Gretel and Hansel, sister and brother, were driven out of their home by their mad mother. In search of food and safe shelter, destitute teenagers wander through the gloomy forest, encountering numerous obstacles along the way. Some time later, Gretel and Hansel come across a forest house belonging to Holda, an elderly woman who is happy to accept the starving heroes. Emboldened, the brother and sister accept the invitation to stay, unaware that something worse than hunger and cold is waiting for them in the near future.
Dramatic picture "Calvary", with elements of black Comedy, filmed by Director John Michael Macdonagh. The main role in the film was played by the famous Irish actor Brendan Gleeson. In the center of the plot of the film a Catholic priest from a small provincial town – father James. Like any other clergyman, he conducts services day after day, listens to repentance and absolves sins. One day, a man comes to him for confession, who for many years was sexually abused by the now deceased Holy father. So same he reports, that intends to kill father James, and gives him week, to the with all said goodbye and graduated Affairs pressing. The Confessor argues his choice by saying that if you kill a bad priest, then no one even cares about it, but if you kill such a righteous man as James, it will definitely make everyone around you think. That's just instead of preparing to accept death, well, or at least seek help from the police, father James continues to lead a normal life, helping parishioners to change their lives for the better.
The film Jimmy's Hall tells the story of Ireland in 1932. One Irishman named Jimmy Grolton comes to his native land, where he was deported to new York back in 1909, because of the propaganda of communism. He had gone away and become an American citizen, and now he decided to return and finish the job he had already begun. Jimmy just needs an audience like air, where he will be listened to, where he will be able to influence his beliefs and form his audience in his native country. He had the idea to open his hall for dancing. Jimmy's dance hall is a place where people can learn to dance and share their political views. A thought, if expressed, is already the beginning of action. And when expressed thoughts becomes too much, it leads to certain consequences. The image of Jimmy Grolton is written off from a real historical character. This is the story of the only Irishman who was expelled from the country. The historical drama "Jimmy's Hall" by Ken Loach was included in the list of 15 best films of the Cannes film festival 2014.
2014 Irish film set during the Irish War of Independence based on the 2012 novel by PJ Curtis. Directed by Garret Daly and Martina McGlynn, and written by Daly, the film stars Tara Breathnach, Muireann Bird and Gerard McCarthy. The story concerns two sisters who care for a wounded soldier. The film was released in Irish cinemas in September 2014, and received its Irish television premiere on UTV Ireland on Easter Sunday, 5 April 2015.
Respectable life of professor of philosophy Evan Bertsch begins to fall as details about his unseemly behavior with students appear. In completion to everything the hero becomes the central suspect of case of murder of one of listeners of its course.
The movie will dip you into the dangerous world of the English crime. In the center of history — the fatal person Annie appearing in different roles. She plays the difficult game with several men whom — at first sight — nothing connects. Pitting them with each other, she pursues the cruel aim.
That it: split personality? Or accurately planned game of the artful seductress?
When the beloved father of our heroine was knocked down by a fatal disease, the whole world fell upon her head. She these difficult days was strongly supported by Siissi Young — the school teacher in the person of which the girl found semblance of maternal care which so was not enough for it. But our heroine also does not guess that Sissi except work at school is the witch predominating in a sabbath, it is a lot of centuries feeding the forces by means of a secret vedminsky ritual with a cherry tree — which gives vital strength dying and to dead persons. And then the old hag offers the girl the secret transaction in exchange for treatment of her father ….
Ekonosayd — the suicide committed because of difficult economic conditions, impossibility to get out of debts. At a funeral familiar the idea, as same desperate comes to Vernon to mind as he, quickly to double the with such work the earned savings. He creates the website where persons interested can conclude with each other bargains, and the idea receives a wide response.
11-year-old lonely Thomas's history. After the meeting with a charming well-fed ghost of Hugo in the cellar of the house life of the boy will change wonderfully. He should show true bravery and together with the hunter for ghosts Hattie to help Hugo to come back home to itself. For this purpose heroes need to pass through the mass of obstacles to destroy Ancient Spirit of Ice which lives in Hugo's house, and threatens to plunge all city into permafrost. But to make feats, Tom and Hattie will need to glance to himself in heart.
In the town somewhere in the middle of the Australian desert two teenage children leave at the night the house and vanish without trace. Catherine and Mathew Parkera throw all forces to find the children. However to get to the bottom of the truth, parents should face what they so far escaped from — with the past.
The history Eylish Lacey which reluctantly leaves the native Irish village and moves off in job searches to America. As a result she settles in Brooklyn, gradually recovers from nostalgia and begins to enjoy freedom air. To all other Eylish falls in love, but tragic news from the homeland force it to return to Ireland where she meets other man and is as a result forced to make the hard choice.
