On Chesil Beach (2017)
Drama | Romance
Based on Ian McEwan's novel. In 1962 England, a young couple find their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Billy Howle, Adrian Scarborough, Bebe Cave
Director: Dominic Cooke
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Mystery | Thriller
Christine Lucas wakes every day with no knowledge of who she is or who the man is sleeping next to her. As she tries to piece together her life using a video journal she has been keeping, the few people around her offer confusing information and conflicting memories.
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Crompton, Adam Levy
Director: Rowan Joffe
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Drama
A thoroughly mind provoking film about 3 young women whom, under tragic circumstances see themselves cast away to a Magdalene Asylum for young women t in 1964. One of many like institutions, the asylums are run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. The asylum, one of many that existed in Theocratic Catholic Ireland, is for supposedly 'fallen' women. Here, young girls are imprisoned indefinitely and endure agonizing punishments and a long, harsh working system which leaves them physically drained and mentally damaged. As the girls bond together, it soon becomes clear that the only way out of the Magdalene convent is to escape, but with twisted Sister Bridget running the wing, any chances seem limited…
Starring: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff, Geraldine McEwan
Director: Peter Mullan
