The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Story of the Catholic convents where Irish girls were sent in response to an assortment of social transgressions.
NEDS (2010)
Story of a boy who finds growing up in Glasgow in the Seventies is tough.
Orphans (1997)
Jet black comedy about family tribulations in the run up to a funeral.
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