Two grieving women – Ria, a Dublin mom whose husband discloses he’s in love with a woman already pregnant, and Marilyn, a Connecticut Yankee who’s son has died – swap houses for a couple months. Marilyn finds solace in Ria’s garden and becomes friends with Colm, a local with a restaurant and his own demons. Ria gets a job cooking, has a date or two, and gradually comes out of her shell. Meanwhile
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what’s left on a horse race
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father’s valet to seduce her
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals
With dreams of becoming a successful entrepreneur just like his beloved Richard Branson, Lemon bids farewell to his hometown of Leeds and heads for the capital. When he becomes an overnight billionaire, it seems everything is going his way, but it’s not long before he discovers that life can be just as cruel as it is kind
A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin
Irish Film
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Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer’s crow, he leaves the farm in disgrace and runs off to become a rock ‘n’ roll singer. But in his absence, a sinister, sunshine-hating owl prepares to take over
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom’s day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife