Des McAleer Movies

  • 1999
    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes

    7.2781999HD

    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...

    Angela's Ashes
  • 2011
    My Week with Marilyn

    My Week with Marilyn

    My Week with Marilyn

    6.72011HD

    London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince...

    My Week with Marilyn
  • 2008
    Hunger

    Hunger

    Hunger

    7.2562008HD

    The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win...

    Hunger
  • 2018
    The Children Act

    The Children Act

    The Children Act

    6.62018HD

    In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite...

    The Children Act
  • 2013
    How I Live Now

    How I Live Now

    How I Live Now

    6.6522013HD

    An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the...

    How I Live Now
  • 1990
    Hidden Agenda

    Hidden Agenda

    Hidden Agenda

    6.9281990HD

    In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British...

    Hidden Agenda
  • 2000
    An Everlasting Piece

    An Everlasting Piece

    An Everlasting Piece

    5.92000HD

    Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business...

    An Everlasting Piece
  • 1995
    Butterfly Kiss

    Butterfly Kiss

    Butterfly Kiss

    6.51995HD

    Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly...

    Butterfly Kiss
  • 1997
    This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

    5.71997HD

    The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened...

    This Is the Sea
  • 1998
    I Want You

    I Want You

    I Want You

    5.81998HD

    A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

    I Want You
  • 1984
    Four Days in July

    Four Days in July

    Four Days in July

    6.41984HD

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

    Four Days in July
  • 1995
    Life After Life

    Life After Life

    Life After Life

    01995HD

    Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon...

    Life After Life
  • 2005
    Deadlines

    Deadlines

    Deadlines

    02005HD

    Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23,...

    Deadlines
  • 1998
    Titanic Town

    Titanic Town

    Titanic Town

    5.21998HD

    Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally...

    Titanic Town
  • 2000
    When the Sky Falls

    When the Sky Falls

    When the Sky Falls

    52000HD

    Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate...

    When the Sky Falls
  • 1994
    Family

    Family

    Family

    8.51994HD

    This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief,...

    Family
  • 2019
    Out of Innocence

    Out of Innocence

    Out of Innocence

    6.62019HD

    After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.

    Out of Innocence
  • 2023
    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

    102023HD

    A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making...

    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
  • 2016
    National Theatre Live: The Seagull

    National Theatre Live: The Seagull

    National Theatre Live: The Seagull

    02016HD

    On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone...

    National Theatre Live: The Seagull
  • 1984
    Anne Devlin

    Anne Devlin

    Anne Devlin

    51984HD

    The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.

    Anne Devlin