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2) Joyride
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A headstrong solicitor's plan to offload her new born baby to her sister is derailed when a vulnerable but opinionated teenager steals their taxi.
3) The guard
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
4) Monster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
Gaeilge
Description
The Great Famine descends on a fisherman's community. Pushed to the brink, he is forced to go on the run for a crime he didn't commit.
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
When Ned Devine dies from shock after winning the lottery, two longtime friends, Michael and Jackie, discover the body and agree Ned would want them to benefit from his good luck. They embark upon an outrageous scheme to claim the ticket -- but first they have to get all the townsfolk to go along with their plan.
6) The field
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The field is a plot of land in rural Ireland, rented and tended by an old man. When the owner sells the land to an American developer, the old man decides to fight the change, regardless of the cost.
7) Black '47
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One man's ruthless pursuit of justice plays out against the darkest chapter of Irish history in this riveting revenge thriller. In 1847, battle-hardened soldier Feeney deserts the British army to return home to Ireland, where he finds his country ravaged beyond recognition by the Great Famine. When he discovers that his mother has died of starvation and his brother has been hanged by the British, something snaps, sending Feeney on a relentless quest...
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
10) The dead
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Gabriel and Gretta Conroy are enjoying a holiday party when Gretta begins to have poignant memories of a former lover who is deceased. Gabriel begins to see his life in an entirely new light with the shattering revelation of Gretta's secret past.
11) Michael Collins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who in the 1920s led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The beautiful widow Susan Vernon has come to the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors about her dalliances circulating through polite society. Whilst there, she decides to secure a husband for herself and her rather reluctant debutante daughter, Frederica.
13) What if
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[English/Spanish subtitled version].
Language
English
Description
A medical school dropout named Wallace who has been repeatedly burned by bad relationships. So Wallace decides to put his love life on hold. It is then that he meets Chantry an animator who lives with her longtime boyfriend Ben. Wallace and Chantry form an instant connection, striking up a close friendship. Still, there is no denying the chemistry between them, leading the pair to wonder, what if the love of your life is actually your best friend?...
14) Ondine
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.
16) Shrooms
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Keen for adventure, a group of American teenagers come to Ireland having been promised the "trip" of a lifetime by their Irish friend, Jake, a mushroom expert. But the vacation takes a horrible turn when the teenagers ignore Jake's warnings and ingest the local shrooms. Before long, the panicked friends are stalked by ghostly creatures. Are these hallucinations-- or gruesome reality?
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Driven by a deep sense of duty and a love for his country, Damien abandons his burgeoning career as a doctor and joins his brother, Teddy in a dangerous and violent fight for freedom. As the Irish freedom fighters bold tactics bring the British to a breaking point, both sides finally agree to a treaty to end the bloodshed. But, despite the apparent victory, civil war erupts and families who fought side by side, find themselves pitted against one another,...
19) Byzantium
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two female vampires wreak havoc on an unsuspecting English seaside community. Introverted Eleanor and the outgoing Clara both carry secrets from deep in their shared past-all 200 years of it. Shacked up in the seedy Byzantium Hotel, they scheme to keep their secrets from unsuspecting new victims in this seductive, stylish new take on the vampire genre.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
The story of Dr. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. But it is now in decline and its inhabitants, a mother, son, and daughter, are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely the family's story is...
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