Movies: Mike Leigh

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 East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie...

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

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990....

Trevor is an extremely shy undertaker's assistant. He always tags along with his good friend Ronnie, when he goes to the pub with his girlfriend Sandra. Sandra introduces Trevor to her more forward friend Linda. Linda has a difficult time getting Tre...

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. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that...

A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood......

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family....

A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence....

Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family....

During an evening spent at his house with his sister, a girl realizes that she doesn't really have much in common with her boyfriend....

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 wi...

A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed....

A boy goes to see his probation officer....

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

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

Looks at the glamour, red carpets, movies, craziness, stunts, deals, parties and personalities that have been part of the Cannes Film Festival over eight decades, as well as looking to the future....

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

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and thinkers about things that kill their creativity....

Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford a callow youth desperate for a date with any girl who can offer him the experience he lacks. Every time Alan tries a manful stride into the jungle of se...