Biography: Fiona Shaw |
Thin-lipped and statuesque Irish actress Fiona Shaw frequently takes the lead on the theatrical stage but steers her talents toward supporting roles in feature films. Born in County Cork, she studied philosophy before moving on to the Royal Academy of... more
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Cast: Ben Kingsley Bernardo Bertolucci
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy of Errors Comedy Romance
Length: 107min
A beautiful princess (Mira Sorvino) whose throne is threatened falls in love at first sight with the rightful heir to the throne, a lonely young man named Agis (Jay Rodan), in Clare Peploe's omantic comedy Triumph of Love. The film was adapted from...
Cast: Maggie Smith Michael Gambon Jane Birkin
Tags: Drama Psychological Drama Period Film Romantic Drama
Length: 103min
Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In 1920, Ireland is in the midst of a political upheaval, as upper class Anglo-Irish Protestants are driven from the country by the nation's...
Cast: Kevin Smith Juliette Lewis
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Tragi-comedy
Length: 111min
A woman faced with a tragedy discovers the man she loved was not all she imagined him to be in this omantic comedy-drama. Grey (Jennifer Garner) was a beautiful woman who found the man of her dreams in Grady Douglas, and was looking forward to...
Tags: Romance Drama Period Film Romantic Drama
Length: 102min
Adapted from what is arguably Jane Austen's most mature and subtlest novel, -Persuasion is somewhat more nuanced and restrained than the more frequently adapted -Emma and -Pride and Prejudice. The protagonist, Anne (Amanda Root), is, by the...
Tags: Buddy Film Drama Crime Urban Drama Urban Comedy Stoner Comedy
Length: 105min
Screenwriter Hanif Kureishi marked his directorial debut in this slice-of-life chronicle about a collection of drug-dealing slackers in London. Centering on a band of delinquents calling themselves "the posse," the group is led by an ambitious male...
Cast: Neil Jordan
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Family Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 115min
Neil Jordan directed this adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a boy's struggles with violence and mental illness. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a young boy growing up in Dublin in the early 1960s, where his life is dominated by his active...
Cast: Alec McCowen
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 97min
Written by British TV screenwriter, Malcolm McKay, this is the second of three movies that revolve around the concept of forgiveness. In this comedy, a dancer becomes pregnant. Discovering that her live-in boyfriend has been cheating on her, she kicks...
Cast: Jim Sheridan Daniel Day-Lewis Fiona Shaw Brenda Fricker Elmer Bernstein
Tags: Medical Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 103min
An alternative to the general run of "triumph over the odds" iopics, My Left Foot is the true story of Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown. Paralyzed from birth, Brown (played by Hugh O'Conor as child and Daniel Day-Lewis as an adult) is...
Cast: Dennis Quaid Kathleen Turner Herbert Ross Tom Arnold
Tags: Comedy Action Spy Film Action Comedy
Length: 89min
Nick and Nora Charles are updated to a touchy-feely couple of the 1990s who take a break from the action to raise their eleven-month-old child. Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid star as Jane and Jeff Blue, two CIA super-agents who have abandoned the...
Tags: British Empire Film Drama Adventure Adventure Drama
Length: 140min
Director Bob Rafelson fulfilled a lifelong dream when he finally received backing to complete Mountains of the Moon. The film recreates the exploratory adventures of 19th century visionaries Sir Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Henning Speke...
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