"Director: Mike Leigh"

• Meantime / Made In Britain | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Meantime: 'Meantime' centres on East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain. Made In Britain: Trevor is a teenage skinhead. Caught smashing the windows of a Pakistani owned shop he is sent to an assessment centre by social worker Harry where it is discovered he is highly articulate and intelligent. But he escapes steals cars and goes berserk; can Harry still save him?

• High Hopes | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The legendary Mike Leigh's slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London introduces us to Shirley and Cyril Cyril's mother who is in the grip of her declining years mother's ghastly upper-middle class neighbours and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. In due course Shirley wants a baby but Cyril who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect is reluctant. Then Cyril's mother finds herself stranded forced to turn to her snooty neighbours for help. And when Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for her Mum's 70th birthday the stage is set for a disaster from start to finish. With Shirley barely holding it all together she may be able to put Cyril's protestations aside after all.

• Made in Britain / Prick Up Your Ears / Meantime | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made In Britain Tim Roth made an unforgettable screen debut as the tattooed contemptuous racist Trevor. Made In Britain depicts his relationship with Harry and the reasons behind his violence with documentary-style naturalism. Filmed on location in London Made In Britain is one of the most memorable feature-length TV dramas of the 1980s. Prick Up Your Ears Joe Orton was one of the 1960s golden boys from working class Leicester lad to national celebrity from sexual innocent to grinning satyr from penniless student to icon of Swinging London. He became a star by breaking the rules - sexual and theatrical. But while his plays including Loot What the Butler Saw and Entertaining Mr Sloane were hugely successful his private life was sometimes sordid often farcical and ended in tragedy... Meantime A drama which centres on the Pollack family who live in a council house in East London whose lives are affected by unemployment and boredom...

• Bleak Moments | DVD | (03/04/2008) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bleak Moments is Mike Leigh's first feature film a haunting and disturbing study of a young woman's isolation in the late 1960's. Sylvia leads a very quiet life caring for her mentally ill sister Hilda but both the sister's urgent longing for companions is left thwarted as they are unable to interact with other people socially. Bleak Moments was first released in 1971 and is released for the first time on DVD here with a contemporary commentary by director Mike Leigh. Bleak Moments sits fittingly in Mike Leigh's cannon of work which include the award winning Secrets & Lies Naked and Life is Sweet.

• Meantime | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime centres on a East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain.

• Secrets And Lies / Life Is Sweet | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £29.95   |  Saving you £-11.96 (-66.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Secrets And Lies Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA Awards Secrets and Lies is a hilarious bittersweet comedy and moving slice of real life. Life Is Sweet A remarkable story of an unremarkable family and their interactions and conflictions in every day life.

• High Hopes (Mike Leigh's) | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film by one of Britain's most celebrated film makers and multi-award winning director of Life Is Sweet Naked Secrets and Lies Topsy Turvy and most recently Vera Drake. Fabulous Films presents for the first time on DVD this critically acclaimed slice of life dark comedy Mike Leigh's High Hopes. Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he be Michael Douglas and she a virgin. Mrs Bender gets locked out of her house and is criticised by her neighbour for selfishly occupying a whole house in an increasingly fashionable area. And Cyril's girlfriend Shirley wants to start a family but gets no encouragement from Cyril who feels that the world should be spared more babies until everyone already here has a job a place to live and enough to eat. This disparate cast of characters swim in and out of each others lives against a background of London and its suburbs seamlessly orchestrated by director Mike Leigh.

• Secrets and Lies | DVD | (09/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Poor Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) sharing a small cottage with her only adult daughter Roxanne (Claire Rush Brook). One day she gets a call from one Hortence (Marianne Jean-Baptiste). She claims Cynthia's daughter, who at birth unseen for adoption has been relinquished. Cynthia and Hortence decide on a meeting. If it appears that Hortence has a black skin, Cynthia suspect that a mistake in the game. But nothing is less true.