Direction: Ken Loach

Direction Ken Loach

Cast David Bradley · Lynne Perrie · Freddie Fletcher · Colin Welland

Plot Ken Loach's "Kes" follows the tough life of Billy Casper (David Bradley), a young boy in living on the poor end of Barnsley, in the mining areas of Yorkshire County....

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Ian Hart · Icíar Bollaín · Rosana Pastor · Tom Gilroy

Plot Earnestly talky drama focusing on idealist Liverpudlian communist David Carr (Hart), who heads to Spain in 1937 to fight against Franco's fascists. What David learns is that the Republican forces,...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Bruce Jones · Julie Brown · Gemma Phoenix · Ricky Tomlinson

Plot Bob (Bruce Jones) lives with his wife Anne (Julie Brown) and his daughter Coleen (Gemma Phoenix) in a poor English town. Bob scrapes by with whatever odd jobs come his...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Peter Mullan · Louise Goodall · Gary Lewis · David McKay

Plot My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Sandy Ratcliff · Bill Dean · Grace Cave · Malcolm Tierney

Plot A 19 years old London girl received agressive psychiatric treatments for her schizophrenic behaviour by a doctor who still wants her family to insure the guard of the child without...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Carol White · Ray Brooks · Winifred Dennis · Adrienne Frame

Plot The play tells the story of a young couple, Cathy (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks). Initially their relationship flourishes and they have a child and move into...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Martin Compston · Annmarie Fulton · William Ruane · Michelle Abercromby

Plot Liam is a young, restless teen struggling to realize his dream in the gritty and dismal streets of Glasgow, where unemployment is rampant and little hope is available to the...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Dave Johns · Hayley Squires · Briana Shann · Dylan McKiernan

Plot A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself, and is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Frances McDormand · Brian Cox · Mai Zetterling · Brad Dourif

Plot Hidden Agenda takes place in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the early '80s and is about a British police officer (Brian Cox) and an American human rights activist (Frances McDormand) who...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Cillian Murphy · Padraic Delaney · Liam Cunningham · William Ruane

Plot Two Irish brothers join the guerilla armies formed to battle the British Black & Tan squads that tried to prevent Ireland's bid for independence in 1919. Damien and Teddy are...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Kris Hitchen · Debbie Honeywood · Rhys Stone · Katie Proctor

Plot Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Crissy Rock · Vladimir Vega · Ray Winstone · Sandie Lavelle

Plot Maggie has had four children (by four different fathers) removed by Social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Robert Carlyle · Emer McCourt · Jimmy Coleman · George Moss

Plot Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site -- a melting pot of itinerant labourers from...

Direction Ken Loach

Plot Documentary, directed by Ken Loach, celebrating the remarkable post-war achievements of the 1945-51 Labour government and lamenting their subsequent dismantling by the Thatcher government after 1979.

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Graham Green · Carolyn Nicholson · Tony Pitts · Roy Haywood

Plot Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work,...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Dave Turner · Ebla Mari · Debbie Honeywood · Andy Dawson

Plot The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are...

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Atta Yaqub · Eva Birthistle · Ahmad Riaz · Shamshad Akhtar

Plot Casim (Atta Yaqub) is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, Casim dreams of buying his own club. His parents Tariq and Sadia...

Direction Franny Armstrong · Ken Loach

Direction Ken Loach

Cast Steve Evets · Eric Cantona · Stephanie Bishop · Gerard Kearns

Plot Eric a football fanatic postman whose life is descending in to crisis receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona. Eric Bishop is a Manchester postman who is...

Direction Abbas Kiarostami · Ken Loach · Ermanno Olmi

Cast Carlo Delle Piane · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Silvana De Santis · Filippo Trojano

Plot This film charts the emotional odyssey of six characters over the course of a railway journey from Austria to Rome.