Direction: Mike Leigh

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 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 Philip Davis · Ruth Sheen · Edna Doré · Philip Jackson

Plot Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Alison Steadman · Tim Stern · Janine Duvitski · John Salthouse

Plot A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Jim Broadbent · Stephen Bill · Belinda Bradley

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 Mike Leigh

Cast Roger Sloman · Alison Steadman · Anthony O'Donnell · Sheila Kelley

Plot Their Morris packed to the gills, the punctilious Keith and the more spontaneous Candice-Marie arrive at a Dorset campground where they pay £10 in advance for ten nights. It's peaceful:...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Gary Oldman · Tim Roth · Alfred Molina · Marion Bailey

Plot An odd film, primarily looking at how the dole affects the underclass in Britain. Tim Roth stars as Colin, a slow and possibly retarded man living with his parents and...

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 Mike Leigh

Cast Anne Raitt · Sarah Stephenson · Eric Allan · Joolia Cappleman

Plot Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her retarded sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizzare neighbour and irritating workmate.

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 Mike Leigh

Cast Rory Kinnear · Maxine Peake · David Bamber · Marion Bailey

Plot The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Sally Hawkins · Alexis Zegerman · Eddie Marsan · Andrea Riseborough

Plot The adventures of Poppy. Is she perhaps a little crazy and irresponsible? Or is she in fact deeply sane and sensible? Either way, everybody falls in love with her, for...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Alison Steadman · Sylvestra Le Touzel · David Thewlis · Wendy Nottingham

Plot A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor. The story is told as a series...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Philip Davis · Lesley Manville · Brenda Blethyn · Janine Duvitski

Plot Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister,...

Direction Mike Leigh

Cast Brid Brennan · Des McAleer · Paula Hamilton · Charles Lawson

Plot A catholic and a protestant couple in Northern Ireland have amazing parallels in their lives, despite being either side of the divide.