Mike Leigh Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements,...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Scenes from A Separation

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

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

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

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

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...