5.2/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jimmy Coleman

The scams, arguments, shoddy practices and humour of a group of workers, one just out of jail, working on expensive flats are the basis for this gem.... Read more

7/10

Director: Ken Loach

"The Navigators" dramatises the events of 1995 in South Yorkshire, when the lives of a tight-knit group of railway workers were thrown into chaos when... Read more

6.7/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Jim Norton, Andrew Scott, Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Francis Magee, Aisling Franc...

1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. When Jimmy reopens the village hall, thus enabli... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Briana Shann, Hayley Squires, Dave Johns, Dylan McKiernan

British cinemas social realist enters his eighties with a second Palme d'Or to his name after the Cannes Jury this year awarded his feisty new film... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Crissy Rock, Sandie Lavelle, Vladimir Vega

A forceful and uncompromising film about a small time singer who finds her tough, mostly uneventful life ripped apart by tragedy. A fire destroys her... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Terence Stamp, Carol White, Malcolm McDowell

Director Ken Loach's theatrical debut film is this gritty account of a young London woman (Carol White) trying to cope in squalor while her husband (J... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson

Bob Williams (Bruce Jones) is a survivor. He supplements his dole by becoming embroiled in whatever scam is on offer, from rustling sheep to rodding d... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Alan MacNaughton, Sandy Ratcliff, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney

When 19 year-old Janice falls pregnant, her horrified parents force her to have an abortion, which throws the traumatised Janice into a tailspin of se... Read more

6.4/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop

Fergus (Mark Womack) returns to his native Liverpool for the funeral of his childhood friend Frankie (John Bishop), a fellow private security contract... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Ken Loach

Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Lucy-Jo Hudson, Steve Evets, Gerard Kearns, Eric Cantona, Matthew McNulty, Steph...

Eric (Steve Evets) the postman is not in a good place. His wife has left him, his stepsons are out of control and his house is a chaotic nightmare. In... Read more

7/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: William Ruane, Gary Maitland, Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw

Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned small-time criminal and new father Robbie (Paul Brannigan) is given... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary Riordan,...

Ken Loach takes on the Irish-English conflict through a story of two brothers who wind up on differing sides of a philosophical divide after joining i... Read more

7/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Joe Siffleet, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek, Kierston Wareing

Angie may not have much formal education but she's got energy, wit and ambition, and she's in her prime. Not for the first time she's out of a job. An... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Ken Loach

1945 was a pivotal year in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Briana Shann, Hayley Squires, Dave Johns, Dylan McKiernan

British cinemas social realist enters his eighties with a second Palme dOr to his name after the Cannes Jury this year awarded his feisty new film t... Read more

6.9/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Oyanka Cabzas, Robert Carlyle, Scott Glenn

This touching film from English film legend Ken Loach tells the story of the relationship between George (Robert Carlyle) a free spirited Scottish bus... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, David McKay

Joe, a reformed alcoholic trying to maintain hope in grim, impoverished Glasgow, tentatively begins a romantic relationship with a sympathetic social... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Eva Birthistle, Atta Taqub, Shamshad Akhtar, Ghizala Avan

Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty team again ('Sweet Sixteen', 'Carla's Song', 'My Name Is Joe') for this romantic drama set in Glasgow, Scotland wher... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Michelle Abercromby, Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton, Tommy M...

Liam's mum is in prison and due to be released in time for his sixteenth birthday. Dreaming of the family life he never had, Liam is determined to mak... Read more

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Carol White, Ray Brooks

"Cathy Come Home" is probably the most famous British television play ever, watched by a quarter of the population both on its first broadcast in Nove... Read more

7/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: William Ruane, Gary Maitland, Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw

Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned small-time criminal and new father Robbie (Paul Brannigan) is given... Read more

7.1/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, George Lopez, Pilar Padilla

Mexican-born Pilar Padilla wants a better life and so sneaks across the border into the USA. Her sister gets her a job cleaning an office building, bu... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Ken Loach

Starring: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Iciar Bollain

A perceptive, passionate tale of a young working class Communist (Ian Hart) from Liverpool who goes to Spain to join the anti-Facists in their battle... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Ken Loach, Franny Armstrong

Starring: Dave Morris, Helen Steele, John Safran, Rob Newman

When McDonald's decided to sue two young English protestors for libel, they didn't expect to be in court for years on end. The true story of England's... Read more

7/10

Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ermanno Olmi, Ken Loach

Starring: Martin Compston, William Ruane, Carlo delle Piane, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Silva...

Three outstanding directors came together with the idea of making three separate films, then decided to weave their stories together using a train jou... Read more

Director: Claude Lelouch, Idrissa Ouedrago, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Danis Tanovic, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine

This film is a unique and extraordinary response to the catastrophic events in New York City that shook the world on September 11, 2001. Producer Alai... Read more

6.8/10

Director: Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou

Starring: Georges Babluani, Josh Brolin, Farini Cheung, David Cronenberg, Emilie Dequenne,...

33 renowned directors from around the world (many of them Palme d'Or winners) contributed to this anthology of short films to commemmorate the 60th an... Read more