Six is not really enough. Six Guy Ritchie films to stream in the UK, then, with The Gentlemen back on Netflix on Thursday 3 September and MobLand on Paramount+ on Friday 18 September. He rather has the month.
The trouble is the volume. Leaving out Sherlock Holmes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Wrath of Man and Aladdin looks less like editing than an oversight, given Aladdin took $1.054bn worldwide, per Box Office Mojo. Several are not streaming here anyway, which spared us the argument.
The two Britain cannot watch
Start with the awkward part. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels has no home in the UK at all right now. Not iPlayer, not ITVX, not NOW, not even to rent. The 2020 Gentlemen film, the one the series grew out of, is rental only. For a list that excludes rentals, that comes to the same thing.
So the country that has been quoting these films at each other in pubs since the Blair government is the one market that cannot get at them. Having iPlayer, ITVX and NOW open at once gets you no closer.
Where to stream Guy Ritchie films in the UK tonight
After that it improves. Snatch and RocknRolla are on NOW, Revolver is free on ITVX, which is not the order anyone would have predicted, and the newest is on Prime Video. Six below, all streaming tonight, nothing to rent. Netflix has none of the early films.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Henry Cavill leading a unit of sanctioned lunatics against Nazi supply ships, from an operation that really happened. The old assembled-crew routine, relocated to the Atlantic and given rather more money. Two hours on Prime Video, and the least demanding of the six.
The Gentlemen
Theo James inherits a dukedom and the very large cannabis farm underneath it. Series one is the homework for 3 September, and it is not exactly a chore. Eight episodes on Netflix, with Kaya Scodelario quietly stealing most of them.
MobLand
Tom Hardy as the fixer for a London crime family, with Helen Mirren doing the quiet, frightening bit. Series one is on Paramount+, where series two arrives on 18 September. Ten episodes, and the least funny thing on this list.
Snatch
A priceless diamond, a boxing racket nobody is running properly, and a queue of people who want the first and cannot leave the second alone. An hour and forty-three minutes, from 2000, on NOW. Jason Statham and Dennis Farina do the talking. It is the one people mean when they say a Guy Ritchie film.
RocknRolla
London property money, Russian gangsters and Tom Hardy before anyone had noticed him. Not his tidiest film, but the one that most enjoys its own company. Gerard Butler, Mark Strong and Idris Elba round it out, on NOW, an hour and fifty-four.
Revolver
Honourable mention
The one nobody defends, free on ITVX. A con man out of prison, a chess metaphor that gets thoroughly out of hand. Watch it as a curiosity and it rather works. Jason Statham and Ray Liotta, an hour and fifty-one.
The six, one at a time
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Ritchie directs, from the true story of a British unit sent to sink Nazi supply ships. Henry Cavill is Major Gus March-Phillips, Alan Ritchson is Anders Lassen, billed as the Danish Hammer, Eiza González is Marjorie Stewart and Henry Golding is Freddy Alvarez. Two hours, 2024, the newest thing on this list and the most expensive-looking. The synopsis credits the unit's real parent organisation to Winston Churchill and calls it the foundation of modern covert operations, which is a grand claim for a film this cheerful. It sits late in his run, well after the crime films stopped being the point.
It stands alone: no series to have watched first, no earlier film it answers, nothing to line up. On Prime Video now, on the standard subscription or the ad-supported tier, both listed for the UK, and two hours from start to finish. Essential only in the sense that it is the easiest sell in the house. Put it on with people who have never knowingly sat through a Guy Ritchie film and they will not work it out. A newcomer can skip every other title here and lose nothing, which is not true of the two series.
The Gentlemen
Ritchie created this one himself. Theo James is Eddie Horniman, who inherits the dukedom of Halstead and finds an enormous cannabis operation under the estate whose proprietors, as the synopsis has it, are not going anywhere. Kaya Scodelario is Susie Glass, Daniel Ings is his catastrophic brother Freddy, Joely Richardson is Lady Sabrina and Vinnie Jones is Geoff Seacombe on the grounds. Series one is eight episodes and premiered on 7 March 2024. It is the most purely enjoyable thing he has made for television, and the one most likely to get watched two at a time.
Series one is the run-up, and an easy one: eight episodes, on Netflix now, on the standard tier or the ad-supported one. Series two arrives on 3 September with eight more in a single drop, so sixteen episodes will exist by the second week of the month. Do series one first and treat that as essential rather than optional, because the new run picks up a year on with the same household of problems. The 2020 film of the same name is a separate story, rental only here from £2.49, and skipping it costs you nothing.
MobLand
Created by Ronan Bennett rather than Ritchie, who directed the opening episode and set the tone everyone else had to match. Tom Hardy is Harry Da Souza, fixer for the Harrigans, with Pierce Brosnan as Conrad Harrigan, Paddy Considine as Kevin, Joanne Froggatt as Jan Da Souza and Lara Pulver as Bella. Ten episodes, premiered on 30 March 2025, and the whole of it is two London crime families going to war. It is the heaviest thing here and the least suited to a half-interested Tuesday. Say so before anybody agrees to ten hours of it.
Series one, ten episodes, is on Paramount+ now, and it is essential before the return. Series two starts on 18 September with another ten, weekly to a finale on 20 November, and its billing has the Harrigans struggling to hold a fractured empire together, so what happens in the first run matters. Ten hours is a real commitment. Start now at two a week and you are comfortably clear by the 18th. If you would rather not, the opening episode alone sorts out who everybody is, and that is the one Ritchie directed.
