| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1997 |
| Bean | Mel Smith | Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed | Comedy | |
| Bent | Sean Mathias | Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen | Drama | |
| The Borrowers | Peter Hewitt | John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie | Fantasy | |
| Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis | John Henderson | Rik Mayall, Jane Horrocks | Comedy | Entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Career Girls | Mike Leigh | Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman | Drama | |
| Darklands | Julian Richards | Craig Fairbrass, Jon Finch | Horror | |
| The Designated Mourner | David Hare | Mike Nichols, Miranda Richardson | Drama | |
| Driftwood | Ronan O'Leary | James Spader, Anne Brochet | Thriller | Co-production with the Republic of Ireland [1] |
| Event Horizon | Paul W. S. Anderson | Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill | Sci-fi/horror | |
| Face | Antonia Bird | Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone | Crime drama | |
| FairyTale: A True Story | Charles Sturridge | Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Phoebe Nicholls | Historical fantasy | Based on the legend of the Cottingley Fairies |
| Fever Pitch | David Evans | Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell | Sports/comedy | |
| Fierce Creatures | Fred Schepisi | John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline | Comedy | |
| The Fifth Element | Luc Besson | Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker, Ian Holm | Science fiction action | |
| Food of Love | Stephen Poliakoff | Richard E. Grant, Nathalie Baye | Comedy | |
| Firelight | William Nicholson | Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Lia Williams, Dominique Belcourt, Joss Ackland | Period romance | Co-production with the US |
| The Full Monty | Peter Cattaneo | Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy | Comedy | |
| A Further Gesture | Robert Dornhelm | Stephen Rea, Alfred Molina | Thriller | |
| G.I. Jane | Ridley Scott | Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft | Action drama | Co-production with the US |
| The Gambler | Károly Makk | Michael Gambon, Jodhi May | Biopic | |
| The Girl with Brains in Her Feet | Roberto Bangura | Amanda Mealing, Joanna Ward | Sport | |
| The Hanging Garden | Thom Fitzgerald | Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox | Drama | Co-production with Canada |
| The House of Angelo | Jim Goddard | Edward Woodward, Peter Woodward | Historical | |
| Lawn Dogs | John Duigan | Mischa Barton, Sam Rockwell | Drama | Final Rank film |
| Loop | Allan Niblo | Andy Serkis, Susannah York, Tony Selby | Romance/comedy | |
| Love and Death on Long Island | Richard Kwietniowski | John Hurt, Jason Priestley | Drama | Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Matchmaker | Mark Joffe | Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara | Romance/comedy | |
| Metroland | Philip Saville | Christian Bale, Emily Watson | Comedy | |
| Mrs Brown | John Madden | Judi Dench, Billy Connolly | Biopic | Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival |
| Mrs Dalloway | Marleen Gorris | Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone | Drama | |
| My Son the Fanatic | Udayan Prasad | Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha | Drama | |
| Nil by Mouth | Gary Oldman | Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke | Drama | Entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival |
| Photographing Fairies | Nick Willing | Toby Stephens, Rachel Shelley, Edward Hardwicke | Fantasy | |
| Preaching to the Perverted | Stuart Urban | Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell, Christien Anholt | Comedy | |
| Regeneration | Gillies MacKinnon | Jonathan Pryce, Jonny Lee Miller | World War I | |
| The Serpent's Kiss | Philippe Rousselot | Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi | Drama | |
| Shooting Fish | Stefan Schwartz | Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale | Comedy | |
| Sixth Happiness | Waris Hussein | Firdaus Kanga, Souad Faress | Drama | |
| So This Is Romance? | Kevin W. Smith | Reece Dinsdale, Victoria Smurfit | Comedy/romance | [2] |
| Spice World | Bob Spiers | Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore | Comedy | |
| The Tango Lesson | Sally Potter | Sally Potter, Pablo Verón | Drama/dance | |
| Tomorrow Never Dies | Roger Spottiswoode | Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh | Spy/action | |
| Twin Town | Kevin Allen | Llŷr Ifans, Rhys Ifans, Dorien Thomas | Black comedy | Entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Welcome to Sarajevo | Michael Winterbottom | Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Goran Višnjić | Drama | Entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival |
| Wilde | Brian Gilbert | Stephen Fry, Jude Law | Biopic | |
| The Wings of the Dove | Iain Softley | Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Elliott, Linus Roache | Literary drama | |
| The Woodlanders | Phil Agland | Emily Woof, Rufus Sewell | Drama | [3] |
