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
Direction Aileen Ritchie
Cast Ian Hart · Sean McGinley · Niamh Cusack · Ewan Stewart
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
Direction Mike Newell
Cast Hugh Grant · Alan Rickman · Georgina Cates · Alun Armstrong
4.8
254 votes
4.8
254 votes
Talk of Angels
1998 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Nick Hamm
Cast Polly Walker · Frances McDormand · Vincent Pérez · Franco Nero
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.
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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...
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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...
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