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Saltwater

Life in an out-of-season Irish seaside resort is tough enough. But for the Beneventi family, grieving the loss of their mother and struggling to make enough from their fish and chip shop to escape bankruptcy, the future is more of a challange. When Frank, the eldest son, robs the local bookies, esca...

Main Cast:

  • Peter McDonald, Brian Cox, Conor Mullen, Lawrence Kinlan, Brendan Gleeson

Locations:

  • Ireland
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Park

Catherine Irving left her house on Tuesday morning 28th October, 1998, having planned to meet a school friend in a suburban park. The park-keeper, sixty-three year old Adam Duffy, spends the morning telling her stories about his past as they wander about the quiet little park in search of her friend...

Main Cast:

  • Claudia Terry, Des Neelan, Jayne Snow, Pat Laffin, Aidan Walshe, Dereck Young, Suzan Harnett

Locations:

  • Dublin City
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Ordinary Decent Criminal

A classic gangster movie that follows the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary decent criminal - a man who robs from the rich but lives with the poor. He loves his two wives - sisters Christine and Lisa - his wild kids, his gang and, above all, his special way of life. Michael is a suave, sardoni...

Main Cast:

  • Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane

Locations:

  • Kildare, Dublin
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I Could Read the Sky

In Adapted from the photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke, this is a film about music, memory, love, identity, loss and exile. Layer upon layer of images create this visually based account of the life of an immigrant. Dermot Healy plays a labourer who has journeyed from rural West of ...

Main Cast:

  • Dermot Healy, Jake Williams, Stephan Rea, Roy Larkin, Lisa O'Reilly, Rachel Pilkington, Maria Doyle Kennedy

Locations:

  • Ireland
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Nora

In a time when women were expected to conform, Nora, a spirited young woman from Galway, has her world changed when she meets raffish young writer James Joyce. Persuading him to start a future together away from Dublin, the couple travel to Trieste, Italy where their passionate and tempestuous life ...

Main Cast:

  • Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Peter McDonald, Andrew Scott, Kate O'Toole

Locations:

  • Ireland, Italy, Germany
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Flick

Jack Flinter is skating on thin ice. Twenty-something and middle class, he's drifting through life and his girlfriend Alice has had enough. Then he meets Isabelle, a German woman visiting the city and the resulting story takes place over a few days and nights when all Jack's chickens come home to ro...

Main Cast:

  • David Murray, Isabelle Menke, David Wilmot, Mannix Flynn, Catherine Punch, Alan Devlin

Locations:

  • Dublin
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Le Dernier Mot

The internet plays cupid in this adolescent romance between two outsiders: a sensitive young Irish girl and a French boy who suffers from an extreme stammer. Nicholas finds communication difficult while Cynthia is at odds with her parents and her schoolfriends. Their affection develops through the s...

Main Cast:

  • Laura Brennan, Annie Girardot, MacDara Ó Fatharta, Lorent Deutsch

Locations:

  • West Cork, Paris
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Agnes Browne

Based on Brendan O'Carroll's novel The Mammy, and set in 1960's Dublin, this filmtraces the life of Agnes Browne, a Moore Street trader, who is left with seven children following the untimely death of her husband. Despite her straitened circumstances, Agnes has a natural optimism and a fierce determ...

Main Cast:

  • Anjelica Huston, Marion O'Dwyer, Arno Chevrier, Ray Winstone, Tom Jones

Locations:

  • Dublin
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Accelerator

Johnny T is on the run from the paramilitaries in Belfast and goes to Dublin in search of some peace and tranquility. While there, he flirts with Louise, the girlfriend of his old adversary, Whacker, and a scrap ensues, only to be sorted out by the ultimate contest - Johnny T's Belfast gang will tak...

Main Cast:

  • Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Gavin Kielty, Aisling O'Neill, Mark Dunne

Locations:

  • Dublin
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About Adam

About Adam is a romantic comedy set in Dublin. It tells the story of Lucy, who has finally met someone she can love for more than three weeks - Adam. Handsome, charming and full of surprises, he's as primal as his name suggests....

Main Cast:

  • Stuart Townsend, Frances O'Connor, Charlotte Bradley, Kate Hudson

Locations:

  • Dublin
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