Movies: Mike Leigh

  • 2020
    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020)

    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

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    Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with...

    Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
  • 2004
    Vera Drake

    Vera Drake (2004)

    Vera Drake

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    Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family....

    Vera Drake
  • 1999
    Topsy-Turvy

    Topsy-Turvy (1999)

    Topsy-Turvy

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    After their latest production, "Princess Ida", meets with less-than-stunning reception, Gilbert and Sullivan's relationship is strained to the breaking point. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which bares the...

    Topsy-Turvy
  • 1996
    Secrets & Lies

    Secrets & Lies (1996)

    Secrets & Lies

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    After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman....

    Secrets & Lies
  • 2018
    Peterloo

    Peterloo (2018)

    Peterloo

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    An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw ...

    Peterloo
  • 1989
    High Hopes

    High Hopes (1989)

    High Hopes

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    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 want...

    High Hopes
  • 2016
    Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

    Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)

    Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

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    A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers....

    Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
  • 2025
    Citizen B

    Citizen B (2025)

    Citizen B

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    Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990....

    Citizen B
  • 1990
    Life Is Sweet

    Life Is Sweet (1990)

    Life Is Sweet

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    Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they...

    Life Is Sweet
  • 1983
    Meantime

    Meantime (1983)

    Meantime

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    A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically s...

    Meantime
  • 1982
    Mike Leigh: Making Plays

    Mike Leigh: Making Plays (1982)

    Mike Leigh: Making Plays

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    Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....

    Mike Leigh: Making Plays
  • 2024
    Hard Truths

    Hard Truths (2024)

    Hard Truths

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    Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with he...

    Hard Truths
  • 1993
    Naked

    Naked (1993)

    Naked

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    An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey....

    Naked
  • 2000
    Welcome to Hollywood

    Welcome to Hollywood (2000)

    Welcome to Hollywood

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    A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood......

    Welcome to Hollywood
  • 2013
    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema? (2013)

    What Is Cinema?

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    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and ot...

    What Is Cinema?
  • 2009
    Vittorio D.

    Vittorio D. (2009)

    Vittorio D.

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    A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family....

    Vittorio D.
  • 1982
    Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home (1982)

    Home Sweet Home

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    Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner....

    Home Sweet Home
  • 2010
    Another Year

    Another Year (2010)

    Another Year

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    During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives....

    Another Year
  • 1971
    Bleak Moments

    Bleak Moments (1971)

    Bleak Moments

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    Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate....

    Bleak Moments
  • 2014
    Mr. Turner

    Mr. Turner (2014)

    Mr. Turner

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    Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him....

    Mr. Turner