8 Movies Starring Fionnula Flanagan

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-02-10

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

100 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (955 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Wendkos

Fullplot:

Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Lizzie Borden, a 19th-century Massachusetts woman, who is put on trial for the brutal slaughter of her father and step-mother in the family mansion. She is accused of hacking up her parents with an ax after carefully removing her clothes to avoid bloodstains. Based on fact and considered shocking at the time for a TV-movie.

The Ewok Adventure

The Ewok Adventure

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-11-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.5 (6889 Reviews)

Director:

John Korty

Cast:

Writer:

George Lucas (story)

Bob Carrau (teleplay)

Fullplot:

The Towani family civilian shuttlecraft crashes on the forest moon of Endor. The four Towani's are separated. Jermitt and Catarine, the mother and father are captured by the giant Gorax, and Mace and Cindel, the son and daughter, are missing when they are captured. The next day, the Ewok Deej is looking for his two sons when they find Cindel all alone in the shuttle (Mace and Cindel were looking for the transmitter to send a distress call), when Mace appears with his emergency blaster. Eventually, the four-year old Cindel is able to convince the teenage Mace that the Ewoks are nice. Then, the Ewoks and the Towani's go on an adventure to find the elder Towanis.

Some Mother's Son

Some Mother's Son

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-12-25

Languages:

English, Irish

Countries:

Ireland, USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (2040 Reviews)

Director:

Terry George

Genres:

DramaHistory

Fullplot:

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

Waking Ned Devine

Waking Ned Devine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-01-08

Languages:

English, Latin, Irish

Countries:

UK, Ireland, France, USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (20226 Reviews)

Director:

Kirk Jones

Genres:

Comedy

Fullplot:

The lucky winner of the national lottery is Ned Devine, so taken by his good fortune that he now can't be waked, because he died from the shock of it! News of the win spread quickly in the scenic little Irish village of Tully More, but not the secret news of Ned's demise. With lottery officials closing in to confirm the prize claimed by the deceased Devine, Ned's closest friends scheme to keep the prize money close to home, in memory of Ned of course! But as the plot twists humorously, they learn it is hard is to keep such a secret in a small town.

The Others

The Others

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-08-10

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA, Spain, France, Italy

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (249506 Reviews)

Fullplot:

A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-06-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (14595 Reviews)

Director:

Callie Khouri

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Rebecca Wells (novels)

Mark Andrus (adaptation)

Callie Khouri (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Siddalee, a famous New York playwright, is quoted in Time magazine and infuriates her dramatic, Southern mother. A long-distant fight wages until her mother's friends (and members of the Yaya Sisterhood) kidnap Siddalee and take her "home" to the South, where they hope to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.

Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-12-10

Languages:

English, Irish, Scottish Gaelic

Countries:

Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, France

Runtime:

93 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (14885 Reviews)

Director:

Tomm Moore

Cast:

Writer:

Will Collins

Tomm Moore (story)

Fullplot:

Saoirse is a child who is the last of the selkies, women in Irish and Scottish legends who transform from seals into people. She escapes from her grandmother's home to journey to the sea and free fairy creatures trapped in the modern world.

Life's a Breeze

Life's a Breeze

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-07-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, Sweden

Runtime:

83 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (614 Reviews)

Director:

Lance Daly

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

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