Paddy C. Courtney

Acting

Paddy C. Courtney

Acting credits

Our Own Game poster
NR

Leaving home, a young footballer finds himself unable to outrun the emotional ties and unspoken truths he hoped to leave behind.

Our Own Game

2026

The O'Briens poster
4.8

Two years after the death of his beloved wife, Pat O'Brien summons his children back to their homestead in the west of Ireland. Fionn travels from New York, Gareth from London, and daughter Una returns from Dublin, fearing the worst. Pat is not the only family member bearing the burden of a secret. The O’Briens is a modern comedy about a dysfunctional Irish family and the town they grew up in.

The O'Briens

2013

A Bump Along the Way poster
6.8

When a fun-loving, middle-aged single mom accidentally gets pregnant, her prim teenage daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses.

A Bump Along the Way

2019

Showbands poster
9.0

It's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing his ballroom. In order to save it, he sets out to turn unknown female performer Denise into a superstar practically overnight.

Showbands

2005

Fluent Dysphasia poster
7.0

Starring Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea as Murph, who has little to say to his teenage daughter. He wakes one morning after a drunken night out, to find that he can only speak fluent Irish, something he could never do before, and that he has completely forgotten how to speak English. The situation leads to genuine, if unorthodox, communication between father and daughter. There's nothing funny about fluent dysphasia...

Fluent Dysphasia

2004

No artwork available
NR

A man has a nightmare journey home following a vasectomy.

Mebollix

2006

Separation Anxiety poster
7.0

On a warm summer's day in the not too distant future, Ireland's first divorce case is unravelling on national television. The lives of several neurotic middle class couples are followed as they reflect on their relationships in the context of legalised divorce.

Separation Anxiety

1997

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom poster
7.5

Yu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when he gets there.

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom

2003

An Irish Exorcism poster
3.8

In her final year at school, Anthropology student Lorraine decides to film her final project - the subject of exorcism within the Catholic Church. Recording interviews with priests from the local diocese, she stumbles upon Fr. Byrne, an older priest who is currently helping a young mother whose daughter is apparently possessed by a demonic force. The curiosity of Lorraine, along with her camera operator, Cathal, leads them down a dark path of discovering the terrifying truth, and things go from strange to worse as all involved become entangled into a frightful journey to save a little girl's life.

An Irish Exorcism

2013

Woman in Retrograde poster
NR

An Irish woman in the 1980s suffers a terrible tragedy and develops Dissociative Identity Disorder. Under the supervision of her unorthodox Psychologist she assumes the identity of infamous flapper girl Zelda Fitzgerald.

Woman in Retrograde

2022

No artwork available
4.5

A woman’s eyes are opened to her coercive, controlling partner when an old friend is allowed to come to dinner.

Run

2019

His Father's Son poster
NR

Seán, a 12-year-old boy raised in an Irish-speaking family on Dublin's Northside, encounters ridicule for his "unorthodox" upbringing.

His Father's Son

2005

DannyBoy poster
6.0

Set in small town Ireland in 1981, 'Dannyboy' tells the story of a young man trying to find love among New Romantics, Post Punks, Goths and others tribes. The film centres around Daniel, an anxious, stuttering teen in his attempt to save his demented family in the midst of a compromising love triangle.

DannyBoy

2020

Always on My Mind poster
NR

Declan Flynn navigates life in 1980s Ireland visiting his family home in North Dublin, The Hirschfeld Centre (Home of the Gay Liberation Movement) and finally Fairview Park, where his life and society in Ireland would change forever.

Always on My Mind

2026