Movies: Mike Leigh

Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadb...

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them....

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays....

Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons'...

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....

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony....

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

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...

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

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....

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Le...

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

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

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