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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.
