Cast: Gerard McSorley

Direction Jim Sheridan

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

Synopsis Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, 'Proved Innocent', Jim Sheridan's 'In the Name of the Father' tells the story of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a London pub. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Conlon, a young Irish...

Direction Mel Gibson

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

Synopsis Based on the life of legendary 13th century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape precarious. Edward the Longshanks, King of England (Patrick McGoohan), has...

Direction Paul Greengrass

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

Synopsis In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding a peaceful protest march staged in contest to British laws that permitted internment without trial,...

Direction Fernando Meirelles

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

Synopsis Ralph Fiennes stars as Kenya-based English diplomat Justin Quayle, whose wife is murdered, along with a man she's suspected of having an affair with, a local human rights activist. When Quayle starts investigating the killings, he discovers a connection between...

Direction Jim Sheridan

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

Synopsis Danny Flynn is released from prison in Belfast after fourteen years for his part in IRA activities. He determines to avoid the bloodshed that was inherent in his political past and to build a new life in his old home....

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...

Direction Atom Egoyan

Cast Bob Hoskins · Elaine Cassidy · Peter McDonald · Arsinée Khanjian

Direction Terry George

Cast Helen Mirren · Aidan Gillen · Fionnula Flanagan · David O'Hara

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Direction Ridley Scott

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

Synopsis Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard I’s army against the French. Upon Richard’s death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a...

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...

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...

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Hugh Grant · Alan Rickman · Georgina Cates · Alun Armstrong

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...

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...

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...