An Irish immigrant named Eilis Lacy moves to 1950s Brooklyn and falls in love with a local. However, when her past catches up with her, she must decide between her new life and her homeland.
Shadow Dancer is a 2012 movie set in Northern Ireland during the 1990s. The story follows a woman named Collette, who is forced to become an informant for MI5 after her involvement in an IRA plot goes wrong. As she tries to navigate the dangerous world of espionage, Collette must confront her loyalties and make difficult choices that could have deadly consequences.
Set in rural Ireland in the 1930s, Dancing at Lughnasa tells the story of five sisters living in a small village. The sisters face challenges and joys as they navigate their relationships with each other, their absent father, and the changing world around them.
A retired sea captain, Howard, and his daughter, Grace, have a strained relationship. Grace hires Annie as domestic help for Howard, hoping to improve their bond. Unexpectedly, Howard falls in love with Annie and becomes distant from his own daughter. This film explores the complicated dynamics of a guilt-affected father-daughter relationship and showcases a love story between two elderly individuals, demonstrating that it's never too late for a new beginning.
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Ghostwatch is a fake documentary that aired on Halloween night in 1992, exploring a haunted house and the supernatural phenomena that occur. The show quickly becomes controversial as the events portrayed are revealed to be real, leading to panic and fear among the audience.
In Felicia's Journey, a young woman named Felicia embarks on a journey to find her boyfriend, who has gone missing. Along the way, she meets a man named Hilditch, who offers her help and companionship. However, Felicia soon realizes that Hilditch is not who he seems, and she finds herself in a dangerous situation. As the story unfolds, Felicia must confront her fears and make difficult choices in order to survive.
Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it but Briana has other ideas. Over a tumultuous two days a family is forced to confront not just their past but themselves. Because even if you refuse to hear the truth, the truth doesn’t go away. Róisín McBrinn returns to Clean Break (Favour) to direct this powerful story of family and forgiveness by Deborah Bruce (The House They Grew Up In). A co-production from National Theatre and Clean Break.
Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Shakespeare’s masterpiece of the turbulence of war and the arts of peace tells the romantic story of Henry’s campaign to recapture the English possessions in France. But the ambitions of this charismatic king are challenged by a host of vivid characters caught up in the real horrors of war. Henry V, which opened the new Globe with the words ‘O for a muse of fire’, celebrates the power of language to summon into life courts, pubs, ships and battlefields within the ‘wooden O’ - and beyond.
As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Anton is about to lose the two most important women in his life but it takes the story of the king's son to make him face his fate.
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
The Ballroom of Romance is a romantic drama that takes place in the ballroom dancing scene of Ireland. It follows the story of a woman who becomes entangled in a passionate love affair while navigating the complexities of her own life.
In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags.
A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award winning company.' Synge’s great comic masterpiece tells the story of Christy Mahon, who stumbles into a public house in County Mayo claiming he has killed his father and so capturing the romantic attention of the daughter of the house, Pegeen Mike. Performed at Donmar Warehouse in London's Covent Garden by the Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland.
When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home he discovers his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approaching, he is forced to place his trust in the small community's lone retired police officer, Labhaoise, to investigate. As the search takes an unexpected turn, some uncomfortable truths are revealed. Meanwhile the storm looms ever closer.
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.