Cast: Gerard McSorley

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gerard McSorley. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


In the Name of the Father

1993 · Movie · 135 min. · Ireland

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Emma Thompson · Pete Postlethwaite · John Lynch

Synopsis In the Name of the Father (1993) follows Gerry Conlon, a young man from Belfast wrongly accused of an IRA bombing in London. Alongside his father and friends, Gerry is arrested, tortured, and coerced into a false confession. The film...

8.2

76K votes

8.2

76K votes

Braveheart

1995 · Movie · 177 min. · United States

Direction Mel Gibson

Cast Mel Gibson · Sophie Marceau · Patrick McGoohan · Angus MacFadyen

Synopsis Braveheart (1995) tells the epic tale of William Wallace, a Scottish warrior who leads his countrymen in a rebellion against the oppressive English rule during the 13th century. After witnessing the tyranny of King Edward I and suffering personal loss,...

8.0

151K votes

8.0

151K votes

Bloody Sunday

2002 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Greengrass

Cast James Nesbitt · Allan Gildea · Gerard Crossan · Mary Moulds

Synopsis Bloody Sunday (2002) is a gripping historical drama that chronicles the tragic events of January 30, 1972, in Derry, Northern Ireland. The film follows civil rights activists organizing a peaceful march against internment without trial. As tensions rise between protesters...

7.4

10K votes

7.4

10K votes

The Constant Gardener

2005 · Movie · 128 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fernando Meirelles

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Rachel Weisz · Danny Huston · Hubert Koundé

Synopsis In The Constant Gardener (2005), a reserved British diplomat, Justin Quayle, embarks on a harrowing journey to uncover the truth behind his wife Tessa's murder in Kenya. As he delves deeper, he discovers her activist work exposing a dangerous pharmaceutical...

7.3

50K votes

7.3

50K votes

The Boxer

1997 · Movie · 109 min. · Ireland

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Emily Watson · Brian Cox · Ken Stott

Synopsis The Boxer (1997) follows Danny Flynn, a former IRA member who, after 14 years in prison, seeks redemption by returning to his Belfast neighborhood. Determined to leave his violent past behind, Danny reopens a local boxing gym to unite the...

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

Omagh (TV)

2004 · Movie · 106 min. · Ireland

Direction Pete Travis

Cast Gerard McSorley · Michèle Forbes · Stuart Graham · Peter Balance

Synopsis In August 1998, as all of Ireland prepared to vote for peace in the Good Friday referendum, a small group of dissident Provisional IRA members opposed to the peace process were setting out to create a bomb outrage so bloody...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

6.8

2K votes

6.8

3K votes

Michael Collins

1996 · Movie · 132 min. · Ireland

Direction Neil Jordan

Cast Liam Neeson · Aidan Quinn · Stephen Rea · Alan Rickman

Synopsis Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this epic film tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative guerrilla tactics succeeded in bringing freedom from British rule, Collins...

6.7

9K votes

6.7

9K votes

Middletown

2006 · Movie · 88 min. · Ireland

Direction Brian Kirk

Cast Matthew Macfadyen · Daniel Mays · Eva Birthistle · Gerard McSorley

Synopsis When he returns home to his Irish village, the recently ordained Gabriel finds that his new found religious zeal is not as compatible with family cohesion as he might have wished.

6.4

25 votes

6.4

25 votes

Veronica Guerin

2003 · Movie · 96 min. · Ireland

Direction Joel Schumacher

Cast Cate Blanchett · Ciarán Hinds · Gerard McSorley · Brenda Fricker

Synopsis In the mid-1990s, Dublin was nothing short of a war zone, with a few powerful drug lords battling for absolute control. Their most fearsome opponent wasn't the police but the courageous journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), who covered the crime...

6.3

4K votes

6.3

4K votes

Agnes Browne

1999 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Anjelica Huston

Cast Anjelica Huston · Marion O'Dwyer · Ray Winstone · Arno Chevrier

Synopsis Set in 1967 Dublin, Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston) and her seven children, ages 2-14, are sent into emotional turmoil and financial problems soon after the death of her husband. Agnes struggles to make ends meet, and eventually winds up selling...

6.3

570 votes

6.3

570 votes

Widows' Peak

1994 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Irvin

Cast Mia Farrow · Joan Plowright · Natasha Richardson · Adrian Dunbar

Synopsis A quaint Irish town in the 20s is set buzzing when a sexy, secretive stranger arrives, seducing the men and manipulating the women in this comic murder-mystery.

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Robin Hood

2010 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Russell Crowe · Cate Blanchett · Oscar Isaac · Mark Strong

Synopsis In Robin Hood (2010), a skilled archer named Robin Longstride returns to England after fighting in the Crusades. Disillusioned by war, he assumes the identity of a fallen knight to honor a promise. As he navigates a kingdom oppressed by...

6.1

42K votes

6.1

42K votes

Kidnapped (TV)

1995 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Armand Assante · Brian McCardie · Patrick Malahide · Michael Kitchen

Synopsis Year 1751. When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan...

5.5

30 votes

5.5

30 votes

Taffin

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Francis Megahy

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Ray McAnally · Alison Doody · Jeremy Child

Synopsis An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless and have sent their heavies into town...

5.1

59 votes

5.1

59 votes

4.8

254 votes

Blood Creek

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Joel Schumacher

Cast Henry Cavill · Dominic Purcell · Michael Fassbender · Emma Booth

Synopsis In 1936, the Wollners–a German family living in rural Town Creek, Maryland–are contacted by the Third Reich to host a visiting scholar, Professor Ricard Wirth (Michael Fassbender). In need of money, they accept Wirth into their home. Wirth’s grand occult...

4.0

2K votes

4.0

2K votes

Direction Roy Ward Baker · Robert Chetwyn · John Howard · Peter Sykes

Cast Peter Bowles · Bryan Murray · Beryl Reid · Niall Toibin

Synopsis TV Series (1983-1985). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. A drama about a retired English army officer who becomes a resident magistrate in turn-of-the-20th-century West Ireland. When fine gentleman Major Sinclair Yeates leaves his home in England to work as the pre-Independence...

Not rated

Not rated

Words Upon the Window Pane

1994 · Movie · 98 min. · Ireland

Direction Mary McGuckian

Cast Geraldine Chaplin · Brid Brennan · Geraldine James · Hugh O'Conor

Synopsis This film is based on the one act play by W B Yeats and concerns another great figure from Irish literature, Jonathan Swift, whose spirit, with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emergrs in a series of seances...

Not rated

Not rated