Secrets & Lies
A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh
Casts & Crew
Timothy Spall
Brenda Blethyn
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Phyllis Logan
Claire Rushbrook
Lee Ross
Lesley Manville
Elizabeth Berrington
Michele Austin
Ron Cook
Trevor Laird
Brian Bovell
Emma Amos
Clare Perkins
Elias Perkins McCook
Jane Mitchell
Janice Acquah
Keylee Jade Flanders
Hannah Davis
Terence Harvey
Kate O'Malley
Joe Tucker
Richard Syms
Grant Masters
Annie Hayes
Jean Ainslie
Lucy Sheen
Frances Ruffelle
Nitin Ganatra
Metin Marlow
Su Elliott
Amanda Crossley
Di Sherlock
David Neilson
Peter Waddington
Peter Stockbridge
Rachel Lewis
Paul Trussell
Jonny Coyne
Denise Orita
Margery Withers
Gordon Winter
Theresa Watson
Peter Wight
Gary McDonald
Alison Steadman
Liz Smith
Sheila Kelley
Angela Curran
Linda Beckett
Phil Davis
Wendy Nottingham
Anthony O'Donnell
Ruth Sheen
Mia Soteriou
Stephen Churchett
Also Directed by Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh’s much praised 2010 tragicomical drama. During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Theatrical packaging of three comic shorts: Dean Parisot and Steven Wright's "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings" (1988), Michael Moore's "Pets or Meat" (1992), and Mike Leigh's "A Sense of History" (1992).
Sentimental pirates, blundering policeman, absurd adventures and improbable paradoxes – Gilbert and Sullivan’s dazzling The Pirates of Penzance comes to ENO in a highly anticipated new production from renowned film maker and director Mike Leigh. This much-loved comic opera is a showcase of brilliant humour and razor-sharp wit and features a sparkling score chock-full of memorable melodies and catchy tunes.
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.
A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.
A boy goes to see his probation officer.
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland. Both women are expecting babies, both couples tell offbeat stories, both couples get by with what little they have. Yet Mike Leigh allows his actors to show not how much but how little these two couple have in common. "Four Days in July" is wonderful yet scathing look at the turmoil that has engulfed Northern Ireland for generations.
A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
Leigh's comedy short follows Gary's (Lee Ingleby) attempt 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 (Eddie Marsan), Perry's taxi-driver dad (Sam Kelly), a garage owner called Derek (Robert Putt) and, not least, Perry's wife Debbie (Samantha Spiro). Oh, and a couple of twins (Danielle and Nichole Bird) are thrown into the mix to cause further confusion. The narrative's series of gags are shot through with sporting references and images of everyday folk taking part in grassroots sports. The swimmers, joggers, cyclists, five-a-side footballers and the rest underline the importance of sport, however casual, to the population in general and the East End of London in particular in this Olympic year. [Source -- Channel 4]