Philomena is based on a book about a woman named Philomena Lee.  It’s the true story of an Irish Catholic girl who grows up in England, who becomes pregnant after a short teen romance, and is forced against her will to move into a religious convent in order to avoid the terrible “shame” of bearing an out-of-wedlock child.  The film’s director is Stephen Frears, best known for The Queen.

All Is Lost is a one-man show.

Taking minimalism to the extreme, the entire 100-minute film consists of a lone actor, a few scripted lines, on a single location.