Cast: Ruth McCabe

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


My Left Foot

1989 · Movie · 103 min. · Ireland

Direction Jim Sheridan

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Brenda Fricker · Ray McAnally · Fiona Shaw

Plot Set in Dublin, this film tells the story of Christy Brown (1932-1981), an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could only control his left foot. Christy Brown grew up in...

7.6

15K votes

7.6

15K votes

Rory O'Shea Was Here (Inside I'm Dancing)

2004 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Damien O'Donnell

Cast James McAvoy · Steven Robertson · Romola Garai · Anna Healy

Plot An extraordinary story of determination, about two physically challenged young men who band together to seize an opportunity to savor life on their own terms.

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Snapper

1993 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Tina Kellegher · Colm Meaney · Ruth McCabe · Brendan Gleeson

Plot Set in Ireland, Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters. When she gets herself pregnant and refuses to name the father,...

7.0

5K votes

7.0

5K votes

Breakfast on Pluto

2005 · Movie · 129 min. · Ireland

Direction Neil Jordan

Cast Cillian Murphy · Liam Neeson · Ruth Negga · Laurence Kinlan

Plot Set in the 1970’s, Breakfast on Pluto follows the exploits of Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy), an endearing, but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish...

6.8

7K votes

6.8

7K votes

Good Vibrations

2012 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lisa Barros D'Sa · Glenn Leyburn

Cast Richard Dormer · Jodie Whittaker · Michael Colgan · Liam Cunningham

Plot A chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene.

6.8

330 votes

6.8

330 votes

Aisha

2022 · Movie · 94 min. · Ireland

Direction Frank Berry

Cast Letitia Wright · Josh O'Connor · Abdul Alshareef · Ruth McCabe

Plot A young Nigerian woman seeks international protection in Ireland. Caught in limbo for years in Ireland's immigration system, Aisha Osagie (Letitia Wright) develops a friendship with former prisoner Conor Healy...

6.5

90 votes

6.5

90 votes

Run and Jump

2013 · Movie · 102 min. · Ireland

Direction Steph Green

Cast Maxine Peake · Edward MacLiam · Will Forte · Sharon Horgan

Plot Run and Jump is an unconventional love story and authentic portrait of a happy-go-lucky Irish family.

6.4

79 votes

6.4

79 votes

The Shore

2011 · Movie · 29 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry George

Cast Ciarán Hinds · Conleth Hill · Kerry Condon · Anthony Brophy

Plot After 25 years in exile, Jim Mahon brings his American daughter, Patricia, for her first visit to his hometown, Belfast. At a Welcome Home party for Jim at the local...

6.1

33 votes

6.1

33 votes

Life of Crime (TV Miniseries)

2013 · Series · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Loach

Cast Ray Panthaki · Hayley Atwell · Joel Beckett · Richard Coyle

Plot A rookie cop is obsessed with tracking down the killer of a 15-year-old girl, who she hunts over the course of 28 years.

6.0

40 votes

6.0

40 votes

Lucan (TV)

2013 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast Rory Kinnear · Christopher Eccleston · Catherine McCormack · Michael Gambon

Plot The incredible story of a high society murder and the most famous fugitive of all. On 7th November 1974, Sandra Rivett, nanny to the aristocratic Lucan family, was found bludgeoned...

6.0

26 votes

6.0

26 votes

Titanic Town

1998 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Julie Walters · Ciarán Hinds · Nuala O'Neill · James Loughran

Plot Set in Belfast in 1972, the politically naïve Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by...

5.7

54 votes

5.7

54 votes

The Closer You Get

2000 · Movie · 90 min. · Ireland

5.6

130 votes

5.6

130 votes

An Everlasting Piece

2000 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Barry Levinson

Cast Barry McEvoy · Brian F. O'Byrne · Anna Friel · Billy Connolly

Plot Against the turbulent backdrop of Belfast in the 1980s, two fellow barbers -- Colm, a Catholic, and George, a Protestant -- form an unlikely partnership to corner the toupee market...

5.4

120 votes

5.4

120 votes

The Tiger's Tail

2006 · Movie · 103 min. · Ireland

Direction John Boorman

Cast Brendan Gleeson · Kim Cattrall · Sinead Cusack · Ciarán Hinds

Plot Identical twins are separated at birth. One, Liam, becomes a successful though over-stretched property developer in the new godless, greedy Ireland; the other, a homeless bum in Leeds. The have...

5.2

87 votes

5.2

87 votes

Wake Wood

2009 · Movie · 90 min. · Ireland

Direction David Keating

Cast Aidan Gillen · Eva Birthistle · Timothy Spall · Ella Connolly

Plot The rural Irish village of Wake Wood preserves a tradition enabling the dead to be brought back for three days, one year after their death, for a final farewell. But...

5.1

367 votes

5.1

367 votes

An Awfully Big Adventure

1994 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

4.8

254 votes

4.8

254 votes

Talk of Angels

1998 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

4.1

149 votes

4.1

149 votes

Takin' Over the Asylum (TV Miniseries)

1994 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Blair

Cast Ken Stott · Katy Murphy · David Tennant · Ruth McCabe

Plot A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.

Not rated

Not rated

Crossroads of Laredo

1948 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Ed Wood

Cast Ed Wood · Duke Moore · Don Nagel · Ruth McCabe

Plot Tex is a gunslinger who murders a cowboy and steals his money. Lem is an honest man who wants nothing more than to marry Barbara. When Tex marries Barbara and...

Not rated

Not rated

No Tears (TV Miniseries)

2002 · Series · min. · Ireland

Direction Stephen Burke

Cast Brenda Fricker · Maria Doyle Kennedy · Tina Kellegher · Barry Barnes

Plot A drama based on the Irish bloodbank scandal of the 1990s, where it was discovered that women treated with the blood product Anti D in the Seventies had been contaminated...

Not rated

Not rated