Movies: Lesley Manville

Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school....

Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execut...

A Christmas black comedy based on the tradition in Hammond's Bank that a member of the board should take a turkey and 6 pence to a deserving poor family....

Mr Brittain is determined that this year the school will do a really different Christmas show. Unfortunately Miss Jarvis has always organised the nativity play, and this is her last year before retirement. She is unlikely to change her ways without ...

In a revealing documentary, Mike Leigh, director of Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Abigail's Party among many others, talks to Alan Yentob about a unique body of work and a lifelong struggle to make films on his own terms. On day one of a Mike Le...

A wily publisher of arts magazines tries to cope with ever-growing financial problems - and also his formidable German mother....

A teacher has a titillating experience after accepting an unusual gift from a friend....