Movies: Des McAleer

  • 1980
    Juno and the Paycock

    Juno and the Paycock (1980)

    Juno and the Paycock

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    During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. In the 1980 BBC adaptation of "Juno and the Paycock," Dudley Sutton played the role of Captain Jack B...

    Juno and the Paycock
  • 1994
    Family

    Family (1994)

    Family

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    This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John ...

    Family
  • 1983
    The Schooner

    The Schooner (1983)

    The Schooner

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    8-year-old Terry comes to stay with his uncle and aunt on their farm on one of the magical Irish isles. But this is a lonely place for a little boy whose mother has just died... A movie of Celtic pathos, "The Schooner" will remain in the memory long ...

    The Schooner
  • 1988
    Crossfire

    Crossfire (1988)

    Crossfire

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    A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole....

    Crossfire
  • 2006
    Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand

    Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand (2006)

    Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand

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    The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and the prison guards who stand watch over the perpetrators of the Holocaust....

    Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
  • 2016
    National Theatre Live: The Seagull

    National Theatre Live: The Seagull (2016)

    National Theatre Live: The Seagull

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    On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone involved forever. Chekhov’s masterly meditation on how the old take revenge on the young is both comic and tragic, an...

    National Theatre Live: The Seagull
  • 1986
    No Man's Land

    No Man's Land (1986)

    No Man's Land

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    No Man's Land
  • 2023
    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion (2023)

    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

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    A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making film with stop motion technique is Nukufilm located in Tallinn, Estland. Here we can follow the work...

    Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
  • 1983
    The Writing on the Wall

    The Writing on the Wall (1983)

    The Writing on the Wall

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    A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the death of a soldier. But when a squaddie is shot on the doorstep, then real life intrudes in the shape of the police and security forces....

    The Writing on the Wall