Mike Leigh

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Bleak Moments (1971): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Anne Raitt, Sarah Stephenson, Eric Allan; Mike Leigh's first feature is a despairing slice–of–life drama about a young woman left at home with her retarded sister in suburban…
Hard Labour (1973): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Liz Smith, Clifford Kershaw, Polly Hemingway; Mike Leigh's first film for the BBC (beginning a series of televised stage plays) introduces some familiar preoccupations: unhappy families,…
Nuts in May (1976): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman; Director Mike Leigh pokes fun at a couple into 'alternative' lifestyles, whose holiday adventure drags their marriage over the rocks. The Comic Strip…
Abigail's Party (1977): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Alison Steadman; A cult classic of British TV, this is an outrageously funny send up–of social etiquette in the suburbs, with fashions to match. Squirm as buxom…
Kiss of Death, The (1977): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. David Threlfall; Something of a forerunner to Leigh's masterpiece NAKED, with David Threlfall playing an undertaker's assistant with a macabre, unpredictable streak.…
Who's Who (1978): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Adam Norton, Simon Chandler, Philip Davis; The slobbish and the snobbish are unflatteringly portrayed in this early Mike Leigh ensemble piece, a little on the heavy side with its somewhat…
Grown-Ups (1980): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Philip Davis, Lesley Manville, Brenda Blethyn; A working class couple discovers the joys of living in a council flat in this early Mike Leigh drama for the BBC (part of the 'Play for Today'…
Home Sweet Home (1982): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Frances Barber; Postmen, social workers, and desperate housewives converge in this biting Mike Leigh feature, one of the director’s early achievements. Originally…
Meantime (1983): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Pam Ferris…; Mike Leigh's skewed sense of humour takes on the doledrums of Thatcher's London. Tim Roth and Gary Oldman are unrecognisably awkward in a…
Four Days in July (1984): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Brid Brennan, Desmond McAleer; A largely apolitical, if not humanist take on Northern Ireland strife, from the viewpoint of two couples and their respective Catholic and Protestant…
High Hopes (1989): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Phillip Davis, Ruth Sheen; Mike Leigh's excruciating portrait of a dysfunctional yet typical working–class family surviving in Thatcher's England. The blistering social…
Life Is Sweet (1990): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Alison Steadman, Timothy Spall, Jane Horrocks…; Life is always bittersweet in a Mike Leigh film, but never so funny. Naturalism and caricature harmonise is this domestic black comedy thanks to his…
Naked (1993): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. David Thewlis, Katrin Cartlidge, Lesley Sharp…; David Thewlis gives a bravura performance in a difficult role, somehow bringing humility to a complex yet unpleasant character – misogynist,…
Secrets and Lies (1996): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Brenda Blethyn, Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook…; Winner of the Palm D'or at Cannes '96, and surprise box–office smash thanks to good old word of mouth. A dramatic tour–de–force…
Career Girls (1997): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman; Mike Leigh sidesteps the impossibly tall order of living up to SECRETS AND LIES with a character–driven two–hander about a pair of…
Topsy-Turvy (1999): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Allan Corduner…; Rewarding biopic of Gilbert & Sullivan's ('HMS Pinafore', 'Pirates of Penzance') creative partnership that yields not so much drama as fascinating,…
All or Nothing (2002): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland; Director Mike Leigh returns to (overly) familiar turf for this ensemble drama about dysfunctional, poverty–stricken lives of three families…
Vera Drake (2004): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight; An impeccable period drama from Mike Leigh that ranks alongside the director's best work, this is the moving story of a middle aged woman who was…
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman; An optimistic if not exactly 'feel–good' comedy–drama from veteran dir. Mike Leigh, about a London primary school teacher who greets the…
Another Year (2010): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville…; A happily married middle–aged couple attempt to fix up their cheery, if secretly depressed friend in this honest domestic drama, another winner…
Mr. Turner (2014): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson…; Mike Leigh directs Timothy Spall in this acclaimed exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W.…
Peterloo (2018): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley; Elaborate historical drama directed by Mike Leigh (MR TURNER), portraying the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British army forces attacked a…

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