The American 1998  TV, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Unwin
Cast: Matthew Modine, Diana Rigg, Brenda Fricker, Aisling O'Sullivan, Paul Hickey, Andrew Scott, Eva Birthistle, T.P. McKenna, Phillip O'Sullivan, Ian Fitzgibbon, Joe Pilkington, Ed Bishop, Alison McKenna, David Heap, Anita Reeves
Based on Henry James' 1877 novel, this story is set in the post-Civil War era when an American, Christopher Newman (Matthew Modine), arrives in Paris where he is more than a little impressed with European society. Christopher falls in love with Claire (Aisling O'Sullivan), but her mother Madame de Bellegarde (Diana Rigg) and her older brother Valentin (Andrew Scott) oppose Claire's marriage to Christopher because he does not represent French aristocracy. The problem might be solved when Christopher gains evidence that Madam de Bellegarde may have murdered her husband, and he finds himself in the position of blackmailing his way into European society.
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Bleak House 1985  TV, 391 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ross Devenish
Cast: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott, T.P. McKenna, Philip Franks, Brian Deacon, Robert Urquhart, Lucy Hornack, Peter Vaughan, Donald Sumpter, George Sewell, Ian Hogg, Sylvia Coleridge, Suzanne Burden, Chris Pitt, Robin Bailey
This BBC miniseries adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel revolves around doddering lawyers who are handling the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case at the Court of the Chancery in London. As the inheritance case drags on and ruins lives, the lawyers still collect money.
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Girl with Green Eyes 1964  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Desmond Davis
Cast: Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean, Arthur O'Sullivan, Julian Glover, T.P. McKenna, Liselotte Goettinger, Patrick Laffan, Eileen Crowe
Filmed in Dublin, this is the story of Kate (Rita Tushingham), a young woman from a run-down farm who heads to Dublin, gets a job, and lives with a friend from school, Baba (Lynn Redgrave). After she meets and moves in with middle-aged Eugene (Peter Finch), life gets more complicated. Tushingham and Redgrave give fine performances.
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The Manions of America 1981 TV, 290 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Charles S. Dubin, Joseph Sargent
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Kate Mulgrew, Linda Purl, David Soul, Steve Forrest, Simon MacCorkindale, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Parkins, T.P. McKenna, Kathleen Beller
This film was originally shown as a three-part TV miniseries and stars Pierce Brosnan as one of many Irish patriots who immigrated to the United States during the famine of the 1840s. The story chronicles his successes, failures, and fights in his rise in America.
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The Outsider 1980 R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tony Luraschi
Cast: Craig Wasson, Patricia Quinn, Sterling Hayden, Niall Toibin, Elizabeth Begley, T.P. McKenna, Allan Cuthbertson, J.G. Devlin, Ray McAnally, Niall O'Brien, Frank Grimes, Bosco Hogan, Joe Dowling, Aiden Grennell, Joe McPartland
A young American, Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), encouraged by the stories told by his grandfather Seamus (Sterling Hayden), returns home from Vietnam and travels to Ireland where he helps the IRA. But Michael becomes the target of an IRA plot to kill him and blame the British forces as a means to get financial support from wealthy Irish-Americans.
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 Straw Dogs 1971 R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, Del Henney, T.P. McKenna, David Warner, Ken Hutchison, Jim Norton, Peter Arne, Chloe Franks, Donald Webster, Len Jones, Sally Thomsett, Robert Keegan, Cherina Schaer
Quietly studious professor David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and his wife Amy (Susan George) move to a rural British home as the means of escaping violence in the city. They hire workers to build their garage, but the workers, led by Charlie Verner (Del Henney), make fun of David and flirt with Amy. Later, the workers take David on a hunting trip; but, they desert him, and then two of them find Amy and rape her. David becomes enraged following the rape and resorts to violence in his effort to fight those responsible. A very violent film (especially for that time).
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A Terrible Beauty 1960 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Night Fighters
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy, Cyril Cusack, Richard Harris, Marianne Benet, Niall MacGinnis, Harry Brogan, T.P. McKenna, Christopher Rhodes
This film involves a behind-the-scenes look at recruiting and sabotage efforts of the Irish Republican Army.
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To the Lighthouse 1983  TV, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Colin Gregg
Cast: Rosemary Harris, Michael Gough, Suzanne Bertish, Kenneth Branagh, Lynsey Baxter, Pippa Guard, T.P. McKenna, Nicholas Gecks, David Parfitt, Craig Warnock, Jessie Walker Stewart, Christopher Lahr
Based on Virginia Woolf's novel, this BBC production is presented in three parts as a study of the Ramsey family during one summer vacation and ends 10 years later showing how various members adapt to a changing world.
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Ulysses 1967 N/R, 132 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Strick
Cast: Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roeves, T.P. McKenna, Anna Manahan, Maureen Potter, O.Z. Whitehead, Fionnula Flanagan, Martin Dempsey, Sheila O'Sullivan, Graham Lines, Peter Mayock, Maureen Toal, Chris Curran, Eddie Golden
There are some good moments in this adaptation of James Joyce's masterpiece concerning Leopold and Molly Bloom's (Milo O'Shea and Barbara Jefford) streams of consciousness. The story takes place over a 24-hour period when impotent Leopold meets a young poet, Stephen Dedalus (Maurice Roeves). They visit a brothel, and sit up all night talking. After Stephen leaves, Molly, who is unhappy with Leopold, fantasizes about a possible affair with Stephen. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Screenplay.
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Valmont 1989 R, 137 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: Colin Firth, Annette Bening, Meg Tilly, Fairuza Balk, Sian Phillips, Jeffrey Jones, Henry Thomas, Fabia Drake, T.P. McKenna, Ian McNeice, Isla Blair, Aleta Mitchell
Chodleros de Laclos' classic, "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," is again brought to the screen following Stephen Frears' popular version a year earlier and Roger Vadim's 1959 film. Set in 18th-century France, it is the story of corrupt lovers (Colin Firth and Annette Bening) who make bets about being able to have sex with others just for the fun of it.
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Young Cassidy 1965 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Cardiff, John Ford
Cast: Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Flora Robson, Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Jack MacGowran, Sian Phillips, T.P. McKenna, Philip O'Flynn, Julie Ross, Arthur O'Sullivan, Joe Lynch
Rod Taylor takes on the roll of John Cassidy in this film based on the life and times of Irish author Sean O'Casey during the early 20th century. Director John Ford fell ill during the shooting of the film and was replaced by Jack Cardiff.
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| 1. The American (1998)
2. Bleak House (1985)
3. Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
4. The Manions of America (1981)
5. The Outsider (1980)
6. Red Scorpion (1989)
7. Straw Dogs (1971)
8. A Terrible Beauty (1960)
aka: Night Fighters
9. To the Lighthouse (1983)
10. Ulysses (1967)
11. Valmont (1989)
12. Young Cassidy (1965)
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