John Lynch
29 titles
Filmography
29 results

The Quarry
(1998)In this searing thriller, a drifter (Shea Whigham) kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief (Michael Shannon) suspects foul play.

Cal
(1984)Similar to "The Crying Game," this film tells a powerful and unusual love story set against the backdrop of war-torn Northern Ireland. John Lynch ("Some Mother's Son," "Sliding Doors") is Cal, a young man on the fringes of the Irish Republican Army, who falls in love with the widow of a man he helped murder in an IRA attack (played by Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren - "The Queen," "Raising Helen"). Academy Award-winning producer David Puttnam ("Chariots of Fire," "The Killing Fields") and director Pat O'Connor ("Inventing the Abbotts," "Circle of Friends") provide stylish and thought-provoking entertainment in this nominee for the Cannes Film Festival Palm d'Or for Best Picture.

Isolation
(2005)On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong. Starring Essie Davis and Sean Harris.

Scintilla
(2014)An elite team of mercenaries is hired for a covert operation, deep inside a former Soviet state. Arriving at an underground laboratory, their mission is to secure specimens of genetically engineered human and alien hybrids. Battling with a ferocious armed militia as well as dark, menacing creatures, the odds of survival are stacked against them.

The Head
In the middle of winter, a small group of scientists in charge of an international base in Antarctica stop communicating with the outside world.
Nothing Personal
(1996)The Belfast troubles depicted as savage tribal warfare. Set after the 1975 cease fire a Protestant leader must deal with his one-time Catholic friend. With Michael Gambon.

Sliding Doors
(1998)Arriving at work one morning, Helen discovers that she had been unjustifiably sacked from her PR job. She is returning home when an amazing thing happens, time reverses itself for a few seconds and a second version of herself is created.

Sew Torn
(2025)A seamstress splits into violent versions of herself.

Alien Hunter
(2003)Cryptologist Julian is sent to Antarctica to investigate a mysterious block of ice transmitting a radio signal uncovered by hydroponic corn farmers.

The Banishing
(2021)In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family move into a manor with a horrifying secret.

In the Name of the Father
(1993)Based on the true story of Gerry Conlon, an Irishman who was wrongly imprisoned, alongside three of his friends, for a fatal bombing in a Guildford pub.

The Secret of Roan Inish
(1994)La joven Fiona vive con sus abuelos en un pequeño pueblo pesquero, donde participa activamente para desentrañar misteriosos secretos.

Moll Flanders
(1996)The unwavering hope and determination of a poverty-stricken young girl is the focus of this romantic adventure that stars Robin Wright as literature's irrepressible 18th-Century heroine. Morgan Freeman also stars.

The Seventh Stream
(2001)Several years after the passing of his wife, a grieving widower falls in love with a woman from the realm of Celtic legend.

Some Mother's Son
(1996)Two women from completely different social classes form an intense bond as their sons are sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their involvement in an IRA-sanctioned bombing.

Evelyn
(2002)Set in 1950's Irelend, when working class Desmond Doyle's wife abandons him, he fights the legal system as he tries to regain custody of his children.

Paul, Apostle of Christ
(2018)As darkness spreads over the Roman empire, Paul and Luke defy a ruthless emperor, risking their lives to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Edward II
(1991)Derek Jarman's adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama.

Detour
(2017)A man who suspects his stepdad of causing the crash that put his mom in a coma gets in over his head when he accepts a tough guy’s offer of revenge.

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.