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Tag Archives: Ken Loach
Singing the Blues in Red AKA Fatherland (1986) Ken Loach, Gerulf Pannach, Fabienne Babe, Sigfrit Steiner
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin Read More »
Route Irish (2010) Ken Loach, Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop
The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official Read More »
Ae Fond Kiss… (2004) Ken Loach, Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz
In Glasgow, Scotland, the Pakistani parents of Casim Khan have decided Read More »
Sorry We Missed You (2019) Ken Loach, Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Mcgowan
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes Read More »
Days of Hope (1975) Ken Loach, Paul Copley, Pamela Brighton, Nikolas Simmonds
Days of Hope (1975) was Ken Loach’s first historical piece Read More »
Hidden Agenda (1990) Ken Loach, Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man’s girlfriend Read More »
Riff-Raff (1991) Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Emer McCourt, Jim R. Coleman
The story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer Read More »
Looks and Smiles (1981) Ken Loach, Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson, Tony Pitts
Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick Read More »
Tickets (2005) Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was Read More »
Bread and Roses (2000) Ken Loach, Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Read More »
Poor Cow (1967) Ken Loach, Terence Stamp, Carol White, John Bindon, Drama
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Read More »
Carla’s song (1996) Ken Loach, Robert Carlyle, Oyanka Cabezas, Scott Glenn, Drama, Romance, War
1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Read More »
Kes (1969) Ken Loach, David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher, Drama, Family
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes.
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The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) Ken Loach, Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Drama, History, War
In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O’Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he’s leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. He returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.
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