Mike Leigh Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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 middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre...

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...

Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

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

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements,...

In this second installment of his exploration of creativity, Hermann Vaske looks for factors that inhibit it. He asks artists, activists, and...

A boy goes to see his probation officer.

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

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

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...

Transmitted as part of BBC Schools series Scene, 8 March 1973. Actor improvisations around the theme of gambling devised by Mike Leigh.

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.

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