LGBTQ+

Goldfish Memory (2003)

A group of Dublin friends experience short-term relationships involving everything from straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships.

Handsome Devil (2016)

After being forced to share a bedroom at their Irish boarding school, a loner and a star athlete form a close friendship.

Albert Nobbs (2011)

A woman poses as a man so she can work as a butler in 19th-century Dublin’s most elegant hotel; but becomes attracted to a handsome man..

Dating Amber (2020)

A pair of school mates enter into a phony straight relationship to conceal their sexual identities in mid-1990’s conservative Dublin suburbia.

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

Starring Cillian Murphy, a young trans woman leaves her Irish town for 1970s London, to look for her mother and to seek acceptance.

The Blackwater Lightship (2004)

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister, mother, and grandmother.

A Man Of No Importance (1994)

A bachelor bus conductor in 1963 Dublin attempts to stage Oscar Wilde’s play, Salome, using his regular bus passengers as the actors.

The Crying Game (1992)

A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA in Northern Ireland befriends his captor, who becomes drawn into the soldier’s London underworld.

Wilde (1997)

Irish-born poet, novelist and playwright Oscar Wilde attempts to accept his homosexuality and marriage, fatherhood and responsibility.

Borstal Boy (2000)

Irish teenage political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory school) by a liberal warden.

The Queen of Ireland (2015)

Follows Irish drag queen Rory O’Neill, aka Panti Bliss; and the role he played in Ireland’s referendum to approve same-sex marriage equality.

Rialto (2020)

The death of his father and redundancy leads a middle-aged married man to an infatuation with a teen male sex worker.

The Price of Desire (2015)

Portrayal of the love triangle between Irish designer Eileen Gray and her lovers; and her feud with the father of Modernism, Le Corbusier.