Love story which is developed in the near future where lonely people are arrested and send to terrible hotel. There they are obliged to find to themselves couple in 45 days. If they don't manage it, then they are turned into an animal and release to the forest.
Irish Mary Reynolds went a way from the outsider to the winner and the owner of a gold medal of a flower show to Chelsea.
True story of the improbable novel between avaricious rybotorgovets Everett and his housekeeper Maudie whose hands were crippled by a disease. The bachelor hermit subdued by its force and light helps Maudie to reveal with creativity and to become in public favourite artist.
The nostalgic musical drama about growing. When the economic crisis of the 1980th strikes Conor's family, it is transferred from prestigious private school to state. The teenager faces roughness and ignorance of the new environment and, besides, falls in love with the inaccessible beauty. Wishing to impress the girl, Conor brings together rock group.
The storyline of this picture unfolds in the early eighteenth century, during the war between England and France. Very soon the young servant girl named Abigail becomes the front-runner of the Queen Anne and will play a significant role in the Court. In the meantime, painful Queen country trusts her best friend Lady Sarah. When Abigail appeared at Court, she immediately came to the soul and Sarah took her under his wing. At one point, Sarah tired to decide issues of war and peace. It has become a pretext to Abigail approached the Queen and became the front-runner.
History rotates around two couples in the suburb of Dublin — Jim and Danielle, Yvonne and Chris. Though externally all it seems fine, one night in the relations of both couples cracks are found. How well partners know each other and whether it is possible to recognize in general another really?
Twins Rachael and Edward — the only heirs of the ancient estate about which the gloomy rumor goes long ago. Say as if the house is damned, and something lodged in it other that inspires in people evil will. Disobedience is punished by terrible torments.
To destroy an ancient damnation — the mad idea, but the first love and unsatiable inclination to the young soldier push young Rachael on a desperate step.
The movie is inspired by the history of escape of 38 prisoners of IRA from the Maze Prison in 1983 in the heat of resistance against the British power in Northern Ireland. It was the largest escape since World War II from one of the most well protected prisons of Europe. In the center of a plot of the relation between Marley and the inspector of prison Gordon. The movie in a complicated manner and dexterously shows history from two opposite sides, investigating unfreedom depths — physical or spiritual.
Ireland. 1209. Island at the world's end. The small group of monks goes to the forced pilgrimage through the island which is torn to parts by the breeding war lasting centuries and the growing power of Norman aggressors. They accompany a sacred relic of the monastery — a stone which was used in martyrdom of Saint Mathias, the thirteenth apostle, to Rome. The travel of monks is shown by eyes of pious young beginners and mute (or silent) a keleynik with the cruel past.
In process of their advance the true material, political and religious value of a precious relic is investigated, and their way to east coast becomes more and more dangerous. Monks with delay understand that in this wild earth of ancient superstitions, the belief which connects them together finally can lead of them to death.
After arrest of the head of family in the Afghan family there were only women, apart from the one-year-old boy. As in this country the woman has no right to be on the street without the husband or the father, young Parvana cuts hair and dresses up as the boy not to allow family to starve to death.
During the book United States tour, the mature man Max meets the young woman with whom he at once falls in love. But life takes its course, and it is forced to come back home to the wife. Many years later he comes to the United States again in hope to reunite with the beloved and to understand their mixed feeling.
The talented heart surgeon Stephen leads happy life with the wife Anna and two charming children. This family idyll is threatened by the ghost from the past of which Stephen has more to hide not in power.
After series of professional failures the young writer Charles Dickens decides to write also on own means to release "Christmas Carol".
The documentary about one of the greatest achievements and the most successful scientific project of mankind — start of two spacecrafts — "Voyager-1" and "Voyager-2". 40 years "Voyagers" continue to fly and transfer data of the scientific observations to the native planet. "Voyager: further planets" is a two-hour travel along a route of "Voyagers" — to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranium, the Neptune further, to borders of Solar system. Both devices bear on themselves gold disks with the message to aliens — in case "Voyagers" suddenly should face them on the way. The story about the discoveries made by a mission in the movie alternates history of creation of a disk message — what information was chosen by people of Earth of 1977 to send to possible neighbors in the Universe? Meanwhile, while you read this paragraph, "Voyager-1" has managed to fly by 500 more kilometers — in novel.
The muse is the history scolding to a shiver which participant involuntarily was an ordinary man, professor of literature and the judge of poetry who is called Samuel Salomon. Long time he worked at the university and very much loved this place, students and business in which he is engaged. And still he left the teaching activity. He has accepted the decision to leave after the tragic death of the beloved after a while. Without her life of the main character has grown dim, there was absolutely another and didn't bring special joy any more. After dismissal it was closed at home and became practically the hermit.