Mike Leigh Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

Documentary showing behind-the-scenes footage of the film 'Nader and Simin, A Separation'. Director Asghar Farhadi himself talks about his film and...

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

A man on crutches bumps into an old acquaintance who relentlessly bombards him with small talk.

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the...

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

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...

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

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...

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

A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.

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...

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

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a...

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about...