Shirley Valentine is about a woman upset with her life always talking to the wall and goes on vacation to Greece.
The Snapper is kinda like Juno only done in Ireland and she isn't in love with the baby's daddy, who is the father of her best friend.
I have never heard of the movies your talking about. I think Calendar Girls was about the 3 guys who went to find Marylin Monroe? If that's it, I've seen it
Little Voice:
A telephone repairman (Ewan McGregor) and a music promoter (Michael Caine) play second fiddle to Little Voice (Jane Horrocks), a young woman whose beautiful pipes could pack a thousand cabarets. Trouble is, she can only sing along to records in her room. This British charmer was a sleeper hit among the indie set thanks to its winning mix of romance, hope and humor. Brenda Blethyn and Jim Broadbent co-star.
(Jane Horrocks is "Bubble" in Absolutely Fabulous, and she does ALL of her own singing in the movie - which is amazing. I had no idea her acting skills were so expansive. And Ewan McGregor is darling as a very shy, naive and innocent young man.)
Calendar Girls:
The members of the Knapely Women's Institute of North Yorkshire are resourceful and refined -- and they're about to shock the residents of their little English town with a daringly bare philanthropy project. When one of their own (Julie Walters) learns her husband has cancer, the group decides to spice up their yearly
calendar fundraiser by forgoing the usual images of the Yorkshire dales and gracing the pages in the nude. Helen Mirren co-stars.
Secrets and Lies:
A family confronts shocking
secrets and long-forgotten
lies in this bittersweet drama. With no man in her life, single mom Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) finds life with her sullen daughter, Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook), one big disappointment. But everything changes when Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) shows up claiming to be the daughter Cynthia gave up for adoption -- a revelation that shakes Cynthia's entire family. Timothy Spall co-stars.
Funny thing is, after reading your suggestions for Shirley Valentine and The Snapper, I went to Netflix to order them - and realized that they are already both in my queu!
Oh, and here's another movie from the UK that's excellent:
Ewan McGregor stars in this grimly comic tale of three roommates who find their enigmatic new flatmate dead in his room with a stash of drugs and a suitcase full of cash. What will they do with all that money -- and the corpse? Things get even more twisted as drug dealers and the cops start snooping around. Directed by Danny Boyle, this pitch-perfect dark comedy also stars Christopher Eccleston, Kerry Fox and Ken Stott.
