UK Council Estate Films

A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.

Realistic story of working-class Yorkshire life, alternately serious and light-hearted, as two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man.

A rough, short-tempered patriarch of a working-class family sees his life and the relationships around him slowly unravel.

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Jamie is a shy teenager, often bullied at school. His neighbour Ste has a rough time at home, being beaten by his father and brother. This issues bring them together and they find that what they feel for each other is more than friendship.

Ben, a man who lives overwhelmed by his addictions and his schizophrenia, decides to seek help. During his search he meets Honey, a very intense and obsessive woman who will try to help him. During the process she helps Ben accept and process his problems in a surprising way.

The lives of four drug dealers, one user, and two prostitutes are explored.

An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.

A naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow and the poor youth around him.

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

In a poor working class London home, Penny's love for her partner, taxi driver Phil, has run dry. When an unexpected tragedy occurs, they and their local community are brought back together.

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

Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Éric Cantona.

Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.

Old writer Mihailo tells his dying wife a story about lovers and romances set in different seasons. In order to keep her alive, he talks about other people's romaces, but these are supposed to revive their own love story. The heroes of his stories are couples of different age who let go into frivolty of kisses and delicate game of seduction. Mihailo's wife does not like the stories at all because there is no true moral in it - they keep running around in circles. Mihailo decides to tell a new story that should please her. The heroes of the story are young Milos and Mila. Purified by previous experience the two of them move through idealized city scenes, freed from foul play and cheating-it looks like true love can still be found.

A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.

Jackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.

The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

Deviser/director Mike Leigh talks about the genesis and development of the film and its characters.

The first film in the Tina trilogy, using the actual inhabitants of a tough Leeds council estate in the leading roles. Tina is a single mum who steals to order for her own `shopping' business, her drug-addict boyfriend Aaron is planning the theft of a cow so he can sell the meat, and Tina's father, Don, is the mobster in control of the local drugs trade.

Goodbye Charlie Bright is the humorous and heart-warming story of the friendship between two teenage boys from a tough council estate. Set during a long hard summer it charts the close but volatile relationship between Charlie and Justin.

A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.