
2790
669
2022
Florian Zeller
Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins
Drama
UK / France
English
2809
680
2016
Robert Zemeckis
Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Vincent Ebrahim, Xavier De Guillebon, Camille Cottin
Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Mystery
USA / UK
English
2803
678
2008
Marina Zenovich
Roman Polanski, Samantha Geimer, Douglas Dalton, Roger Gunson, Mia Farrow
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA / UK
English
374
41
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
748
103
1973
Fred Zinnemann
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
1094
173
1960
Fred Zinnemann
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Drama / Adventure
UK / Australia
English
1044
163
2001
Terry Zwigoff
Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro
Comedy / Drama
USA / UK / Germany
English
