Neil Jordan
1) Byzantium
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two female vampires wreak havoc on an unsuspecting English seaside community. Introverted Eleanor and the outgoing Clara both carry secrets from deep in their shared past-all 200 years of it. Shacked up in the seedy Byzantium Hotel, they scheme to keep their secrets from unsuspecting new victims in this seductive, stylish new take on the vampire genre.
2) Mona Lisa
Series
Criterion collection volume 107
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The brilliant breakthrough film by writer-director Neil Jordan journeys into the dark heart of the London underworld to weave a gripping, noir-infused love story. Bob Hoskins received an Oscar nomination for his touchingly vulnerable, not-so-tough-guy portrayal of George, recently released from prison and hired by a sinister mob boss to chauffeur call girl Simone between high-paying clients. George's fascination with the elegant, enigmatic Simone...
3) Greta
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, Erica is in...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Andy walks into Burleigh's Amazing Hall of Mirrors, and then he walks right into the mirror, [becoming] a reflection. Another boy, a boy who is not Andy, goes home with Andy's parents. And the boy who was once Andy is pulled--literally pulled, by the hands, by a girl named Mona--into another world, a carnival world where anything might happen"--Amazon.com.
8) Marlowe
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and web of lies that he's determined to bring to light." --
10) Nightlines
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, a jailed Irishman recalls his affair with a woman who subsequently married his father, twice her age, one reason he went to war. He is released and sent to Ireland to contact the IRA for Germany, seeks reconciliation with his now-crippled father and resumes the romance with his old flame, now his stepmother.
12) Michael Collins
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of an Irish man whose dreams inspired hope, whose words ingited passion, and whose courage forged a nation's destiny.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
14) The crying game
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. He starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
15) The crying game
Publisher
LIVE Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend.
16) Mona Lisa
Series
Criterion collection volume 107
Language
English
Description
An ex-con and a call girl are thrown together when he becomes her chauffeur. Initially he detests her but winds up under her spell.
17) In dreams
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1998
Language
English
Description
Claire Cooper's peaceful family life takes a chilling turn when a msyterious serial killer invades her seemingly idyllic New England town and haunts her dreams with dark clues to his next deadly moves.
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After exacting vicious punishment on all those who opposed them, the Borgias are at the apex of their power and influence. With the world around them embroiled in war and turmoil, the original crime family will continue to exploit allies, silence critics, and solidify legacies. But this time, the seemingly unbreakable bonds of blood will be tested like never before, as the house notoriously united against the world becomes divided against itself.
19) The crying game
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.
