John Kavanagh

The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998)

Cast: Ben Kingsley John Schlesinger Joanna Lumley Campbell Scott Richard Rodney Bennett   

Tags: Black Comedy Musical 

Length: 120min

John Schlesinger directed this razor-sharp retelling of the familiar Demon Barber legend, previously a Victorian penny-dreadful by Christopher Bond (The Story of Pearls), a stage play by George Dibdin-Pitt, a Tod Slaughter film (the 1936 Sweeney Todd,...

Find Videos

The Informant (1997)

Cast: Nicholas Meyer Jim McBride Timothy Dalton Cary Elwes Affonso Beato   

Tags: Political Drama Drama Family Drama 

Length: 105min

This made-for-cable drama concerns political unrest and personal crises set against the battle for a free Ireland in Belfast in 1983. Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy) is a member of the Irish Republican Army who, after serving a stretch in prison, is...

Find Videos

Joyriders (1989)

Cast: Billie Whitelaw   

Length: 94min

Mary (Patricia Kerrigan) is a battered wife with two small children, living in a grim section of Dublin. Unable to stand the abuse any longer, she runs away from home, leaving her kids behind. Without money or a place to stay, she's befriended by a...

Find Videos

The Fantasist (1986)

Cast: Timothy Bottoms   

Tags: Crime Thriller 

Length: 98min

In this suspenseful thriller, some unknown man out there has a warped mind, a warped view of sex, and an urge to kill in a very specific way. An innocent yet seductive country woman named Patricia Telling (Moira Harris) moves into a new apartment...

Find Videos

Cal (1984)

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...

Find Videos

The Country Girls (1983)

Cast: Sam Neill   

Tags: Coming-of-Age Comedy Drama 

Length: 100min

The 1950s in Ireland comes alive in the transformation of two "country girls" from Irish schoolchildren in a strict convent to teenagers needing to get away from their families. The teens escape to the big city, and the contrast to their past is...

Find Videos