Mike Leigh

Naked 1993

An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge

7.7 IMDB Rating 670 Views
Vera Drake 2004

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.

Category: Crime, Drama

Stars: Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney

7.6 IMDB Rating 624 Views
Happy-Go-Lucky 2008

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Sally Hawkins, Elliot Cowan, Alexis Zegerman, Andrea Riseborough

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,005 Views
Peterloo 2018

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,341 Views
Mr. Turner 2014

Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Timothy Spall,Paul Jesson,Dorothy Atkinson,Marion Bailey

6.8 IMDB Rating 4,649 Views
Another Year 2010

A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.

Category: Comedy, Drama

Stars: Jim Broadbent,Ruth Sheen,Lesley Manville,Oliver Maltman

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,925 Views
Topsy-Turvy 1999

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Stars: Allan Corduner,Dexter Fletcher,Sukie Smith,Roger Heathcott

7.4 IMDB Rating 2,597 Views