Cinematography: Dick Pope

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis Secrets and Lies (1996) follows Hortense, a successful Black optometrist, who seeks out her birth mother, Cynthia, a working-class white woman. Their unexpected reunion unravels buried family tensions and hidden truths. Cynthia, struggling with her own insecurities and strained relationships,...

Direction Neil Burger

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

Synopsis In The Illusionist (2006), a mysterious magician named Eisenheim captivates early 1900s Vienna with his extraordinary performances. His haunting illusions blur reality, drawing the attention of Crown Prince Leopold and his fiancée, Sophie—Eisenheim's childhood love. As the magician's acts grow...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis 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 find shelter with his ex-girlfriend Louise (Lesley Sharp). Full of...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis Vera Drake (2004) is a poignant drama set in 1950s London, following the life of Vera Drake, a kind-hearted housewife who selflessly helps others in her community. Unbeknownst to her family, Vera secretly assists young women in distress by performing...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis 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 a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Jim Broadbent · Stephen Bill · Belinda Bradley

Direction Chiwetel Ejiofor

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 Tom (Jim Broadbent), a geologist, are happily married, but mildly...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis 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 to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis 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 into a grotty student flat with Hannah in the mid-eighties....

Direction Jill Sprecher

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

Synopsis 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 husband's infidelity. An envious businessman seeks revenge on a cheerful...

Direction Graham Moore

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

Synopsis 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 with precision, patience and care. These beautiful suits soon catch...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis 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 period just before the conception and production of the pair's...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Marianne Jean-Baptiste · Michele Austin · David Webber · Ani Nelson

Synopsis Life's a constant struggle for Pansy. Racked with physical and mental pain, her dealings with the world are channeled through anger and confrontation: she argues with her family, her dentist, her doctor, the girl at the supermarket checkout... Curtley, her...

Direction Douglas McGrath

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

Synopsis 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 from their Uncle Ralph, but Ralph's only intentions are to...

Direction John Sayles

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

Synopsis 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 moment, Guitar Sam. On the day of the show, the...

Direction Harry Macqueen

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

Synopsis 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 in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis ‘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 takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a...

Direction Richard Linklater

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

Synopsis 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 Sunday school, sang in the church choir and was always...

Direction Beeban Kidron

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