Lesley Manville Movies

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly...

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...

An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.

A gothic mystery unfolds in the atmospheric setting of 1880s Scotland.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the birth of the NHS, acclaimed poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey that weaves the extraordinary story of the...

Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the...

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in...

A look at the daily life of an English brothel.

Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her...

One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in...

In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are...

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

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

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

Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their...

A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor...

A middle-aged man is feeling the strain of looking after his elderly grandfather, who is demanding and needs a lot of medical treatment. Then a...

Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.

A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about...