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  • The Company of Wolves

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    An adaptation of Angela Carter’s fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?

  • The Fantasist

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    A young Dublin woman is stalked by a telephone charmer who poses victims nude and then stabs them.

  • The Commitments

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    Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding,…

  • Into the West

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    Accused of a crime they didn’t commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

  • The Railway Station Man

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    Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen son, Jack (Frank MacCusker), then move to a tiny town and start life anew. There, Helen meets a mysterious American man named Roger Hawthorne (Donald Sutherland), who is in the area…

  • In the Name of the Father

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    A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.

  • The Secret of Roan Inish

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    Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so…

  • Some Mother’s Son

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    Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives…

  • Michael Collins

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    Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

  • Wilde

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    The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas.

  • Dancing at Lughnasa

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    Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

  • The General

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    The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

  • Waking Ned

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    When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.

  • Angela’s Ashes

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    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child’s death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

  • The Recruiter

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    A young Irish recruitment agent must navigate the challenges of his job and the temptation of emigration as he tries to decide whether to stay in Ireland or start a new life abroad.

  • Bloody Sunday

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    The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

  • The Magdalene Sisters

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    Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

  • Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain

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    Two American tourists on a romantic camping trip are brutally murdered. A few days later, during the ancient festival of Samhain, a group of American university students moves into a beautiful cottage, surrounded by a lush forest and a majestic lake They are here to learn about the rituals of the ancient Druids and other…

  • Laws of Attraction

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    Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.

  • Breakfast on Pluto

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    In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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    In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in…