This Is England (2006)

Highly Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Shane Meadows

Cinematographer: Danny Cohen

Composer: Ludovico Einaudi

Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joe Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson, Andrew Ellis, Perry Benson

A lonely, bullied twelve-year-old boy, whose father had recently died in the Falklands war, joins a friendly gang of skinheads, which is torn apart when a former member is released from prison, freshly indoctrinated with militant racist views, in Meadows’s funny, touching, and devastatingly powerful semi-autobiographical film, which boasts an astounding performance from a never better Stephen Graham. Iain.Stott

Followed by This Is England '86 (2010).