Neil Jordan Filmography

Born:: February 25, 1950 in Sligo County, Ireland
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: One of Ireland's most celebrated directors, Neil Jordan has made his name directing moody, often politically charged films that focus largely on themes of love, betrayal, and the darker realms of the human psyche. Born February 25, 1950, in Sligo County, Ireland, Jordan began his career as an...Read More

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Killing on Carnival Row

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A detective pursues a serial killer through a Victorian city populated by fairies, elves, vampires, and humans in a phantasmagorical psychological thriller from critically-acclaimed writer/director Neil Jordan. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Heart-Shaped Box

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The next generation of horror emerges as director Neil Jordan collaborates with producer Akiva Goldsman to adapt author Joe Hill's novel about an aging rock star whose macabre obsession leads him down a dangerous supernatural path. Upon taking notice of an eBay auction for a purportedly haunted Read More

1/1/08
The Brave One

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen

Synopsis: Neil Jordan's The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the police investigation will be unable to catch the perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This outlook Read More

9/14/07
Breakfast on Pluto

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, Eva Birthistle

Synopsis: An Irish boy becomes an emotional and sexual outcast as the 1960s fade into the 1970s in this period drama from director Neil Jordan. When he was just a baby in the early '60s, Patrick Braden (Conor McEvoy) was abandoned by his mother and left on the doorstep of a church overseen by Father Bernard Read More

11/18/05
Intermission

Crew: Producer

Actors: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Kelly MacDonald, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their paths colliding in sometimes violent, sometimes absurd ways in Intermission, the first feature from director John Crowley. Setting the chain of events in motion is Lehiff (Colin Farrell), a small-time crook whose most recent petty Read More

3/19/04
The Actors

Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Short Story Author

Actors: Alan Rickman, Michael Caine, Dylan Moran, Abigail Iversen, Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson

Synopsis: Conor McPherson's comedy The Actors stars Michael Caine as an aging never-was performer. Anthony O'Malley (Caine) convinces young colleague and castmate Tom (Dylan Moran) to hone his craft by pretending to be someone he isn't in real life. Tony suggests that they rip off gangster Barreller (Michael Gambon Read More

1/1/04
The Good Thief

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Gérard Darmon

Synopsis: Loosely based on Jean-Pierre Melville's French film noir Bob le Flambeur, this heist film from director Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, an aging American thief living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the Read More

4/2/03
The Last September

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Jane Birkin, Fiona Shaw, Lambert Wilson

Synopsis: Love, politics, and class at once bring together and tear apart an extended family in this period drama. In 1920, Ireland is in the midst of a political upheaval, as upper class Anglo-Irish Protestants are driven from the country by the nation's increasingly vocal wishes Irish Catholic majority. Read More

4/28/00
Not I

Crew: Director

Actors: Julianne Moore

Synopsis: Regarded by critics around the globe as Ireland's most impressive and inspired filmmaker, Crying Game and Breakfast on Pluto screen guru Neil Jordan stepped down from features in 2000 to helm the fourteen-minute Canadian short Not I. The latter is a single episode from the Beckett on Film project Read More

2000
The End of the Affair

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Heather-Jay Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Sam Bould

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this romantic drama stars Ralph Fiennes as Maurice Bendrix, a novelist who, during World War II, had an affair with Sarah Miles (Julianne Moore), the wife of his best friend Henry (Stephen Rea). Sarah abruptly broke off the romance in 1944, but two years later Read More

12/3/99
In Dreams

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey, Jr., Paul Guilfoyle, Dennis Boutsikaris, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Claire Cooper (Annette Bening), has been having psychic visions all of her life, though she's never been clear of what they mean. Now an adult, she lives an idyllic, small-town life in a Massachusetts farmhouse with her airline-pilot husband Paul (Aidan Quinn) and her young daughter Rebecca (Katie Sagona Read More

1/15/99
The Butcher Boy

Crew: Director

Actors: Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle, Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Andrew Fullerton