Snatch
Jason Statham is Turkish, Alan Ford is Brick Top, and Brad Pitt is a bare-knuckle boxer nobody can understand. Behind them sit Stephen Graham as Tommy, Benicio del Toro as Franky Four Fingers, Lennie James as Sol and Rade Šerbedžija as Boris the Blade. One hour forty-three, 2000, and the second of the two films that made him. Boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster and a set of thoroughly incompetent amateur robbers, all chasing the same stolen diamond. It is the tighter of that pair, and the plotting is the part people forget while quoting the dialogue.
Watch order is the only awkward bit. Lock, Stock comes first and is the one you would sensibly watch before this, and it currently has no UK offer of any kind: not to stream, not to rent, not to buy. So this becomes the starting point by default. No hardship, because it is not a sequel and needs none of it. On NOW, where the UK listing puts it on the Cinema membership rather than Entertainment, which is worth checking before promising anybody an evening.
RocknRolla
Gerard Butler is One-Two, Tom Wilkinson is Lenny Cole and Mark Strong is Archy. Thandiwe Newton is Stella the accountant, Idris Elba is Mumbles, Tom Hardy is Handsome Bob before anyone had noticed him, and Toby Kebbell is Johnny Quid, a rock star in freefall. One hour fifty-four, 2008, built around a Russian mobster's property scheme worth millions. This is the film that ended the bad patch and it shows the strain: baggier than Snatch, pleased with itself in stretches, and a good second Ritchie rather than a first.
A standalone. Nothing to watch before it, nothing that follows it up, and no connection to the two films that made him beyond the accent and the postcode. On NOW alongside Snatch and on the same Cinema membership, which makes the pair a straightforward double bill if the household has that tier, and three hours thirty-seven for the two of them. Optional. Come to it once you already like the register, because starting a newcomer here rather than on Snatch is how people decide they do not care for Guy Ritchie films.
Revolver
Jason Statham is Jake Green, a gambler who accepts an invitation to a high-stakes private card game and finds the stakes have moved well past money. Ray Liotta is Macha, with Mark Strong as Sorter, André 3000 as Avi, Vincent Pastore as Zach and Francesca Annis as Lily Walker. One hour fifty-one, 2005. The plot is a con and the framing is chess, and the film never recovers from the framing. It sits at the low point of his run, three years after Swept Away and three before RocknRolla, and it is here as a curiosity.
Free on ITVX with ads, which is the right price for it and half the reason it is here, and ITVX Premium carries it without the breaks if you pay for that. No watch order applies. It follows nothing and leads nowhere, so it can go in whenever the mood takes you. Optional in the strongest sense of the word. Put it on once Snatch and RocknRolla are done and you want to see what a director looks like when he stops trusting an audience. Somebody will find it fascinating. Nobody will call it good.
Why does every British crime film look like this?
Because of one of them, made for about £800,000. Lock, Stock took $28.4m worldwide, per The Numbers. The BFI credits it with reviving the British gangster film and notes that most of the imitators were unwatchable. Both halves are true. For a decade the first half was the house style: the freeze-frame, the name captioned across the screen as each bloke arrives, three firms colliding in a plot none of them can see the whole of.
It built careers out of people who did not have one. Jason Statham came off a street market stall, per MentalFloss; Vinnie Jones was a footballer, per FilmInk. Snatch took $83.6m on a $10m budget, per Box Office Mojo, and SlashFilm reports Brad Pitt's unintelligible accent was agreed the night before shooting.
A spotting game: he appears in two of his own films, reading a newspaper in Snatch and running the inn in King Arthur, uncredited both times, per IMDb.
Then the bad patch. Swept Away collected five Razzies in 2002, Worst Director among them, and Revolver arrived in 2005 to a Rotten Tomatoes consensus of incoherent misfire. He rebuilt on studio money: Sherlock Holmes took $524m, Aladdin passed a billion, per Box Office Mojo. Neither is a British crime film.
September is the month he takes over British telly
The Gentlemen returns on Thursday 3 September on Netflix, all eight episodes at once, so there is no weekly argument about who watched ahead. A third series was commissioned before the second had aired.
MobLand follows on Friday 18 September on Paramount+, ten episodes weekly to 20 November, according to Paramount+. Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren handle the damage.
- The Gentlemen series two: Thursday 3 September, Netflix, all eight at once. Series three already commissioned.
- MobLand series two: Friday 18 September, Paramount+, ten episodes weekly to 20 November.
- New to The Gentlemen: start with series one. The 2020 film is rental only here.
Sorting it before the takeaway turns up
The telly goes on earlier than it did a fortnight ago, which is how six films across four apps becomes forty minutes of scrolling and then Coronation Street by accident. Nobody planned that. The best film apps for couples piece covers deciding together; if the question is only tonight, what to watch tonight in the UK is the shorter answer.
Settle the shape of the evening first. Revolver and a wartime commando picture are both Ritchie and are not the same night in.
Swipe the six separately and put on the one you both said yes to. Nobody sits through anything resentfully. That is the honest list of Guy Ritchie films to stream in the UK right now, rentals excluded. MatchWatch is free to use. Available in New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and the United States.