Mike Leigh Movies

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...

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 cutting film... the way it used to be done.

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

A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership....

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

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

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

Documentary about François Truffaut who is one of the most respected directors in the history of cinema.

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

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

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

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the...

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...

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

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

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a...

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

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...