An Teanga Runda (The Secret Language)
The forces of dark and evil are all around. A three-fingered man with a shady past threatens to end the exciting career of Michael Hardy Super Spy.
The only person that stands between him and sheer disaster is his son James, a young boy from Dublin.
James and his dad use Irish as a secret language to discuss their covert spy business. They must never let James’ mum know about their undercover missions. But soon everything will be thrown into turmoil and life will never be the same again…
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A film by Brian Durnin strarring Kevin O’ Dwyer, Alan Devine (Veronica Guerin, King Arthur) and Fiona O’ Shaughnessy (Alexander). Produced in association with the Irish Film Board and TG4.
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| Kelvin Kind spends his time fixing toasters and watching cable TV, blissfully unaware of his own loneliness. When a beautiful girl moves in across the hall, Kelvin’s solitary world is thrown upside down. As he tries in vain to get the girl’s attention, Kelvin is soon forced to realise that being in love isn’t easy for nice guys. |
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Bern Deegan delivers a Chaplinesque performance in the title role. The film also features performances by Keith McErlean (Batchelors Walk), newcomer Joanne King, Miriam Kelly (Father Ted), Doreen Keogh (The Royale Family, Cold Feet), Ned Dennehy (Reign of Fire, King Arthur) and John Kavanagh (Braveheart, Alexander).
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This film was made under the Bord Scannan na hEireann/RTE Short Cuts Scheme. Warner Brothers selected 'The Wonderful Story of Kelvin Kind' for a nationwide theatrical release with the Keanu Reeve's blockbuster Constantine.
Distributed by Warner Bros
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| A decent man in a difficult world, Fatso struggles to keep his late night business afloat as he battles a chronic gambling addiction. As his debts spiral out of control, a steady stream of loan sharks and debt collectors close the net around him. It is only a matter of time before Fatso is forced gamble everything in the biggest game of his life. |
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Starring Golden Globe and Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea (The Wachowski Brothers’ V for Vendetta (2006), The Crying Game), Kerry Condon (Unleashed, HBO’s Rome), John Kavanagh (Alexander), Laurence Kinlan (Intermission), Fiona O’ Shaughnessy (Alexander) and Ger McSorley (Braveheart, The Constant Gardener) |
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Directed by Lance Daly, The Halo Effect was nominated for 5 Irish Film & Television
Awards
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Distributor: Buena Vista International (Ireland)
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| Last Days In Dublin is the story of Monster, a young Dubliner who dreams of going abroad in search of opportunity and adventure. Finding his plans consistently thwarted by a host of colourful characters, he is joined by Freddie, a homeless explorer, as he struggles to find an alternate escape. |
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Starring Grattan Smith, MC Wuzza, Hughie Kelly, Louis Scott, Jimmy Keogh, John Kavanagh, Nel McCafferty, Senator David Norris, Paul Tylak, and Laurence Kinlan, the film was shot in Dublin, Paris, New York and Cairo and is the debut film from director Lance Daly.
Completed with the assistance of Bord Scannan na hEireann.
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| The Internet plays cupid in this romance between adolescent outsiders. Cynthia, a sensitive girl from the West of Ireland and Nicholas, a French boy who suffers from a severe stammer. On an impulse, Cynthia travels to Paris to meet Nicholas, who until now, has managed to conceal his handicap from her. Nicholas is away and Cynthia is welcomed instead by his loutish brother, Bertrand, who impersonates Nicholas with the intention of seducing her. But in the end, it’s Nicholas who has the last word... |
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Starring Caesar Award Winner and BAFTA Nominee Annie Girardot (Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and his Brothers, Les Misérables), Sonia Vollereaux (Little Indian, Big City), and Laura Brennan (Michael Collins).
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Directed by Sebastien Grall, this film won Best Foreign Film at the New York International Independent Film Festival, 1999.
Co-produced with Cinetève in association with France 2 and TG4.
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From the director of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire and Donnie Brasco, Mike Newell, and starring Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant, this film tells the tale of a theatre company in 1940’s Liverpool.
Sixteen-year old Stella, who lives with her aunt and uncle, and who has regular and mysterious phone-calls to her mother, joins the crew as an unpaid student. |
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As the director assembles his cast and rehearses begin, various sexual and emotional intrigues occur backstage that weave themselves into a finale of both triumph and tragedy.
Co-produced with Portman Production in association with BBC Films and British Screen.
Distributor: 20th Century Fox, Fine Line Features.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 1995.
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| This landmark Irish movie tells the story of two friends, Vinnie and Arthur, who fight their ongoing boredom by playing an old Elvis movie over and over. The movie, Roustabout in which Elvis plays a carnival cyclist who rides his motorcycle forty feet off the ground in a “wall of death” has the pair transfixed and they decide to build their own “wall of death” - no matter what the cost. |
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Starring Stephen Brennan, Eamonn Morrisey and Niall Toibin.
Director: Peter Ormrod
Distributor: UIP
Winner of the Taormina Film Festival, Italy - Bronze Charybdis 1987
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