Movies: Sinéad Cusack

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 typ...

When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences....

16-year-old Emma has a dream - her boyfriend Tommy, has a completely different one. Emma is less at the slow small town life; Tommy wants to get married and buy houses like everyone else....

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-suf...

Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young man from the pop music scene....

While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife....

A fugitive criminal, who is hiding out as a pub landlord begins to question his identity when he gets discovered by a psychotic hitman, who is also his biggest fan....

A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman leading a double life in her dreams....

A gothic fairytale following three generations of women struggling with the aftermath of a divorce....

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions....

A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and praise him for his deed, with the daughter of the landlord falling for this "dashing hero". Things take a...

Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret....

Emma was having the time of her life. Now she’s in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn’t with Emma, it’s with everything else. She needs to tell the truth. But she’s smart enough to know that there’s no such ...

A Mother and her gay adult Son, who has recently suffered a breakdown, explore their opposing views on parenting....

The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in depth in this film, surveying his meteoric rise to fame and troubled personal life....