Philomena (2013, Movie)

Judi Dench again delivers an outstanding performance as an aging Irish woman trying to find the son who was wrenched away from her some 50 years previously by the sadistic system of the 1950's when girls who had sinned, i.e., gotten pregnant out of wedlock, became virtual slaves of convents. The sad thing is that this was based on a true story and all the characters are based on real people. Its based on Martin Sixsmith's book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee."