Direction: Pat O'Connor

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Pat O'Connor. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Cal

1984 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat O'Connor

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

Plot 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...

6.3

214 votes

6.3

214 votes

Sweet November

2001 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Keanu Reeves · Charlize Theron · Jason Isaacs · Greg Germann

Plot A self-absorbed, extremely driven advertising executive, Nelson Moss (Reeves), meets Sara Deever (Theron) who is his exact opposite. Through her unconventional life she cares for all, humans and animals alike....

5.9

20K votes

5.9

20K votes

A Month in the Country

1987 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Colin Firth · Kenneth Branagh · Natasha Richardson · Patrick Malahide

Plot Five centuries ago a mural was created in a country church in the north of England and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be...

5.9

214 votes

5.9

214 votes

Dancing at Lughnasa

1998 · Movie · 95 min. · Ireland

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Meryl Streep · Michael Gambon · Catherine McCormack · Kathy Burke

Plot Ireland. In the turbulent times of 1936, the five unmarried Mundy sisters live in a modest croft at the heart of a rugged farm outside Ballybeg, a small town in...

5.8

495 votes

5.8

495 votes

Circle of Friends

1994 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Chris O'Donnell · Minnie Driver · Saffron Burrows · Aidan Gillen

Plot Set in 1950s Ireland. Bernadette "Benny" Hogan has two close friends, Eve Malone, an orphan raised by nuns, and beautiful Nan Mahon. The three girls grow up in the small...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Inventing the Abbotts

1997 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Liv Tyler · Joaquin Phoenix · Billy Crudup · Jennifer Connelly

Plot In the placid, potboiler-perfect 1950s hamlet of Haley, Illinois, life revolves around the wealthy and powerful Abbott family, which boasts three strapping brunette daughters in addition to its other assets....

5.8

6K votes

5.8

6K votes

Fools of Fortune

1990 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

5.7

26 votes

5.7

26 votes

Private Peaceful

2012 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Richard Griffiths · Jack O'Connell · Frances de la Tour · George MacKay

Plot A classic rites of passage story of two brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the...

5.4

167 votes

5.4

167 votes

The January Man

1989 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Kevin Kline · Susan Sarandon · Harvey Keitel · Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Plot Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that...

5.2

2K votes

5.2

2K votes

Stars and Bars

1988 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Harry Dean Stanton · Kent Broadhurst · Maury Chaykin

Plot All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally...

4.6

170 votes

4.6

170 votes

The Ballroom of Romance (TV)

1982 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Brenda Fricker · John Kavanagh · Mick Lally · Brid Brennan

Plot A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

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Zelda (TV)

1993 · Movie · min. · Canada

Direction Pat O'Connor

Cast Natasha Richardson · Timothy Hutton

Plot Famous 1920s modernist US writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his eccentric Flapper socialite wife Zelda Sayre's relationship began quite passionately, but he slowly fell into alcoholism and she was eventually...

Not rated

Not rated