Ken Loach
English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- June 17, 1936 · Nuneaton
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, television director, director
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
2016 · United Kingdom / France / Belgium · drama
Palme d'Or winner 2016 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2017 #1 · Criterion Collection spine #906
2.663 citations - 2
2006 · United Kingdom / Ireland / Germany · drama, war, romance
Palme d'Or winner 2006 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2006 #5
1.892 citations - 3
1969 · United Kingdom · comedy, drama
BFI Top 100 British films #7 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #72 · Letterboxd Top 250 #222
1.455 citations - 4
2002 · United Kingdom / Germany / Spain · drama, crime
Sarris's annual top 10 2003 #4 · Film Comment year-end poll 2003 #33 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.523 citations - 5
1998 · United Kingdom / Italy / Spain · drama, comedy, romance
BFI Top 100 British films #91 · Sarris's annual top 10 1999 #4
0.452 citations - 60.361 citation
- 7
1995 · United Kingdom / Spain / Germany · drama, war
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1996 #8
0.321 citation - 80.191 citation
- 90.171 citation
- 100.161 citation
- 110.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 44 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1966Cathy Come Home
- 1967In Two Minds
- 1967Poor Cow
- 1969Kes
- 1971Family Life
- 1971The Rank and File
- 1971The Save the Children Fund Film
- 1977The Price of Coal
- 1979Black Jack
- 1980A Question of Leadership
- 1980The Gamekeeper
- 1981Looks and Smiles
- 1983The Red and the Blue: Impressions of Two Political Conferences - Autumn 1982
- 1984Which Side Are You On?
- 1985End of the Battle... Not the End of the War (We Should Have Known)
- 1986Fatherland
- 1990Hidden Agenda
- 1991Riff-Raff
- 1991The Arthur Legend
- 1993Raining Stones
- 1994Ladybird, Ladybird
- 1995A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership
- 1995Land and Freedom
- 1996Carla's Song
- 1997The Flickering Flame
- 1998My Name Is Joe
- 2000Bread and Roses
- 2001The Navigators
- 200211'09"01 September 11
- 2002Sweet Sixteen
- 2004Ae Fond Kiss...
- 2005McLibel
- 2005Tickets
- 2006The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- 2007It's a Free World...
- 2007To Each His Own Cinema
- 2009Looking for Eric
- 2010Route Irish
- 2012The Angels' Share
- 2013The Spirit of '45
- 2014Jimmy's Hall
- 2016I, Daniel Blake
- 2019Sorry We Missed You
- 2023The Old Oak