Peter Coonan

Acting

Peter Coonan

Acting credits

Hokum poster
6.9

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

Hokum

2026

TRAD poster
NR

From their home in the Donegal Gaeltacht, gifted fiddle player Shóna McAnally and her little brother Mickey take to the road with a troupe of wandering musicians, on a cross-country journey of adventure, romance, and musical exploration. 

TRAD

2026

What Richard Did poster
5.7

What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.

What Richard Did

2012

A Thousand Times Good Night poster
6.8

On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul, Rebecca – one of the world’s top war photojournalists - gets badly hurt. Back home, another bomb drops as her husband and daughters give her an ultimatum: her work or her family.

A Thousand Times Good Night

2013

We Have Always Lived in the Castle poster
5.5

In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live isolated in a big mansion located on the hill overlooking the town, tormented by the memories of a family tragedy occurred six years ago. The arrival of cousin Charles will threaten the fragile equilibrium of their minds, haunted by madness, fear and superstition.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

2019

Regressions poster
NR

The Moore siblings reunite the night before a family funeral. But when they try to discuss the future, they get stuck in the ways of the past.

Regressions

The Echo Chamber poster
NR

Leo and Ava chase each other—coming close, drifting apart, and searching for their way back. They cannot let go, nor break free. Through the rooms, Ava’s voice echoes across time, carrying to the surface what endures—and what can no longer be held back.

The Echo Chamber

2026

Cat & Mouse poster
NR

Cat is at work in the local diner. She is contemplating robbing the place when a man in a mouse costume enters with the same intentions.

Cat & Mouse

2024

The Gates poster
7.0

A serial killer has been sentenced to death by electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in, and all of those in it.

The Gates

2024

Penance poster
5.9

Unequivocal about the need for violence to force Britain out of Ireland, Father Eoin O’Donnell seals the fate of the young and impressionable Antaine by convincing him to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later, the reappearance of the now-experienced gunman Antaine in a divided Derry throws Father O’Donnell into turmoil. Once allies, the pair are now placed on opposite sides of the same agenda.

Penance

2018

Older poster
3.7

Alex is a failed filmmaker approaching thirty who has moved back in with his parents and re-adopted his teenage lifestyle. While attending a wedding, he reconnects with Jenny, an old high school friend who can both appreciate and relate to Alex’s reluctance to grow up. But Alex is also trying to court Stephanie, someone he has had on and off again dalliances with for over a decade.

Older

2020

Arracht poster
6.8

Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen.

Arracht

2021

Gridlock poster
8.0

Gridlock is a thriller set during a traffic jam on a country road. When a little girl goes missing from one of the cars, her father forms a desperate search party to find her, and soon everyone is a suspect.

Gridlock

2016

Sentinel poster
10.0

With his father’s dementia progressing, things quickly take a turn for the worse when Carl hears news that his dad is nowhere to be found in his new care home.

Sentinel

2021

100 Years of Ulysses poster
7.0

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), owner of the small bookstore Shakespeare & Co. The book, whose writing consumed seven years of Joyce's life, years in which his family was in financial need, would have a profound and unprecedented impact on 20th century literature and culture.

100 Years of Ulysses

2022

Saltwater poster
7.1

An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles in school.

Saltwater

2000

No artwork available
NR

Cape Clear Island is a place of sanctuary and freedom. The community on the island takes in people of all walks of life who need somewhere to escape to.

Tar Anseo

2022

No Time Wasters poster
NR

The loss of a home, the quiet manipulations and the weight of survival - Marianne is pulled into a world where the lines between kindness and exploitation dangerously blur, forcing her to confront what she’ll sacrifice to survive.

No Time Wasters

2025

No artwork available
NR

Doug is having a very bad day. Terminally broke and facing eviction, he's charged by his estranged partner, Julie, with the task of looking after his son, Billy, for the day; while simultaneously having to get rid of the family dog - Billy's best and only friend. Welcome to the doghouse.

Doghouse

2013

Nightlink poster
NR

A bereaved man, grieving and drunk, idly asks for a way out. Unfortunately, in doing so, he irritates someone that could give him just that.

Nightlink

2021

King of the Travellers poster
7.4

King of the Travellers is a contemporary drama grounded in the traditions of the Irish traveller community and driven by emotive Shakespearean themes of love, betrayal, friendship and revenge. The story follows John Paul Moorehouse on his destructive quest to uncover the truth about the killer of his father twelve years ago. John Paul's desire for revenge is swayed as he falls for Winnie Power, the daughter of the man he suspects killed his father. John Paul must now battle between his consuming passion for justice versus his desire to be with the woman he now loves.

King of the Travellers

2013

Doineann poster
6.0

When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home he discovers his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approaching, he is forced to place his trust in the small community's lone retired police officer, Labhaoise, to investigate. As the search takes an unexpected turn, some uncomfortable truths are revealed. Meanwhile the storm looms ever closer.

Doineann

2021

Go Ye Afar poster
NR

A Nigerian taxi driver and his passenger go on a miraculous voyage through the streets of Dublin and Calabar.

Go Ye Afar

2025

Amongst the Wolves poster
5.7

On the streets of Dublin, Danny, a homeless man grappling with the ghosts of his past, finds himself caught in a cycle of despair and survival. Haunted by memories of his time serving in the Royal Irish Army, Danny's life takes a turn when he encounters Will, a young teenager on the run from a dangerous drug gang.

Amongst the Wolves

2025