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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

Counsel poster
Movie

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

Counsel

Apr 2019

On Expenses poster
Movie

Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.

On Expenses

Feb 2010

Elephant poster
Movie

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

Elephant

May 1993

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

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

A Breed of Heroes poster
Movie

In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.

A Breed of Heroes

Sep 1994

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

The Magic Box poster
Movie

A special live broadcast on both BBC and UTV, hosted by Eamonn Holmes, celebrating the best of Northern Ireland television over the past 60 years and marking the occasion of digital switchover.

The Magic Box

Oct 2012

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

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

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 Disappearance of Captain Nairac poster
Movie

May 1977. Undercover British army Captain Robert Nairac is abducted and killed by the IRA - his body secretly buried. Decades on, a former enemy searches for his remains.

The Disappearance of Captain Nairac

Nov 2025

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

A Matter of Choice for Billy poster
Movie

Belfast 1978: the Martin family, a year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son, Billy, and daughter, Lorna, are in charge of their younger sisters, Ann and Maureen. Second in the trilogy.

A Matter of Choice for Billy

May 1983

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

As the Beast Sleeps poster
Movie

Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.

As the Beast Sleeps

Feb 2002

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

Brendan Smyth:  Betrayal of Trust poster
Movie

The true story of the notorious paedophile priest Brendan Smyth, and how one family in Belfast, aided by journalist Chris Moore, uncovered the true extent of the clerical abuse scandal.

Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust

Mar 2011

Mourning Glory poster
Movie

Lost soul Dermot is newly widowed and turns to an unusual pastime to process his pain. But his gatecrashing of every wake he can across rural county Antrim doesn’t go unnoticed. The new funeral director and her young son catch him in the act but then make him an offer he surely can’t refuse.

Mourning Glory

Nov 2025

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