During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

Londres, 1950. Vera Drake es una mujer humilde que vive con su marido y sus hijos. Ella es limpiadora, y su marido es mecánico. No tienen dinero, pero son una familia unida y se sienten felices. Vera se dedica completamente a su familia, pero tiene un secreto: ayuda a jovencitas a practicar abortos, una actividad ilegal.

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to a working class white woman, Cynthia.

Drama musical ambientado en el siglo XIX. Narra la rivalidad entre dos artistas londinenses: Gilbert y Sullivan, guionista y compositor respectivamente. Gilbert (Broadbent) es un auténtico caballero. Sullivan (Corduner), en cambio, es casi un libertino. Durante años, los dos trabajaron juntos deleitando al público con sus populares óperas cómicas. Pero, en 1884, al no contar su última obra con el apoyo de la crítica, las diferencias entre ellos salieron a flote. Sullivan quiso dejar a Gilbert para componer música más seria; pero ambos estaban obligados contractualmente a hacer un nuevo trabajo.

Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.

Después de un encuentro sexual con una mujer casada en un callejón en Mánchester que se convierte en una violación, Johnny Fletcher (David Thewlis) roba un coche y huye de su ciudad natal a Londres para buscar refugio en la casa de su ex novia, Louise (Lesley Sharp). Johnny es un hombre inteligente, educado y elocuente, pero con una profunda amargura y un pesimismo vital que siempre le mantiene al límite de una conducta sádica. En Londres seduce a la compañera de piso de Louise, Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge), antes de embarcarse en una odisea en la que compartirá sus días entre indigentes y personajes desesperados de los bajos fondos de la capital del Reino Unido.

Ongoing exploration of the contemporary world with a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses.

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.

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.

An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.

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 has a duty to maintain and expand his lands. Shot in the style and manner of a BBC documentary, Broadbent tells his family history to the crew, who slowly come to realise - as do we - that things are not what they seem.

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 East End car dealer Perry, Perry's taxi-driver dad, a garage owner called Derek, Perry's wife Debbie and couple of twins.

Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot & Steven Wright's comedy "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" (1988), Michael Moore's documentary "Pets or Meat" (1992), and Mike Leigh & Jim Broadbent's satirical mockumentary "A Sense of History" (1992).