Genre
Lives observed up close — the quiet films that earn a second watch.
Black Narcissus, Drama
Powell & Pressburger1947 · 1h 41m
Himalayan convent fever dream
If...., Drama
Lindsay Anderson1968 · 1h 51m
Boarding-school cruelty turns to insurrection
Naked, Drama
Mike Leigh1993 · 2h 12m
Thewlis prowls a sleepless London
Billy Elliot, Drama
Stephen Daldry2000 · 1h 50m
Ballet shoes against the picket line
45 Years, Drama
Andrew Haigh2015 · 1h 35m
A letter quietly buries a marriage
The Souvenir, Drama
Joanna Hogg2019 · 2h
First love as a slow undoing
Aftersun, Drama
Charlotte Wells2022 · 1h 42m
A camcorder holiday turned elegy
A Canterbury Tale, Drama
Powell & Pressburger1944 · 2h 4m
A glue-man mystery turned English hymn
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Drama
Karel Reisz1960 · 1h 29m
The New Wave’s first angry roar
This Sporting Life, Drama
Lindsay Anderson1963 · 2h 14m
Rugby brutality, love he can’t reach
The Servant, Drama
Joseph Losey1963 · 1h 56m
Master and servant, slyly inverted
Kes, Drama
Ken Loach1969 · 1h 50m
A boy, a kestrel, one tenderness
Walkabout, Drama
Nicolas Roeg1971 · 1h 40m
The outback as Eden and abattoir
Distant Voices, Still Lives, Drama
Terence Davies1988 · 1h 25m
Working-class memory sung like hymns
Ratcatcher, Drama
Lynne Ramsay1999 · 1h 34m
Tenderness adrift in a bin strike
This Is England, Drama
Shane Meadows2006 · 1h 42m
A subculture curdling toward violence
The Selfish Giant, Drama
Clio Barnard2013 · 1h 31m
Scrap, copper, and fragile worth
I, Daniel Blake, Drama
Ken Loach2016 · 1h 40m
Decency ground down by bureaucracy
Bait, Drama
Mark Jenkin2019 · 1h 29m
Hand-cranked monochrome bites the present
Hunger, Drama
Steve McQueen2008 · 1h 36m
The body as the last weapon
A Taste of Honey, Drama
Tony Richardson1961 · 1h 40m
Salford kitchen-sink with rare tenderness
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Drama
Tony Richardson1962 · 1h 44m
The borstal boy’s two-fingered finish
My Beautiful Laundrette, Drama
Stephen Frears1985 · 1h 38m
Love and launderettes in Thatcher’s Britain
Secrets & Lies, Drama
Mike Leigh1996 · 2h 22m
A birth mother, a front-room reckoning
The Elephant Man, Drama
David Lynch1980 · 2h 4m
Victorian London’s broken, gentle heart
Quadrophenia, Drama
Franc Roddam1979 · 2h
Mod tribe, scooters, Brighton brawl
Fish Tank, Drama
Andrea Arnold2009 · 2h 3m
An Essex estate, raw and close
Tyrannosaur, Drama
Paddy Considine2011 · 1h 33m
Rage finding something like grace
Pride, Drama
Matthew Warchus2014 · 2h
Welsh miners meet London’s gay activists
Control, Drama
Anton Corbijn2007 · 2h 2m
Ian Curtis in stark monochrome
Nil by Mouth, Drama
Gary Oldman1997 · 2h 8m
Love and violence from the same place
