Lola Montès (1955)
Biography of Irish-born actress, royal courtesan and exotic dancer Lola Montez, as she looks back on her notorious life from her later years spent performing in the circus and music halls.
Some Mother’s Son (1996)
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork (2021)
The documentary follows the investigation of the death of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, a French film and TV producer who was murdered while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland in 1996.
The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
While serving with a UN peacekeeping force in the Congo in 1961, Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan and his platoon are forced into a stand-off against French and Belgian Mercenaries fighting for the breakaway Republic of Katanga.
Maze (2017)
Drama inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze; which became the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Hear My Song (1991)
The owner of a failing club seeks to bring the infamous Irish singer Josef Locke out of retirement in order to bring business and success to his club.
Jimmy’s Hall (2014)
During the Great Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Based on the true story of Gerry Conlon, whose coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer takes up their case and fights to free them.
Noble (2014)
Based on the true life story of Christina Noble, overcoming the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon.
Nora (2001)
In June 1904, James Joyce courts Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently arrived from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long they elope to locations across Europe.