Ian McElhinney
12 titles
Filmography
12 results

Titanic: Born in Belfast
(2012)Featuring Belfast residents who saw the Titanic set sail in 1912, this film tells the story of the city and the people who built the great ship.

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

Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust
(2011)Father Brendan Smyth evades detection as a child abuser for 30 years, thanks in no small part to collusion with the Abbot-General of the Norbertines.

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

Clay
(2008)Adapted by Peter Tabern from the award-winning novel by David Almond and set in 1960s Tyneside, this is the dark and mesmerizing tale of how Davie Hagan's life is changed forever by a mysterious stranger called Stephen Rose. Beguiled by Stephen's gift to mold clay figures and bring them to life, Davie quickly falls under his spell.

The Last Rifleman
(2023)75 years after D-Day, a WWII veteran escapes his Northern Ireland care home to attend an anniversary event in France and face the ghosts of his past.

High Country
Detective Andie Whitford gets transferred to the High Country, where she is tasked with investigating the mysterious disappearances of five locals lost in the Victorian wilderness.

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.

Lamb
(1986)"Lamb" focuses on the relationship between Brother Michael Lamb (Liam Neeson), a teacher in a Roman Catholic-run institution for troubled boys in Ireland, and 10-year-old Owen Kane (Hugh O'Conor), the school's most unruly pupil.

This Is the Sea
(1997)Dangerous romance forms between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in Northern Ireland after the 1994 ceasefire between the IRA and the British.

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

Durango
(1999)To avoid being cheated by unscrupulous local buyers, a young man leads a group on a forty-mile cattle drive to market in Ireland in 1939.