Cyril Cusack – IDLIX

Far and Away

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:41:04 +0000

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh winter conditions, they must fend off her parents who are determined to bring her back home.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:32:14 +0000

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

Danny the Champion of the World

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:00:21 +0000

Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won’t take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.

The Tenth Man

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:40:55 +0000

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.

Little Dorrit

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 02:21:08 +0000

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors’ prison in London. Amy and her family’s world is transformed when her employer’s son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family’s mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:21:16 +0000

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The Comedy of Errors

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:05:32 +0000

Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome’s paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them…

True Confessions

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:21:33 +0000

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Les Misérables

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 11:20:26 +0000

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

The Abdication

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:35:46 +0000

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.