The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Read More »
Tag Archives: Neil Jordan
Mona Lisa (1986) Neil Jordan, Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine
After getting out of prison, George (Bob Hoskins) looks for a job, but his time Read More »
Ondine (2009) Neil Jordan, Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. Read More »
Michael Collins (1996) Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts
After the disastrous defeat of Irish rebels by superior UK forces during the Easter Rising Read More »
Angel (1982) Neil Jordan, Veronica Quilligan, Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Read More »
The Company of Wolves (1984) Neil Jordan, Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner
A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine Read More »
High Spirits (1988) Neil Jordan, Peter O’Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
When Peter Plunkett’s Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the ‘Yanks’ by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle. The trouble begins when a busload of American tourists arrive – along with some real ghosts. Among the tourists are married couple Jack and Sharon. Sharon’s father holds the mortgage on Castle Plunkett, so she’s hoping to debunk the ghosts. Jack, on the other hand, after meeting pretty ghost Mary, is very eager to believe. Can there be love between a human and ghost? Jack and Mary are going to try and find out.
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The Crying Game (1992) Neil Jordan, Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Crime, Drama, Romance
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude, another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody’s lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus adopts the name “Jimmy” and gets a job as a day laborer. He also starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus’ IRA background. But there are some things about Dil that Fergus doesn’t know, either…
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