Movies: Brendan Gleeson

Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller for a contemporary audience....

Follows Hope, a young girl with a secret ability to see the invisible threads that connect the magical world to our own. Recently uprooted by the loss of her mother, she stumbles upon a bitter conflict rooted in two warring tribes: the Fairies and th...

A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again....

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921....

Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countries on both sides of the Atlantic....

A chance encounter on a train between a young woman and a blind man....

Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole and uses the time to search for his girlfriend Leyla’s killer. He finds only lies and intrigue surrou...

After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubbor hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive....

A light and dark tale of family, showmanship and the suspension of disbelief....

Americans want to take over the Irish creamery Angela Mooney's husband built up. Everybody in town is delighted, with the exception of Mrs Mooney, who has her own reasons for being opposed to the sale of the business....

In 2021, Hughes’s pub closed its doors for the last time. In January 2022, talented fiddle player, actor, and Hughes regular Brendan Gleeson meets musicians, dancers and singers in and around the pub as they gather one last time to recreate the magic...

A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with....

The story, narrated by Brendan Gleeson, of how the curators of the Dead Zoo, Dublin's beloved Natural History Museum, managed to get two enormous whale skeletons down from the ceiling where they'd been hanging for 150 years....