Naked (1993)
Naked (1993) Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend, and spends some time homeless, spending much of his time ranting at strangers, and meeting characters in plights very much like his own.
Secrets & Lies (1996)
A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a lower-class white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.
All or Nothing (2002)
All or Nothing (2002) 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 unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Ph
Nuts in May (1976)
Nuts in May (1976) A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.
Peterloo (2018)
Peterloo (2018) The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
Life Is Sweet (1990)
Life Is Sweet (1990) 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 to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home
Career Girls (1997)
Career Girls (1997) Career girls opens with a train journey towards London's Kings Cross where Annie, one of the major characters is about to meet her old university friend Hannah. She recalls moving into a grotty student flat with Hannah in the mid-eighties. In those days Annie was self conscious a
TopsyTurvy (1999)
TopsyTurvy (1999) 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 together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," o
Mr. Turner (2014)
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
The Short Curlies (1988)
The Short Curlies 1988 A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between her and the man and her and her doting mother, a hairdresser
Vera Drake (2004)
Vera Drake (2004) Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregn
Another Year (2010)
Another Year (2010) A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Hard Labour (1973)
Hard Labour (1973) A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
Meantime (1984)
Meantime (1984) An odd film, primarily looking at how the dole affects the underclass in Britain. Tim Roth stars as Colin, a slow and possibly intellectually disabled man living with his parents and brother in a housing project. He and his sarcastic manipulative brother still behave like teenagers,
Home Sweet Home (1982)
Home Sweet Home 1982 Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner
Bleak Moments (1971)
Bleak Moments 1971 Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate
High Hopes (1988)
High Hopes (1988) 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 M
HappyGoLucky (2008)
HappyGoLucky (2008) Poppy Cross is happy-go-lucky. At 30, she lives in Camden: cheeky, playful, frank while funny, and talkative to strangers. She's a conscientious and exuberant primary-school teacher, flatmates with Zoe, her long-time friend; she's close to one sister, and not so close to another.
A Running Jump (2012)
A Running Jump (2012) Members of a family lives frantic lives of Olympian proportion.
Whos Who (1979)
Whos Who (1979) 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 April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious friends Nigel, Giles, and Anthony, who gather for a wine-soaked dinner party with the ch
Grown Ups (1980)
Grown Ups 1980 Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door Mandys unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not