Secrets And Lies
(1996) [M]

Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA awards, Mike Leigh’s hilarious, bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Secrets and Lies centres around Cynthia, a sad, unmarried mother who works in a factory and lives in a shabby terraced house with a confrontational...  More

Little Voice
(1998) [M]

The pathetically shy LV (Jane Horrocks) lives the life of a recluse listening to her late fathers old records in her room and in the process driving her abusive, loud-mouthed mother, Mari Hoff (Brenda Blethyn), to distraction. At night, however, when her father's ghost visits, LV sings the songs...  More

Saving Grace
(2000) [MA]

Two-time Oscar nominee Brenda Blethyn stars as Grace Trevethen, whose late husband jumped out of a plane without a parachute. Grace has been left with a manor on the Cornish coast - and a mountain of debt. Now, with creditors and repossessors at her heels, Grace is faced with the prospect of...  More

Lovely And Amazing
(2001) [M]

From acclaimed director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Starring Academy Award nominee...  More

Plots with a View
(2002) [M]

Boris Plots, Alfred Molina, and Frank Featherbed, Christopher Walken, are rival funeral directors in a small Welsh town. Boris believes in tradition, while Frank, who comes from Milwaukee, thinks funerals should be fun. Boris has adored Betty Rhys-Jones, Brenda Blethyn, since they were children;...  More

Pride and Prejudice (2005)
(2005) [G]

The five Bennet sisters have all been raised by their mother with one purpose in life - finding a husband. However, the second eldest Lizzie can think of 100 reasons not to marry. When Mrs Bennet hears the exciting news that a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends are to take...  More

Beyond the Sea
(2004) [M]

One of America's greatest performers, Bobby Darin lived a rags-to-riches life. He worked his way from shady nightclubs to his dream destination, the Copacabana, where he wowed crowds with "Splash," "Mack the Knife," and other hits. He was a marvel at singing, songwriting and perfuming stealing...  More

Clubland
(2007) [MA]

Life for shy 21-year-old Tim Maitland (Khan Chittenden) is not always smooth sailing. His mum (Brenda Blethyn) is a cafeteria worker by day who hits the comedy club circuit at night, while his dad (Frankie J. Holden) is busy trying to recapture his 15 minutes of fame from when he was a Country...  More

Atonement
(2007) [MA]

Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.  More