
February 6, 1949 · 77 years old
Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish film director. A six-time Academy Award nominee, Sheridan is perhaps best known for his films My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and In America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Sheridan, licensed under CC-…

An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.

While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from a life of crime to pursue his passion of rap music.

A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

A woman keeps a diary of her extended stay at a mental hospital.

Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie in 1988, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Dr. Jim Swire seeks justice for his daughter Flora, a passenger on the plane.

Jonathan, like many teenagers, is used to concealing the pain of growing up behind a witty sense of humor. One day, fate brings Jonathan into contact with a group of teenagers who are attempting to cope with their own teen angst.

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.

Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.

The unexpected death of her husband sends a woman and her seven children, ages 2-14, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis in 1967 Dublin. She is forced to borrow money from a ruthless loan shark to make ends meet. She faces...

Maria José (Salma Hayek Pinault) and her Irish husband run a bar in uptown Manhattan. On the evening of 9/11 it is heaving with shell-shocked locals and battle weary troops from the NYPD, united in disbelief, grief and anger. On t...