The Life of David Gale (
2003) | IMDb:
7.5
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Angela's Ashes (
1999) | IMDb:
7.3
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Starring:
Emily Watson
,
Robert Carlyle
,
Joe Breen
,
Michael Legge
,
Ciarán Owens
,
Ronnie Masterson
Directed by:
Alan Parker
Evita (
1996) | IMDb:
6.3
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Jennifer Eight (
1992) | IMDb:
6.3
John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, Berlin meets a young blind woman named Helena, whom he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose—and only John knows it.
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
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (
1983) | IMDb:
7.5
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Pink Floyd: The Wall (
1982) | IMDb:
8
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Starring:
Bob Geldof
,
Christine Hargreaves
,
James Laurenson
,
Eleanor David
,
Kevin McKeon
,
Bob Hoskins