A little bit of housekeeping before we begin. The films on this list all appear on the IMDb at the time of writing with a date of 2014 and the ‘UK’ as their country of origin (international co-productions, such as Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, or John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary, and yes, Paddington, those globe-trotting flirts, were disallowed). The film industry and the IMDb being what they are, we realise that doesn’t necessarily mean all of them are exclusively UK-funded and produced, or indeed, will actually come out next year. (We can be fairly sure of this because at least two of the films chosen for our 2013 UK film list – Richard Ayoade’s The Double and John Pogue’s The Quiet Ones – are yet to be released.)

The films arrived on here for one of two reasons: one, they’re made by or with people whose work we’ve previously enjoyed, or two, we thought they sounded ace and deserved a wee bit of fanfare to herald their arrival. It’s by no means exhaustive, but hopefully contains a few forthcoming UK gems…

A Long Way Down (dir. Pascal Chaumeil)

Adapted from the 2005 Nick Hornby novel of the same name by The Fades, Skins and This Is England’s Jack Thorne (who appears twice on this list, fact-spotters), A Long Way Down features a wonderful collection of actors. There’s Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul, Toni Collette (perhaps best recognised for Muriel’s Wedding and The Sixth Sense), and Rosamund Pike (seen recently in The World’s End and soon to provide the voice of Lady Penelope in the new Thunderbirds series), as well as Sam Neill, Pierce Brosnan, Imogen Poots and Tuppence Middleton.