A Man Of No Importance (1994)
A bachelor poetry-quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin attempts to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, using his regular bus passengers as the actors.
Albert Nobbs (2011)
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Borstal Boy (2000)
Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory school) by a liberal warden.
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
A young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age in the 1970s by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the townspeople's understanding.
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.
Goldfish Memory (2003)
A group of Dublin friends experience short-term relationships which grow and stumble, involving everything from straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships.
Handsome Devil (2016)
Ned and Conor are forced to share a bedroom at their Irish boarding school. The loner and the star athlete at this rugby-mad school form an unlikely friendship until it's tested by the authorities.
Rialto (2020)
The death of his father and looming redundancy takes a middle-aged married shipping manager down a path of destruction that leads to an infatuation with a teen male sex worker.
The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister, mother, and grandmother.
The Crying Game (1992)
A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.