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1. Topsy-Turvy (1999)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Jim Broadbent, Alan Corduner, Lesley Manville, Eleanor David, Ron Cook
Noted for intimate character studies created in collaboration with his actors, director Mike Leigh makes a dramatic change of pace with this ... More
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2. Secrets and Lies (1996)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Phyllis Logan, Timothy Spall, Claire Rushbrook
A family is forced to confront the personal issues they've been avoiding for years in this powerful, realistic drama. Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) is a ... More
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3. Vera Drake (2004)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wight, Adrian Scarborough, Heather Craney
Written and directed by Academy Award-nominee Mike Leigh and set in England during the 1950s, this movie revolves around Vera Drake (Imelda Staunton) ... More
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4. Life Is Sweet (1990)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Claire Skinner, Jane Horrocks
Mike Leigh's situation comedy about a lower middle-class family in the London suburbs is a slice-of-life chronicle that subtly reveals the pain and ... More
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5. Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Sinead Matthews, Kate O'Flynn
Sally Hawkins and Eddie Marsan star in director Mike Leigh's seriocomedy concerning an eternally optimistic teacher living and working in North ... More
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6. Another Year (2010)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight, Oliver Maltman
British filmmaker Mike Leigh delivers another emotionally honest portrait of ordinary people trying to make sense of their lives in this comedy drama ... More
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7. Naked (1993)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Lesley Sharpe, Mike Leigh, David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner
A scathing look at Britain in the post-Thatcher era, Mike Leigh's Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, an unemployed layabout with a philosophical ... More
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8. All or Nothing (2002)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville, Alison Garland, James Corden, Ruth Sheen
After a rather decided departure with his 1999 homage to Gilbert and Sullivan, Topsy-Turvy, Mike Leigh returns to his usual form for All or Nothing, ... More
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9. Meantime (1981)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Marion Bailey, Phil Daniels, Tim Roth, Jeff Robert
Colin (Tim Roth, making his screen debut) and his brother Mark (Phil Daniels, who starred in Quadrophenia) are down and out. They live in a squalid ... More
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10. Career Girls (1997)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Katrin Cartlidge, Lynda Steadman, Kate Byers, Mark Benton, Andy Serkis
Mike Leigh's first film after his international success Secrets and Lies was this comedy-drama about two former college roommates spending a weekend ... More
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11. Kiss of Death (1977)
directed by Mike Leigh
Trevor (David Threlfall) works as an assistant to an undertaker (Clifford Kershaw of Hard Labour). In his spare time, he reads, and he hangs out with ... More
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12. Four Days in July (1984)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Brid Brennan, Desmond McAleer, Charles Lawson, Paula Hamilton, Shane Connaughton
The setting of Mike Leigh's Four Days in July is Belfast in the mid-'80s, just before the annual July 12th march of The Orangemen to celebrate the ... More
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13. Nuts in May (1976)
directed by Mike Leigh
Keith (Roger Sloman) and Candice Marie (Alison Steadman) take a trip to a campsite in the English countryside. They're folk-singing vegetarian types, ... More
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14. High Hopes (1989)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Philip Jackson, Heather Tobias
In this early film, award-winning director Mike Leigh uses a loose, open-ended narrative structure to unsettle cinematic expectations and create a ... More
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15. Abigail's Party (1977)
directed by Mike Leigh
Abigail's Party originally aired as part of the BBC's influential Play for Today series. Writer/director Mike Leigh was responsible for several ... More
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16. Grown Ups (1980)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Brenda Blethyn
Made for British television by filmmaker Mike Leigh, Grown Ups is a detailed slice-of-life drama about a married, working-class couple in Canterbury, ... More
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17. Home Sweet Home (1982)
directed by Mike Leigh
Stan (Eric Richard), Gordon (Timothy Spall), and Harold (Tim Barker) are postmen who work together as they sort the mail each morning before they go ... More
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18. Hard Labour (1973)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Liz Smith, Alison Steadman, Clifford Kershaw, Polly Hemingway, Vanessa Harris
Mrs. Thornley (Liz Smith) leads a rather miserable existence in Salford. She lives with her husband, Jim (Clifford Kershaw), a night custodian at a ... More
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19. Bleak Moments (1972)
directed by Mike Leigh
featuring Anne Raitt, Mike Bradwell, Eric Allen
Mike Leigh began his career as one of Britain's most interesting directors with this realistic drama about a woman looking for respite from an ... More
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20. Who's Who (1978)
directed by Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh's Who's Who, originally produced for the BBC TV series, Play for Today, takes a look at a group of men who work at a London brokerage ... More
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