Soundtrack: Andrew Dickson

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 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 Philip Davis · Ruth Sheen · Edna Doré · Philip Jackson

Synopsis 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 husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx...

Direction Goran Paskaljevic

Cast Tom Conti · Miki Manojlovic · María Casares · Zorka Manojlovic

Synopsis Someone Else's America opens in Brooklyn, across the East River from Manhattan, where the skyscrapers loom like a steel-and-concrete promise forever beyond the immigrants' reach. Bayo, from Montenegro, has been in the United States for less than a year, doing...

Direction Mike Leigh

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

Synopsis 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 brother in a housing project. He and his sarcastic manipulative...

Direction Noémie Lvovsky

Cast Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Emmanuelle Devos · Laurent Grévill · Emmanuel Salinger

Synopsis Nathalie is together with Antoine, who really loves her, despite of her obvious tendency go get away from him. Eric, the former partner of Nathalie, does not want to be with her anymore, but she can not accept this. In...