Sean McGinley

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.

Brooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elite event planner, she’s hired to host his castle’s epic Christmas party.

A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.

A meditation on the love of a father for his estranged daughter. A last meeting, a reparation, a benign waiting to tell her goodbye.

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

In the remote Scottish Highlands an aging stalker sets his wits and grit against a poacher who is taking the heads of his best stags.

Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.

The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.

Um grupo de jovens americanos vai até a Irlanda para visitar um colega de escola, que os leva para acampar e procurar os mágicos cogumelos dos contos de fada. Quando as alucinações começam, os jovens são atacados por criaturas fantasmagóricas não sabendo se são reais ou apenas o começo de seu delírio, mas quando um dos jovens come um cogumelo cabeça de morte sem saber o pesadelo do grupo tem uma virada profundamente sinistra

When fourteen- year- old Chris is sent across the city to deliver a tonic to his sick grandfather, his journey becomes a chilling trip of self-discovery as he strays from the path into domain of the Black Dog.

No verão de 1966, a Inglaterra está prestes a ser consumida pela febre da Copa do Mundo. Mas para o garoto Bernie de 12 anos de idade o maior dia da sua vida está chegando: o seu Bar Mitzvah, o dia em que ele se tornará um homem. Entretanto, a família de Bernie está completamente distraída pela ameaça de perder o seu negócio e com seu inconstante filho mais velho. Enquanto isso, as confirmações para o Bar Mitzvah de Bernie diminuem diariamente. E o pior de tudo: a final da Copa está programada para acontecer no mesmo dia do Bar Mitzvah e quando a Inglaterra se classifica entre os finalistas, o dia tão esperado por Bernie está para se transformar em um completo desastre...

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

Irlanda, 1920. O povo se une para formar exércitos de guerrilha voluntários e enfrentar a cruel Polícia Real Irlandesa vinda da Grã-Bretanha para impedir o movimento independentista. Damien abandona sua carreira promissora como médico e se junta ao irmão Teddy na violenta luta pela liberdade.

Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.

After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates - rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie - are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible - swimming the English Channel.

Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal ownership of Donal's favorite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if the animal wins three races in a row. Meanwhile, Donal's mother, Kate, must adjust her life when O, a man from her past, returns. The political climate of Ireland serves as the backdrop of this story.

Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads head south on a road trip in the hope of seeing a man about a dog. Foul-mouthed and funny, Man About Dog is full of great craic.

Sean Veil é um suspeito de homicídio ultra-paranóico que se dedica a filmar 24 horas por dia para fornecer um álibi, para o caso de ser acusado de outro crime. Problemas surgem no entanto quando a polícia vem chamando e a única fita que pode provar que sua inocência desapareceu misteriosamente.

When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.

The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had thought he had seen the last of Jean (Katy Davis) after their recent breakup, but when she returns to stake her claim on Tommy's apartment, the confrontation that ensues makes their previous quarrels look petty by comparison. After leaving the apartment in the head of the fight to cool his head and gather his thoughts, he returns only to find that Jean has died and enlists the aid of his friend Noel (Darren Healy) in ditching the body and ensuring that no one ever finds out what happened.

A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.

William Cutting é o líder de uma gangue violenta na Nova York do século 19 que confronta seus rivais. Um jovem jura se vingar do perverso gângster que matou seu pai, mas fica dividido entre a sede de vingança e o fascínio pelo carismático Cutting.

When Clare, a bored house wife, finds her self stuck in a rut she decides to take to the skies. But where does that leave her family left below?

Uma história épica que se passa nas geladas montanhas de Sierra Nevada nos primeiros anos da Califórnia. Dillon, um pioneiro, desafia as dificuldades da caça ao ouro. Depois de enriquecer, ele dá inicio a uma pequena e bem sucedida vila de exploração, chamada Kingdom Come. Cego pela ambição e avareza, Dillon é pego de surpresa pelo destino quando três forasteiros chegam a Kingdom Come. Um deles é um avaliador, a serviço da ferrovia, para decidir onde será construída a continuação da estrada, que pode mudar o futuro da vila; e duas mulheres do seu passado que guardam um segredo que pode destrui-lo.

Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?

There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have said where. What Bam means is unclear, but he distrusts all.

The Oral Irish, a compulsory language exam dreaded by secondary school students, is the subject of this short directed by Paul Mercier. In a Dublin school, an examiner (Sean McGinley) meets a variety of students to test their proficiency in the Irish language. He encounters low levels of fluency but impressive levels of bravado as memorised answers are regurgitated with more gusto than comprehension. The process soon becomes a test not just for the students but for his patience. He has just about given up hope when he encounters a troubled young man (Barry Ward) with a firm grasp of the language but little interest in the exam. The film provides a vivid reminder of state exams and Irish school life while packing a memorable emotional punch. (Taken from IFI website)

Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

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.

Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.

A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.

Bogwoman charts the experiences of a woman who moves to the city from Donegal in 1958. Down the years she copes with various personal and familiy pressures against the background of the emerging civil unrest and the redeployment of British troops into the area.

A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant named Ferris (Cary Elwes). The intimidating Chief Inspector of the Belfast Police (Timothy Dalton) convinces Gingy that his best hope is to become an informant and turn in other IRA operatives. As Gingy's marriage unravels under the stress, he is forced to come to terms with the fact that in this war both sides lose. Three men, three political circles, each fighting for their lives, each with their own agenda in the battle for Northern Ireland.

Amanda Foley has confusing nightmares and flashbacks that lead her to seek professional help. Nothing can shed light on her repressed memories, until she happens to catch her husband a college professor, having sex with one of his students. Then the past becomes dangerously clear

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.

Em 1916, na Irlanda, Michael Collins é preso em virtude de participar de uma manifestação contra a presença inglesa em seu país. É neste período que ele passa a acreditar que a guerrilha poderá levar seus compatriotas ao fim de uma submissão ao governo inglês, que dura 700 anos. Assim é criado o Exército Republicano Irlandês, o IRA, conseguindo em 1921 realizar o primeiro acordo de paz com os ingleses, quando fundou a República da Irlanda do Norte. Mas a paz almejada foi apenas o início de um conflito entre Irlanda do Norte e Inglaterra, que permanece até os dias de hoje.

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.

No século XIII, soldados ingleses matam a mulher do escocês William Wallace, bem na sua noite de núpcias. Para vingar a amada, ele resolve liderar seu povo em uma luta contra o cruel Rei inglês Edward I. Com a ajuda de Robert e Bruce, ele vai deflagrar uma violenta batalha com o objetivo de libertar a Escócia de uma vez por todas.

No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's gangland, but it's a mistake to underestimate Maura Ryan: she's tough, clever and beautiful - which makes her one very dangerous lady. Together, she and her brother Michael are unbeatable but notoriety has its price. The police are determined to put Maura away once and for all - and not everyone in the family think that's such a bad idea. When it comes to the crunch, Maura has to face the pain of lost love in her past - and the dangerous lady discovers her heart is not make entirely of stone.

Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?

A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.

In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.

This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.

A família de McCabe há várias gerações trabalha em terras alheias nos campos irlandeses. Quando McCabe decide participar de um leilão público para comprar suas próprias terras, precisa enfrentar um poderoso milionário americano.

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks

A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award winning company.' Synge’s great comic masterpiece tells the story of Christy Mahon, who stumbles into a public house in County Mayo claiming he has killed his father and so capturing the romantic attention of the daughter of the house, Pegeen Mike. Performed at Donmar Warehouse in London's Covent Garden by the Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland.

Inspired by humanity's oldest story, Gilgamesh, this epic tale explores themes of power, love and loss.