Self
The Ghost of Richard Harris is about the once famous Hollywood star and notorious hellraiser. It is the story of a legendary Irishman, perhaps the greatest actor Ireland has produced and of a father whose three sons, led by Jared Harris, still think about him every day, since his unexpected death twenty years ago.
Joe (voice)
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.
Self
The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. This film sets out to show, through family, friends, actors, directors, as well as via his own handwritten and typed letters, personal archive, and readings from some of his plays, how Brian Friel re-defined Irish theatre in the second half of the 20th century.
Self - Lyric Theatre
Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's play concerns Sadie, a sharp tongued Belfast cleaner, who must confront painful episodes from her turbulent life.
Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inquests, Roger Casement (1864-1916). The actions during the time he spent in Africa, Brazil and in his native Ireland still echo in our days.
Fergus (archive footage)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Himself
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Eric Miller
David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old granddaughter for Gerry Adams.
Brian Cody
A young woman befriends a lonely widow who's harboring a dark and deadly agenda toward her.
Conneely
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.
Narrator
This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of over 120 civilians in Counties Armagh and Tyrone from July 1972 to 1978.
Danforth
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted by evil forces she sets out to use all her magical powers to get her back.
Jordan
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
Dr. Hill
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.
McGahey
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atrocities, and he may be the only one that can stop them.
Walter
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before separating) reunite for a once-in-lifetime meal.
Doc
地元の医者と研究を続けるダニエルは、狼男の恐ろしい襲撃を目撃する。その野獣の恐ろしい噂を聞きつけてこの小さな村に集まってきた賞金稼ぎやペテン師、そしてスリルを求める人々を見ながら、ダニエルは冷酷なプレデターを倒したいと思い始める。そこでダニエルは、謎めいたよそ者とそのチームの熟練した狼男ハンターたちが怪物を追跡するために村に到着したとき、母親の反対を押し切り、チームに参加したいと申し出る。だがすぐに、この怪物はこれまで彼らが直面してきたもの以上に強く、賢く、危険であることが明らかとなる。犠牲者の数が増え、村人たちは隣人たちが飢えに狂うモンスターに変身させられていくのを目の当たりにする。村人たちは、この狼男の本当の素性を見つけ出すため、互いに武器を手に取り戦う決心をする。そんな興奮状態の中、ダニエルは思いがけず自分が標的のすぐそばにいるのではないかと疑いを抱き始める。
Brendan
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Dr. Jacob Lane
狼男族だけでなく、仲間である吸血鬼族からも追われる身となった後に、人間に捕まってしまった女戦士セリーン。12年もの眠りから覚醒した彼女は、その間にも収束することのなかった吸血鬼族と狼男族の戦いに、両種族の能力を奪おうと人間が加わっている混沌を極めた状況を目の当たりにする。吸血鬼族、狼男族、人間が入り乱れる壮絶な戦闘の最中に、セリーンは戦いの行方を大きく左右する存在となる少女と出会う。
Mackinley
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorne) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
Seamus
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
Anawalt
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.
Priest
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Martin
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.
M. Palmer
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terrorists.
Doctor (voice)
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the roles. "Heidi 4 PAWS" tells the story of the young orphan (this time as seen through the eyes of a yellow lab puppy) who is sent to live with her reclusive Grandfather (in this case an old sheepdog). Just as Heidi adjusts to her new life in the mountains, she is taken away by her social worker (a scrappy beagle). Heidi finds herself living in the big city with Clara Sesehound (a cockapoo mix), who has been made an invalid after a debilitating illness. Although Heidi comes to love Clara, her quest to return to the mountains dominates her stay. In the end, she is able to reunite with her beloved Grandfather. When Clara later comes to visit, the final miracle of Heidi's story is revealed when Clara regains her ability to walk.
Down Under Dylan (uncredited)
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Tyler
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters dwelling in the attic. When their friends and guests abruptly go missing or die mysteriously, it becomes a race against time as the family's lives are in peril.
