Secrets & Lies
1996
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Available Now: You can watch Secrets & Lies on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Max, Apple TV, Google Play. You can also rent or buy Secrets & Lies on various platforms.
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United Kingdom
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Streaming availability last updated: 02:53:37 PM, 08/04/2026 PST
Synopsis
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
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About the movie
- Director
- Mike Leigh
- Rating
- 7.6/10
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Production
- United Kingdom, France
Cast
Brenda Blethyn
Cynthia Rose Purley
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Hortense Cumberbatch
Timothy Spall
Maurice Purley
Phyllis Logan
Monica Purley
Claire Rushbrook
Roxanne Purley
Lee Ross
Paul
Lesley Manville
The Social Worker
Elizabeth Berrington
Jane
Michele Austin
Dionne
Ron Cook
Stuart
Trevor Laird
Hortense's Brother
Brian Bovell
Hortense's Brother
Emma Amos
Girl with Scar
Clare Perkins
Hortense's Sister in Law
Elias Perkins McCook
Hortense's Nephew
Jane Mitchell
Senior Optician (as June Mitchell)
