Mike Leigh Movies

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

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

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 behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

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

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).

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

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.

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...