Deirdre Donnelly

Acting

Deirdre Donnelly

Acting credits

Cracks poster
6.6

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Cracks

2009

Barber poster
4.7

Val Barber, a private investigator, is hired by a wealthy widow to find her missing granddaughter. Set in Dublin against the background of a global pandemic, Barber’s initial investigation into Sara’s disappearance quickly darkens. Secrets start surfacing in unexpected ways. Before too long, Barber finds himself entangled with powerful men of shady morals determined to thwart his investigation. Has he bitten off more than he can chew?

Barber

2023

No artwork available
NR

Set between Houston, Texas, and the weathered coastline of West Cork, Ireland, a grieving man vanishes to a remote Irish village, only to find that disappearing is the one thing the town — and Lou, an eccentric young woman with a curious dog — won't let him do.

The Body Is Water

#bog poster
NR

An unlikely friendship is formed between two women in the rural boglands of Ireland.

#bog

2024

Goodbye Darling poster
5.0

Goodbye Darling is one day in the enduring love story of Irish Volunteer Michael Joseph O’Rahilly and his wife Nancy. It is day five of the 1916 Rising, and as the fighting intensifies, a concerned Nancy seeks comfort and diversion by playing the piano, unaware that her husband is leaving the beleaguered G.P.O. to lead the charge that will ultimately claim his life.

Goodbye Darling

2016

No artwork available
7.0

Soon after the death of her adopted mother, Aoife searches for her birth mother and unveils a past that entangles two other women in town.

The Ferry

2019

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

Homemade poster
NR

Pensioner Tommy Fogarty wants to impress his new lady friend by baking a cake, but finds a gang of feral teenage girls have other ideas…

Homemade

2013

No artwork available
8.5

The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.

The Lilac Bus

1990

The Fantasist poster
4.4

A young Dublin woman is stalked by a telephone charmer who poses victims nude and then stabs them.

The Fantasist

1986

Rialto poster
6.2

Colm is in his mid-forties, married, with two teenage children. Still grieving the death of his father, a destructive figure in his life, Colm struggles with his relationship to his own son, whilst at work a recent takeover threatens his job. Unable to share his vulnerability with his wife, Colm’s world is falling apart around him. In the midst of this crisis, Colm finds a comfort that no one else can provide but Jay.

Rialto

2020

No artwork available
9.0

An aging school teacher remembers times gone by and thinks about her own past.

Attracta

1983

Criminal Conversation poster
NR

Two middle-class Dublin couples get together for a Christmas Eve party which degenerates into a kind of Irish "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"? Alcohol causes smug exteriors to slip and reveals unpleasant truths.

Criminal Conversation

1980

An Inside Job poster
NR

A man in a dentist chair finds himself helpless in the clutches of a schizophrenic kleptomaniac.

An Inside Job

1987