List of the best Emma Amos movies: Secrets & Lies(1996), Vera Drake(2004), Rowing With the Wind(1988) ... ...
Drama
UK|France
1996
142 Minutes
Timothy Spall Brenda Blethyn Phyllis Logan Marianne Jean-Baptiste Claire Rushbrook Ron Cook Lesley Manville Elizabeth Berrington Michele Austin Lee Ross Emma Amos
doctor mother blue-collar worker daughter brother powerful tense funeral london backyard café family dysfunction mother/daughter relationship family history adoption class distinctions friendship discovery transformation 1990s
Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
Drama
UK|France
2004
125 Minutes
Imelda Staunton Philip Davis Peter Wight Adrian Scarborough Heather Craney Daniel Mays Alex Kelly Sally Hawkins Eddie Marsan Ruth Sheen Helen Coker
abortionist mother partner mechanic tailor factory worker dark emotional england household police station hospital courtroom secret abortion family investigation compassion class distinctions quest
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Drama
Spain
1988
126 Minutes
Hugh Grant Lizzy McInnerny Valentine Pelka Elizabeth Hurley José Luis Gómez Virginia Mataix Ronan Vibert Jose Carlos Rivas Kate McKenzie Jolyon Baker Terry Taplin
poet writer husband stepsister friend monster creative melodramatic geneva villa england frankenstein's monster mary shelley percy bysshe shelley lord byron madness literature quest transformation wretched excess
Lord Byron, poet Percy Shelley, his future wife, Mary Shelley (writing Frankenstein) and others spend the summer of 1816 together.