Martin Savage

During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.

Dir. Mike Leigh · With Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.

Dir. Mike Leigh · With Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Timothy Spall

Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

Dir. Mike Leigh · With Timothy Spall, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey