Screenplay: Bernard MacLaverty
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bernard MacLaverty. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Elephant (TV)
1989 · Movie · 40 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alan Clarke
Cast Gary Walker · Bill Hamilton · Michael Foyle · Danny Small
Plot A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
6.7
524 votes
6.7
524 votes
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
Bye-Child (S)
2003 · Movie · 15 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bernard MacLaverty
Cast Susan Lynch · Dick Holland · Brian Devlin · Patrick Fitzsymons
Plot Bye-Child is Bernard MacLaverty's film version of Seamus Heaney's poem of the same title. It concerns the story of a male child who is secretly kept in a henhouse at...
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Hostages (TV)
1992 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction David Wheatley
Cast Kathy Bates · Colin Firth · Ciarán Hinds · Natasha Richardson
Plot Fictionalized account of British, Irish, and American hostages taken in Lebanon in late 1980's. Dark and brutal story of Terry Anderson and his fellow hostages and how their families held...
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Lamb
1985 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Colin Gregg
Cast Liam Neeson · Harry Towb · Hugh O'Conor · Frances Tomelty
Plot "Lamb" focuses on the relationship between Brother Michael Lamb (Liam Neeson), a teacher in a Roman Catholic-run institution for troubled boys in Ireland, and 10-year-old Owen Kane (Hugh O'Conor), the...
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