Ken Loach

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Cathy Come Home (1966): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White; Dramatic critique of Britain's housing problems follows the progress of a young couple in London as they slip down the social and class ladder into…
Poor Cow (1967): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Carol White, Terence Stamp, Malcolm McDowell; Striking the tone of much of his subsequent work, Ken Loach's debut film gives a semi–documentary edge to the story of 'poor cow' Carol White,…
Kes (1969): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Colin Welland, Brian Glover; Dreary life in Northern mining town takes on a new lease for a young boy when he discovers and nurtures an injured kestrel. A sensitive, moving film.
Family Life (Wednesday's Child) (1971): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave; Grating realist cinema from ‘kitchen sink’ original Ken Loach, about a troubled young girl whose domineering parents drive her to a nervous…
Riff Raff (Riff-Raff) (1990): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Richard Belgrave; A warts–and–all exploration of the barely–working class focusing on a group of nomadic Northerners who find work on a London…
Hidden Agenda (1990): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif…; Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
Raining Stones (1993): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix; Bittersweet portrait of a debt–ridden labourer's quest to outfit his daughter in extravagant regalia for her first communion. Cruel, real yet…
Ladybird Ladybird (1994): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Chrissie Rock; Ken Loach puts not a foot wrong in bringing the heart–rending true story of one mother's struggle to keep custody of her many children after a…
Land and Freedom (1996): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Iciar Bollain; British realist director Ken Loach changes tack with this period melodrama about a communist lad (Ian Hart) who joins a rebel army in the Spanish…
Carla's Song (1997): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn; Another not–so–average tale from Dir. Ken Loach, concerning a Glaswegian bus–driver getting involved with Nicaraguan politics.…
My Name Is Joe (1998): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall; Dir. Ken Loach revisits his mainstay – the not–working–class of urban Britain, this time extending further north to the slums of…
Bread and Roses (2000): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Adrien Brody, Pilar Padilla, Elpidia Carrillo; Another politically–charged turn from dir. Loach follows two Latina women in Los Angeles who campaign for better working conditions and the…
Navigators, The (2001): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Thomas Craig, Dean Andrews, Andy Swallow; Following British Rail’s privatisation in the mid–90s, a group of railway workers must steer their way through the rough times in this…
11'09'01 (September 11) (2002): Dir. Ken Loach, Claude Lelouch, Sean Penn
Feat. Ernest Borgnine; A consistently intriguing omnibus of 11 short films made by various top directors about the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 in New York –…
Sweet Sixteen (2002): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Martin Compston; A bleak, yet curiously uplifting portrait of teenage high–spirits run awry in working class Scotland. Anchored by a youthfully charismatic…
Ae Fond Kiss (A Fond Kiss) (2004): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Eva Birthistle, Atta Taqub; This cross–cultural Glaswegian drama finds dir. Ken Loach in a more romantic mood than usual, portraying a Scots–Asian man and Catholic…
Tickets (2005): Dir. Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach; Surprisingly succinct take on the "omnibus" film sees the trifecta of Olmi, Kiarostami and Loach intersect three eclectic stories on a…
Wind That Shakes the Barley, The (2006): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney; Thoroughly gripping Cannes winner from "kitchen sink" exponent Ken Loach, retelling with parochial force Ireland's tumultuous twenties, where the…
Chacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007): Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August; 35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
It's A Free World (2007): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek; Sleeper from dir. Loach sees an unemployed single mother take advantage of a recent influx of Polish immigrants in her neighbourhood by setting up a…
Looking For Eric (2009): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop…; With a touch of magic realism, the great British director Ken Loach returns to the top of his game to tell the story of a beleaguered postal worker…
Route Irish (2010): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop; Ken Loach tackles the murky occupation of Iraq with purpose and political thrust in this intelligent, agile conspiracy thriller, about the killing of…
Ken Loach at the BBC (2011): Dir. Ken Loach; A six–disc box–set of the television plays that Ken Loach wrote and directed for the BBC between 1964 and 1977. A valuable collection of…
Angels' Share, The (2012): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Paul Brannigan, Siobhan Reilly, John Henshaw; Vintage social realist crime caper from Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty, about a group of roughnecks who scheme to liberate a barrel of rare…
Spirit of '45, The (2013): Dir. Ken Loach; In this illuminating documentary, Ken Loach movingly celebrates the radical changes during postwar Britain under the new Labour government, which…
Jimmy's Hall (2014): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott…; Ken Loach directs this genial biopic of Irish activist Jimmy Gralton whose establishing of a dance hall attracts the ire of the Catholic church, whom…
I, Daniel Blake (2016): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan…; Infused with Loach's unique mix of tenderness and political consciousness, this deeply moving Palm d'or winner follows the troubled lives of a…
Sorry We Missed You (2019): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone…; A struggling UK man with a family in debt decides to try self–employment by becoming a delivery driver. A powerful and nuanced drama about the…

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