Mike Leigh Movies

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

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

Jimmy is a talented young boxer. Every punch he throws is eagerly watched by his trainer, and resented by his girlfriend. His parents, however,...

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre...

A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...

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

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

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...

Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over...

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot & Steven Wright's comedy "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" (1988), Michael Moore's...