Rte Movies

  • 1978
    Langrishe, Go Down

    Langrishe, Go Down

    Langrishe, Go Down

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    In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate stude...

    Langrishe, Go Down
  • 1984
    Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

    Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

    Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

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    The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays,...

    Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
  • 2024
    Hothouse Flowers: Stick Around and Laugh a While

    Hothouse Flowers: Stick Around and Laugh a While

    Hothouse Flowers: Stick Around and Laugh a While

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    A look back at the band in 1988, and their sold-out UK tour in 2023, while investigating why and how the group still stays together

    Hothouse Flowers: Stick Around and Laugh a While
  • 2010
    Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary

    Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary

    Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary

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    On January 30th, 1972, the British Army shot dead thirteen unarmed civilians taking part in a civil rights march in Derry. At the subsequent Tribunal...

    Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary
  • 2024
    The Rory Gallagher Story

    The Rory Gallagher Story

    The Rory Gallagher Story

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    Rory Gallagher was the original Irish guitar hero, whose artistry with a battered ’61 Stratocaster became the stuff of legend. Bob Dylan and Muddy Wat...

    The Rory Gallagher Story
  • 2016
    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

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    A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Protestant nationalist.

    A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
  • 2007
    Garage

    Garage

    Garage

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    Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things sta...

    Garage
  • 2022
    The Sparrow

    The Sparrow

    The Sparrow

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    A teenager lies about his brother's death and struggles to face the consequences that unfold until his domineering father offers the possibility of fo...

    The Sparrow
  • 2008
    Gaybo Laughs Back

    Gaybo Laughs Back

    Gaybo Laughs Back

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    Gaybo Laughs Back is an hour-long special, hosted by Gay Byrne who introduces some of the comedy highlights from his thirty-seven years at the helm of...

    Gaybo Laughs Back
  • 2003
    A Ferret Called Mickey

    A Ferret Called Mickey

    A Ferret Called Mickey

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    Eight year old Paulie is happiest when dressing-up in his mother’s high heels and having tea parties in the garden. His father however would prefer hi...

    A Ferret Called Mickey
  • 1994
    Perry Como's Irish Christmas

    Perry Como's Irish Christmas

    Perry Como's Irish Christmas

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    Perry Como's last great concert special, filmed in Ireland and screened in 1994. Como appears before an audience of 4,500 in Ireland's celebrated Poin...

    Perry Como's Irish Christmas
  • 1990
    Dear Sarah

    Dear Sarah

    Dear Sarah

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    Giuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as s...

    Dear Sarah
  • 1990
    The Lilac Bus

    The Lilac Bus

    The Lilac Bus

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    The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.

    The Lilac Bus
  • 2003
    Holy Cross

    Holy Cross

    Holy Cross

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    Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighb...

    Holy Cross
  • 2008
    Alarm

    Alarm

    Alarm

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    A grieving woman leaves Dublin to the Irish countryside for a fresh start. Soon her new life is disturbed by a vendetta and her own suspicion towards...

    Alarm
  • 1994
    Family

    Family

    Family

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    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, abusiv...

    Family
  • 2021
    Camera Tripod Bicycle

    Camera Tripod Bicycle

    Camera Tripod Bicycle

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    Camera Tripod Bicycle celebrates the work of Dubliner and fireman Leslie Crowe who spent 25 years filming his city and family on his 8mm Brownie came...

    Camera Tripod Bicycle
  • 2023
    Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War

    Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War

    Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War

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    Michael Portillo returns with an authored documentary, that uses British state papers to shed fresh light on key events and personalities during the C...

    Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War
  • 2020
    The Dead Hands of Dublin

    The Dead Hands of Dublin

    The Dead Hands of Dublin

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    A failed pianist comes into possession of a pair of enchanted gloves. Upon wearing them, he finds himself playing the piano like a maestro and all his...

    The Dead Hands of Dublin
  • 2019
    Shooting the Darkness

    Shooting the Darkness

    Shooting the Darkness

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    The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around...

    Shooting the Darkness