East Is East (1999)
Comedy | Drama
In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Archie Panjabi, Jimi Mistry, Lesley Nicol, Albert Moses
Director: Damien O'Donnell
Calendar Girls (2003)
Comedy | Drama
When twelve ordinary members of the Women's Institute, a prim and proper ladies' club, decide they need to find a more compelling way to raise money for a new charity, they turn to their traditional annual calendar and give it a very untraditional twist. Behind the usual baked goods, the apple pressing and the flower arrangements are the women – completely nude! Starring Golden Globe nominee Helen Mirren (Gosford Park) and Julie Walters (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets) Calendar Girls is a terrifically entertaining comedy — and that's the naked truth.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Linda Bassett, Ciarán Hinds, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie
Director: Nigel Cole
Kinky Boots (2005)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Yet, the untimely death of his father places him in that position, only to learn that Price & Sons Shoes is failing. While in despair at his failed attempts to save the business, Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer, Lola. Her complaints about the inadequate footwear for her work combined with one of Charles' ex-employees, Lauren, leads to a suggestion to change the product to create a desperate chance to save the business: make men's fetish footwear. Lola is convinced to be their footwear designer and the transition begins. Now this disparate lot must struggle at this unorthodox idea while dealing both the prejudice of the staff, Lola's discomfort in the small town and the selfish manipulation of Charles' greedy fiancée who cannot see the greater good in Charles' dream.
Starring: Joel Edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sarah-Jane Potts, Nick Frost, Linda Bassett, Jemima Rooper
Director: Julian Jarrold
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