Mike Leigh Movies

A documentary about cutting film... the way it used to be done.

Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over...

Documentary showing behind-the-scenes footage of the film 'Nader and Simin, A Separation'. Director Asghar Farhadi himself talks about his film and...

Documentary about François Truffaut who is one of the most respected directors in the history of cinema.

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st...

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

A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership....

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

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the...

A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about...

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

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

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

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...

A man on crutches bumps into an old acquaintance who relentlessly bombards him with small talk.

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a...

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements,...

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife...