Movies: George Shane

  • 2007
    Closing the Ring

    Closing the Ring (2007)

    Closing the Ring

    6.12007HD

    During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michig...

    Closing the Ring
  • 1987
    A Prayer for the Dying

    A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

    A Prayer for the Dying

    5.81987HD

    Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger....

    A Prayer for the Dying
  • 2006
    Wilderness

    Wilderness (2006)

    Wilderness

    6.12006HD

    Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival....

    Wilderness
  • 1984
    Cal

    Cal (1984)

    Cal

    5.91984HD

    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....

    Cal
  • 2000
    An Everlasting Piece

    An Everlasting Piece (2000)

    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 partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two...

    An Everlasting Piece
  • 1998
    Resurrection Man

    Resurrection Man (1998)

    Resurrection Man

    6.11998HD

    Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...

    Resurrection Man
  • 1993
    Love Lies Bleeding

    Love Lies Bleeding (1993)

    Love Lies Bleeding

    01993HD

    Conn, a member of the IRA and a former hunger striker, is serving a life sentence for murder. During peace talks, he is released on a 24-hour parole and uses the time to search for his girlfriend Leyla’s killer. He finds only lies and intrigue surrou...

    Love Lies Bleeding
  • 1981
    Maeve

    Maeve (1981)

    Maeve

    6.41981HD

    Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people....

    Maeve
  • 1979
    The Last Window Cleaner

    The Last Window Cleaner (1979)

    The Last Window Cleaner

    01979HD

    When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no one is what they seem and everyone has been living with 'the troubles' for far too long......

    The Last Window Cleaner
  • 1990
    Shoot to Kill

    Shoot to Kill (1990)

    Shoot to Kill

    01990HD

    Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), a...

    Shoot to Kill
  • 2003
    Holy Cross

    Holy Cross (2003)

    Holy Cross

    42003HD

    Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school....

    Holy Cross
  • 1992
    You, Me & Marley

    You, Me & Marley (1992)

    You, Me & Marley

    61992HD

    A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' ni...

    You, Me & Marley
  • 1986
    Shergar

    Shergar (1986)

    Shergar

    01986HD

    Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan ...

    Shergar
  • 1989
    Chinese Whispers

    Chinese Whispers (1989)

    Chinese Whispers

    01989HD

    Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends. When a strange young man is introduced to the group, he threatens the love, discipline and respect ...

    Chinese Whispers
  • 1983
    Acceptable Levels

    Acceptable Levels (1983)

    Acceptable Levels

    01983HD

    A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by...

    Acceptable Levels
  • 1987
    Lorna

    Lorna (1987)

    Lorna

    01987HD

    In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires....

    Lorna
  • 1984
    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    A Coming to Terms for Billy (1984)

    A Coming to Terms for Billy

    01984HD

    Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man? Third in the trilogy....

    A Coming to Terms for Billy
  • 1995
    Beyond Reason

    Beyond Reason (1995)

    Beyond Reason

    01995HD

    Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan an...

    Beyond Reason
  • 1984
    Pigs

    Pigs (1984)

    Pigs

    31984HD

    A group of unemployed and marginalised souls eke out a meagre living by drawing welfare and occupying a derelict squat in an apocalyptic inner city Dublin. Among the undesirables are a gay man estranged from his wife, a pimp and his prostitute, a des...

    Pigs
  • 1995
    Life After Life

    Life After Life (1995)

    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 finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family ar...

    Life After Life