Thomas Bardo
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
Father Costigan
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
Waiter
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets a lot of laughs out of these gold-plated philistines, he also suggests they are displaced people. Shorn of any inherited values, they live in an eternal present of sex, food and conspicuous consumption. - Michael Billington, Guardian
Gabriel Callaghan
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
Dr. Philip Lacan
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of Siamese twins who were separated at birth, one of them forced to live under the eye of a watchful, controlling psychiatrist.
Dr. Barrie
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
Chief Inspector Eric Finch
独裁国家となった未来のイギリス。TV局で働くイヴィーは外出禁止時間帯の夜に秘密警察に見つかり、絶体絶命の危機に見舞われたところを、"V"とだけ名乗る仮面の男に命を救われる。しかし、"V"と名乗るその男は、国家を相手にひとりテロ活動を続け、クラシック音楽の調べにあわせて街を爆破、TV局を不法占拠し、政府要人を暗殺していく、正体不明、経歴不詳、善か悪かの判別不能の男だった。1605年に国王の圧制に反発し国家転覆を図り失敗に終わったガイ・フォークスにならって、イギリスの反逆精神の象徴となったその日、11月5日-ガイ・フォークス・デイ-に、国民の決起を呼びかける"V"。正義か、犯罪か。"V"とは一体何者なのか？"V"と出会い、自分自身についての真実をも知るようになったイヴィーは、図らずも"V"の協力者となり、自由と正義を取り戻す革命のために立ち上がったー。
Francis
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
Bertie
ニール・ジョーダン監督による、1970年代ミュージックをちりばめた人間ドラマ。女の子の心を持ったまま生まれたパトリックが、変わり者のレッテルを貼られながらも前向きに成長し、ロンドンで実母を探すストーリーだ。
Colm
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Arlo Penner
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
Fatso
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is getting the better of him and he has to contend with an endless succession of loan sharks and debt collectors. He employs hopelessly incompetent staff and generally manages to keep the entire community around him ticking over. However just as Fatso seems to be getting everything under control, he is faced with a dilemma that could destroy him for good.
Murph
Starring Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea as Murph, who has little to say to his teenage daughter. He wakes one morning after a drunken night out, to find that he can only speak fluent Irish, something he could never do before, and that he has completely forgotten how to speak English. The situation leads to genuine, if unorthodox, communication between father and daughter. There's nothing funny about fluent dysphasia...
Leopold Bloom
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
McCaran
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.
Doctor Newman
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.
Michael Beattie
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Niels Bohr
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the event became the stuff of modern scientific mythology. Director Howard Davies puts his spin on the momentous meeting that occurred one night in September 1941, during which the longtime friends entered into a dangerous discussion about physics and politics.
Alistair
N.Y.。刑事マイク のもとに鼻血を垂らし、暴れて署に連行されたドイツの留学生ディーターが連れてこられる。彼の奇妙な様子に不信を抱いたマイクは住まいを調査し、保健省のテリーと出会う。彼女はディーターがエボラのようなウイルス性の出血症に冒されてないか、調べていたのだった。ちょうどその時、ディーターは拘置所の壁に血で「48」の文字を書き残して怪死する。マイクとテリーは、彼があるパソコンサイトにアクセスしていたことを突き止めるが、それは、想像を絶する恐怖のサイトだった……。
Cardinal Richelieu
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
Rabbi Judah Hirsch
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
Dr. Figure
On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
King Conor
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and the enemies he killed in his time. Based on the famous Ulster Cycle.
Henry Miles
1940年代のロンドンを舞台に、美しい人妻との恋に溺れる作家。だが突然の空襲が、2人の関係に変化をもたらしていき……。グレアム・グリーンの原作を映像化した異色のロマンス
Brian
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
Connie Fitzpatrick
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
P.J.
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his first love, emigrating to England, searching for his brother Joe, who disappeared after he emigrated several years previously. His marriage and wife's later depth is also remembered.
Mission Priest
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.
Doctor Silverman
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Tony Costello
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
Da Brady
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
Brian
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter between two figures on the balcony of hotel near his flat and decides to write scripts with his writer friends based on what he saw.
