Watch movies directed by Ken Loach

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-employed delivery driver. It's hard work, and his wife's job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

NR

7.4

2019 Drama 100 min Play

7.7

I, Daniel Blake

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

NR

7.7

2016 Drama 100 min Play

6.7

Jimmy’s Hall

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

NR

6.7

2014 Drama 106 min Play

7

The Angels’ Share

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.

R

7

2012 Comedy 101 min Play

6.1

Route Irish

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

NR

6.1

2011 Drama 109 min Play

6.5

Looking for Eric

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

NR

6.5

2009 Comedy 119 min Play

6.4

It’s a Free World…

Angie is a working class woman. After being fired, she decides to set up a recruitment agency of her own, running it from her kitchen with her friend, Rose. Taking advantage of the desperation of immigrants, Angie builds a successful business extremely quickly.

NR

6.4

2007 Drama 96 min Play

6.8

To Each His Own Cinema

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.

NR

6.8

2007 Comedy 100 min Play

7.4

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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.

NR

7.4

2006 Drama 127 min Play

6.6

Ae Fond Kiss…

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

R

6.6

2004 Drama 104 min Play

6.6

11’09”01 – September 11

11 directors show their view on the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York.

NR

6.6

2002 Drama 135 min Play

6.9

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 Infrastructure, it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as downsizing and efficiency become the new buzzwords.

NR

6.9

2001 Drama 96 min Play

6.1

Bread and Roses

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she ...

NR

6.1

2000 Comedy 110 min Play

7.2

My Name Is Joe

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

NR

7.2

1998 Drama 105 min Play

7.1

Carla’s Song

A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.

NR

7.1

1996 Drama 125 min Play

7.3

Land and Freedom

David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.

NR

7.3

1995 Drama 109 min Play

7.2

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 for happiness, but her history still haunts her.

NR

7.2

1994 Drama 101 min Play

6.9

Raining Stones

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 ...

NR

6.9

1993 Comedy 90 min Play

6.7

Riff-Raff

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.

NR

6.7

1991 Comedy 95 min Play

7.1

Hidden Agenda

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.

R

7.1

1990 Drama 108 min Play

6

Fatherland

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 ...

NR

6

1986 Drama 111 min Play

7.1

Family Life

A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her own way in life. Family Life is a stark and painful portrait of a hypocritical society.

NR

7.1

1971 Drama 108 min Play

7.5

Kes

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

PG-13

7.5

1970 Drama 110 min Play

6.3

Poor Cow

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. One day, her son goes missing and she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her.

NR

6.3

1967 Drama 101 min Play