The Hanging Gale (1995)
The four brothers of the Phelan family battle to save their farm and their family from the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine in 1846, and from an English land agent who takes a dislike to them.
The Informer (1935)
Based on the novel by Liam O'Flaherty, Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend.
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.
The Nightingale (2018)
A young Irish convict woman in 1825 Australia chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness; bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family.
The Plough and the Stars (1936)
Based on the play by Sean O'Casey, a husband clashes with his wife over his membership in the Irish citizen army during the 1916 Easter rising in Dublin; after she destroys a letter informing him of his promotion.
The Price of Desire (2015)
Compelling portrayal of the love triangle between Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray and her lovers Jean Badovici and Marisa Damia; and her long-running feud with the father of Modernism, Le Corbusier; who controversially vandalized her iconic villa E-1027 in the South of France.
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
Irish-born Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty uses his status as a Vatican official to save Allied POWs and downed Allied airmen as the Nazis invade Rome.
The Secret of Kells (2009)
A young monk in Celtic Ireland enlists the aid of spirits and fairies to help complete a magical book of secret wisdom and powers.
The Secret Scripture (2016)
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
The Shamrock Spitfire (2024)
The story of WW2 Irish fighter pilot Brendan "Paddy" Finucane, who at the age of just 21, became the youngest ever wing commander in the Royal Air Force, and one of its greatest and most celebrated fighter aces during World War II.