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Ken Loach

Highest Rated: 100% Kes (1969)

Lowest Rated: 50% Poor Cow (1967)

Birthday: Jun 17, 1936

Birthplace: Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK

Like the Italian neo-realists (especially Vittorio De Sica) who served as his inspiration, Ken Loach has acquired a reputation as the leading socially conscious director working in Britain. A quiet, soft-spoken man, he hardly seems the "dean of leftist movie makers" (as he was dubbed by the New York Times in June 1998). The son of a working-class factory worker, Loach served in the Royal Air Force, studied law and then worked in theater, first as an understudy and later touring Birmingham in a repertory company. To make end meet, he picked up work as a teacher.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 91% Kes
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100% 84% Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
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100% 91% Raining Stones
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97% 88% Sweet Sixteen
Watchlist 92% 85% Film, the Living Record of Our Memory Watchlist 92% 85% I, Daniel Blake Watchlist
91% I Get Knocked Down
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90% 83% The Navigators
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90% 87% The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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90% 83% Riff-Raff
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Ken Loach

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Filmography

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The Bad Patriots 2024 Self The Old Oak 82% 75% 2023 Director I Get Knocked Down 91% 2022 Self Film, the Living Record of Our Memory 92% 85% 2021 Self Sorry We Missed You 88% 82% 2019 Director Who Killed British Cinema? 2018 Actor Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life 70% 2017 Self I, Daniel Blake 92% 85% 2016 Director Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach 100% 84% 2016 Self We Are Many 83% 70% 2014 Self Jimmy's Hall 77% 61% 2014 Director The Spirit of '45 67% 65% 2013 Director, Writer The Angels' Share 88% 78% 2012 Director Route Irish 73% 53% 2010 Director Great Directors 66% 43% 2009 Self Looking for Eric 84% 78% 2009 Director It's a Free World 86% 71% 2007 Director, Producer The Wind That Shakes the Barley 90% 87% 2006 Director Tickets 83% 76% 2005 Director Ae Fond Kiss ... 88% 77% 2004 Director 11-09-01: September 11 77% 66% 2002 Director, Writer Sweet Sixteen 97% 88% 2002 Director The Navigators 90% 83% 2001 Director Bread and Roses 67% 78% 2000 Director My Name Is Joe 89% 86% 1998 Director
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