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Criterion Channel
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8.0
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76
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4.3
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95
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91
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92
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cc age 15+

Secrets & Lies (1996)
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.4
/12032/
73
/245/
70
/169/
3.9
/20987/
94
/17/
87
/179/
88
/18/

Life Is Sweet (1990)
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.
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Criterion Channel
83
7.7
/47916/
74
/979/
72
/631/
4.0
/114938/
88
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91
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85
/21/

Naked (1993)
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
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82
7.6
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73
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71
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3.9
/17667/
93
/160/
84
/746/
83
/40/
cc age 18+

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.
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Criterion Channel
82
7.4
/6209/
75
/102/
70
/95/
3.9
/9332/
92
/13/
85
/77/
84
/12/

High Hopes (1989)
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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Kanopy
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7.2
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3.8
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82
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88
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cc age 14+

Hard Truths (2024)
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.
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Criterion Channel
80
7.3
/14103/
72
/171/
65
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3.9
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90
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79
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90
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Topsy-Turvy (1999)
After their latest production, "Princess Ida", meets with less-than-stunning reception, Gilbert and Sullivan's relationship is strained to the breaking point. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which bares the path to "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.
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The Roku Channel
80
7.4
/31976/
70
/555/
70
/419/
4.0
/20994/
93
/170/
74
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81
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cc age 15+

Another Year (2010)
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
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The Roku Channel
78
7.5
/12087/
71
/165/
70
/161/
3.9
/8091/
82
/93/
81
/176/
72
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All or Nothing (2002)
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.
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Kanopy
78
7.0
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67
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65
/487/
3.9
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93
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67
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84
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cc age 15+

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.
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75
6.8
/28363/
64
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65
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3.5
/21864/
96
/189/
56
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94
/44/
cc age 16+

Mr. Turner (2014)
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.
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Criterion Channel
74
7.1
/6645/
68
/59/
65
/85/
3.7
/8154/
88
/24/
78
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76
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Career Girls (1997)
A young college student in London moves into a flat and becomes best friends with a flatmate; the former moves into her own flat 4 years later but 6 years after their parting, the former returns to London to pay the latter a visit.
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Criterion Channel
71
6.9
/1889/
61
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60
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3.6
/2852/
71
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71
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Bleak Moments (1971)
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
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Criterion Channel
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67
7.1
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72
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66
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3.8
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78
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Meantime (1983)
A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a timid, chronically shy individual and Mark, an outspoken, headstrong young man, are on the dole. This situation is contrasted by the presence of Mavis's sister Barbara, and her husband John, whose financial and social loftiness appears to be a comfortable facade over the unspoken soreness of a lackluster marriage.
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Amazon Prime Video
63
6.5
/5873/
66
/248/
67
/150/
3.5
/7817/
67
/162/
42
/43/
66
/34/
cc age 13+

Peterloo (2018)
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.
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77
44
7.8
/1337/
77
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73
/31/
4.0
/2383/

A Sense of History (1992)
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.
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Criterion Channel
65
42
6.6
/1267/
63
/20/
63
/28/
3.5
/3569/
67
/63/

The Short & Curlies (1987)
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...
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63
17
6.1
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66
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60
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3.4
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A Running Jump (2012)
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.
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Criterion Channel
68
15
6.7
/399/
55
/4/
64
/13/
3.5
/838/
88
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Four Days in July (1984)
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
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61
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7.2
/506/
66
/6/
46
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Cinema16: British Short Films (2003)
This critically acclaimed DVD contains 16 of the best classic and award winning British short films and delivers a snapshot of British cinema past and present. It includes films from Britain's most exciting new talent alongside early shorts from it's most successful filmmakers' amongst them Chris Nolan (Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins), Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Alien), Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) and Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours). 01 About a Girl - Brian Percival 02 Boy & Bicycle - Ridley Scott 03 Dear Phone - Peter Greenaway 04 Doodlebug - Christopher Nolan 05 Eight - Stephen Daldry 06 Gasman - Lynne Ramsay 07 Girl Chewing Gum - John Smith 08 Home - Morag McKinnon 09 Joyride - Jim Gillespie 10 Inside Out - Tom & Charles Guard 11 Je T’aime John Wayne - Toby Macdonald 12 The Sheep Thief - Asif Kapadia 13 The Short & Curlies - Mike Leigh 14 Telling Lies - Simon Ellis 15 UK Images - Martin Parr 16 Who’s My Favourite Girl? - Adrian J. McDowall
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2.8
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Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright (1993)
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).
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Untitled Mike Leigh Film
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