Leo McCabe

Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.

In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.

Binkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.

En 1922, à Dublin, pendant la révolte du Sinn Fein. Gypo Nolan, un pauvre diable, exclu d'un groupe de patriotes pour désobéissance, se retrouve seul et sans le sou. À court d'idées, il s'avise tout à coup que la tête de son ami Frankie est mise à prix. En le livrant, il empocherait quelques billets bienvenus. C'est ce qu'il s'empresse de faire. Frappé soudain par d'obsédants remords, il s'en va dilapider la récompense au cabaret…

Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.

En tournée à Londres, le chanteur Ray Charles rend visite à une classe de jeunes aveugles. Il devient l'ami de l'un d'eux, David, et voudrait l'aider car il trouve que sa mère lui donne trop de soins. Une opération est possible mais elle hésite. Elle finit par accepter et David est opéré à Paris où le chanteur donne un récital...