Stephen Rea
Author
Language
English
Description
In 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where "football" means something entirely different than what it does back home. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool's pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats, charismatic New Orleanians, and assorted matchless personalities. Before long he was playing on the pub's motley over-thirty-five fledgling soccer team....
3) Double Tap
Author
Language
English
Description
Cypher is a mysterious killer known for his signature method of execution with two bullets to the head: a Double Tap. Able to evade police for years, largely because he targets only the bad guys, he is surrounded by FBI agent Kathleen Boyle. Their mutual respect as professional killers, coupled with their attraction to one another, help them form a bond that is necessary as they elude a ruthless Mafia hitman.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. His starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
Publisher
Sony
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1967, a heartwarming film that follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily, Eileen, and Dolly of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes, that place of miracles that draws millions of visitors each year. When the chance to win presents itself, the women seize it. However, just before their trip, their old friend Chrissie arrives in...
6) Blackthorn
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Surviving what everyone thought was a fatal ambush in Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) 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.
7) Evelyn
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a custody case brought before the Irish courts in 1955, Desmond Doyle is a father fighting for the custody of his three children after abandonment by their mother. Due to the Irish law of the time, children could not be raised by one parent in what the courts considered a broken home, thus allowing the Doyle children to be placed in church run orphanages, where neglect and cruelty were not out of the ordinary. Desmond will take his fight...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The story is told by Louis de Pointe du Lac in 1991 to an interviewer about the lives of himself, Lestat and Claudia through trouble, death, curse and love over the past 200 years. Going back to New Orleans, 1791, young, plantation owner Louis is unhappy with his life as a widower. That is until Lestat de Lioncourt comes into his life. The vampire Lestat, allows Louis to make the decision of either death or life as a vampire forever. Not until his...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Helen, Jake and Natalie are thrown into disarray when their recently widowed mother announces her love for a new man. Their suspicion of the newcomer triggers events in the siblings' own love lives, which begin to spiral out of control. Can the family pull together, or will old rifts and new conflicts push them apart, even to the point of violence?
10) V for Vendetta
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Set in a future where Germany has won World War II and Britain has become a fascist state, this is the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's'...
11) Michael Collins
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Author
Language
English
Description
William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform.
Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café, the elegant writing of a job advertisement catches her eye: 'WANTED. HOUSEKEEPER.'
She begins to work in William's house, keeping to herself the knowledge that...
14) Out of the Dark
Author
Language
English
Description
A couple (Stiles and Speedman) and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family business, only to realize their new home is haunted by children whose death was caused by a horrible accident over twenty years ago.
15) Guinevere
Author
Language
English
Description
Awkward young Harper Sloane was always the odd one out, until she draws the attention of a brilliant older phtographer. He soon opens her world to possibilities she'd never imagined, and Harper comes out of her shell realizing her full potential.
17) The I Inside
Author
Language
English
Description
After a near-fatal accident, Simon loses the last two years of his memory. During that time his brother was mysteriously murdered and he's married a woman he doesn't remember. Now he must unravel the truth in this riveting psychological thriller.
18) Evelyn
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan), who after losing his job and watching his wife leave the country with another man, has his children taken away by an arcane custody law. Doyle cleans up his act and wages an unlikely legal battle to regain custody.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This revolution: A photojournalist is caught between success and ethics, and a political radical's allegiance to her cause is tested when chaos turns to violence during the Republican National Convention in NYC.
The swap: Small-time hood Vito is released from jail after serving a twelve-year sentence. His only desire is to find the killer of his younger brother Sammy, a film editor murdered ten years earlier. His search leads him to the people Sammy...
20) Stella Days
Author
Language
English
Description
A priest whose love of movies inspires him to open a cinema in an Irish village to raise money for a new church, resulting in a passionate struggle between the priest, the church and the townsfolk.