Search results for "Mike Leigh"
The Kiss of Death

The Kiss of Death

The Kiss of Death
IMDb: 6.6
71

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker’s assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to…

Nuts in May

Nuts in May

Nuts in May
IMDb: 7.8
84

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
A Running Jump

A Running Jump

A Running Jump
IMDb: 6.1
35

Gary attempts to buy a second-hand car. What should be a straightforward task is turned into something of a quest by various people, including dodgy East End car dealer Perry,…

Genre: Comedy
Career Girls

Career Girls

Career Girls
IMDb: 7.1
83

Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.

Genre: Drama
Bleak Moments

Bleak Moments

Bleak Moments
IMDb: 7.3
111

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Short & Curlies

The Short & Curlies

The Short & Curlies
IMDb: 6.6
18

A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor…

Genre: Comedy
All or Nothing

All or Nothing

All or Nothing
IMDb: 7.5
128

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy
IMDb: 7.4
160

After their production “Princess Ida” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work…

Peterloo

Peterloo

Peterloo
IMDb: 6.5
154

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…

Genre: Drama, History
Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner
IMDb: 6.8
150

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.

Genre: Drama, History
Vera Drake

Vera Drake

Vera Drake
IMDb: 7.6
125

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

Genre: Drama
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies
IMDb: 8
142

With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.

Genre: Drama
Naked

Naked

Naked
IMDb: 7.8
131

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet
IMDb: 7.5
103

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
High Hopes

High Hopes

High Hopes
IMDb: 7.4
108

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Meantime

Meantime

Meantime
IMDb: 7.2
107

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…

A Sense of History

A Sense of History

A Sense of History
IMDb: 8
26

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Another Year

Another Year

Another Year
IMDb: 7.4
129

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Happy-Go-Lucky

Happy-Go-Lucky

Happy-Go-Lucky
IMDb: 7
118

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Genre: Comedy, Drama