Cinematography: Dick Pope

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Brenda Blethyn · Timothy Spall · Phyllis Logan · Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Plot This powerful drama film follows London doctor Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), an intelligent middle-class black woman who was adopted and now decides to track down her biological mother. But her daunting...

Direction Neil Burger

Cast Edward Norton · Paul Giamatti · Jessica Biel · Rufus Sewell

Plot The film stars Academy Award nominees Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti as two men pitted against each other in a battle of wits: Norton as mysterious stage magician Eisenheim, and...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast David Thewlis · Katrin Cartlidge · Lesley Sharp · Gregg Cruttwell

Plot After a rough sexual encounter with a married woman in a Manchester alley becomes a rape, Johnny Fletcher (David Thewlis) flees his native hometown for London, where he hopes to...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Imelda Staunton · Philip Davis · Adrian Scarborough · Daniel Mays

Plot London, 1950: Vera Drake lives with her husband Stan and their grown-up children, Sid and Ethel. They are not rich, but they are a happy, close family. Vera cleans houses,...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Timothy Spall · Lesley Manville · Alison Garland · James Corden

Plot Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Jim Broadbent · Stephen Bill · Belinda Bradley

Direction Chiwetel Ejiofor

Cast Chiwetel Ejiofor · Maxwell Simba · Joseph Marcell · Aïssa Maiga

Plot A boy in Malawi helps his village by building a wind turbine after reading about them in a library book.

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Jim Broadbent · Lesley Manville · Ruth Sheen · Peter Wight

Plot Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes... Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a therapist, and...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Alison Steadman · Jim Broadbent · Timothy Spall · Claire Skinner

Plot Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Katrin Cartlidge · Lynda Steadman · Mark Benton · Kate Byers

Plot Career girls opens with a train journey towards London's Kings Cross where Annie, one of the major characters is about to meet her old university friend Hannah. She recalls moving...

Direction Jill Sprecher

Cast Matthew McConaughey · John Turturro · Clea Duvall · Amy Irving

Plot A man approaching middle age decides to change his life. A rising young attorney's plans are thrown into disarray as the result of a single act. A woman faces her...

Direction Graham Moore

Cast Mark Rylance · Zoey Deutch · Dylan O'Brien · Johnny Flynn

Plot Chicago, 1956. Former Savile Row tailor Leonard (Mark Rylance) has relocated to the Windy City after a personal tragedy. He is gifted with the infinite capacity to create bespoke suits...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Jim Broadbent · Allan Corduner · Timothy Spall · Lesley Manville

Plot Director Mike Leigh's high-minded telling of the story of legendary musical team Gilbert & Sullivan is one of the director’s most thorough, highly ambitious efforts. Concentrating mainly on the tumultuous...

Direction Douglas McGrath

Cast Charlie Hunnam · Jamie Bell · Nathan Lane · Christopher Plummer

Plot Young Nicholas and his family enjoy a comfortable life, until Nicholas' father dies and the family is left penniless. Nicholas, his sister and mother venture to London to seek help...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Danny Glover · Lisa Gay Hamilton · Yaya DaCosta · Stacy Keach

Plot In the rural Alabama of 1950, the pianist and owner of a small joint hopes to save the place from closure by hiring the biggest blues guitar player of the...

Direction Harry Macqueen

Cast Colin Firth · Stanley Tucci · James Dreyfus · Pippa Haywood

Plot It is deep Autumn and Sam and Tusker, partners of twenty years, are on holiday. Sam (Firth) is a pianist. Tusker (Tucci) is a writer. They are travelling across England...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Timothy Spall · Dorothy Atkinson · Marion Bailey · Paul Jesson

Plot ‘MR. TURNER’ explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he...

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Jack Black · Shirley MacLaine · Matthew McConaughey · Rick Dial

Plot Based on a real-life story. In the tiny, rural town of Carthage, TX, assistant funeral director Bernie Tiede (Jack Black) was one of the town's most beloved residents. He taught...

Direction Beeban Kidron

Cast Vincent Pérez · Rachel Weisz · Ian McKellen · Kathy Bates

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Zac Efron · Claire Danes · Christian McKay · Ben Chaplin

Plot It is November, 1937, and teenager Richard Samuels (Zac Efron) dreams of making it on Broadway. One day he runs into Welles (Christian McKay), years before Citizen Kane but already...