In Nora Fingscheidt‘s The Unforgivable (theatrical 11.24, Netflix 12.10), 50ish Sandra Bullock plays a woman who moves in with her younger sister after serving a 20-year sentence for a violent crime.

In Philippe Claudel‘s I’ve Loved You So Long (’08), Kristin Scott Thomas played a 40ish doctor who moves in with her younger sister after serving 15 years for the murder of her son.

13 year-old HE blurb: “In the remarkable, deeply penetrating I’ve Loved You So Long (Sony Classics, 10.24) , Kristin Scott Thomas gives an immensely sad but highly sensitive and attuned performance that you just know, minutes into it, will be with you the rest of your life. She draws you in like some sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, but she never sells anything. Start to finish, she dwells in this fascinating zen-grief space that just ‘is.’ She owns it…and from the moment the film begins, owns you.”