Albert Nobbs (2011)

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.

The Dead (1987)

Based on the short story by James Joyce, Gabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.

Nora (2001)

In June 1904, James Joyce courts Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently arrived from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long they elope to locations across Europe.

Barry Lyndon (1975)

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.