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  • Michael Collins
  • Michael Collins review by philjb from Worcs
    Rated - 4 stars Michael Collins 2 March 2005
    ... of the relatively recent past from present day politics and I suspect director Neil Jordan's political sympathies may have influenced the way some events are shown in the...  
  • The End Of The Affair
  • The End Of The Affair review by from West Midlands
    Rated - 5 stars perfectly realised!! 28 June 2006
    ...tory; the script and dialogue, the music, the acting and finally the direction. Neil Jordan expertly weaves together this Graham Green novel of love, jealousy, adultery an...  
  • In Dreams
  • In Dreams review by from London
    Rated - 1 stars A disjointed and incoherent mess 16 November 2004
    ...in a couple of institutions and finds herself inexplicably drawn to the killer. Neil Jordan, who was once a talented film-maker, directs matters with wild abandon and anyt...  

Neil Jordan - filmography


  • A Film with Me in It (2008)
    Starring: Keith Allen,  David Doherty,  Mark Doherty
    Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An actor finds his bad luck turning worse and events begin to mirror a film script. Desperately trying to find a way out of his predicament he and a friend start pitching ideas to each other, and begin to treat the situation like the movie it mimics.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 8 members
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  • Brave One, The - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Jane Adams,  Terence Howard,  Naveen Andrews
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Oscar winners Jodie Foster and Neil Jordan team up for this tense thriller about a woman who takes the law into her own hands. After her fiancé is killed and she is left for dead, Erica Bain (Foster) stalks the criminals who changed her life forever.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 359 members
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  • The Good Thief on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Nick Nolte,  Tcheky Karyo,  Said Taghmaoui
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME, MICHAEL COLLINS) and veteran actor Nick Nolte combine their talents for this breezy heist picture. Bob (Nolte) is a retired master thief and gambler living as an expatriot in France. His past robberies are the stuff of underworld legend, but he's given ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 2,022 members
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  • In Dreams on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Annette Bening,  Aidan Quinn,  Stephen Rea
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This darkly imaginative film from director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME, INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE) follows Claire, a psychic New England housewife (Annette Bening) who loses her grip on reality when her dreams connect with those of a psychotic child murderer (Robert Downey Jr.). Centered around a ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 832 members
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  • The End Of The Affair on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ralph Fiennes,  Julianne Moore,  Stephen Rea
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    On a rainy night in London in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with the husband of an ex-lover. The obsession is rekindled and soon we discover why the affair ended two years earlier and the pact Sarah had made with God...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 4,821 members
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  • Butcher Boy on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Eamonn Owens,  Sean McGinley,  Peter Gowen
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In a small Irish town in the 1950's, Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), and his best friend Joe (Alan Boyle), play the usual childhood fantasy games of cowboys and adventurers. But outside their children's play, real life is far less appealing for Francie.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 131 members
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  • Michael Collins on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Aidan Quinn,  Stephen Rea,  Alan Rickman
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starting with Ireland's bloody Easter Rebellion of 1916 and ending with his untimely death, this brilliantly photographed epic from director Neil Jordan tells the charged story of Michael "Mickey" Collins. An IRA founder whose innovative guerrilla tactics succeeded in bringing freedom from British ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 2,880 members
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  • Interview With The Vampire on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Tom Cruise,  Brad Pitt,  Kirsten Dunst
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Horror author Anne Rice penned the screenplay for this full-blooded adaptation of her novel, which chronicles the life of 18th-century nobleman Louis (Brad Pitt) after he is bitten by powerful, charismatic vampire Lestat (Tom Cruise). Though enthralled with the undead lifestyle at first, Louis is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 15,467 members
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  • The Crying Game on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Miranda Richardson,  Stephen Rea,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This highly original film put screenwriter/director Neil Jordan on the international map. The story begins at a carnival in Ireland with British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped by IRA terrorists Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Fergus (Stephen Rea). Fergus is assigned to guard Jody, and they ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 10,395 members
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  • We're No Angels (1989)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Robert De Niro
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two escaped convicts on the run (Robert De Niro and Sean Penn) try to outsmart the law by masquerading as priests. Their goal is to find a way into Canada before they are discovered. The plan is complicated, however, when one of them falls in love with a hot-tempered woman (Demi Moore) with some ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 206 members
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  • High Spirits on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Daryl Hannah,  Peter O'Toole,  Steve Guttenburg
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Peter O'Toole stars as the drunken owner of the Castle Hotel which he desperately needs to sell to pay off his endless bills. To attract buyers, he advertises the property as the most ghost-ridden hotel in the Emerald Isle... Unfortunately, when prospective buyers arrive, he press-gangs his loyal ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,370 member
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  • Mona Lisa on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Bob Hoskins,  Cathy Tyson,  Robbie Coltrane
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Neil Jordan's MONA LISA, ex-con George (Bob Hoskins), expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson) to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences--he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,017 members
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  • Angel on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Stephen Rea,  Alan Devlin,  Peter Caffrey
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Neil Jordan wrote and directed this tough, violent thriller set in Northern Ireland. It tells the story of a dance band saxophonist who witnesses a brutal murder, then embarks on a nightmare journey of vengeance that leads him to a startling revelation about both himself, and humanity in general.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 264 members
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Neil Jordan facts

5 most recent films

A Film with Me in It - 3.0 stars
The Brave One - 3.5 stars
Brave One, The - HD DVD Version - 3.5 stars
Brave One, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Breakfast On Pluto - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Interview with the Vampire - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Michael Collins - 3.5 stars
Interview With The Vampire - 3.5 stars
Butcher Boy - 3.5 stars
Brave One, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

A Film with Me in It - 3.0 stars
The Good Thief - 2.5 stars
In Dreams - 2.5 stars
We're No Angels - 3.0 stars
Angel - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stephen Rea - 10 times - show films
Angela Lansbury - 3 times - show films
Nicky Katt - 3 times - show films
Larry Fessenden - 3 times - show films
Kathryn Pogson - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Kieron J Wals - 1 times - show films
Michael Lindsay-Hogg - 1 times - show films
Ian Fitzgibbon - 1 times - show films