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Mrs Robinson

Aoife Kelleher, 94 minutes, 2024

A reforming constitutional lawyer and senator in her early career, Mary Robinson detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990. Later, as a crusading UN High Commissioner, she built a lasting legacy; fearlessly challenging perpetrators of…

Much Ado About Dying

Simon Chambers, 82 minutes, 2022

Filmmaker Simon finds his life drastically interrupted when he is called back from Delhi to London to care for his dying uncle David, an eccentric, cantankerous, flamboyant thesp obsessed with King Lear. David has been given months to live but…

Murdair Mhám Trasna

Colm Bairéad, 82 minutes, 2018

A feature length docu-drama centered on an infamous event in Irish history, the brutal slaying in 1882 of a family of five in the remote village of Mám Trasna in the west of Ireland. A swift and severe response from…

Murphy Vs Christmas

Alex Fegan, 81 minutes, 2026

Murphy Vs Christmas is a darkly satirical yet heartfelt drama set in contemporary Dublin. When avant-garde artist Eoin Murphy tells his six-year-old daughter that Santa Claus isn’t real, her distress sparks controversy. Outraged by a teacher’s attempt to preserve the…

Muse

Jaume Balagueró, 107 minutes, 2017

Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. He has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered by a strange ritual. Suddenly,…

My Brothers

Paul Fraser, 90 minutes, 2010

A warm-hearted and rustic family drama, My Brothers sees distraught son Noel (Timmy Creed) cross Ireland in search of a replacement for his dying father’s watch, travelling with the help of his younger brothers Paudie (Paul Courtney) and Scwally (TJ…

My Father, My Blood

John Robert Brown, 13 minutes, 2016

A man and his child live a nomadic existence. After he murders a woman, their relationship begins to break apart.

My Left Foot

Jim Sheridan, 103 minutes, 1989

His first film as director, My Left Foot launched Jim Sheridan’s international career and launched Irish cinema onto the world stage with My Left Foot earning Academy Award victories for Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown and Brenda Fricker as Mrs Brown. The film also…

My Lost Russian Mother

Sam Jones, 86 minutes, 2023

Irish filmmaker Sam Jones, in his first feature documentary, welcomes the newfound friendship of US citizen Gabe, and follows him to a remote Russian village in search of the mother he and his sister were taken from in childhood when…

My Name is Emily

Simon Fitzmaurice, 94 minutes, 2015

In this fresh coming-of-age drama, super-smart but socially awkward Emily (Evanna Lynch) is concerned when she doesn’t receive a birthday card from her loving but absent father. When she hooks up with fellow outcast Arden (George Webster) at her new…

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