, 1h50 Directed byNeil Jordan OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-drama ThemesFilms about children, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about virginity ActorsEamonn Owens, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Seán McGinley, Ian Hart, Brendan Gleeson Roles Psychiatrist #2 Rating70% The film is set Ireland in the early 1960s in the small town of Clones. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a 12-year-old boy whose imagination is fuelled by television - aliens, communists, the Atomic Age. When his mother (Aisling O'Sullivan) suffers a nervous breakdown and ultimately commits suicide, he is left in the care of his father (Stephen Rea), an emotionally distant and ill-tempered alcoholic. Francie spends most of his time with his best friend Joe Purcell (Alan Boyle) talking about "gangsters, cowboys and Indians, comic-book monsters and the early-1960s threat of nuclear annihilation." However, when Francie's growing conflict with another boy, Phillip Nugent (Andrew Fullerton), and his mother (Fiona Shaw) begins to go too far, he ends up at reform school. Here, he is molested by a priest (Milo O'Shea), and finds solace only in his fantasies about a foul-mouthed Virgin Mary (Sinéad O'Connor). He returns home to find Joe has outgrown him and befriended Phillip Nugent. Before long, his father has drunk himself to death. Faced with being left completely alone in the world, Francie loses his grip on reality and lashes out with uncontrollable brutality, which shocks his provincial hometown.
, 1h44 Directed byPhilippe Rousselot OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Romance ActorsEwan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard E. Grant, Carmen Chaplin, Donal McCann Roles Mr. Galmoy Rating56% Thomas Smithers (Postlethwaite), who has made his fortune in metalwork, hires Meneer Chrome (McGregor), a famous garden designer, to create the most extravagant garden imaginable out of his wild property. However, Chrome has already been employed by Fitzmaurice (Grant), the cousin of Smithers' wife Juliana (Scacchi), for the purpose of bankrupting Smithers. Fitzmaurice's purpose in this is to take back Juliana as his lover, but she becomes attracted to Chrome, who is falling in love with Anna, the Smithers' mysterious daughter. Anna, however, is contemptuous of Chrome (and, indeed, of everyone she meets, filtering them and everything else around her through the poems of Andrew Marvell); her parents subject her to numerous "treatments," thinking her mentally unstable and wishing to cure her.
, 2h58 Directed byMel Gibson OriginUSA GenresDrama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical ThemesChildren's films ActorsMel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Angus Macfadyen, Brendan Gleeson Roles Cheltham Rating79% In 1280, King Edward "Longshanks" (Patrick McGoohan) invades and conquers Scotland following the death of Alexander III of Scotland, who left no heir to the throne. Young William Wallace (James Robinson) witnesses Longshanks' treachery, survives the deaths of his father (Sean Lawlor) and brother (Sandy Nelson), and is taken abroad on a pilgrimage throughout Europe by his paternal Uncle Argyle (Brian Cox), where he is educated. Years later, Longshanks grants his noblemen land and privileges in Scotland, including Prima Nocte (or droit du seigneur, the right of the lord to have sex with female subjects on their wedding nights). Meanwhile, Wallace (Mel Gibson) returns to Scotland and is reunited with his childhood friend, Hamish Campbell (Brendan Gleeson). Wallace falls in love with his other childhood friend, Murron MacClannough (Catherine McCormack); they marry in secret so she will not have to spend the night with the local English lord. Wallace rescues Murron from being raped by English soldiers, but as she fights off their second attempt, Murron is captured and publicly executed. In retribution, Wallace leads his clan to slaughter the English garrison in his hometown and send the occupying garrison at Lanark back to England.
, 1h41 Directed byJohn Irvin GenresThriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance ActorsMia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent, John Kavanagh Roles Gaffney Rating66% Le village irlandais de Kilshannon, au début des années 1920, est régenté par un comité de veuves que dirige Madame Doyle-Counihan ; leur "royaume" est le cimetière installé sur une colline dominant la localité. Bientôt, arrive une nouvelle venue, Madame Edwina Broome, une jeune anglaise, riche et veuve de guerre. Elle s'attire rapidement les faveurs d'un célibataire en vue, le fils Doyle-Counihan, Godfrey (lequel vit sous la coupe de sa mère) ; en revanche, Mademoiselle Katherine O'Hare — une vieille fille pauvre, courtisée par le dentiste Con Clancy, et bénéficiant de la "protection" de la veuve Doyle-Counihan — devient une ennemie déclarée, pour des raisons obscures...
, 2h12 Directed byJim Sheridan OriginUnited-kingdom GenresDrama, Biography ThemesPrison films, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Conflit nord-irlandais ActorsDaniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, John Lynch, Beatie Edney, Corin Redgrave Roles Belfast Detective Pavis Rating80% Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) is shown in Belfast stripping lead from roofs of houses when security forces home in on the district with armoured cars, and a riot breaks out. Gerry's father, Giuseppe Conlon (Pete Postlethwaite), later saves him from IRA punishment, and he is sent off to London to stay with his aunt, for his own good. Instead, he finds a squat, to explore, as he puts it, "free love and dope". One evening by chance he gains entry to a prostitute's flat and he steals the £700 he finds stashed inside; on that evening in Guildford there is an explosion at a pub that kills four off-duty soldiers and a civilian, and wounds sixty-five others.
, 1h30 Directed byStephen Rea, Neil Jordan OriginIrlande GenresDrama, Musical ActorsStephen Rea, Peter Caffrey, Donal McCann, Ian McElhinney, Derek Lord, Ray McAnally Roles Assistant Rating62% Danny (played by Rea), a saxophonist with a travelling band, witnesses the gangland murder of the band's manager (involved in extortion payoffs) and that of a deaf and mute girl witness at a dancehall in South Armagh. Danny tries to hunt down the murderers and in doing so his relationship with Deirdre, the singer in his band, falls apart and he becomes a murderer himself.