Acting

Des Cave

Acting credits

Veronica Guerin poster
6.7

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

Veronica Guerin

2003

Cry of the Innocent poster
6.0

An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.

Cry of the Innocent

1980

The General poster
6.7

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.

The General

1998

Don't Go poster
4.9

Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream. But is it just a dream? Or is Ben losing his mind?

Don't Go

2018

The Outsider poster
5.8

Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.

The Outsider

1979

Vicious Circle poster
8.5

Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery

Vicious Circle

1999

Trojan Eddie poster
5.3

Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.

Trojan Eddie

1996

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man poster
6.3

Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty, and politics. However, his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1977

Philadelphia, Here I Come poster
7.0

Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).

Philadelphia, Here I Come

1975

According to the Rules poster
NR

When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case is likely to have consequences for both the policeman and his family.

According to the Rules

1974

Watermelon poster
4.3

A tangled web of deceit pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.

Watermelon

2003

Dead Man's Girl poster
9.0

When small-town newspaper journalist Kevin learns of his predecessor's horrific death, he's surprised to find the cops aren't investigating the murder. Helped by the dead man's attractive girlfriend, Kevin starts digging for information -- and soon finds himself caught up in a world he never imagined.

Dead Man's Girl

1998

Mir Friends poster
10.0

Described by one critic as 'Ballykissangel meets Apollo 13', this short (26 minute) film is based on the extraordinary true story of a Donegal 'ham' radio enthusiast who made contact with a Soviet cosmonaut stranded on the MIR Space station during the summer of 1991.

Mir Friends

1999

Paddy poster
7.0

An Irish lover tries to juggle varied sexual encounters with uninspired home life in ordinary comedy-drama.

Paddy

1970

Country poster
9.0

The film describes the relationship between a father and his two motherless sons in Ireland, and how it changes when their aunt from London arrives.

Country

2000