

Ray & Liz
On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.
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6.6/10
65 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $601.2K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- tape recorder
- working class
- alcoholic
- neglected child
- council estate
- 1980s
- birmingham
- budgerigar
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Release dates
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical158 Mar 2019
FranceFR
- Theatrical10 Apr 2019
GermanyDE
- Theatrical129 May 2019
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical電影節19 Mar 2019
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1228 Feb 2019
South KoreaKR
- PremiereJeonju International Film Festival4 May 2019
SwitzerlandCH
- Premiere18Locarno International Film Festival5 Aug 2018
TürkiyeTR
- Theatrical (limited)Filmekimi6 Oct 2018
UkraineUA
- PremiereOdesa International Film Festival18 Jul 2019
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Ray & Liz was released on 6 October 2018.
Audience reviews
2- S7/10
SWITCH.
8/15/2019
It may be dour, but the film is also vital, edgy and progressive. It also must be noted that it’s very funny at times, in a brutal human comedy sort of way ('Good Thing' by Fine Young Cannibals plays over the end credits). To be put off by the uncomfortable themes, unglamorous urban location and prevailing sense of gloom that permeates ‘Ray & Liz’ would be a big mistake. This drama crackles with angry energy, and ref…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
1/30/2026
I think part of my problem with this is that having grown up in a room and kitchen in a 1970s Glasgow tenement where we bathed in the sink, once a week, in water freshly boiled from the kettle atop the metred gas stove, I find these “northern” (English) tales of woe and misfortune all a bit melodramatic. Compared to previous generations, these Brummies don’t know they are born as they live in housing estates resource…
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