Brenda Fricker

An ex-junkie on the run from the mob decides to help raise the three orphaned kids of his dead best friends now being raised by their grandmother.

Born with cerebral palsy, Christy Brown fights through his physical limitations to become an acclaimed artist and writer.

When her groom is shipped off to war, a British woman and her newborn move to Alberta to live with his family and find anything but domestic bliss.

An elderly lesbian couple on a road trip to Canada to get legally married encounter a young male hitchhiker.

A camera left behind by his troubled mom helps guide an eleven-year-old boy through his trauma after she abandons him on his grandparents’ farm.

Stella and Susie are married to the same man, and join forces to investigate his disappearance. The two women join forces to run their own private investigation agency.

To avoid being cheated by unscrupulous local buyers, a young man leads a group on a forty-mile cattle drive to market in Ireland in 1939.

Set in the 1920s, Sarah (Janet McTeer) and her younger lover (JJ Feild) travel to an ivory trading post deep in the Malaysian jungle. The influence of the couple's high hopes and obvious love for each other on the small strained group of inhabitants unleashes greed, murder and madness: a tragedy where everyone is the victim of each other's broken dreams. This Dogme 95 inspired costume drama also stars Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker, Tony Maudsly and Philip Jackson. The Intended is directed by Danish filmmaker, Kristian Levring and was co-written by leading lady, Janet McTeer. Shot with digital video, this film premiered at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival.

The true story about the journalist who risked everything.

A star studded festive comedy. Ellie (Hayley Atwell) is left in charge of an elderly residential home over Christmas, and while most of the residents have left to spend time with their families, four grumpy residents remain. Her youth and inexperience bring her into bitter conflict with retired screen beauty Georgia (Vanessa Redgrave), spinster sisters Hazel (Imelda Staunton) and Heather (Brenda Fricker), and a reformed alcoholic judge, Donald (Joss Ackland). Ellie would appear to be no match for them, but when she is pushed to the very limits she decides to take them on.

A British couple realizes their dream of retiring to the South of France, but their contentment quickly fades when they meet another, younger couple.

Following the journeys of several families, this documentary charts the mass exodus of 7 million Irish people from 19th century Ireland to America.

A man changes the life of a young man with cerebral palsy, encouraging him to experience life outside the confines of the system.

The unwavering hope and determination of a poverty-stricken young girl is the focus of this romantic adventure that stars Robin Wright as literature's irrepressible 18th-Century heroine. Morgan Freeman also stars.

A commitment-phobic poet thinks he's finally found someone he can spend his life with, if she doesn't murder him.

Not again! Intrepid Kevin finds himself left alone in New York City during Christmas, with enough cash and credit to live it up - but then he encounters the slapstick crooks who are planning a major holiday toy store heist!

Award winning actress Glenn Close plays a woman passing 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.

After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France in search of cultural treasures.

Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange coma and when everyone has given up she starts communicating with him, or is he going mad?