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
Bloom (
2003) | IMDb:
5.5
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
Starring:
Stephen Rea
,
Angeline Ball
,
Hugh O'Conor
,
Neilí Conroy
,
Eoin McCarthy
,
Alvaro Lucchesi
The Pebble and the Penguin (
1995) | IMDb:
5.5
A bashful bachelor penguin named Hubie, who's partial to a pretty female named Marina. Ancient penguin ritual dictates that males present a pebble to their intended, then mate for life. Hubie finds a spiffy stone, but before he can bestow it on Marina, dastardly rival Drake tosses him into the churning sea, and Hubie gets swept away.
The Commitments (
1991) | IMDb:
7.6
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
Starring:
Robert Arkins
,
Michael Aherne
,
Angeline Ball
,
Maria Doyle Kennedy
,
Dave Finnegan
,
Bronagh Gallagher