Mike Leigh — Director (18)
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Life Is Sweet (1990) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Life Is Sweet
director: Mike Leigh actor: Alison Steadman / Jim Broadbent …
other title: 生活是甜蜜的 / 甜蜜生活 …
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.
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The Short & Curlies (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
The Short & Curlies
director: Mike Leigh actor: Alison Steadman / Sylvestra Le Touzel …
other title: 短发和卷发
Joy works in a chemists and gets to know Clive as he comes in for various things – their relationship develop even though she seems to be having different conversations from him, as he is always just making bad jokes. Joy gets her hair done by Betty in the local hairdressers; Betty cannot stop talking for a second, even when she goes home to her daughter Charlene.

(Plot by 'bob the moo' from imdb)
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Mr. Turner (2014) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
Mr. Turner
director: Mike Leigh actor: Timothy Spall / Dorothy Atkinson …
other title: Turner / Mr. Turner - Meister des Lichts …
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
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Secrets & Lies (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Secrets & Lies
director: 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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Meantime (1983) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Meantime
director: 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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High Hopes (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
High Hopes
director: 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.
1980s comedy drama mikeleigh phildavis
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Topsy-Turvy (1999) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Topsy-Turvy
director: Mike Leigh actor: Jim Broadbent / Allan Corduner …
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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Hard Truths (2024) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Hard Truths
director: 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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Vera Drake (2004) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
Vera Drake
director: Mike Leigh actor: Imelda Staunton / Phil Davis …
other title: Il segreto di Vera Drake / El secreto de Vera Drake …
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
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Abigail's Party (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Abigail's Party
director: Mike Leigh actor: Alison Steadman / Tim Stern …
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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Bleak Moments (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Bleak Moments
director: 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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Home Sweet Home (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Home Sweet Home
director: Mike Leigh actor: Eric Richard / Lorraine Brunning …
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
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A Sense of History (1992) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
A Sense of History
director: 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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A Light Snack (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Light Snack
director: Mike Leigh actor: Margaret Heery / Richard Griffiths …
A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.