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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