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Man of Aran

Robert J. Flaherty, 76 minutes, 1934

Robert Flaherty’s seminal documentary, Man of Aran today remains one of the most important cinematic depictions of western Ireland. Initially arriving for an overnight stay, Flaherty eventually spent over two years among the native community of the Aran Islands, which…

The Man Who Wanted to Fly

Frank Shouldice, 82, 2018

Eighty-something Cavan bachelor Bobby Coote left school at 13 and says his reading and writing isn't great. He spends his days fixing clocks and making violins from old furniture. But he’s never lost sight of a lifelong dream to take…

The Man with the Hat: The Revolutionary Life and Times of Sean Garland

Kevin Brannigan
Graham Seely, 55 minutes, 2018

Documentary about Irishman Sean Garland, known as the man in with the hat, a former Workers' Party president and Official IRA Chief of Staff, and about what he has seen not only in Ireland, but in places as far away…

Mandrake

Lynne Davison, 85 minutes, 2022

Probation officer Cathy Madden is tasked with rehabilitating the notorious killer ‘Bloody’ Mary Laidlaw and integrating her back into society after twenty years in jail for the murder of her husband two decades before. Is she a witch, a psychopath…

Mary

Shaun O'Connor, 7 minutes, 2019

When he manages to destroy the town’s beloved Virgin Mary statue, Charlie O’Connor does the only thing he can do; he frames his older brother.

Mary Shelley

Haifaa Al-Mansour, 120 minutes, 2017

Acclaimed director Haifaa Al-Mansour (Wadjda) brings to life Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin's fiery, tempestuous relationship with romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the creation of Frankenstein, one of the world's most famous Gothic novels. The pair are two outsiders constrained by…

Mattress Men

Colm Quinn, 82 minutes, 2016

In an attempt to save his struggling mattress business, sixty-something Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online personality ‘Mattress Mick’ under the guidance of his good friend Paul Kelly. Paul, burdened with debts and living with his family in inner city Dublin, yearns…

Maudie

Aisling Walsh, 116 minutes, 2017

Though crippled with debilitating arthritis, Maudie (Sally Hawkins) is forced to forge her own path when her brother sells their home. A twist of fate leads her to a job as cleaning lady for taciturn fisherman Ethan Hawke), living in…

Maya

Sophia Tamburrini, 11 minutes, 2019

A man living in an idyllic simulated world is forced to return to a life he sought desperately to escape.

Maze

Stephen Burke, 93 minutes, 2017

Inspired by the true story of the escape by 38 IRA prisoners from the notorious Maze Prison in 1983 (which left one prison officer dead and others seriously injured), Maze is a post-hunger strike narrative which eschews jailbreak high-jinx in favour of…

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