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Cherrybomb poster
Movie

Teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can't get off the wild ride they've set in motion.

Cherrybomb

Feb 2009

Middletown poster
Movie

Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new preacher. The town is full of drinkers and gamblers, including Jim and Caroline, his younger brother and sister-in-law. Gabriel believes he must save the townspeople, especially Jim and Caroline and their unborn child. In the battle to save their souls, some amazing revelations take place.

Middletown

Mar 2007

Elephant poster
Movie

A chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Elephant

May 1993

Love Lies Bleeding poster
Movie

Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole and uses the time to search for his girlfriend Leyla’s killer. He finds only lies and intrigue surrounding her death, and he begins to realize that his lover was not what she seemed.

Love Lies Bleeding

Jun 1993

Holy Cross poster
Movie

Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.

Holy Cross

Oct 2003

A Song for Jenny poster
Movie

A Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station. Starring Emily Watson as Julie, A Song For Jenny details the dramatic and profound impact of violence on one woman and a family.

A Song for Jenny

Jul 2015

Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend poster
Movie

Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.

Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend

Jan 2011

Scout poster
Movie

Palmer has been United's scout for many generations of young footballers, sending across the water the best Irish talent regardless of background. As six more hopefuls gather at his isolated cottage for a weekend trial, their dreams of following George Best's path from Belfast to Old Trafford are shattered by the violent return of a past graduate.

Scout

Sep 1987

The Rockingham Shoot poster
Movie

Rigid nationalist Reilly's frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.

The Rockingham Shoot

Sep 1987

Occupation poster
Movie

Three ex-servicemen return to Basra, each for a different reason.

Occupation

Jun 2009

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw poster
Movie

Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne - an emigrant Irishman with the outsider's ability to observe, needle and puncture.

My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw

Mar 2018

Lorna poster
Movie

In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.

Lorna

Jun 1987

Counsel poster
Movie

An alpha female barrister complicates her professional and personal life when she falls for a client.

Counsel

Apr 2019

Monkeys poster
Movie

The story of John DeLorean's life, involvement in drug trafficking and eventual arrest. Based on the book 'The DeLorean Tapes' by Ivan Fallon.

Monkeys

Feb 1989

A Coming to Terms for Billy poster
Movie

Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy.

A Coming to Terms for Billy

Feb 1984

The Hanging Gale poster
Movie

In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.

The Hanging Gale

Jan 1995

Life After Life poster
Movie

Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.

Life After Life

Apr 1995

Helpless poster
Movie

Obsessed Cillian watches Grace and Joe. Something terrible is happening upstairs. But when Cillian faces his fears to save Grace, will he be the hero or the one needing to be saved?

Helpless

Nov 2025

The Nightwatch poster
Movie

Dark and brooding thriller. A group of mercenaries are assembled in Amsterdam by a British intelligence officer. Believing they are awaiting the details of a new mission, they decide to spend their free time in the sleazy bars and brothels. Over the course of the weekend it gradually becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Unknown to them their paths have all crossed before, and the deceit and violence of the past is about to become their own downfall.

The Nightwatch

Nov 1989

Scapegoat poster
Movie

This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but insane of the brutal homicide of a young woman from a very prominent family. Told in superb period detail, Scapegoat contains a combustible mix of sex, class, bogus respectability and dark domestic secrets

Scapegoat

Oct 2009

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