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Featuring a wonderful performance from ex-Manchester United football player, Eric Cantona, this is social realism at its most uplifting.

Based on an Oscar Wilde story, Clio Barnard once again represents Bradford on screen in this moving and beautifully-directed drama.

This compassionate tribute to British playwright Andrea Dunbar, who died at twenty-nine-years-old, offers a distinctive twist on the documentary format.

Explore the fascinating and tragic life of audacious and talented working-class fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

Join the enjoyably chaotic world of three working class women from Hull as they juggle life, love, family and friendship.

A starry British cast shine in this moving, melancholy and often funny exploration of lost love.

This dark comedy-drama offers a sharp and insightful analysis of the UK’s working class in Northern England.

Writer-director Brian Helgeland helms this striking portrait of London’s notorious Kray twins, both masterfully played by Tom Hardy.

Harris Dickinson and newcomer Lola Campbell are irresistibly charming in this vibrant, innovative and sweet father-daughter dramedy.

This charming, BAFTA-winning drama joyously explores the power of solidarity across lines of class, gender and sexuality.

Twenty five years after the Oscar-winning film, this eight-part mini-series is a welcome and warm-hearted reunion.

Humour, tenderness and punchy Tina Turner numbers abound in Dionne Edwards fresh, distinctive and bold feature debut as writer-director.

This brutal indictment of Britain’s zero-hours contract economy deservedly earned both BAFTA and Palme d’Or nominations.

Ken Loach’s Palme d'Or-winning indictment of the UK’s punitive welfare system is an unmissable work of empathy and genius.

Ray Winstone and Kathy Burke are outstanding in Gary Oldman’s blistering and uncompromising directorial debut.

Acting newcomer Crissy Rock gives an astounding performance in Ken Loach’s raw and powerful social drama.

A landmark British film from Shane Meadows, starring Stephen Graham in a career-making role.

Daisy May Cooper is a working-class single mum on the fringes of society in this blistering comedy series.

Jamie Bell pirouetted his way into our hearts with this classic feel-good tale.

Lynne Ramsay’s beguiling directorial debut about a Glaswegian boy contending with poverty and guilt.

Turner Prize-nominated photographer Richard Billingham directs his feature debut; a viscerally intimate family portrait.

Maxine Peake is a tour-de-force as a Northern stand-up comedian battling sexism in the 70s.