Ian McElhinney Movies

  • 2016
    The Truth Commissioner

    The Truth Commissioner

    The Truth Commissioner

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    Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career...

    The Truth Commissioner
  • 1990
    The Grasscutter

    The Grasscutter

    The Grasscutter

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    An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to New Zealand to start a new life, leaving behind...

    The Grasscutter
  • 1998
    Touch and Go

    Touch and Go

    Touch and Go

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    Nick and Alison, a young couple although married for several years, find their sex-life is uninspiring. After much agonising, they decide to visit a...

    Touch and Go
  • 1995
    Life After Life

    Life After Life

    Life After Life

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    Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon...

    Life After Life
  • 1994
    A Breed of Heroes

    A Breed of Heroes

    A Breed of Heroes

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    In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in...

    A Breed of Heroes
  • 2010
    An Old Fashioned Christmas

    An Old Fashioned Christmas

    An Old Fashioned Christmas

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

    An Old Fashioned Christmas
  • 2006
    The Front Line

    The Front Line

    The Front Line

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    An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery.

    The Front Line
  • 1996
    The Boy from Mercury

    The Boy from Mercury

    The Boy from Mercury

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    Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury...

    The Boy from Mercury
  • 1997
    This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

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    The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened...

    This Is the Sea
  • 2009
    Scapegoat

    Scapegoat

    Scapegoat

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    This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but...

    Scapegoat
  • 1990
    The Lilac Bus

    The Lilac Bus

    The Lilac Bus

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    The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.

    The Lilac Bus
  • 1988
    Reefer and the Model

    Reefer and the Model

    Reefer and the Model

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    Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to...

    Reefer and the Model
  • 1983
    Acceptable Levels

    Acceptable Levels

    Acceptable Levels

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    A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to...

    Acceptable Levels
  • 1984
    Anne Devlin

    Anne Devlin

    Anne Devlin

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    The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.

    Anne Devlin
  • 1987
    The Rockingham Shoot

    The Rockingham Shoot

    The Rockingham Shoot

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    Rigid nationalist Reilly's frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.

    The Rockingham Shoot
  • 1987
    Naming the Names

    Naming the Names

    Naming the Names

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    Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...

    Naming the Names
  • 2018
    Dave Allen at Peace

    Dave Allen at Peace

    Dave Allen at Peace

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    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...

    Dave Allen at Peace
  • 1991
    Children of the North

    Children of the North

    Children of the North

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    The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.

    Children of the North
  • 1992
    You, Me & Marley

    You, Me & Marley

    You, Me & Marley

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    A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the...

    You, Me & Marley
  • 1984
    A Woman Calling

    A Woman Calling

    A Woman Calling

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    Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.

    A Woman Calling