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MY LEFT FOOT

Drama | 1h 43m | 1989

In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.

Starring

Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, 

Academy Awards Nominee Best Picture

Nominee Best Director

Nominee Best

Adapted Screenplay 

1990

Academy Awards Winner for Best Actor

1990

Academy Awards Winner for Best Supporting Actress

1990

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THE FIELD

Drama | 1h 47m | 1990

When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.

Starring

Richard Harris, Brenda Fricker, Sean Bean,

Tom Berenger, John Hurt

Academy Awards Nominee for Best Actor

1991

BAFTA Awards Nominee for Best Supporting Actor

1991

Golden Globes

Nominee Best Actor

in a Motion Picture

1991

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INTO THE WEST

Drama | 1h 37m | 1992

When two young boys find a mysterious white stallion, they take care of it till the police gives it away to a notorious breeder. The boys rescue the stallion and ride it far away.

Written By

Jim Sheridan

Directed By

Mike Newell

Starring

Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, David Kelly,

Ciarán Fitzgerald & Rúaidhrí Conroy

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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

Drama | 2h 13m | 1993

Gerry Conlon, a young Irish man living in London, is wrongly sentenced to life in prison with his father after the IRA bombing of 1974. He spends the next 15 years trying to prove his innocence.

Starring

Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlewaithe,

Emma Thompson

Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee

1994

Academy Awards Best Director Nominee

1994

Academy Awards Best Foreign Film Nominee

1994

Berliniale Golden Bear Winner Best Picture

1994

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THREE MOONS

Documentary | 37m | 1995

Directed By

Jim Sherdan

This film profiles Hong Kong-Irish fashion designer John Rocha focusing on his influences, and involvement with Irish culture and the preparations for his first Paris Fashion Week runway event.

Featuring

John Rocha, Odette Rocha, Sinéad O'Connor

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SOME MOTHERS SON

Drama | 1h 52m | 1996

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.

Written By

Terry George & Jim Sheridan

Directed By

Terry George

Starring

Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, Fionnula Fagan

Cannes Film Festival Golden Camera Nominee 

Terry George

1996

San Sebastian

Film Festival

Audience Award Winner

1996

European Film Awards Winner

1996

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THE BOXER

Drama | 1h 53m | 1997

Danny, a boxer and former IRA member, is released from prison after 14 years and is determined to start a new life in Belfast. However, his checkered past hinders his ambitions.

Starring

Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox

Golden Globe Nominee Best Picture

1998

Golden Globe Nominee Best Director

1998

Golden Globe Nominee Best Actor

1998

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IN AMERICA

Drama | 1h 45m | 2002

A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Starring

Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton,

Djimon Hounsou, Sarah & Emma Bolger

Producers Guild of America Stanley Kramer Award Winner 

2003

Academy Awards Nominee for

Best Original Screenplay

2003

Golden Globe Nominee for Best Screenplay 

2003

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GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'

Drama | 1h 57m | 2005

After his mother's death in an apparent drug deal gone wrong, Marcus takes up drug peddling to pay his bills. However, his life changes when he decides to give it up and pursue his passion for rap.

Starring

BET Award Nominee

for Best Actor 

2006

IFTA Winner for Best Production Design

2007

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BROTHERS

Drama | 1h 45m | 2009

While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's copter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.

Starring

Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal 

Golden Globe Nominee for Best Actor

2009

Critics Choice Award Nominee for Best Actor

2009

Golden Globe Nominee for Best Song

2009

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DREAM HOUSE

Thriller | 1h 32m | 2011

A man, along with his family, moves into a beautiful new house in the country. However, his life turns upside down when he discovers that his idyllic house hides a deadly secret.

Starring

Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts

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THE SECRET SCRIPTURE

Thriller | 1h 48m | 2016

Residing in a psychiatric hospital, a woman receives visits from a young psychologist whose interest in her diary triggers flashbacks of her youth, which was filled with romance, obsession and turmoil.

Starring

Rooney Mara, Jack Reynor, Theo James 

Eric Bana, Vanessa Redgrave

Irish Film & Television
Awards Nominee
Best Film

2017

Irish Film & Television

Awards Nominee 

Best Director

2017

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SHELTER ME, APOLLO HOUSE

Documentary | 1h 04m | 2018

As the homeless problem in Ireland seemed to go unnoticed by those in power, housing activists, well-known public figures, including Film Director Jim Sheridan, Musicians Glen Hansard , Hozier and others came together and took the law into their own hands. They broke into and took over an empty government building - Apollo House - in Dublin City Centre and were surprised and gratified at the reaction of the public.

Featuring

Jim Sheridan, Glen Hansard, Hozier 

Damien Dempsey, Neilí Conroy

Executive Producer

Jim Sheridan

Directed By

Zahara Moufid

Disappear Here
Film Festival
Winner
Best Documentary

2018

Jim Cullen

Human Rights Award

Respect Film Festival

Winner Belfast

2018

30th Galway Film Fleadh
Official Selection

2018

Hollywood International
Moving Pictures
Film Festival
Finalist

2018

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MURDER AT THE COTTAGE

Documentary Series | 5 episodes | 2021

Two days before Christmas in 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier was brutally murdered at her holiday cottage in Schull, West Cork. The murder rocked the quiet Irish town and 24 years later, the case remains a mystery. This series sees six-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Jim Sheridan, piece together original evidence, never-before-seen footage, and interviews with those closest to the case to try to make sense of what really happened.

Produced By

Donal MacIntyre

Directed By

Jim Sheridan

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Royal Television Society

Awards Nominee 

Best Factual Series

2022

11th HOUR

Drama Short | 10m | 2017

Inspired by true events this short film is adapted from an article written by journalist Lise Hand.

 

Maria José  and her Irish husband run a bar in uptown Manhattan. On the evening of 9/11 it is heaving with shell-shocked locals and battle weary troops from the NYPD, united in disbelief, grief and anger. 

 

Maria José's bar is heaving with locals united in grief and a building rage; a cop pulls his gun and when a surprise visitor enters Maria has to seize the moment to take back control.

Produced By

Rachel Lysaght

Written By

Jim Sheridan, Oskar Slingerland 

based on a story by Lise Hand

Directed By

Jim Sheridan

Premiered on Sky Atlantic 9/11 2021

Starring

Salma Hayek, Darren Healy, Tony Doyle,

Omar Shariff Jnr

Now Streaming on Sky

Tribeca Film Festival

Shorts Selection

2017

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PET.E.R O'TOOLE
Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

Documentary | 1h 30m | 2022

Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period.

Produced By

Brian O'Flaherty

Directed By

Jim Sheridan

Featuring

Dame Sián Philips,  Sir Anthony Hopkins,

Sir Derek Jacobi, Brian Cox CBE, Kate O'Toole,

Sir Kenneth Branagh, Stephen Fry, 

Petula Clarke, Jane Merrow, Brian Blessed OBE

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An Taibhse (The Ghost)

Horror | 1h 32m | 2024

Ireland, 1852. Éamon (Tom Kerrisk) and his daughter Máire (Livvy Hill) take on a tranquil caretaker role at a secluded Georgian mansion during the harsh winter months. However, their peaceful assignment soon awakens a dreadful terror.

Executive Producers

Jim Sheridan & Tom Kerrisk

Directed By

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John Farrelly

Starring

Tom Kerrisk, Livvy Hill, Anthony Murphy

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