Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, legendary Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord’s soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule
A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch
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Jerry McGill slipped from a rock’n’roll career into a life of crime, robbing banks and running from the FBI while touring with legends of country music and appearing in movies. After three jail sentences (under two different names), aged 70 and suffering from terminal cancer, he announced his return to recording. We followed a heavily armed McGill and his fiance Joyce through four states as he stole whatever’s not nailed down and charmed his way ..
Two friends spend their time consumed in the forgotten moments of the everyday that underpin touristic adventure. It is in these moments that we see reflected the flat and banal nature of real life
A retired thief reforms a gang for one final heist, everything seems to be going smoothly until complications start to arise
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In “The Majesty of the Law,” a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man’s principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. “One Minute’s Wait” is about an little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third ..
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git’s girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He’s now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It’s a tougher assignment than it seems: Git’s ..
The Irish Film Database is our attempt at cataloguing the many weird, wonderful, and even godawful Irish films produced in the 120 years since the Auguste and Louis Lumière first premièred the art of moving pictures. We are equal opportunity, so we feature films from north and south of the border, and any film that ..
Filmmaker Gabriel Bellman goes on the road with an Irish circus that’s been in existence for more than 200 years, capturing the magic and fantasy of David Duffy’s one-ring traveling show, which has been run by seven generations of the family. With an eye toward the lifestyle and traditions of the entertainers, Bellman examines links between the circus’s longtime customs and the lives of today’s performance artists
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In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril