A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).

Sacrifice

2016

English

5.3

♡ 52

29%

27%

Action

based on novel or book

Peter A. Dowling Director

Ian McElhinney as D.I. McKie

Radha Mitchell as Dr. Tora Hamilton

Peter Vollebregt as Kenn Wickliff

Joanne Crawford as Sgt. Dana Tulloch

Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland. Deep in the peat soil around her new home, Tora discovers the body of a young woman with rune marks carved into her skin and a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Ignoring warnings to leave well alone, Tora uncovers terrifying links to a legend that might never have been confined to the pages of the story-books.

Triage

2009

English

6.5

♡ 20

53%

guerra do curdistão iraquiano

hospital

Mystery

transtorno de estresse pós-traumático

War

Danis Tanovic Director

Kelly Reilly as Diane

Paz Vega as Elena Morales

Ian McElhinney as Ivan

Colin Farrell as Mark Walsh

The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

Wodehouse in Exile

2013

English

7.2

Drama

Tim Fywell Director

Simon Coury as Algy

Robert Cooper as Arthur Grant

Ian McElhinney as Major Cussen

Julian Rhind-Tutt as Malcolm Muggeridge

An all-star cast heads up this intimate film about how author, P.G.Wodehouse, came to face a charge of treason during the Second World War and how this quintessential Englishman, creator of Jeeves and Wooster, became an exile from his own country and never set foot on English soil again.

Three Wise Women

5.5

Declan Recks Director

Jack Reynor as Colin

Ian McElhinney as David

John Rhys-Davies as Green

Alan Devlin as Mr. Kearney

After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forced to abandon her. Later, when she grows to be a miserable woman, her angel is given a second chance to save her from a life of sadness. To accomplish his goal, he travels through time to recruit the woman's past and future selves to help her reconcile with her father and change her direction in life.

Hidden Agenda

1990

English

6.9

♡ 16

86%

Ken Loach Director

Jim Norton as Brodie

Ian McElhinney as Jack Cunningham

Brian Cox as Kerrigan

Terry Woods as Musician

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.

Dave Allen at Peace

2018

English

6.7

♡ 1

96%

Andy De Emmony Director

Aidan Gillen as Dave Allen

Joanne Crawford as Jean Tynan-O'Mahony

Simon Day as Lew Grade

Ian McElhinney as Priest

Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen

An Old Fashioned Christmas

2010

English

5.9

♡ 4

Don McBrearty Director

Leon Ockenden as Cameron

Jacqueline Bisset as Isabella

Ian McElhinney as Sean

Catherine Steadman as Tilly

Isabella takes her granddaughter to Ireland to stay with a famous family friend for the holidays, only to discover that the best Christmases are simply spent with each other.

Cellar Door

2018

English

6.0

♡ 3

83%

Drama

Mystery

Viko Nikci Director

Ian McElhinney as

Stella McCusker as

Catherine Walker as Bly

Leah McNamara as Flo

A tortured but determined young woman, in the grip of the Catholic Church, searches furiously for the child she believes has been taken away from her, but meets confusion at every corner.

Hornblower: Loyalty

2003

English

8.0

♡ 5

Andrew Grieve Director

Neil Conrich as Bailiff

Ian McElhinney as Captain Hammond

Ioan Gruffudd as Commander Horatio Hornblower

Tony Haygarth as Master Prowse

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Horatio Hornblower: Retribution

2001

English

8.1

♡ 7

92%

Andrew Grieve Director

Ian McElhinney as Captain Hammond

David Warner as Captain James Sawyer

Hugh Quarshie as Francois Lefanu

Jamie Bamber as Lieutenant Archie Kennedy

Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.

A Patch of Fog

2015

English

6.5

♡ 9

86%

64%

Action

Thriller

Michael Lennox Director

Ian McElhinney as Freddie Clarke

Lara Pulver as Lucy

Stephen Graham as Robert

Arsher Ali as Troy Griffin

A university teacher gets caught shoplifting by a security guard, who won’t let him go. He becomes his new best friend and says ‘I won’t call the cops if you come and have a pint with me’. From there a twisted romance of sorts unfolds.

A Shine of Rainbows

2009

English

7.1

♡ 4

50%

Vic Sarin Director

Aidan Quinn as Alec

Ian McElhinney as Father Doyle

Connie Nielsen as Maire

Jack Gleeson as Seamus

An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomás as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery, illuminating how rainbows can shine around - and within - us all.

A Prayer for the Dying

1987

English

6.3

♡ 10

50%

ira (irish republican army)

Thriller

Mike Hodges Director

Karl Johnson as Fitzgerald

Liam Neeson as Liam Docherty

Ian McElhinney as Lodger

Mickey Rourke as Martin Fallon

Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

Zoo

2017

English

♡ 12

88%

63%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

Colin McIvor Director

Damian O'Hare as George Hall

Ian McElhinney as Mr. Shawcross

Toby Jones as Security Guard Charlie

Art Parkinson as Tom Hall

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

Angel

1982

English

6.3

♡ 5

Drama

Music

Thriller

Neil Jordan Director

Veronica Quilligan as Annie

Alan Devlin as Bill

Stephen Rea as Danny

Ian McElhinney as Groom

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.

The Last Rifleman

2023

English

6.7

♡ 13

71%

Terry Loane Director

Pierce Brosnan as Artie Crawford

Clémence Poésy as Juliette

John Amos as Lincoln Adams

Ian McElhinney as Tom Malcolmson

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

Closing the Ring

2007

English

6.5

♡ 5

32%

Richard Attenborough Director

Ian McElhinney as Cathal Thomas

Shirley MacLaine as Ethel Ann

Neve Campbell as Marie

Pete Postlethwaite as Quinlan

During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.