Stephen Rea Movies

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather...

When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he...

14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers...

The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. This film...

Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inquests, Roger Casement (1864-1916). The actions...

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old...

An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.

Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise...

A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new...

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the...

It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and the enemies he killed in his time. Based on the...

Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle.

Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.

Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns...

When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man...

Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's play concerns Sadie, a sharp tongued Belfast...