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My Dear Palestrina (1980)
Character: Mother
'One of your Popes had a great thing to say once. He had been listening to some music by Palestrina with Palestrina himself. He said to him, " The law, my dear Palestrina, ought to employ your music to lead hardened criminals to repentance".'
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Potatohead Blues (1982)
Character: Sheila McVay
Stan McVay has given up smoking, gone on a diet and feels like hell. He's also abandoned the Ulster spud and learned that his teenage daughter is having an affair with a married man.
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The Story of Ruth (1982)
Character: Vicky Rippere
The nightmare experience of a young American housewife, confronted by a dark secret from her childhood.
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Children of the North (1991)
Character: May Donnelly
The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
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The Long March (1980)
Character: Cassandra
A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
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Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain (1981)
Character: Personnel Officer
Two women navigate the challenges of life on a wintry day in 1980s Belfast. While Ruby has a cold and gets caught in the rain, Iris is job-hunting but feels lost in the traffic.
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Loving Hazel (1989)
Character: Teacher
Mike and his ex-wife have an 8-year-old daughter, Hazel. She calls her new mother's boyfriend 'daddy', which Mike goes along with until his access to Hazel is limited.
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Ascendancy (1983)
Character: Mother
Ascendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
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Anybody's Nightmare (2001)
Character: Mrs. Dobson
Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.
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Priest (1995)
Character: Sister Kevin
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
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Children (1976)
Character: Mother
Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
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The Black Stuff (1980)
Character: Doris
A Liverpool tarmac gang set off for a contract in Middlesbrough. After a day of work, the group are approached by two gypsies who offer them a lucrative side job.
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Scrubbers (1982)
Character: Nun
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls.
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I Know You Know (2009)
Character: Lilly
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in his own reality—an undercover agent, always on an important mission, always on the move. Life for Charlie is highly charged and on the edge. He is unpredictable, explosive, yet kind hearted and fiercely protective of his Jamie who hero-worships his father.
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The Terence Davies Trilogy (1983)
Character: N/A
In stark black and white, Terence Davies excavates the life of his fictional alter ego, Robert Tucker, in a narrative that slips between childhood, middle age and death, shaping the raw materials of his own life into a rich tapestry of experiences and impressions.
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