Peter Gowen

Acting

Peter Gowen

County Cork, Ireland

Acting credits

Breakfast on Pluto poster
7.2

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.

Breakfast on Pluto

2005

The Butcher Boy poster
6.8

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.

The Butcher Boy

1998

My Boy Jack poster
6.6

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.

My Boy Jack

2007

Dollhouse poster
4.5

Five street teens break into a house in a rich Dublin suburb for a night of partying. But games are twisted into something more emotional and ultimately out of control through a series of surprising revelations.

Dollhouse

2012

Dancing at Lughnasa poster
6.0

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

Dancing at Lughnasa

1998

Noble poster
6.4

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

Noble

2014

Who Bombed Birmingham? poster
8.5

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks

Who Bombed Birmingham?

1990

No artwork available
NR

Against the backdrop of the bombing campaign in Britain and the Northern Ireland Hunger Strike, a young woman joins a terrorist operation which takes three people hostage. Over the days of their captivity, she questions her own involvement and the history of Ireland which has brought her to this point.

Hostage

1985