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5.9

♡ 3

56%

Thaddeus O'Sullivan Director

Brendan Conroy as Billy

Martin Sheen as Fr. Daniel Barry

Ruth McCabe as Miss Courtney

Andrea Irvine as Mother

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.

Screen Two The Snapper

1993

7.2

♡ 8

apparition

parent child relationship

rock music

train

Stephen Frears Director

Colm Meaney as Dessie Curley - Rabbitte

Ruth McCabe as Kay Curley - Rabbitte

Brendan Gleeson as Lester

Joan Sheehy as Woman in Hospital

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.

Screen Two The Snapper

1993

7.2

♡ 3

97%

86%

Stephen Frears Director

Colm Meaney as Dessie Curley

Ruth McCabe as Kay Curley

Brendan Gleeson as Lester

Joan Sheehy as Woman in Hospital

Set in Ireland, Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters. When she gets herself pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.—Rob Hartill

American Women

2000

6.2

♡ 1

32%

46%

Comedy

Aileen Ritchie Director

Dudley Moore as George Webber in '10'

Bo Derek as Jenny Hanley in '10'

Ruth McCabe as Mary Mulligan

Ewan Stewart as Pat O'Leary

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?

Rory O'Shea Was Here

2004

7.7

♡ 2

Comedy

Damien O'Donnell Director

Ruth McCabe as Annie

Deirdre O'Kane as Job Applicant

James McAvoy as Rory O'Shea

Romola Garai as Siobhan

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

Philomena

2013

7.6

♡ 19

91%

89%

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Stephen Frears Director

Jon Wennington as Congregation Member

Charles Edwards as David

Charlie Murphy as Kathleen

Ruth McCabe as Mother Barbara

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Aisha

2022

6.6

♡ 4

98%

Frank Berry Director

Josh O'Connor as Conor Healy

Stuart Graham as Francis Manning

Ruth McCabe as Mrs. Keegan

Joanne Crawford as Ms Nolan

Aisha lives at a centre for asylum-seekers in Ireland in a state of ongoing uncertainty. Having fled Nigeria after a violent gang murdered members of her family, she is desperately trying to find some degree of permanency, where she and her mother can be reunited and live without fear. As she navigates the complex legal system to seek settlement in Ireland, she sparks an unlikely friendship with Conor, a new guard at the centre. A former prisoner, Conor’s life experience and calming presence resonate with Aisha, allowing for a tentative romance to begin. But the bond between the pair comes under strain as the threat of deportation looms ever larger.

Victoria & Abdul

2017

6.8

♡ 106

65%

68%

19th century

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Stephen Frears Director

John Stahl as Ghillie

Olivia Williams as Lady Churchill

Adeel Akhtar as Mohammed

Ruth McCabe as Mrs. Tuck

Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

That They May Face the Rising Sun

2023

7.2

♡ 4

97%

based on novel or book

Pat Collins Director

Brendan Conroy as Bill Evans

Barry Ward as Joe Ruttledge

Ruth McCabe as Mary Murphy

John Olohan as The Shah

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.

The Blackwater Lightship

2004

6.8

♡ 4

54%

John Erman Director

Angela Lansbury as Dora

Ruth McCabe as Dr. Louise

Dearbhla Molloy as Essie Kehoe

Dianne Wiest as Lily

A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.

Joyride

2022

6.2

♡ 3

Emer Reynolds Director

Olivia Colman as Joy

Ruth McCabe as Noreen

Olwen Fouere as Sideline Sue

Jade O'Connor as Stewardess 2

12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.

My Left Foot

1989

7.8

♡ 23

98%

92%

based on a true story

based on true story

biography

Biography

bodily disabled person