| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Release date | Notes |
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| 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 | |
| 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 the2009 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 the2009 Toronto Film Festival |
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | David Yates | Daniel Radcliffe,Emma Watson,Rupert Grint,Alan Rickman | Fantasyadventure | 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 |
| The Lovely Bones | Peter Jackson | Mark Wahlberg,Rachel Weisz,Susan Sarandon,Stanley Tucci,Michael Imperioli,Saoirse Ronan | Supernatural thriller drama | 24 November | |
| 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 | Jorge Blanco | 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 theBerlin International Film Festival |
| Rocketmen | Richard Dale | | Documentary | 30 August | |
| The Soloist | Joe Wright | Jamie Foxx,Robert Downey Jr.,Catherine Keener,Tom Hollander,LisaGay Hamilton | Drama | 20 April | |
| St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson | Rupert Everett,Colin Firth,David Tennant,Talulah Riley,Sarah HardingGemma 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 | |
| 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 |
