Country of Origin: Ireland
Certification15
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A Belfast Story explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without winners, just victims. One man, weary of doing right, must find those from the past violence who refuse to go quietly into the night. &n find out more...
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Dublin 1963; Alfie Byrne is a bright and cheery bus conducter, regaling his passengers with impassioned recitals of Oscar Wilde's poetry. Unfortunately, like the great man himself, Alfie is a desperately sad and frightened homosexual, torn between the love of a colleague and the desire to keep his sexuality a secret and it is only when Alfie is inspired to put on a production of Salome that he is presented with the opportunity to find some true happiness in his life. 'A Man Of No Importance' is
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Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hapless, desperate Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. The difference today is that the pair - already near rock bottom - have finally run out of luck, credit and friends. Adam and Paul, against all the odds, is a very effective comedy, but we are occasionally jolted back into the harsh reality of the lads' situation by their conscienceless actions. This is a movie about a couple of terminal losers so if y
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Superb apocalyptic tale of a young sax player, who witnesses a brutal, sectarian, terrorist bombing in a dancehall and becomes steadily more involved in trying to find the killers, pursuing them through the towns and countryside of Armagh. "Ostensibly a naturalistic thriller, but reaching beyond to hyper-realism and surrealism, Angel carries subtle echoes of Buñuel and early Scorsese films but remains uniquely true to its time and place - contemporary Ireland."
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Taken from the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Frank McCourt, the story revolves around Frank's early childhood in Limerick in the 1930s. A world of intense poverty and social deprivation, where only the spirit of family, community and laughter in the face of adversity, enable the people to keep their soul and sanity intact.
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Certification18
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Set during the Balkan war of the 1990s, and based on true events, this tells the story of Samira, a young woman from Sarajevo whose life is shattered the day a young soldier walks into her apartment and tells her to pack her things. Rounded up with the other women from the village and imprisoned in a warehouse in a remote region of Bosnia, Samira’s nightmare spirals when she is chosen to ‘entertain’ the soldiers, but it is this horror that also provides her with a final act of courage. Juanita W
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Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, who is sent on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. There Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young lad which forces a self-examination that proves revealing but traumatic.
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An all Irish production that stars the impish Samantha Mumba as Jessica, a school girl whose best friend, Nathan, secretly harbours romantic intentions towards her. When an attempt to express his true feelings fails Nathan hits the bottle and winds up hanging himself - as you do - but luckily for Nathan his mother finds an ancient book on voodoo in their local church - as you do - and sets about resurrecting her love-struck son. Unfortunately for Nathan and rest of the sleepy Irish community he
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Certification12
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Good quality weepie about a young woman whose determination to make something of her life tears her away from the home and family she loves - only for fate (or circumstance) to throw her back into its familiar arms right at the wrong time. A sweet love story that hits all the right cues. A fine Sunday afternoon drama.
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Certification15
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Certification15
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Father James is the local clergyman of a remote rural Irish parish and an inately good man. During confession one Sunday, an unseen local informs Father James of his plan of killing him as a way of gaining retribution for abuse he suffered as a young boy at the hands of another Catholic priest. Left with only seven days to make his peace, James visits those within his community while trying to track down his potential killer. Through his exchanges with the uniformally hostile and secular loca find out more...
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Gentle romantic comedy with rising star Minnie Driver as an innocent country girl let loose in the big city of Dublin. Besotted with the college heart-throb, she's ecstatic when he notices her but aghast when she has to choose between him and her virginity! Funny, sad, but ultimately heartwarming.
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An award-winning, exhilaratingly funny coming-of-age film, Cowboys And Angels tells the witty story of two Irish lads - one straight and one gay - from their youthful career ambitions to romance and entanglements with the law. Shane is a shy civil servant striking out on his own; Vincent is a gay fashion design student looking for a roommate. When they cross paths, a friendship begins with Vincent helping pull Shane from his shell and sending him on the way to fabulousness! Of course it isn't al
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CertificationPG
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A magical adaptation of Brian Friel's stage play, in which a crackled radio broadcast can be a special moment, which conjures up ghosts of pagan gods and a heartbreaking sense of home and family. Set in County Donegal, with Meryl Streep as the God-fearing leader of the Mundy sisters, all single and struggling against the '30s depression. Catherine McCormack and British treasure Kathy Burke turn in particularly impressive performances as Streep's siblings in a tale of hardship, hope and lots of O
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The winsome Saskia Reeves plays a put-upon servant girl, abused by her masters, and scorned by her bigoted Presbyterian community for her pregnancy. A starkly real portrayal of life at the time, the mood of the film benefits hugely from the backdrop of the rolling Irish coastline. Enchanting.
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Pig and Runt have been friends since the day they were conceived, so strong is their bond, both have curious and reckless natures, their exploits rarely ending in something other than destruction. Though their world is an intensely insular one it is only as they approach adult hood that they begin to become a danger to themselves, as Pig, realising that his grip on Runt is slipping, becomes increasingly unhinged. Disco Pigs is a gripping and hard edged drama, and though there is much humour it i
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Desmond Doyle is a devoted father to his three children and when they are abandoned by his wife the man struggles to take care of the wee ones whilst still holding down his job. The Irish authorities and in particular the Catholic church have different ideas however, and when the children are removed from Doyle an epic and historic battle for custody unfolds. Evelyn is an undeniably sentimental story, but it is delivered with charm, style and indeed passion, all the more moving and uplifting for
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