Mike Leigh — Director (20)
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Peterloo (2018)
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Mike Leigh actor: Rory Kinnear / Maxine Peake …
other title: La tragedia de Peterloo
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.
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A Sense of History (1992)
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Mike Leigh actor: Jim Broadbent / Stephen Bill …
other title: Sentido de la historia
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 has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.
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Bleak Moments (1971)
Bleak Moments
Mike Leigh actor: Anne Raitt / Sarah Stephenson …
other title: Momenti tristi / Freudlose Augenblicke …
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
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Abigail's Party (1977)
Abigail's Party
Mike Leigh actor: Alison Steadman / Tim Stern …
other title: 阿比盖尔的派对
Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over drinks and small talk, class differences and relationship difficulties emerge.
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Hard Truths (2024)
Hard Truths
Mike Leigh actor: Marianne Jean-Baptiste / Michele Austin …
other title: Scomode verità / Svære sandheder …
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.
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Topsy-Turvy (1999)
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Mike Leigh actor: Jim Broadbent / Vincent Franklin …
other title: Topsy Turvy - Sotto sopra / Topsy-Turvy - O Espetáculo …
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
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High Hopes (1989)
High Hopes
Mike Leigh actor: Phil Davis / Ruth Sheen …
other title: Belle speranze / Grandes Ambições …
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.
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Meantime (1983)
Meantime
Mike Leigh actor: Phil Daniels / Tim Roth …
other title: Meantime (TV)
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
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Secrets & Lies (1996)
Secrets & Lies
Mike Leigh actor: Brenda Blethyn / Marianne Jean-Baptiste …
other title: Segreti e bugie / Segredos e Mentiras …
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 working class white woman, Cynthia.
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Life Is Sweet (1991)
Life Is Sweet
Mike Leigh actor: Alison Steadman / Jim Broadbent …
other title: Dolce è la vita / A Vida é Doce …
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.