Biography: Donal McCann |
Widely regarded as one the greatest Irish actors to grace the stage and screen in the 20th century, Donal McCann's success hardly seems like a fluke. He was born into a theatrical family, his father was a playwright, as well as holding the position of... more
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Cast: Sinéad Cusack Pierce Brosnan
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 106min
Pierce Brosnan produced and co-stars in this Irish family drama, directed by Eugene Brady and set on the island of Inis Dara. Since farmer Tony Egan (Donal McCann) has had no contact with his sister over two decades, he's startled to find she married...
Cast: Bernardo Bertolucci Jeremy Irons Jean Marais Liv Tyler
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Romance Coming-of-Age
Length: 118min
This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends...
Cast: Neil Jordan Beverly D'Angelo Harvey Weinstein Bob Weinstein
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 97min
Neil Jordan's lyrical Irish romance takes place in the small seaside town of Bray (near Dublin) and concerns two teenage friends, Jimmy (Niall Byrne) and Rose (Lorraine Pilkington). They spend their days roaming the cobblestone streets and waterlogged...
Cast: Ciarán Hinds
Tags: Romance Drama Period Film Romantic Drama
Length: 88min
This 19th century period drama set in Northern Ireland tells the story of Sarah (Saskia Reeves), a young woman born into poor circumstances in a devoutly Presbyterian family. Sarah and her mother Martha (Brenda Bruce) are hired to work as housekeepers...
Tags: Marriage Drama Period Film Drama Psychological Drama
Length: 82min
The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James Joyce's -Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece by marriage of turn-of-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan (Helena Carroll) and...
Behind the Screen: Stories of Cinema - John Huston and the Dubliners (1987)
Cast: John Huston Anjelica Huston
Tags: Film, TV & Radio
Length: 59min
The legendary filmmaker John Huston is the focus of this documentary as he directs his last film The Dead. Taken from a story by James Joyce, Huston insist his actors are well-prepared while allowing for active participation from the performers....
Length: 79min
In this thoughtful black-and-white drama, the story of a priest living and working on Clare Island in County Mayo, Ireland is shown. Except for his vocation, he is a fairly normal fellow, so when a lovely woman is fished out of the sea and delivered...
Cast: Helen Mirren David Puttnam
Tags: Romantic Drama Political Drama Drama
Length: 104min
In the opening scenes of this politically-oriented drama, a killer enters the home of a policeman and in a shocking sequence murders him in cold blood -- an act that becomes the key to the rest of this film about the conflict between politics and...
Cast: Gabriel Byrne
Tags: Gothic Film Romance Drama
Length: 90min
William Masters (Gabriel Byrne), an aloof and analytical young man studying the life of Sir Isaac Newton, takes up residence in a cottage on a family estate and then becomes involved with the family's own troubles. Masters is secretly enamored of the...
Cast: Cyril Cusack
Tags: Drama
Length: 65min
Impoverished Irish moonshiners are the focus of this gritty, bleak drama, allegedly the first motion picture ever shot in Gaelic. Director Bob Quinn reportedly created the work in response to what he perceived as cultural myths propagated by John...
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