Rte Movies

Based on the book by Pat Sheeran and Nina Witoszek, this hour-long documentary focuses on the hold that the dead have on the living in Ireland, and th...

Hugh Bonneville reveals how a perfect storm of political intrigue, power struggles and clashing religious passions combined, in a single week, to caus...

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features excer...

Follow the disappearance of the final Little Egg of the season in strange circumstances, leading Oona and her friends to embark on a race against time...

Golden Wedding is the story of an elderly couple, Eddie (Cosmo) and Martha (Edith MacArthur),who live alone on the edge of a loch. Eddie's illness me...

Comerford’s signature sharp realism infuses this drama about Reefer, an ex-IRA man who picks up hitch-hiker Teresa, a pregnant woman trying to overcom...

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely worl...

The dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.

Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures to find the last piece of their family puzzle and track down their long lost brother John Joe.

A homeless girl keeps a cute, dancing robot as a companion. One morning when she is out to get breakfast the robot disappears, apparently stolen. The...

Director Bill Keating built a programme around following Rory through a day of his short 1972 Irish tour. At the center of the programme is a recordin...

An Irish-American dwarf chronicles his post-World War II immigration with his mother and her affair with a married official.

Disillusioned with his life, Ray dreams of the beauty and joy he will find in retirement.

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Fl...

Hugo Chavez was a colourful, unpredictable folk hero who was beloved by his nation’s working class. He was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, and...

A mother strives to shield her young family from their new reality when their landlord sells the property and renders them homeless.

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

A small rural community in Ireland welcomes in a major, global oil company with open arms but just 10 years and numerous oil spills later, that dream...

Rupert, a ten year old boy, falls hopelessly in love for the first time. When it all goes terribly wrong, he wishes never to experience heartache agai...

Trolley Boy's frustration with his work builds up into a monster. He realises there's more to life than pushing shopping trolleys into stacks.