Synopsis: Neil Jordan directed this adaptation of Patrick McCabe's novel about a boy's struggles with violence and mental illness. Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens) is a young boy growing up in Dublin in the early 1960s, where his life is dominated by his active imagination and his best friend Joe (Alan Boyle). Read More

4/17/98
Michael Collins

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Hickey, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: The rise and fall of one of the most important and controversial figures in Ireland's struggle for independence is chronicled in this biographical drama. In 1916, the British government ruled Ireland with a firm and cruel hand, as they had for 700 years. When a group of Irish rebels staged a Read More

1996
Interview With the Vampire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater

Synopsis: Anne Rice's best-selling romantic horror tale about the origins of a centuries-old vampire inspired this popular, atmospheric chiller. One of director Neil Jordan's major Hollywood productions, the film stays close to its source material, retaining the frame of a young reporter (Christian Slater) Read More

1994
The Crying Game

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA "volunteer" who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (Forest Whitaker Read More

11/25/92
The Miracle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann, Niall Byrne, Lorraine Pilkington, J.G. Devlin

Synopsis: Neil Jordan's lyrical Irish romance takes place in the small seaside town of Bray (near Dublin) and concerns two teenage friends, Jimmy (Niall Byrne) and Rose (Lorraine Pilkington). They spend their days roaming the cobblestone streets and waterlogged piers. To while away the time, Rose and Jimmy Read More

7/3/91
We're No Angels

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Wallace Shawn, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: In this comedy, escaped prisoners Ned (Robert DeNiro) and Jim (Sean Penn) take refuge in a monastery where they pose as priests to avoid capture. Intending to flee across the Canadian border, the two convicts run into all kinds of unexpected trouble in their new-found priesthood. ~ Iotis Erlewine Read More

12/15/89
The Courier

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Padraig O'Loingsigh, Cait O'Riordan, Gabriel Byrne, Ian Bannen, Patrick Bergin

Synopsis: Mark (Padraig O'Loingsigh) investigates the death of his pal Danny (Andrew Connolly) in this shadowy crime drama. Danny's sister Colette (Cait O'Riorden) convinces Mark that something went wrong that led to her brother's death. Mark soon discovers a link between the drug dealer Val (Gabriel Byrne) Read More

12/14/88
High Spirits

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, Liam Neeson, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: The owner of an Irish castle decides to attract visitors by falsely claiming that the building is haunted, only to have a pair of real ancestral spirits start causing trouble in this uneven attempt at fantasy-comedy. The story centers on Jack and Sharon (played by Steve Guttenberg and Beverly D'Angelo Read More

11/18/88
Mona Lisa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Kate Hardie, Clarke Peters

Synopsis: Bob Hoskins plays George, a tough but basically goodhearted British mob flunky, recently released from prison, where he'd served a term to cover up for his gangster boss (Michael Caine). Still willing to be everyone's doormat, George agrees to act as chauffeur for Simone (Cathy Tyson), a haughty Read More

6/13/86
The Company of Wolves

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Stephen Rea, Tusse Silberg, Sarah Patterson

Synopsis: Company of Wolves is Little Red Riding Hood for the Alien generation. Sheltered 13-year-old Sarah Patterson, living on the edge of a foreboding woods, is visited by her grandmother Angela Lansbury. The old lady delights in telling Sarah the most horrific stories, usually involving what happens to Read More

1984
Angel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin, Veronica Quilligan, Peter Caffrey, Honor Heffernan

Synopsis: Writer/director Neil Jordan's debut feature is a tense thriller played out amid the violence in Northern Ireland. Stephen Rea stars as Danny, a saxophone player in a traveling band who witnesses the brutal murders of the manager of the band (who is involved in some extortion payoffs) and a deaf Read More

1982
Traveller

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alan Devlin

Synopsis: A young woman with a father who fences stolen property and a young man whose father is a lowly farmer get married in a wedding marred by quarrelsome relatives and quick-tempered family friends. After that inauspicious start, their life together spirals somewhat out of control. The father of the Read More

1981