Movies: Brendan Gleeson

Americans want to take over the Irish creamery Angela Mooney's husband built up. Everybody in town is delighted, with the exception of Mrs Mooney, who has her own reasons for being opposed to the sale of the business....

In this making-of documentary, we see movie snippets, shots from the set, and interviews. We get notes from the crew and cast. We learn about the movie's genesis and development, the choice of time period and setting, finding a location and creating ...

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. ...

Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio an...

Follows Hope, a young girl with a secret ability to see the invisible threads that connect the magical world to our own. Recently uprooted by the loss of her mother, she stumbles upon a bitter conflict rooted in two warring tribes: the Fairies and th...

A look at the last years of Marvin Gaye's life, from his parting ways with Motown and self-imposed exile to Europe, to his relationship with Freddy Cousaert, the promoter who guided the singer through the recording of his biggest-selling album, Midni...

The true story follows Helen who, after losing her beloved father, finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubbor hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive....

A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again....

A light and dark tale of family, showmanship and the suspension of disbelief....

Two guards are headed to a house where there has been a shot due to a statement of a neighbour who called the police. What can possibly happen there? The most unexpected!...

A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with....

A chance encounter on a train between a young woman and a blind man....

The story, narrated by Brendan Gleeson, of how the curators of the Dead Zoo, Dublin's beloved Natural History Museum, managed to get two enormous whale skeletons down from the ceiling where they'd been hanging for 150 years....