Vera Drake
I greatly enjoy the work of director Mike Leigh, whose films include Abigail’s Party (TV, 1977), Secrets & Lies (1996), and Topsy Turvy (1999), an affectionate look at Gilbert and Sullivan. Vera Drake is arguably his best film to date. I recommend it very highly.
Currently Vera Drake is playing at far fewer cinemas than is Million Dollar Baby so you may have to go out of your way to see it. But it's certainly worth the effort.
If you wish to read more, I suggest you go here--"Vera Drake is not for everyone, but it is a dramatic story about a woman doing what she thinks is right in the face of a law she does not believe in, and facing the consequences for these choices" and here--"Sometimes agonizing to watch but endlessly riveting,"Vera Drake" is one of the finest films from England in years. It's not a British counterpart to "The Cider House Rules" where Michael Caine's dashing devotion to his patients and to young, orphaned boys in bucolic New England subtly removed the issue of laws restricting abortions from front and center attention."Vera Drake" is raw and affecting. It's truly not so much pro-choice as it is a retelling, through one sympathetic character, of many very sad tales."