خلاصه داستان : بر اساس زندگینامه پرفروش فرانک مک کورت، یک تبعه ایرلندی، فیلم «خاکستر آنجلا» تجربیات فرانکی جوان و خانواده‌اش را دنبال می‌کند، در حالی که آن‌ها بر خلاف همه شانس‌ها تلاش می‌کنند تا از فقر رایج در زاغه‌های قبل از جنگ لیمریک فرار کنند.

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

خلاصه داستان : پای چپ من فیلمی بیوگرافی کمدی درام به کارگردانی جیم شریدان و هنرنمایی دانیل دی لوئیس است. «کریستی براون» در دوران کودکی به دلیل فلج مغزی به شدت عقب افتاده شده است اما در جوانی نشان می دهد که با وجود جسم علیلش، انسانی خونگرم و شوخ طبع است…

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.