Donal McCann Movies

High Spirits

57/100

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.

The Dead

74/100

Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.

Cal

67/100

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

The Miracle

67/100

The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom...

December Bride

66/100

At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers...

The Hard Way

66/100

A professional assassin is coerced into taking on one last job.

Poitín

73/100

A poteen maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardai in Connemara

Philadelphia, Here I Come

69/100

Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).

Miss Julie

72/100

A televised Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie (Helen Mirren), a 19th century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house.

The Bishop's Story

71/100

During a conversation he has with a young priest, a bishop reveals to him a love story that turned his beliefs upside down.

Reflections

65/100

A stoic historian rents a lodge for the summer in the idyllic Irish countryside to finish his biography of Sir Isaac Newton, but his attention refocuses on his landlords, the dysfunctional lower-upper class Lawless family.

The Glorious Uncertainty

The Lost Hour

Based on John McGahern's short story "The Leavetaking" this short TV film tells the story of a young boy's experience of his mother's illness and death from cancer and his distant relationship with his father, a rural policeman.

The Key

Based on John McGahern's short story "The Bomb Box" this short film is a sequel to "The Lost Hour" (1982) charting young Patrick Moran's relationship with his father following his mother's death.

Budawanny

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