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Naked
1993 • Drama • Comedy
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Hard Truths
2024 • Drama • Comedy
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 temerit…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Topsy-Turvy
1999 • Music • Drama • Comedy
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work,…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Career Girls
1997 • Drama
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, t…
Why matched: genres Drama
Life Is Sweet
1990 • Drama • Comedy
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…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Peterloo
2018 • Drama • History
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 bl…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Vera Drake
2004 • Drama
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Why matched: genres Drama
Mr. Turner
2014 • Drama • History
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 unrequ…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Happy-Go-Lucky
2008 • Drama • Comedy
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.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Secrets & Lies
1996 • Drama
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…
Why matched: genres Drama
Another Year
2010 • Drama • Comedy
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
All or Nothing
2002 • Drama
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…
Why matched: genres Drama
High Hopes
1989 • Drama • Comedy
Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Meantime
1983 • Drama • Comedy
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 work…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Short & Curlies
1987 • Romance • Comedy • TV Movie
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor...
Matched on: Leigh
A Sense of History
1992 • Drama • Comedy
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 ex…
Matched on: Leigh
Bleak Moments
1971 • Drama • Comedy
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Abigail's Party
1977 • Drama • Comedy • TV Movie
Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over drinks and small talk, class…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Nuts in May
1976 • Comedy • TV Movie
A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.
Why matched: genres Comedy, TV Movie