Riff-Raff

1991

English

♡ 11

90%

Ken Loach Director

Maureen Carr as Ellen

Peter Mullan as Jake

Ricky Tomlinson as Larry

Robert Carlyle as Stevie

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

Black Jack

1979

English

6.7

♡ 7

73%

Action

Adventure

apprentice

based on novel or book

Ken Loach Director

Andrew Bennett as Hatch

Doreen Mantle as Mrs. Carter

David Rappaport as Tom Thumb's Army

Tiny Ross as Tom Thumb's Army

When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and traveling fairs they find friendship in the most unlikely places.

The Spirit of '45

2013

English

7.1

♡ 1

67%

Ken Loach Director

Mark Womack as (voice)

Kate Hardie as (voice)

Trevor Fox as (voice)

Jamie Michie as (voice)

How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

Hidden Agenda

1990

English

6.9

♡ 16

86%

Ken Loach Director

Jim Norton as Brodie

Ian McElhinney as Jack Cunningham

Brian Cox as Kerrigan

Terry Woods as Musician

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

Jimmy's Hall

2014

English

6.7

♡ 10

78%

Ken Loach Director

Andrew Scott as Father Seamus

Jim Norton as Father Sheridan

Niko El Santo Zavero as Jailor

Denise Gough as Tess

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

Route Irish

2010

English

6.4

♡ 39

73%

special air service (sas)

suspicious death

Thriller

War

Ken Loach Director

Geoff Bell as Alex Walker

Mark Womack as Fergus

Najwa Nimri as Marisol

Stephen Lord as Steve

A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.

Land and Freedom

1995

English

7.5

♡ 13

79%

Ken Loach Director

Frédéric Pierrot as Bernard Goujon

Eoin McCarthy as Connor Coogan

Tom Gilroy as Lawrence

Paul Laverty as Militia member

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

Looking for Eric

2009

English

7.1

♡ 5

84%

Ken Loach Director

John Henshaw as Meatballs

Gerard Kearns as Ryan

David Beckham as Self

Matthew McNulty as Young Eric

A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor -- the ex-footballer Eric Cantona.

Ladybird Ladybird

1994

English

7.4

♡ 5

80%

Ken Loach Director

Clare Perkins as Jill

Bruce Alexander as Lawyer

Ray Winstone as Simon

Terence Maynard as Social Worker

Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

Carla's Song

1996

English

♡ 15

88%

socially deprived family

War

Ken Loach Director

Roberto Flores as

Scott Glenn as Bradley

Robert Carlyle as George Lennox

Gary Lewis as Sammy

A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

Bread and Roses

2000

English

7.0

♡ 8

67%

Ken Loach Director

Ron Perlman as Party Guest

Robin Tunney as Party Guest

Benicio Del Toro as Party Guest

Samuel West as Party Guest

Tim Roth as Party Guest

Adrien Brody as Sam Shapiro

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.

I, Daniel Blake

2016

English

7.8

♡ 76

92%

Ken Loach Director

Dave Johns as Daniel

Micky McGregor as Ivan

Mark Burns as Job seeker Dan Li

Dan Li as Stan Li

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Family Life

1971

English

7.5

♡ 5

50%

Ken Loach Director

Terry Duggan as

Chris Webb as

Dudley Sutton as Ambulance man

Tony Blackburn as Self

A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life.

Singing the Blues in Red

1986

German

6.2

♡ 4

55%

Ken Loach Director

Robert Dietl as East German lawyer

Cristine Rose as Lucy Bernstein

Hans Peter Hallwachs as Rainer Schiff

Ronald Simoneit as Uwe

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...

A Fond Kiss

2004

English

7.1

♡ 11

Ken Loach Director

Atta Yaqub as Casim Khan

Gary Lewis as Danny

Eva Birthistle as Roisin Hanlon

David McKay as Wee Roddie

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

It's a Free World...

2007

English

7.0

♡ 8

Ken Loach Director

Kierston Wareing as Angie

Eddie Webber as Company Director

Nadine Marshall as Diane

Serge Soric as Toni

Sweet Sixteen

2002

English

7.4

♡ 11

97%

Ken Loach Director

Scott Dymond as Davi-Vampire

Jon Morrison as Douglas

Martin Compston as Liam

Gary McCormack as Stan

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

2006

English

♡ 53

90%

Ken Loach Director

Alex Dee as British Soldier

Cillian Murphy as Damien

William Ruane as Johnny Gogan

Siobhan McSweeney as Julia

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

Kes

1969

English

7.9

♡ 27

100%

91%

Action

based on novel or book

Ken Loach Director

Ted Carroll as

David Bradley as Billy

Duggie Brown as Milkman

Brian Glover as Mr. Sugden

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

Sorry We Missed You

2019

English

7.6

♡ 36

88%

Ken Loach Director

Micky McGregor as Davis

Mark Burns as Homeless man

Lee Hall as Les - A Driver

Kris Hitchen as Ricky Turner

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

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Riff-Raff

Black Jack

The Spirit of '45

Hidden Agenda

Jimmy's Hall

Route Irish

Land and Freedom

Looking for Eric

Ladybird Ladybird

Carla's Song

Bread and Roses

I, Daniel Blake

Family Life

Singing the Blues in Red

A Fond Kiss

It's a Free World...

Sweet Sixteen

The Wind that Shakes the Barley

Kes

Sorry We Missed You