Withnail & I

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 19 Jun 1987 · English

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Life Is Sweet

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 22 Mar 1991 · English

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.

Deep End

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 25 Mar 1971 · English

London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.

Riff-Raff

Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 21 Jun 1991 · English

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.

Wildflower

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 17 Mar 2023 · English

The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

SubUrbia

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 7 Feb 1997 · English

A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.

Naked

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 6 Aug 1993 · English

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Happy-Go-Lucky

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 18 Apr 2008 · English

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

The Trouble with Jessica

Movie · 6.0 / 10 · 5 Apr 2024 · English

Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. When their best friends Richard and Beth come round for a final dinner, an uninvited old friend, Jessica, tags along.

Landline

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 21 Jul 2017 · English

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

High Hopes

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 13 Jan 1989 · English

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.

Almost Friends

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 17 Nov 2017 · English

A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.