Ireland movies

Human Traffic (1999)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Simm, John | Pilkington, Lorraine | Parkes, Shaun | Dyer, Danny | Reynolds, Nicola | Davies, Dean | Albert, Peter | Anderson, Jan | Beesley, Terence | Blackburn, Sarah | Bowen, Anne | Bowens, Neil | Bramhill, Peter | Brand, Jo | Brooks, Stephanie
Directors: Kerrigan, Justin
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The Cardiff club scene in the 90’s: five best friends deal with their relationships and their personal demons during a weekend. Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he’s impotent. Lulu, Jip’s mate, doesn’t find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great hip-hop d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy. The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behavior. Starting Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy-induced fun through a booze-laden come-down early Saturday morning followed by the weekend’s aftermath. It’s breakthrough time for at least three of them.

Once (2006)

Monday, February 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: Ireland
Actors: Foley, Alaistair | Hansard, Glen | Haugh, Senan | Healy, Darren | Hendrick, Gerard | Hodnett, Bill | McGrath, Pat | Miller, Sean | Minogue, Geoff | Owski, Wiltold | Praghosa | Short, Pete | Tiotka, Krzysztos | Walsh, Hugh | Whyte, Mal
Directors: Carney, John
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An (unnamed) Guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer-songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad’s Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An (unnamed) Girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets Girl, and they get to know each other as the Girl helps the Guy to put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the Guy and the Girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs. Written by Charles Delacroix

Tailor of Panama, The (2001)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Rush, Geoffrey | Gleeson, Brendan | Curtis, Jamie Lee | McCormack, Catherine |
Directors: Boorman, John
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

Shrooms (2006)

Sunday, December 9th, 2007
Genres: Horror
Countries: Ireland
Actors: Haun, Lindsey | Huston, Jack | Kasch, Max | Hazen, Maya | Greczyn, Alice | Wycherley, Don | McGinley, Sean | Hoffman, Robert
Directors: Breathnach, Paddy
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Having been promised the ‘trip’ of a lifetime by their Irish friend and mushroom expert Jake, a group of American teenagers arrives in Ireland, keen for adventure. Despite Jake’s warnings about the ’shrooms they shouldn’t eat, things start to go horribly wrong and the teenagers suffer horrific visions. The panicked friends are attacked by ghostly creatures, never sure whether they are experiencing gruesome reality or startling hallucinations. As the group is bloodily whittled down to one, it is soon clear that, whether or not these apparitions are real, the carnage they leave behind certainly is.

Tiger’s Tail, The (2006)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Ireland
Actors: Gleeson, Brendan | Cattrall, Kim | Hinds, Ciarán | Cusack, Sinéad | McGinley, Sean | Conway, Denis | FitzGerald, Michael | Flannery, Conor | Gleeson, Briain | Herlihy, David | Kavanagh, John | Markey, Sean | Ball, Angeline | Belton, Cathy | McCabe, Ruth
Directors: Boorman, John
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After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

Gangster No. 1 (2000)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK
Actors: McDowell, Malcolm | Thewlis, David | Bettany, Paul | Burrows, Saffron | Cranham, Kenneth | Foreman, Jamie | Marsan, Eddie | Lincoln, Andrew | Allen, Doug | Adoti, Razaaq | Clerkin, Cavan | Kennedy, David | Harris, Johnny | Saunders, Anton | McSweeney, Alex
Directors: McGuigan, Paul
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A middle-aged crime boss (Malcolm McDowell) smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood (played by Paul Bettany) in Swinging 60’s London, he seemed to ape his mod boss Freddie Mays (David Thewlis), and do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie’s supremacy, and especially his tall bird (Saffron Burrows). The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1.

Ugly Duckling and Me!, The (2006)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Ireland | UK
Actors: Jones, Morgan | Tylack, Paul | Larney, Kim | Olson, Anna | Hetzler, Gary | Davis, Danna | Bergin, Barbara | Read, Michelle | Cahill, Hilary | Kavanagh, Hillary | Rabbitt, Laurann | Murray, Aoife | Lloyd, Liz | Mythen, Aileen | Gregg, Justin
Directors: Hegner, Michael
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Bloody Sunday (2002)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Nesbitt, James | Gildea, Allan | Crossan, Gerard | Moulds, Mary | McCallion, Carmel | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Farrell, Nicholas | Villiers, Christopher | Hewitt, James | Duddy, Declan | Frazer, Edel | Lohan, Lindsay | Edwards, Mike | Hammond, Gerry | Stammers, Jason
Directors: Greengrass, Paul
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Documentary-style drama showing the events that lead up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Reynolds, Burt | DeLuise, Dom | Barsi, Judith | Moore, Melba | Gilley, Daryl | Devine, Candy | Reilly, Charles Nelson | Tayback, Vic | Fuller, Rob | Carey, Earleen | Manahan, Anna | Pegram, Nigel | Anderson, Loni | Page, Ken | Quigley, Godfrey
Directors: Bluth, Don
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When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what’s waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.

Evelyn (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Vavasseur, Sophie | Beagan, Niall | McDonagh, Hugh | Brosnan, Pierce | Devlin, Mairead | Kelly, Frank | Mullan, Claire | Lucchesi, Alvaro | Keogh, Garrett | O'Suilleabhain, Daithi | Irvine, Andrea | Quinn, Marian | Ardiff, Karen | Margulies, Julianna | Hogan, Bosco
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.