| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1986 |
| Absolute Beginners | Julien Temple | Patsy Kensit, David Bowie, James Fox, Sade | Rock musical | |
| Aliens | James Cameron | Sigourney Weaver | Science fiction action | |
| Biggles: Adventures in Time | John Hough | Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White | Adventure | |
| Captive | Paul Mayersberg | Irina Brook, Oliver Reed | Thriller | |
| Caravaggio | Derek Jarman | Nigel Terry, Sean Bean, Tilda Swinton | Drama | Won the Silver Bear at Berlin |
| Castaway | Nicolas Roeg | Oliver Reed, Amanda Donohoe | Drama | |
| Clockwise | Christopher Morahan | John Cleese, Penelope Wilton | Comedy | |
| Coming Up Roses | Stephen Bayly | Ifan Huw Dafydd, Gillian Elisa, Mari Emlyn | Comedy/drama | |
| Comrades | Bill Douglas | Keith Allen, Dave Atkins | Drama/historical | Entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Eat the Peach | Peter Ormrod | Stephen Brennan, Eamon Morissey | Comedy | Co-production with ROI |
| Fatherland | Ken Loach | Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Cristine Rose | Drama | |
| Foreign Body | Ronald Neame | Warren Mitchell, Victor Banerjee, Amanda Donohoe | Comedy | |
| Gothic | Ken Russell | Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands | Historical horror | |
| Half Moon Street | Bob Swaim | Sigourney Weaver, Michael Caine | Thriller | |
| Highlander | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery | Fantasy | |
| Knights & Emeralds | Ian Emes | Christopher Wild, Beverly Hills, Warren Mitchell | Drama | [1] |
| Labyrinth | Jim Henson | David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly | Fantasy | |
| Lady Jane | Trevor Nunn | Helena Bonham Carter, Cary Elwes | Historical drama | |
| Letters to an Unknown Lover | Peter Duffell | Yves Beneyton, Cherie Lunghi | Romance | [2] |
| Link | Richard Franklin | Elisabeth Shue, Terence Stamp | Horror | |
| The Mission | Roland Joffé | Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons | Drama | Multiple awards, including the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival |
| Mona Lisa | Neil Jordan | Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine | Crime drama | Hoskins won the Best Actor award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. |
| Rawhead Rex | George Pavlou | Niall Tóibín, David Dukes | Horror | |
| Rita, Sue and Bob Too | Alan Clarke | Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran | Drama | |
| Shanghai Surprise | Jim Goddard | Madonna, Sean Penn | Crime/drama | |
| Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox | Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb | Biopic | |
| Sky Bandits | Zoran Perisic | Scott McGinnis, Miles Anderson | Action/adventure | |
| Time After Time | Bill Hays | John Gielgud, Googie Withers | Comedy | |
| Wham! in China: Foreign Skies | Lindsay Anderson | George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley | Documentary | |
| When the Wind Blows | Jimmy Murakami | John Mills, Peggy Ashcroft | Drama/animated | |
| The Whistle Blower | Simon Langton | Michael Caine, Felicity Dean, John Gielgud | Spy, Thriller |
| Witchboard | Kevin Tenney | Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, Todd Allen | Horror | |
