Cast: Donal McCann

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Meryl Streep · Robert Redford · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Michael Kitchen

Synopsis Out of Africa (1985) follows the life of Karen Blixen, a Danish woman who moves to Kenya in the early 20th century to start a coffee plantation with her husband. Amidst the breathtaking landscapes, she navigates the challenges of colonial...

Direction John Huston

Cast Anjelica Huston · Donal McCann · Helena Carroll · Cathleen Delany

Synopsis The Dead (1987) is a poignant adaptation of James Joyce's short story, set during a festive Dublin gathering in 1904. The film follows Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta, as they attend a lively Christmas party hosted by Gabriel's aunts....

Direction John Huston

Cast Paul Newman · Dominique Sanda · James Mason · Harry Andrews

Synopsis Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a remote manor at an unknown location where he is kept...

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Helen Mirren · John Lynch · Donal McCann · John Kavanagh

Synopsis Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

Direction Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Cast Donal McCann · Saskia Reeves · Ciarán Hinds · Patrick Malahide

Synopsis At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.

Direction Neil Jordan

Cast Beverly D'Angelo · Donal McCann · Niall Byrne · Lorraine Pilkington

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Liv Tyler · Jeremy Irons · Sinead Cusack · Carlo Cecchi

Synopsis Liv Tyler stars as a 19-year-old American who goes to visit an artist's villa in Italy -the Toscana- where, perhaps, she will find out who her father was, and lose her virginity. Jeremy Irons is a dying playwright.

Direction John Turturro

Cast John Turturro · Katherine Borowitz · Susan Sarandon · Christopher Walken

Synopsis It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that involves influential critic...

Direction Eugene Brady

Cast Donal McCann · Pierce Brosnan · Sinead Cusack · Aislín McGuckin

Synopsis When a young American man shows up on his Irish relatives' doorstep to scatter his mother's ashes in her native homeland, they are shocked to discover he is black as they had no knowledge that she had married a black...

Direction John Huston

Cast John Hurt · Pamela Franklin · Nigel Davenport · Ronald Fraser

Synopsis Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the...

Direction Neil Jordan

Cast Steve Guttenberg · Daryl Hannah · Peter O'Toole · Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of...

Direction George Pavlou

Cast David Dukes · Kelly Piper · Hugh O'Conor · Cora Venus Lunny

Synopsis Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

Direction Michael Dryhurst

Cast Patrick McGoohan · Lee Van Cleef · Edna O'Brien · Donal McCann

Synopsis A professional assassin is coerced into taking on one last job.

Direction Michael O'Herlihy

Cast Peter McEnery · Susan Hampshire · Tom Adams · Gordon Jackson

Direction Bob Quinn

Cast Donal McCann · Margaret Fegan · Peadar Lamb

Synopsis At the bishop's house, the bishop reads from an advance copy of a novel 'Budawanny: A Bishop's Tale' by Thomas Connor, with a statement on the flap saying that it is now a major film. He writes to the author...

Direction Bob Quinn

Cast Donal McCann · Margaret Fegan · Ray McBride · Peadar Lamb

Synopsis A love story is revealed through conversations between an elderly bishop and a younger priest in a 'retreat' house catering for members of religious orders. The bishop is a returned missionary who as a young curate on a remote island...

Direction Christopher Hodson · Marc Miller · Peter Moffatt · James Ormerod

Cast George Cole · Edward Woodward · John Stride · Susan Travers

Synopsis TV Series (1968-1969). 2 seasons. 13 episodes. An anthology series of TV plays with a monetary theme.

Direction Roy Battersby

Cast Barry Jackson · Maurice Denham · Margaret Tyzack · Linda Marlowe

Synopsis A mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.

Direction Kevin Billington

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Donal McCann · Fionnula Flanagan · Harriet Walter

Synopsis A stoic historian rents a lodge for the summer in the idyllic Irish countryside to finish his biography of Sir Isaac Newton, but his attention refocuses on his landlords, the dysfunctional lower-upper class Lawless family.

Direction Bob Quinn

Cast Cyril Cusack · Donal McCann · Niall Toibin · Mairead Ni Chonghaile

Synopsis A potting maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardai in Connemara. This film, made in Connemara and involving its people, involves the trials and tribulations of the elusive “poitín” maker and his accomplices providing along the way an...