Brenda Fricker Movies

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Matthew McConaughey

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis

Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl

Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mike Myers

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cate Blanchett

A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andie MacDowell

The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gerard McSorley

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James McAvoy

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Harris

Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Glover

A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patrick Stewart

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shirley MacLaine

A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hayley Atwell

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mills

During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Friel

Lives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brenda Fricker

A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna Friel

Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Albert Finney

When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jonathan Forbes

The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jamie-Lynn Sigler

The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brenda Fricker

1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kate Nelligan

When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olympia Dukakis

Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Stuart Townsend

Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of France to live out the rest of their days as if they were permanently...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Fox

The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kathleen Robertson

Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ben Barnes

A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Brenda Fricker

Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Horrocks

The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robin Wright

True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.

Genre: History

Cast: John Bach

Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jason Robards

Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is until, he has a run-in with a spirited old...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brenda Fricker

Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Colin Firth

Reluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close, they are now virtually strangers. The enforced intimacy of the situation...

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Cast: Brenda Fricker

Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.

Genre: Family

Cast: Anthony Bate

A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Janet McTeer

Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Macaulay Culkin

After a woman is crippled in an auto accident which killed her husband, she suddenly develops the powers to heal. First she uses the power to heal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dana Delany

After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Modine

Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an...

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Cast: Brenda Fricker

Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantasies that her newly-moustachioed husband is her...

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Cast: Bob Hoskins

In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matt Keeslar

A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Calum Worthy

Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Carlyle

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donal McCann

Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary-Louise Parker

A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, and her anticipation of a birthday picnic by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billie Whitelaw

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenn Close

At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gerry Sundquist

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maggie Smith

Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Hurt

Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryder can't shatter their celibacy.

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Cast: Godfrey Quigley

As wealthy Johann Schultz lies close to death in an Irish monastery, his heirs gather round.

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Cast: Geoffrey Golden