Cyril Cusack Movies

An overview of the making of Danny the Champion of the World (1989)

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds...

Yeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produced by the National Film Institute.

Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her...

The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been...

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a...

Mercurial, hard-drinking poet Hugh Saunders (Sir Anthony Hopkins) awaits his fortieth birthday, trying to preserve his art and his marriage against...

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.

During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond...

The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retelling of the story, W. B. Yeats...

Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell...

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's...

Mr. Berry starts to sell his wife's clothes. His wife, not being dead, is alarmed and upset.

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets...

British TV-Drama

In pre-famine Ireland, when poverty and magic were rife, introverted farm girl Maura discovers a magical world of the imagination through the...

An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.

Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady...

Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and...