Mike Leigh Movies

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

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...

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

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

A documentary about cutting film... the way it used to be done.

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

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

Transmitted as part of BBC Schools series Scene, 8 March 1973. Actor improvisations around the theme of gambling devised by Mike Leigh.