Paul Viragh

Movies

The Face of an Angel
Screenplay
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Ashes
Screenplay
One-time hard man Frank Barron is barely recognisable now he’s been afflicted with Alzheimer's, but when his estranged son Jamie visits him in hospital he realises the extra stress Frank is put under and decides to break him out in the hope of returning him to his family. As the two travel across the country, beginning to bond along the way, it soon transpires that both Frank and Jamie are at odds with their past.
Everest: Shooting the Impossible
Paul Viragh
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Writer
A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.
Extraordinary Rendition
Abductor
A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered life in a world he no longer recognises.
Penelope
Reporter in Mr. Vanderman's Office
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.
Keeping Mum
Policeman on Train
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.