Ken Loach

Sorry We Missed You

Sorry We Missed You

Sorry We Missed You

IMDb: 7.9
2019
100min

From the Director of I DANIEL BLAKE (Ken Loach) comes a story exploring the issue of hardship in modern-day Britain through a young couple scraping to get by in a casual jobs market. A hard-up delivery driver and his carer wife are pushed to breaking point as they struggle to keep their family afloat in a world of zero-hour contracts and gig work.

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The Spirit of ’45

The Spirit of ’45

The Spirit of ’45

IMDb: 6.4
2013
94min

Ken Loach’s 2013 documentary about social change in Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War, including the nationalisation of industries and the formation of the welfare state. Made almost entirely in black & white, so B&W archive footage from the 1940s blend in with interviews made today.

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The Gamekeeper

The Gamekeeper

The Gamekeeper

IMDb: 7.1
1980
84min

George Purse is the gamekeeper for the duke’s estate, a role he takes seriously. His position gives him a certain status, but he has an uneasy relationship with some of the locals, not least those who turn to poaching

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McLibel

McLibel

McLibel

IMDb: 7.1
2005
85min

McLibel is a documentary film directed by Franny Armstrong for Spanner Films about the McLibel case. The film was first completed, as a 52 minute television version, in 1997, after the conclusion of the original McLibel trial. It was then re-edited to 85 minute feature length in 2005, after the McLibel defendants took their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

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Ladybird Ladybird

Ladybird Ladybird

Ladybird Ladybird

IMDb: 7.5
1994
101min

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 for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

IMDb: 7.5
2006
124min

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

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Route Irish

Route Irish

Route Irish

IMDb: 6.4
2010
109min

A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend’s death and decides to investigate.

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I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

I, Daniel Blake

IMDb: 7.9
2016
100min

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

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Jimmy’s Hall

Jimmy’s Hall

Jimmy’s Hall

IMDb: 6.7
2014
106min

In the 1930s political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the ‘Red Scare’.

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The Angels’ Share

The Angels’ Share

The Angels’ Share

IMDb: 7.0
2012
101min

Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.

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Looking for Eric

Looking for Eric

Looking for Eric

IMDb: 7.2
2009
119min

A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor (the ex football player Eric Cantona) in this comedy-drama from acclaimed British director Ken Loach.

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Carla’s Song

Carla’s Song

Carla’s Song

IMDb: 6.9
1996
125min

A Glasgow man (Robert Carlyle) visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee (Oyanka Cabezas) tormented by her memories.

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Raining Stones

Raining Stones

Raining Stones

IMDb: 7.5
1993
90min

This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.

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Riff-Raff

Riff-Raff

Riff-Raff

IMDb: 7.1
1991
95min

The story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class

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Hidden Agenda

Hidden Agenda

Hidden Agenda

IMDb: 7.0
1990
108min

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the “Troubles.” But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan’s colleagues.

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Fatherland

Fatherland

Fatherland

IMDb: 6.4
1986
111min

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him – left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him…

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Kes

Kes

Kes

IMDb: 7.9
1969
110min

A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.

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Poor Cow

Poor Cow

Poor Cow

IMDb: 7.0
1967
101min

The first of several social realism films by Ken Loach, this had less impact than those made as TV plays. Poor Cow follows the tangled life of Joy, who turns to Dave after her lover is jailed for theft. When Dave in turn is jailed, she is left with a son to keep. When he goes missing, she sees what’s important.

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