Mike Leigh Movies

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...

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

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...

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

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

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

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 look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...

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

A boy goes to see his probation officer.

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

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