Lee Hall

The life of 11-year old Billy Elliot (Bell), a coal miner's son in Northern England, is forever changed one day when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson. (Universal Focus)

The ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. It is based on cookery writer Nigel Slater's autobiographical novel of the same name. (imdb)

Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend. (imdb)

Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. (wikipedia.org)

A talented young dancer has to learn to fight for his dream despite social and parental disapproval.

An account of counterculturalist Richard Neville's misadventures in London at the end of the 1960s. (imdb)

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. (imdb)

A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John's breakthrough years.

A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. (imdb)