12 Movies Starring Cillian Murphy

On the Edge

On the Edge

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-09-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2879 Reviews)

Director:

John Carney

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

After the death of his alcoholic father, Jonathan Breech steals his father's ashes from his brother's house. He drives a stolen car off a cliff in order to commit suicide but he survives. After this, he accepts an alternative sentence of three months in therapy in a psychiatric hospital. There, he joins a suicide group under the supervision of Dr. Figure. He befriends a disturbed Rachel Row (who saw her mother dying in an accident) and Toby (who accidentally killed his brother in a car crash). During the treatment, the sarcastic Jonathan changes his behavior and sees the importance of being alive.

Disco Pigs

Disco Pigs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-10-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3350 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Enda Walsh (play)

Enda Walsh (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Pig and Runt - born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by blood. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are also partners in crime, with an appetite for recklessness, exploration and destruction. But days before their 17th birthday the perfect balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and increasing jealousy begins to threaten the private universe they have spent their lives constructing. Unable to contemplate the loss of Runt, Pig's unpredictable nature spirals out of control in a trail of violence. The invisible thread between them is stretched to breaking point, the inseparable are about to separate, and which one will survive depends on which one can break free.

The Way We Live Now

The Way We Live Now

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-11-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

300 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1972 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

At the center of the story is Augustus Melmotte, a European-born city financier, whose origins are as mysterious as his business dealings. Trollope describes him as 'something in the city', but the "something" part is not always clear. Within weeks of arriving in London, he announces a new company and promises instant fortune to those who join him in this scheme. Melmotte is surrounded by a circle of decadent aristos, scheming widows and nouveau riche businessmen, all trying to get a piece of the financial pie. His disobedient daughter, Marie, is played by Shirley Henderson, while Cheryl Campbell, Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza bring to life the aristocratic but impoverished Carbury family.

Breakfast on Pluto

Breakfast on Pluto

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-01-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, UK

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (16593 Reviews)

Director:

Neil Jordan

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Neil Jordan

Pat McCabe

Pat McCabe (book)

Fullplot:

A young transwoman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age in the 1970s. She leaves her Irish town, in part to look for her mother and in part because her transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding. She's taken in by a rock band, falls for the lead singer, has brushes with the IRA, is arrested by the London police, works in a peep show, and poses as a survey researcher for the phone company. Throughout, her nationality and her nature put her at great risk. In her search for her mother, she makes surprising discoveries of friendship and family. But, will she survive?

Red Eye

Red Eye

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2005-08-19

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (89509 Reviews)

Director:

Wes Craven

Cast:

Writer:

Carl Ellsworth (screenplay)

Carl Ellsworth (story)

Dan Foos (story)

Fullplot:

This is the story of a young resourceful heroine woman named Lisa Reisert who hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying! Upon boarding the plane, Lisa is trapped on a red-eye flight with a creepy villainous handsome and charming man by the name of Jackson Rippner, who's playing middle-man in the plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official. He's got her father pinned down by a would-be killer, using that advantage to coerce Lisa into phoning the luxury resort where she works and arranging to move the target into a pre-set position.

Sunshine

Sunshine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-07-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (175576 Reviews)

Director:

Danny Boyle

Fullplot:

50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind's last hope.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-03-23

Languages:

English, Irish, Latin

Countries:

Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Switzerland

Runtime:

127 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (34563 Reviews)

Director:

Ken Loach

Fullplot:

In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.

Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-09-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (3339 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Soter

Fullplot:

Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur. Will Neil step up and embrace a life full of adventure or retreat back to his comfortable couch?

Perrier's Bounty

Perrier's Bounty

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, UK

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (4773 Reviews)

Director:

Ian Fitzgibbon

Fullplot:

Michael is a perpetual waster. He owes money to Perrier, a local thug. When two enforcers demand payment by nightfall, Michael does a burglary with two others but won't be paid till morning. All he has to do is stay away from the thugs until he can get the money then give it to Perrier. But the lads catch Michael and start to deliver a beating, but Brenda, Michael's suicidal neighbor, shoots one. Now they must run for their lives, accompanied by Jim, Michael's estranged father who claims to be dying and has come to reconcile with his son. Will any of the trio see the sun rise? And can Michael become enlightened, become a better man?

Red Lights

Red Lights

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-03-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

Spain, USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (44939 Reviews)

Director:

Rodrigo Cortès

Fullplot:

The skeptical psychologist Dr. Margaret Matheson and her assistant, physicist Tom Buckley, are specialists in disclosing fraudulent paranormal phenomena. When the famous psychic Simon Silver reappears to his public after many years of absence, Tom becomes singularly obsessed in determining whether Silver is a fraud or not.

Transcendence

Transcendence

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-04-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, China, USA

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (151500 Reviews)

Director:

Wally Pfister

Fullplot:

Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed-to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can...but if they should. Their worst fears are realized as Will's thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.

Aloft

Aloft

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-01-23

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

Spain, Canada, France

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.6 (786 Reviews)

Director:

Claudia Llosa

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist (Mèlanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.

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