Ian McElhinney
9 titles
Filmography
9 results

Dave Allen at Peace
(2018)How Dave Allen become one of TV's greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers.

Sacrifice
(2016)A couple encounters a sinister cult in a Norwegian village.

Scapegoat
(2009)A combustible crime drama of sex, class, bogus respectability, and dark domestic secrets surrounding one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders.

A Patch of Fog
(2015)When a security guard catches a famous writer and TV host shoplifting, he forms the perfect plan to let him off—blackmail him into becoming friends.

Zoo
(2018)Based on a true story, this charming tale follows Tom, a 12-year-old determined to save a baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.

Bad Day for the Cut
(2017)A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.

An Old Fashioned Christmas
(2010)Young Tilly (Catherine Steadman, The Tudors, Game of Thrones) is uprooted from her New Hampshire farm by her grandmother, Isabella (Jacqueline Bisset, Nip / Tuck, Welcome to New York), a wealthy society woman determined to make Tilly’s dream of becoming a writer come true. Just days before Christmas, they’ve arrived in Dublin, where Tilly is to become the protégé to Ireland’s Poet Laureate, and if all goes well, wife to the old man’s cynical son, Cameron (Leon Ockenden, Secret Diary of a Call Girl). But Tilly’s independent spirit soon paves a different course of action altogether.

Angel
(1982)Danny (Stephen Rea) is the gifted but unstable saxophonist in an Armagh dance band. One night he witnesses the murder of the band's manager and a deaf-mute girl by local racketeers. Danny determines to avenge their deaths. But his search for the killers evolves into a hopeless obsession, destroying first his relationship with musician girlfriend Deirdre, and eventually causing him to violate his own moral code. Neil Jordan's feature debut set against the backdrop of Northern Ireland's troubles.

The Journey
(2017)In 2006, Northern Ireland's bloody Troubles had dragged on for decades. Both the Catholic Republican and the Protestant Unionist sides are finally persuaded to seriously explore a peace agreement at UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's urging. Unfortunately, the principle negotiators, firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, are decades-long enem