Stephen Rea Movies

Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns...

The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.

Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an...

Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to...

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.

Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday....

Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather...

The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men,...

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his...

The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. This film...

The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his...

When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.

A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett's first play 'Waiting for Godot' in which nothing...

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old...

Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's play concerns Sadie, a sharp tongued Belfast...

Drama about a Northern Irish football scout by Frank McGuinness and directed by Danny Boyle.

A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man...

A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.