Lesley Manville Movies

A look at the daily life of an English brothel.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor...

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a...