Mike Leigh Movies

Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons'

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...

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

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and...

A look at the production of Play for Today: Abigail's Party (1977).

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.

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

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

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...

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

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

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

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.

An interview with British film director Mike Leigh produced for BBC-TV.

A boy goes to see his probation officer.

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

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.

Polish adaptation of Abigail's Party for polish television series Teatr Telewizji