The Perfect Family & Albert Nobbs - Both excellent explorations of sexual orientation/gender roles.

And both with outstanding female leads.


The Perfect Family
2011
PG-13
1hr 24m

When tightly wound suburbanite Eileen Cleary is nominated for her church's Catholic Woman of the Year award, she pushes aside inconvenient truths, including an alcoholic son, a gay daughter and a philandering son, in favor of a "perfect" family.



Albert Nobbs
2011
R
1hr 53m

Having for decades disguised herself as a man while working as a butler in a posh 19th-century Dublin hotel, a woman calling herself Albert Nobbs reconsiders her charade when a handsome painter arrives on the scene.