Stephen Rea Movies

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

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno...

Gilsenan’s latest work is a non-narrative film, inspired by a new translation of the seminal Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō by the Irish...

A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters dwelling in...

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll...

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...

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in...

Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an...

Written by Stewart Parker to celebrate the centenary of James Joyce's birth. It takes the viewer on a journey into the imagined world of Joyce's mind...

A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.

Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture...

Behind the scenes of the 1993 film The End of the Affair by Neil Jordan.

In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of...

Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive,...

The award-winning 1973 documentary looks at the situation in Northern Ireland as it affects the Catholic community of Ardoyne. Includes interviews...

A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.

A behind the scenes look at a theatre company formed by playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. It contains footage of rehearsals and the...