Hard Truths

Director: Mike Leigh

Year: 2018

A drama based on events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where British forces fired on a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester. <br /> The notorious massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of 60,000 that had to demand political reform. The forces killed an estimated 18 protestors and injured hundreds, sparking outcry but also further government crackdowns.<br /> This was a defining moment in radical British history which also played a significant role in the founding of the UK's leftwing broadsheet newspaper The Guardian.<br /> "There has never been a feature film about the Peterloo Massacre. The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times." Mike Leigh<br /> Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Masters

Director: Mike Leigh

Year: 2014

Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter JMW Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father and loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea.

Director: Mike Leigh

Year: 2009

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter. Family and friendship. Love and warmth. Joy and sadness. Hope and despair. Companionship. Loneliness. A birth. A death. Time passes.