Lesley Manville Movies

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

Esther, a compassionate woman in her thirties, has spent years caring for her elderly cousin on a bleak country estate. Esther's quiet life is...

Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village...

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in...

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

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

A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes. A...

In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are...

Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the...

Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her...

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in...

Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their...

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly...

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

A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother.

Four families embark on the ever-crucial-in-Britain school entrance exam.

Adapted from the acclaimed short story by Man Brooker Prize Nominee Sarah Hall. The Agency is a modern and stylish take on middle class female...

Documentary about the making of Mike Leigh's Mr.Turner, unreleased due to unspecified 'legal reasons'

A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to...