Cypher
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
Ray, the Governor
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
Idea
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 and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.
Sean Dowd
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 and gets to know his close group of Guatemalan exiles.
Cab Driver
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family.
Ned Broy
イギリス支配下にあったアイルランド700年の歴史を、わずか31年で自由へと導いた男がいた！ アイルランド独立の闘士、英雄マイケル・コリンズの波乱の生涯を浮き彫りにした、96年公開の感動大作。
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
Trojan Eddie
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. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
Voice
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Fosca
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
Seamus Shields
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donal and Seamus who share a flat in Dublin.
Nikos
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.
Lt. Viktor Burakov
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
Milo O'Brannigan
鬼才R・アルトマンが撮った、パリ・コレクションに纏わる人間模様を描いた内幕もの。パリのプレタポルテ協会の会長オリヴィエは、ある日郵便で派手なネクタイを受け取る。そこには、それを身に着けて出掛けてほしいというメモが一緒に添えられていた。一方、空港ではショーに関わる有名無名の様々な人々が次々と降り立ち賑わいを見せていた。そんな中、空港にやって来たオリヴィエは、自分と同じ柄のネクタイをしているセルゲイと出会う……。
Santiago
現代のサンフランシスコ。とある部屋で、マスコミでのし上がろうとする野心的な若者クリスが、漆黒の髪の美青年ルイへインタビューを始めたが、その内容は驚くべきものだった。18世紀末の米ニューオリンズ。フランス移民のルイは当時25歳。最愛の妻と娘を亡くして絶望する彼に、美貌の吸血鬼レスタトが近づく。彼は、人間らしく揺れ動く繊細な魂のルイに興味を覚え、永遠の命を共にする伴侶として彼を選ぶ。
Gutch
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?
Noel Riordan
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll have the baby; but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire close-knit neighborhood upside-down and starts Angie on a journey of self-discovery.
Gerry McAllister
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?
Eilert Lovborg
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up on the scene with tragic results
Fergus
IRA兵士ファーガスは、殺害した英国黒人兵の遺言を果たすため、彼の恋人に会いに行く。不思議な美しさを放つ彼女にファーガスは惹かれるが……。サスペンス・タッチのラヴ・ストーリー。
Patsy
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
Clov
Samuel Beckett - Endgame BBC/Open University 1989 Full length production of Beckett's play. Dur: 1h 31m 29s _____________________________________________________ Hamm - Norman Beaton
Clov - Stephen Rea
Nagg - Charlie Drake
Nell - Kate Binchy Produced and Directed by Tony Coe
Marshall
Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle.
Frankie
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.
Timothy Broom
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done.
Dixie McConville
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
The Soldier
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an off-shore island. It is winter 1884. To gain access to the sea, England has declared war on Latvia and believes herself to be winning. But Russia has sided with Latvia and England is doomed. The action takes place on New Year’s Eve in a country house on the Anglo-Latvian border. The guests are a cross section of the ruling classes.
Young Groom
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
Harry
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
Danny
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So begins his quest to avenge her. He seeks an answer to the simple question 'Why?' but finds only more, and deeper, questions which resonate with the wider context of 'the Troubles', the inter-communal strife gripping the modern-day Northern Ireland which is the film's setting.
Shay
"This could be a bit special, Maggie. This could be the first case of an office block falling down during the topping-out party." A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.
Constantin
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
Hollar
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student is arrested by the Czech authorities for writing about individualist approaches to morality.
Chas
Kevin's wife walked out, and left him holding the baby. No sleep, dirty nappies - and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?
Peter
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order. Author Sean Walsh fled the Franciscan order to become first a journalist, then a playwright and is now a radio drama producer in Ireland.
Arden Buckley
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.
Major Frayne
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.
Villager
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers becomes enamored with her for all the wrong reasons.
Four Dublin women come together on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Lourdes in France, where they discover the solidarity in their friendship and unveil their own personal miracles.
