Albert Nobbs (
2011) | IMDb:
6.7
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Starring:
Glenn Close
,
Mia Wasikowska
,
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
,
Janet McTeer
,
Pauline Collins
,
Brenda Fricker
Directed by:
Rodrigo García
How About You... (
2007) | IMDb:
6.6
A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
Starring:
Hayley Atwell
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Imelda Staunton
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Joss Ackland
,
Orla Brady
Directed by:
Anthony Byrne
Closing the Ring (
2007) | IMDb:
6.5
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Starring:
Shirley MacLaine
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Martin McCann
,
Neve Campbell
,
Allan Hawco
Tara Road (
2005) | IMDb:
6
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Starring:
Andie MacDowell
,
Olivia Williams
,
Stephen Rea
,
Iain Glen
,
Jean-Marc Barr
,
Heike Makatsch
Directed by:
Gillies MacKinnon
Veronica Guerin (
2003) | IMDb:
6.8
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Starring:
Cate Blanchett
,
Colin Farrell
,
Gerard McSorley
,
Ciarán Hinds
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Don Wycherley
Conspiracy of Silence (
2003) | IMDb:
6.5
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Starring:
Jonathan Forbes
,
Hugh Bonneville
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Sean McGinley
,
Jason Barry
,
Hugh Quarshie
Directed by:
John Deery
Produced by:
A Time to Kill (
1996) | IMDb:
7.5
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey
,
Sandra Bullock
,
Samuel L. Jackson
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Ashley Judd
,
Donald Sutherland
Angels in the Outfield (
1994) | IMDb:
6.2
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al.
Starring:
Danny Glover
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Christopher Lloyd
,
Tony Danza
,
Ben Johnson
So I Married an Axe Murderer (
1993) | IMDb:
6.5
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings. Thinking his parents foolish, Charlie proposes to Harriet. But while on his honeymoon with her, he begins to fear they were right.
Starring:
Mike Myers
,
Nancy Travis
,
Anthony LaPaglia
,
Amanda Plummer
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Matt Doherty
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (
1992) | IMDb:
6.8
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.