The career or provacative Irish author Edna O’Brien is told in Blue Road – The Edna O’Brien Story. Through her books such as The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and A Pagan Place, Edna O’Brien’s writing was often considered obsene or indecent. Edna also shared a tumultuous marriage to the older writer Ernest Gébler, who…
Belfast hoodlums form an Irish Gaelic rap group in Kneecap. Liam Óg “Mo Chara” Ó Hannaidh and Naoise “Móglaí Bap” Ó Cairealláin are two Belfast drug dealers, who insist on speaking the Irish language as taught to them by Naoise’s Irish Republican father Arlo (Michael Fassbender). While Liam is detained and questioned by Detective Ellis…
An American woman finds herself trapped in supernatural woods in the Irish countryside in The Watchers. Mina (Dakota Fanning) is an American woman living in Ireland, plagued by guilt over the accidental death of her mother she was responsible for as a child. Mina is tasked by her boss at the pet shop she works…
A London couple moves to a rural Irish village and learns that malevolent goblins occupy the woods behind their garden in Unwelcome. After surviving an attack by thugs in their London apartment, pregnant Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and her husband Jamie (Douglas Booth) move to a rural Irish village, where Jamie has inherited the house of…
A neglected girl stays with foster parents in rural Ireland throughout the summer of 1981 in The Quiet Girl. Cáit (Catherine Clinch) is a soft-spoken nine-year-old girl who is neglected in her impoverished household by her mom (Kate Nic Chonaonaigh) and dad (Michael Patric). Cáit is sent away to stay with cousin Eibhlín Cinnsealach (Carrie…
Two lifelong friends inexplicably begin feuding in The Banshees of Inisherin. In 1923, on the island of Inisherin, just off Ireland’s west coast, Pádraic (Collin Farrell) visits the home of his best friend Colm (Brendan Gleeson) for their daily trip to the pub. However, Pádraic is shocked to find Colm ignoring him and is later…
Two twin siblings living in a haunted manor seem destined to continue the family curse in The Lodgers. Rachel (Charlotte Vega) and Edward (Bill Milner) are 18 year old twin sibling living alone in their decrepit family mansion. The two are forced to abide by rules from something that lives in the house’s cellar, though Rachel…
The relationship between a Dublin mattress salesman and his dedicated marketing guru is explored in Mattress Men. Michael Flynn is a mattress salesman in Dublin, who has appeared in a number of marketing videos under the persona of Mattress Mick. These videos are the brainchild of Mick’s part time employee Paul Kelly, who is desperately in…
The hunger strike of Irish Republican Bobby Sands is recounted in Bobby Sands: 66 Days. By 1981, the troubles in Northern Ireland have been going on for more than two decades. Imprisoned IRA members, such as Bobby Sands, demanded to be considered political prisoners, rather than common criminals. Inspired by ancient Gaelic laws, Sands and…
From writer/director John Carney (Once) comes this coming of age story set within the new wave/new romantic era of the mid-1980s. Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is a 15-year old teenager living in 1985 Dublin. When his family sends him to the Synge Street Christian Brothers School, Conor immediately finds himself targeted by bullies and the strict headmaster….
