The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary Riordan

Two brothers are caught on differing sides of the battle for Irish freedom in this politically minded historical drama from veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach. It's 1920, and Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) has recently graduated from medical school. Damien plans to leave the small village in Ireland where he was born to take a job in London, ...

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Land and Freedom (1995) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martinez

A reflective look at an idealistic young man's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom combines wartime drama with impassioned political debate. Director Ken Loach, better known for his intimate portraits of working-class British life, begins on familiar turf in the present day, with a teenage girl sorting through the belongings of ...

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Bread and Roses (2001) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Frankie DaVila, George Lopez

Leftist filmmaker Ken Loach directs this grim drama about the plight of seemingly invisible office cleaners in contemporary L.A. who often earn as little as $6 a day without benefits. The film opens as Maya (Pilar Padilla), a young Mexican lass, is reuniting with her older sister Rosa (Elpidia Carrilio) in L.A. after a harrowing cross-border ...

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Hidden Agenda (1990) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, Bernard Archard, Bernard Bloch

This political thriller is set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's "Troubles" and directed in the documentary fashion common to British filmmaker Ken Loach's films. Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) are American attorneys serving on a human rights group working to monitor cases of prisoner mistreatment in ...

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September 11 (2003) more movies like this

directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amos Gitai, Claude Lelouch, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, Youssef Chahine

In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as they saw fit. The one guideline they were given was that no one film could exceed 11 minutes, ...

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The Navigators (2003) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Dean Andrews, Tom Craig, Joe Duttine, Steve Huison, Venn Tracey

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Loach follows up on his 2000 opus Bread and Roses about a Los Angeles janitors' strike with this drama about the privatization of British Rail. Set in South Yorkshire, the film opens with familiar British Rail sign being replaced with a shiny new one reading "East Midland Infrastructure." For a group of men working at a ...

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Sweet Sixteen (2003) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Martin Compston, William Ruane, Annmarie Fulton, Michelle Abercromby, Michelle Coulter

Paul Laverty writes his fourth script with director Ken Loach for the gritty coming-of-age drama Sweet Sixteen. Set in the port city of Greenock, Scotland, local kid Liam (Martin Compston) spends his days trying to make money with his best friend, Pinball (William Ruane). When he refuses to use his imprisoned mother, Jean (Michelle Coulter), as a ...

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Raining Stones (1993) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Hickey, Gemma Phoenix

Bob (Bruce Jones) lives with his wife Anne (Julie Brown) and his daughter Coleen (Gemma Phoenix) in a poor English town. Bob scrapes by with whatever odd jobs come his way -- working as a bouncer, stealing green turf, cleaning septic tanks. Although Bob has no money and is living on the dole, he is determined to buy his daughter a dress for her ...

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Riff-Raff (1991) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman, George Moss, Ricky Tomlinson, Willie Ross

Socialist-leaning British director Ken Loach kicked off a decade's worth of acclaimed cinema with this surprisingly comic tale of working class laborers at a North London building site, written by Bill Jesse, a real-life construction worker who died before the film's release. Scottish ex-con Stevie (Robert Carlyle) finds work on a non-union crew ...

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Looks and Smiles (1981) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Graham Green, Phil Askham

Graham Green (a juvenile player, not the writer nor the Native American actor of almost the same name) is the star of the British-made Looks and Smiles. A born square peg in a round hole, Green wants desperately to fit into the world. His efforts fail, and the world has another angry young man on his hands. His venom is contagious; the viewer will ...

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Carla's Song (1998) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Robert Carlyle, Scott Glenn

British filmmaker Ken Loach blended a love story with strong political commentary in this powerful drama. George (Robert Carlyle) is a bus driver working in Glasgow who has a strong independent streak and has developed a serious crush on one of his regular passengers, a woman from Nicaragua named Carla (Oyanka Cabezas). Carla occasionally is short ...

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Family Life (1971) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Sandy Ratcliffe, Bill Dean, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney, Alan MacNaughton

Released in England as Wednesday's Child, this earnest socially conscious drama explores the generation-gap between a pair of overbearing, strict parents and their rebellious, pregnant daughter Sandy Ratcliff. First they force her to get an abortion. Then mom and dad further exert their power over Ratcliff by locking her out of the house until she ...

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æ Fond Kiss (2004) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz, Shabana Bakhsh, Shamshad Akhtar

Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty team up again for the romantic drama Ae Fond Kiss. The filmmaking team's third film set in Glasgow, this story involves a mixed-race relationship that causes problems for all involved. Casim Khan (Atta Yaqub) lives with his Punjabi-born Muslim family in Scotland. He wants to open a nightclub with pal ...

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Tickets (2005) more movies like this

directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ermanno Olmi, Ken Loach
featuring Carlo delle Piane, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis, Filippo Trojano, Carolina Benvenga

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My Name Is Joe (1999) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay, Annemarie Kennedy, David Hayman

Actor Peter Mullan won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival "Best Actor" award with this film, directed by Ken Loach (Carla's Song, Ladybird, Ladybird). The drama is set in Possilpark, one of Glasgow's poorest neighborhoods, a rough section where half the population is out of work. Unemployed reformed alcoholic Joe Kavanagh (Mullan) does odd jobs and ...

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Kes (1970) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover

In this 1969 Ken Loach film, a 15-year-old named Billy Casper (played by acting newcomer David Bradley) suffers abuse both at home and at school in Yorkshire, England. At his home in the working-class section of Barnsley, Billy's brother beats him and his family neglects him. At school, most of his teachers ridicule and reject him, especially ...

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Singing the Blues in Red (1986) more movies like this

directed by Ken Loach
featuring Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner, Christine Rose

A drama about personal conflicts and the political biases of the East and West German governments in the mid-'80s, this story focuses on the defection of a talented singer. Klaus (Gerulf Pannach) is finally granted permission to leave East Germany where he is no longer allowed to perform. But after arriving in the West he decides that he does not ...

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