Ken Loach

All Movies of Ken Loach

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  8.0
  The Old Oak
  The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for the Syrian re
  Director of the film

   2023

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  7.5
  Sorry We Missed You
  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-empl...
  Director of the film

   2019

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  To Make a Comedy Is No Fun: Jirí Menzel
   2016

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  7.8
  I, Daniel Blake
  A middle aged carpenter who requires state welfare after injuring himself, and is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
  Director of the film

   2016

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  6.7
  Jimmy's Hall
  Political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the country's 'Red Scare' of the 1930s.
  Director of the film

   2014

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  6.3
  The Spirit of '45
  Documentary, directed by Ken Loach, celebrating the remarkable post-war achievements of the 1945-51 Labour government and lamenting their subsequent dismantling by the Thatcher government after 1979.
  Director of the film

   2013

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  Jordi Dauder, the Unfinished Revolution
  Documentary that explores the fascinating and rich life of Jordi Dauder from an interview with the actor gave shortly before his death in which he was, as always, energetic, hopeful and combatant.
   2012

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  7.0
  The Angels' Share
  A bittersweet comedy about a Glasgow boy locked in a family feud who just wants a way out. When Robbie sneaks into the maternity hospital to visit his young girlfriend Leonie and hold his newborn son Luke for the first time, he is...
  Director of the film

   2012

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  6.0
  Route Irish
  Liverpool, August 1976. 5-year-old Fergus met Frankie on his first day at school. They’ve been in each others’ shadow ever since. As teenagers they skipped school and drank cider on the ferry over the River Mersey, dreaming ab...
  Director of the film

   2010

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  7.3
  Looking for Eric
  Eric a football fanatic postman whose life is descending in to crisis receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona. Eric Bishop is a Manchester postman who is going through a bad patch. His wife has lef...
  Director of the film

   2009

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  6.7
  To Each His Cinema
  To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35 three-minute short films by some of the world's leadin...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  7.0
  It's a Free World...
  Angie may not have much formal education, but she's got energy, wit and ambition, and she's in her prime. She's been messed about in the past and she's fed up. She has a point to prove. This is her moment. Angie sets up a recruitm...
  Director of the film

   2007

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  7.3
  The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  Two Irish brothers join the guerilla armies formed to battle the British Black & Tan squads that tried to prevent Ireland's bid for independence in 1919. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of...
  Director of the film

     2006

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  7.0
  Tickets
  This film charts the emotional odyssey of six characters over the course of a railway journey from Austria to Rome.
  Director of the film

   2005

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  8.0
  Ae Fond Kiss (Just a Kiss)
  Casim (Atta Yaqub) is a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, Casim dreams of buying his own club. His parents Tariq and Sadia are devout Muslims and plan for him to marry his beaut...
  Director of the film

   2004

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  7.0
  11'09''01 - September 11
  A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political,...
  Director of the film

   2002

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  7.4
  Sweet Sixteen
  Liam is a young, restless teen struggling to realize his dream in the gritty and dismal streets of Glasgow, where unemployment is rampant and little hope is available to the city's youth. He is waiting for the release of his mothe...
  Director of the film

   2002

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  The Navigators
  In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading "East Midland Infrastructur...
  Director of the film

   2001

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  7.0
  Bread and Roses
  Director of the film

   2000

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  7.3
  My Name Is Joe
  My Name Is Joe is a 1998 Scottish film directed by Ken Loach. The film stars Peter Mullan as Joe Kavanagh, an unemployed recovering alcoholic in Glasgow who meets and falls in love with a health visitor. David McKay plays his trou...
  Director of the film

   1998

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  6.8
  Carla's Song
  1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George ta...
  Director of the film

   1996

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  7.3
  Land and Freedom
  Earnestly talky drama focusing on idealist Liverpudlian communist David Carr (Hart), who heads to Spain in 1937 to fight against Franco's fascists. What David learns is that the Republican forces, made up of independent militia, a...
  Director of the film

   1995

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  7.0
  Ladybird, Ladybird
  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 of happiness, but...
  Director of the film

   1994

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  7.7
  Raining Stones
  Bob (Bruce Jones) lives with his wife Anne (Julie Brown) and his daughter Coleen (Gemma Phoenix) in a poor English town. Bob scrapes by with whatever odd jobs come his way -- working as a bouncer, stealing green turf, cleaning sep...
  Director of the film

   1993

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  6.9
  Riff-Raff
  Stevie (Robert Carlyle), a young Glaswegian just out of prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site -- a melting pot of itinerant labourers from all over the country -- where he has to contend with Mick the boss...
  Director of the film

   1991

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  7.0
  Hidden Agenda
  Hidden Agenda takes place in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the early '80s and is about a British police officer (Brian Cox) and an American human rights activist (Frances McDormand) who attempt to uncover the truth about the mu...
  Director of the film

   1990

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  Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series)
  TV Series (1988-Present Day).
  Character:  Self 1 episode, 1997

   1988

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  Singing the Blues in Red
  A singer swaps the political intimidation of working in East Germany for the equally controlling capitalist music industry in the West.
  Director of the film

   1986

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  7.7
  Looks and Smiles
  Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two weeks gets his check from the do...
  Director of the film

   1981

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  7.0
  Black Jack
  In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and escapes from the grim jaws of "justice."...
  Director of the film

   1979

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  Days of Hope (TV)
  A series of four films from the Great War to the General Strike.
  Director of the film

   1975

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  9.0
  Kes
  Ken Loach's "Kes" follows the tough life of Billy Casper (David Bradley), a young boy in living on the poor end of Barnsley, in the mining areas of Yorkshire County. However, when Billy finds an injured kestrel and attem...
  Director of the film

   1969

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  7.0
  Poor Cow
  A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another thief) who seems to give her some h...
  Director of the film

   1967

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  The Wednesday Play (TV Series)
  TV Series (1964-1970). 171 episodes. Series of one-off plays made by BBC television which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 60s. The series often addressed controversial issues.
  Director of the film

   1964