Mike Leigh Movies

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

A film director decides to chart the course of a young actor as he tries to make it in Hollywood...

Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.

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...

Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living...

A boy goes to see his probation officer.

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.

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

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

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.

Sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes – Gilbert and Sullivan’s dazzling The Pirates of...

A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony.

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

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...

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

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

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

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

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