Fresh out of university and brimming with optimism, Lucy and Sean begin their civil service placements at Belfast City Council, only to find themselves thrust into chaos when a bizarre gastrointestinal epidemic - dubbed "Code Brown" - strikes the city. As nappies become black-market currency and the council descends into disarray, the duo stumbles upon a conspiracy involving illegal sewage dumping and a corrupt councillor lining his pockets. What began as mundane office work spirals into a frantic investigation filled with stool samples, shady contracts, and a very suspicious boat.
With Belfast quite literally in the shit, it’s not the bureaucrats who save the day, but its citizens. From disinfectant-wielding grannies to paramedics in DIY hazmat suits, the community rallies with resilience and absurdity.
In a climactic council showdown - punctuated by an explosive display from local wildlife... - Lucy and Sean expose the scandal, becoming unlikely heroes. The film ends with a messy but heartwarming celebration of civic pride, teamwork, and a city that proves it can weather any storm…even a tidal wave of diarrhea.
After Michael is in a car accident and loses his job while in recovery he starts to feel at odds with how he's spent his life. He rents a cheap basement room and tries to come to terms with the state of the world, via online bitesize information and videos. As Michael struggles with his narrow perception of the world, clashing with the complicated reality, he becomes fixated on an English businessman who is mismanaging a local lough.
Occupied Czechoslovakia, 1943: following her husband's death at the hands of Nazi forces, Romani woman Erika, isolates herself and her son deep in the forest. Events soon spiral out of control, when she agrees to help the local resistance on a mission gone wrong and Erika reluctantly takes up arms in the hope of saving her family, and perhaps her very people.
Hunting her down are local SS leader, Obersturmfuhrer Engel, a relentless man seeking to make sense of his own tragic loss, and Italian diplomat, Silvano Reale, attempting to stay loyal to his German allies, while remaining a decent man.
Allie Clarke is a twenty-something office clerk who is failing an interview for a Team Leader role. Outside of work, he decides to start a cricket team to keep his friends out of trouble over the summer. He recruits colleagues and boys from football who he doesn’t necessarily get on with. This all takes place against the backdrop of parades and protests and what seems like an inability for the older members of the various communities to move on from the past.
Allie is also being terrorised by a loose cannon detective called Spesh who will go to any lengths to save his own back including illegal interrogation techniques. The team struggle from one game to the next, arguing with each other but steadily improving. The season culminates with a game against Spesh and the police. Allie defeats a different sort of interrogation and exposes Spesh for the coward he is. Allie is interviewed again for the Team Leader role and this time gets the job drawing on the experience he has gained since the last interview.
George Best was one of the greatest footballers who ever lived. But he was so much more than that. Although the football pitch was his arena, Best was essentially a pop star - young, stylish, strikingly beautiful, possessed of a creative confidence that bordered on arrogance, and worshipped by young men and women alike. Like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
This film is simultaneously a celebration of a genius and an exploration of the demons that brought him down. We all know how these biopics traditionally work: in this case a talented but innocent young man from the backstreets of a divided but still pre-Troubles Belfast, becomes a star. But his time at the top is agonizingly short: a family history of alcoholism doesn’t help, in those pre-drug Sixties everyone wanted to buy him a drink, and before he was thirty, he was a washed up drunk.
But we’re taking the Benjamin Button approach here. No-one wants to go out on a downer, with the end card telling us how many hundreds of thousands lined the streets of his home town to bid him farewell, along with the millions watching on live television.
Belfast breeds fighters. But none like Eamonn Magee. Born in 1971 as the city exploded into violence, Eamonn’s life was forged in the flames of ‘the Troubles.’ Raised amid bombings, riots, and sectarian hatred, he joined the IRA youth wing as a teenager - wielding petrol bombs by day and boxing gloves by night. Attacked, shot, stabbed, and left for dead more than once, survival became his first fight. Despite a chaotic double life of street warfare and addiction, Eamonn’s talent in the ring propelled him to the top. He became a world welterweight champion - “The Miracle Man” who defied the odds. But the demons that haunted him never left. A brutal beating in a high-speed car chase shattered his leg, but not his will. He returned to defend his title in one of sport’s most astonishing comebacks. Redemption seemed possible when his son, Eamonn Jr., emerged as a clean-living, gifted boxer. But when Junior was murdered in a senseless attack, Eamonn spiralled into despair. Now, with doctors warning he has months to live, he's a man tormented by memory, addiction, and violence.
Raymond’s life is on pause - stuck in a job he hates and living with a bunch of middle class students he has nothing in common with. He’s a man adrift, until a chance encounter on a night out reunites him with his charismatic but volatile former foster brother Jerdy.
Charming his housemates, Jerdy worms his way back into Raymond’s life, feeding his dissatisfaction with his current circumstances and pulling him back to a world he was trying to escape. Jerdy brings fun, excitement and much missed brotherly love, but when he allows himself to be dragged into thuggery and criminality Raymond has to grapple with breaking the bonds of loyalty from his past. But Jerdy isn’t going to make it easy for him. Set against the vibrant backdrop of Belfast, this comedy drama with a uniquely Northern Irish perspective delivers exceptional performances, unstoppable swagger and a laugh-out-loud exploration of the relationships and experiences that make us who we are.
A young American girl finds herself stranded in a Northern Irish village when her estranged father is arrested for the murder of a policeman who vanished during The Troubles. Compelled by her father’s secrecy, she teams up with her delinquent cousin to uncover the family secrets that have shaped their lives.
Ageing farmers Kath and Ward find themselves defending their home and their lives from a ruthless people trafficker, Shepherd, when they back out of a scheme to ditch their creditors and skip the country.
Derry, 1984. In a city divided by violence and trauma, Derry City football team had been exiled from the national league for 13 years. When four ex-footballers realised their city had lost its joy, they set out to achieve the impossible in persuading the Republic of Ireland to allow them to play across the border – becoming the first team in the world to play in another country’s league. This is the story of how they did it and the extraordinary seasons that followed. It transformed how the world saw Derry and how the city saw itself.
Feisty and quick-witted, Pixie (Olivia Cooke) decides it’s finally time to escape her rural hometown and criminal family – and exact some revenge along the way. Her plan: seduce a couple of gangsters into a high-stakes drug deal and make away with the loot. Everything goes awry when the robbery ignites an old rivalry between her father (Colm Meaney) and the dangerous priest-turned-mob-boss, Father McGrath (Alec Baldwin).
When two naive friends (Ben Hardy, Daryl McCormack) accidentally save Pixie’s life, she turns on the charm and convinces them to tag along on this crazy dangerous adventure. With a body in the trunk and stolen drugs in the back seat, Pixie and the boys flee the wrath of McGrath and his gun-wielding gang of priests. But in order to survive, she must turn to her family for help, and embrace her gangster heritage one last time.
