Movies: Aidan Gillen

The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his biography,...

Michael is a young Irish banker, whose life begins to unravel after causing a stranger's death in an accident. Sifiso is a teenager living in a shack in a Cape Town township, dreaming of escape. When their stories unexpectedly collide, their impact o...

The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder....

In their debut documentary Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor take as their point of departure the compelling 18th Century figure, Ambrose O'Higgins, and attempt to retrace his remarkable journey from Ireland to Chile....

In 1980, two Cork outsiders, Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan, met at a New Year's Eve party. Bonding over music, a friendship and songwriting partnership was ignited; the band they formed, Microdisney, was one of the best bands of the 1980s that you...

Documentary about how the Irish remember those who fought in the 1916 Easter Rising and the ensuing civil war....

'Violet' is the haunting, cautionary tale of a young girl who despises her reflection....

A middle aged man, Tom, walks out one day on his wife and baby boy and his seemingly happy life with no explanation. He opts to live on the streets of London. Alone in a park at night he is set upon by a gang of violent thugs, in his bid to escape he...

An alcoholic is haunted by the events of a traumatic childhood. He now carries with him the item that he holds responsible - the note....

A time-space map, across 500 years of north inner-city Dublin, from Henrietta Street to Grangegorman, using motion graphics, live footage and charcoal drawings of faces of patients from rare pre-1900 photographs from the National Archives, the film e...

McAdam’s debut, a comical short, about Jack (Jack Lynch, who co-wrote the film) and the catastrophic effects of a night’s drinking. This marked McAdam’s first film collaboration with actors Donal O’Kelly and Pom Boyd....

A young man (Aidan Gillan) arrives in the midst of London's Soho. He's from Belfast, he's anxious and he looks like he's running away from something. Then, by chance, he meets Grace, a prostitute who happens to come from Belfast too. A connection is ...

Harry Clark is a social worker on the verge of cracking up. His job is to help other people: who is there to help him?...

When Martin meets Harry he doesn't know what to expect. Is it love the boy is offering or a one-way ticket to heartbreak?...

The last years in the life of James Joyce, as he writes Finnegans Wake and struggles with his fading eyesight and the so-called madness of his beloved daughter, Lucia....

An Irish immigrant lands in the Bronx, working at an Italian-owned bar while living with fellow undocumented immigrants. Fears of deportation and uncertainty about their place haunt him and his cousin....