Sean McGinley Filmography

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary Riordan

Synopsis: Two brothers are caught on differing sides of the battle for Irish freedom in this politically minded historical drama from veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach. It's 1920, and Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) has recently graduated from medical school. Damien plans to leave the small village in Read More

Closing the Ring

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Sixty-five years after making his screen debut as a young stoker in co-directors Noël Coward and David Lean's World War II drama In Which We Serve, Richard Attenborough perfects the balance between epic story and intimate tale with this drama starring Shirley MacLaine and Neve Campbell as a mother Read More

On a Clear Day

Actors: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Sean McGinley, Jamie Sives, Billy Boyd

Synopsis: A middle-aged man gives himself the challenge of a lifetime in this comedy drama from the U.K. Frank (Peter Mullan) has spent most of his 55 years working the same job in the shipyards of Glasgow until he's fired after business tapers off and technology makes his position unnecessary. While Frank Read More

The Tiger's Tail

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, John Kavanagh

Synopsis: Deliverance and Tailor of Panama director John Boorman returns to the director's chair for this tale of a hawkish businessman who slowly finds his life being taken over by the twin brother he never knew he had. Liam O'Leary (Brendan Gleeson) is a no-nonsense real-estate developer who isn't above Read More

Freeze Frame

Actors: Lee Evans, Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice, Colin Salmon, Rachael Stirling

Synopsis: They say that just because you're paranoid it doesn't mean someone isn't really out to get you, and a man learns the truth behind that little joke in this British thriller. Sean Veil (Lee Evans) was accused of the gruesome murder of a woman and her two children on the basis of circumstantial Read More

Conspiracy of Silence

Actors: Jonathan Forbes, Jason Barry, Brenda Fricker, Hugh Bonneville, John Lynch

Synopsis: U.K. filmmaker John Deery makes his writing and directing feature debut with the religious drama Conspiracy of Silence, dealing with the controversial topic of reforming the Catholic Church. At an Irish seminary school, student Daniel McLaughlin (Jonathan Forbes) is caught in a compromising Read More

Dead Bodies

Actors: Andrew Scott, Kelly Reilly

Synopsis: The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had thought he had seen the last of Jean (Katy Davis) after their recent breakup, but when Jean returns to stake her Read More

Man About Dog

Actors: Allen Leech, Ciaran Nolan, Tom Murphy, Sean McGinley, Fionnula Flanagan

The Claim

Actors: Peter Mullan, Wes Bentley, Milla Jovovich, Nastassja Kinski, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: One man's small empire threatens to collapse under the weight of his greed and deceit in this drama that transplants the story of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge to 19th century America. In 1867, Dillon (Peter Mullan) is an Irish immigrant who settled in California during the Gold Rush of Read More

The Disappearance of Finbar

Synopsis: With a nod towards the films of Aki Kaurismaki, this off-beat, whimsical directorial debut by British filmmaker Sue Clayton, centers on the mysterious disappearance of the titular Irish youth, who late one night, leapt from a freeway overpass and was never heard from again. Three years later, his Read More

Simon Magus

Actors: Noah Taylor, Embeth Davidtz, Stuart Townsend, Ian Holm, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Director of award-winning short films Ben Hopkins embarked on this ambitious feature project with Robert Jones, the producer of The Usual Suspects. The screenplay is inspired by Central European folklore, spaghetti Westerns and industrial history. But the film, which runs like a fable, has its Read More

The Closer You Get

Actors: Ian Hart, Sean McGinley, Niamh Cusack, Ruth McCabe, Ewan Stewart

Synopsis: In a small Irish village where herding sheep is still one of the major industries, the largely male, unmarried population has grown dissatisfied with their lot in life; when a shipping error sends the wrong film to the local movie house, the citizens are treated to a racy item from the United Read More

The General

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Angeline Ball, Sean McGinley

Synopsis: John Boorman, who won the 1998 Cannes Film Festival's Direction award for this film, previously won the same Cannes award almost three decades earlier for his Leo the Last (1969) about an alienated aristocrat in a London slum. Shot in widescreen color (but printed in sharp black-and-white), The Read More

The Informant

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Cary Elwes, Anthony Brophy, Maria Lennon, John Kavanagh

Synopsis: This made-for-cable drama concerns political unrest and personal crises set against the battle for a free Ireland in Belfast in 1983. Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy) is a member of the Irish Republican Army who, after serving a stretch in prison, is once again called upon by the IRA to work with Read More

Bogwoman

Actors: Rachel Dowling, Peter Mullan, Sean McGinley, Noelle Brown, Maria McDernottroe

Synopsis: Set in 1958, this drama chronicles the raising of an Irish housewife's socio-political consciousness over a ten year period. Desiring a better life for her son, the unmarried Maureen crosses the border into Northern Ireland to live in the town of Bogside in Derry. There she marries the easy-going Read More

Resurrection Man

Actors: Stuart Townsend, Geraldine O'Rawe, James Nesbitt, John Hannah, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Eoin McNamee based the screenplay for this drama on his own novel, which was itself based on real-life Protestant paramilitaries known as "The Shankill Butchers," who used the cover of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland to mask their often homicidal crimes. Set in Northern Ireland of 1975, the Read More

Trojan Eddie

Synopsis: Set in Ireland, this beautifully rendered drama offers a fascinating portrait of a nomadic peddler who travels about the countryside selling housewares from his van. Trojan Eddie's unusual moniker comes from the logo upon his van. He works for John Power, the owner of several such traveling vans. Read More

Michael Collins

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

Safe and Sound [TV Series]

Actors: Desmond McAleer, Sean McGinley

Synopsis: The religious differences that have for many years torn Northern Ireland asunder were played for laughs on the British sitcom Safe and Sound. Much of the action took place in a Belfast garage, co-owned by longtime buddies Tommy Delaney (Des McAleer) and Dougy Flynn (Sean McGinley). Despite the Read More

Circle of Friends

Actors: Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Geraldine O'Rawe, Saffron Burrows, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: Set in 1957, this romantic coming-of-age story follows three childhood friends from a small town in Ireland as they head to Dublin to attend Trinity College. Nan (Saffron Burrows), a year older than her friends and already in her second year at Trinity, is ambitious, romantic, and just a bit Read More

Braveheart

Actors: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Mel Gibson, long-time heartthrob of the silver screen, came into his own as a director with Braveheart, an account of the life and times of medieval Scottish patriot William Wallace and, to a lesser degree, Robert the Bruce's struggle to unify his nation against its English oppressors. The story Read More

Family

Actors: Sean McGinley, Ger Ryan, Neili Conroy, Barry Ward

Synopsis: This British drama, condensed from a four hour televised mini-series, explores the darker side of a working-class family. The Spencers are a classically dysfunctional family. The patriarch, Charlo is a loutish, domineering brute who physically and emotionally batters his wife Paula and their Read More

The Field

Actors: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Tom Berenger, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty

Synopsis: Richard Harris was nominated for several awards (including the Oscar and Golden Globe) for his performance in The Field. The time is the mid-1930s; the place, western Ireland. For many years rugged individualist Bull McCabe (Harris) has been cultivating a small plot of rented land, nurturing it Read More

From Clare to Here

Actors: Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Jean Butler, Andy Irvine, Sean McGinley

Synopsis: Celebrated Irish fiddle player Martin Hayes staked out new professional and stylistic territory (and made music history) when he opted to begin a long-term series of collaborations with American guitarist Dennis Cahill. Working in tandem, the duo created an utterly unique sound that couples the Read More