Ken Loach

Family Life 1971

A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.

Category: Drama

Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave

7.5 IMDB Rating 301 Views
The Old Oak 2023

The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of 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 Syrian refugees.

Category: Drama

Stars: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson

7.1 IMDB Rating 525 Views
Riff-Raff 1991

The story of construction-worker Stevie and his unemployed pop-singer girlfriend shows the living conditions of the British poor class.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Drama, Comedy

Stars: Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jim R. Coleman

7.0 IMDB Rating 395 Views
Sorry We Missed You 2019

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 end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.

Category: Drama

Stars: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Mcgowan

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,816 Views
The Wind That Shakes the Barley 2006

Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.

Category: Drama, War

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham

7.5 IMDB Rating 5,569 Views
I, Daniel Blake 2016

After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

Category: Drama

Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,739 Views
Kes
Kes 1969

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher Mr. Farthing (Colin Welland) and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, until tragedy strikes.

Category: Drama, Family, Kids

Stars: David Bradley,Freddie Fletcher,Lynne Perrie,Colin Welland

7.8 IMDB Rating 3,642 Views
Ladybird Ladybird 1994

Maggie, an unmarried mother of four children by four different men who abused her, leaves her kids home alone one night. A fire injures them and child services takes custody. Maggie fails to regain custody of her children.

Category: Drama

Stars: Crissy Rock, Vladimir Vega, Sandie Lavelle

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,664 Views