Brenda Fricker
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist in New York. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.
2) Love and war
Publisher
Questar Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Lily is a vivacious war bride and new mother who leaves war-torn London, where her husband, Charlie, is stationed. She is going to begin a new life on Charlie's family's farm in Canada. The spirited Lily finds herself at odds with her remote, rural surroundings, and struggles to be accepted by Charlie's embittered mother and resentful sister. As the three strangers struggle to become a true family, their faith and love are put to the supreme test...
3) Albert Nobbs
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
4) Holding
Publisher
itv studios, Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Duneen is a small remote town at the tip of West Cork, Ireland, where nothing ever happens until human remains are found buried deep on a local farm. For the first time, local Police Sergeant PJ Collins has to solve a genuine crime. As a lifetime's worth of small-town secrets starts to be unearthed, the residents' dark pasts begin to unravel, alongside PJ's inner turmoil.
5) Omagh
Publisher
Sundance Channel
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
6) My left foot
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
7) Cloudburst
Publisher
Wolfe Video LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years and have faithfully accompanied one another through life's ups and downs. Now in their seventies, Stella is hard of hearing and Dot is legally blind. Dotty's prudish granddaughter, Molly, decides the best place for Dot is a nursing home that will provide all the necessities. This forces Stella and Dot to make a bold decision: they will leave their hometown in Maine and make their way to Canada, where...
8) The American
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
World War II. On June 1, 1944, a United States bomber pilot crashes onto the Cave Hill just outside of Belfast in Northern Ireland. He lives long enough to give a ring to a stranger and asks that he return it to his girlfriend. 50 years later, a young man searches for the woman to make good on a promise.
10) The war bride
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, this uplifting wartime drama is about a vivacious war bride and mother who leaves war-torn London to begin a new life on her new husband Charlie's family farm in Canada. Their faith and love is put to the supreme test.
11) Veronica Guerin
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Veronica Guerin was a relentless crime reporter for The Sunday Independent during the early '90s. Guerin's violent murder in 1996 led to a revision of Ireland's laws and the creation of the Criminal Assets Bureau. Picks up with her pursuit of the underground drug trade in Dublin, which she suspects is led by mobster Martin "The General" Cahill. When Cahill's gang is attacked, she suspects mobster Gerry "The Monk" Hutch is responsible. Not deterred...
12) How about you
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ellie is a free-spirited and headstrong young woman. She is left in charge of a residential home over the Christmas holidays. Her youth and inexperience bring her into conflict with the four grumpy residents. See how the hilarious antics of this uncivilized group, an unlikely romance, and the gradual solidarity that develops between the residents and Ellie unfold.
13) Cupid & Cate
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Cate DeAngelo is a talented and slightly quirky individual whose life and identity seem to be stuck in neutral until her sister decides to play "Cupid" and introduces her to a handsome and truly endearing man.
14) Trauma
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Waking up in hospital, Ben learns that his wife has been killed in the same car accident that put him in a coma for a week. His disorientation and feelings of guilt are further amplified by the media frenzy gripping London following the murder of a pop star - a crime for which and for some reason, Ben seems implicated.
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the seven million Irish who emigrated to America in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries including the causes of the exodus and the immigrant experience in the United States. Uses photographs, archival footage, manuscript material and interviews with Irish immigrants to describe their experiences and the profound influence they have had on American culture.
17) Locked in
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A suspicious car accident leaves Joshua and Emma's daughter in a coma. Josh's world unravels when Emma blames him for the accident and then discovers he had an affair with an office colleague. Ostracized from his wife and family and helpless in the face of his daughter's condition, Josh sinks into a deep depression. When Josh begins to receive mysterious signs from his comatose daughter providing clues to the true cause of the accident, is his daughter...
18) Tara Road
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Marilyn Vine's idyllic life in Connecticut is devastated by the tragic death of her only son, Dale, during his 15th birthday party. 3,000 miles away, Ria Lynch's marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, Ireland, when husband Danny reveals that he is leaving her for his pregnant mistress, Bernadette. An accidental phone call brings these two otherwise unrelated women together and, in their mutual need for space and time alone, they agree...
Author
Language
English
Description
After achieving a dream retirement with his wife of 50 years to a condo in the South of France, Joseph (James Fox) finds himself utterly miserable. Bored, lonely, and tired of his wife's incessant nagging and slow onset of Alzheimer's, he finds himself gazing hopelessly at the younger women that pass by and catching unflattering looks from the locals his own age. Brenda (Brenda Fricker) eventually begins to sense her husband's loss of enthusiasm...
Author
Series
Holding ; 2
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a key suspect casts an ominous shadow over the investigation. PJ and Linus attempt to piece together what happened the day that Tommy Burke disappeared. PJ makes a dangerous decision that leaves him worrying his actions may have jeopardized the investigation. However, a startling breakthrough turns everything on its head and throws the entire case into doubt.