Brenda Fricker
1) My left foot
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The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
2) My Left Foot
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In this inspiring biographical drama, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Christy Brown, an Irish man born with cerebral palsy who can only control his left foot. Raised in a poor, working-class family, Christy faces immense challenges but, with the support of his mother (Brenda Fricker), learns to express himself through painting and writing. His remarkable determination leads him to become a celebrated artist and author.
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Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early...
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World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
7) Holding
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Duneen is a small remote town at the tip of West Cork, Ireland, where nothing ever happens until human remains are found buried deep on a local farm. For the first time, local Police Sergeant PJ Collins has to solve a genuine crime. As a lifetime's worth of small-town secrets starts to be unearthed, the residents' dark pasts begin to unravel, alongside PJ's inner turmoil.
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Veronica Guerin was a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. Guerin's violent murder in 1996 led to a revision of Ireland's laws and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. Picks up with her pursuit of the underground drug trade in Dublin, which she suspects is led by mobster Martin "The General" Cahill. When Cahill's gang is attacked, she suspects mobster Gerry "The Monk" Hutch is responsible. Not deterred...
9) Albert Nobbs
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A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
11) A time to kill
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A small-town lawyer is hired to defend an African American man who is accused of killing the white men who raped his young daughter.
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"Great news--Kevin McCallister is spending the holidays in New York City. Bad news--his parents are spending them in Florida! Separated once again from his family, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his dad's credit card. But his big-spending solo act takes a dangerous turn when the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv escape prison and also land in the Big Apple. Now, Kevin must outrun and outprank them again"--Container.
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After achieving a dream retirement with his wife of 50 years to a condo in the South of France, Joseph (James Fox) finds himself utterly miserable. Bored, lonely, and tired of his wife's incessant nagging and slow onset of Alzheimer's, he finds himself gazing hopelessly at the younger women that pass by and catching unflattering looks from the locals his own age. Brenda (Brenda Fricker) eventually begins to sense her husband's loss of enthusiasm...
14) Pete's Meteor
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Pete (Mike Myers) is a streetwise ex-junkie running from the mob. After his two best friends die, he feels obligated to help raise their three kids who now live with their grandmother.