Ken Loach
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- 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.…