Sean Hughes

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his ...  (more)

Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.  (more)

The movie tells the story of a disillusioned television personality whose career has stalled and who is looking for answers but doesn't know the questions. When his best friend taunts him for losing his sense of adventure Tony accepts a drunken £100 bet and sets ...  (more)

Follow Robbie as he sets out to discover a mythical tribe of lost Viking warriors to help him save his friends from another dastardly plot by the evil Blitzen and his new-found partner-in-crime The White Rabbit. Robbie is having girl trouble too - Donner is feeling ...  (more)

Geraldine and her two daughters, Livvie and Angeline, are living rough on the streets on London. When their van blows up, they must find an alternative place to stay. At first, they live in temporary housing, but the conditions are unbearable. Geraldine reacts ...  (more)

Sean takes us back to his Dublin upbringing and the, at times, utter awkwardness of teenage life - weaving in his family, his school days and the business of friendship and tying it all in to the present. It's brilliant and multi-layered and it really is up there ...  (more)

Robbie and Donner's wedding is interrupted when Donner is kidnapped by aliens. Robbie saves the day again though with the help of his friends and an alien crystal.  (more)

Sean Hughes returns to the stand-up stage with his first national UK tour in nearly a decade. The Right Side of Wrong marks a return to the comedy circuit for one of the most distinctive and darkly explosive exponents of the art of stand-up.  (more)

Early live stand up show from Sean Hughes.  (more)

Short documentary / tribute to the late, truly great American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks, included as an extra in several box sets. Bill Hicks passed away in 1994, taken tragically young aged only 32. His legend and reputation, however, continue to grow. "It's ...  (more)

The 1995 stand up show from the Perrier prize winning comic Sean Hughes.  (more)

A wry story of female friendship: Jean and Kate, two "nearing-thirty" street performers, find the ups and downs of life and love amid the pubs and music scene of modern day Dublin.  (more)

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to ...  (more)

Compilation from the quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks  (more)

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album Tender Prey (originally released in 1988). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, told through those who have lived ...  (more)

A short film to accompany the reissue of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album The Boatman's Call (originally released in 1997). The result is a determinedly human portrait of the unique body of work produced by the band over the last 25 years, told through those who ...  (more)

Davies discovers a link between three separate investigations - an armed robbery at a job centre, the disappearance of a pensioner and a routine house burglary.  (more)

Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.  (more)

A spate of computer thefts from government offices, a possible suicide under the wheels of a high-speed train, an absconded lifer on the loose, and a grisly trove of human bones in a garden all conspire to keep Davies on the job during a long Easter weekend.  (more)

A reformed young man with a steady job, Benny, returns to the city of his youth to find the girl he's been in love with since childhood and that's home to his four petty criminal friends, Jacko, Zac, Bisto and Flea.  (more)