James Joyce Movies

In 1987 Madrid, the unexpected encounter between a seasoned journalist and a young student leads to a profound exploration of love, desire, politics,...

After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.

A young actress lives with her alcoholic father. One night, she goes to the theatre for a rehearsal of a melodrama play.

Based on the stage play Passages from Finnegans Wake, itself based on random passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation is a comical,...

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship...

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and...

The Wake is the title of a large-scale multimedia project, the main element of which is an eight-hour long silent movie. The film is based on...

In this tribute to James Joyce, Fionnula Flanagan gives a tour-de-force performance as a half-dozen or so women in Joyce's real and fictional worlds....

Ruslyk, the president's personal film director, tries to save the world while battling mental illness. During his one-day odyssey through the city of...

The story of famous actor and director Orson Welles is told through his two visits to the Republic of Ireland; first in his youth as a promising...

Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main...

Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures...

Two reluctant companions, schoolmates on the mitch, roam through Dublin along the Royal Canal. An encounter with a stranger leaves one boy changed...

Director Werner Nekes has created this experimental film in the mode of James Joyce's Ulysses to the extent that human interactions are represented...

The film chronicles the journey of a genius filmmaker who loses his creative side. Interestingly, his creative stream of consciousness is brought...

Stabat Mater opens and closes with two sung laments, then launches into a breathless torrent of words and phrases, a re-reading of the eternal...

Maria works in a German umbrella factory as the foreman of the production sector. João Lucas has given up on living a normal life and...

This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos...

To the accompaniment of the only extant recording of James Joyce reading from his own work, Donegan uses a clear cellophane hood and a pane of glass...

After a priest dies, the young boy he befriended struggles to know how to grieve in a world of suspicion. James Joyce's The Sisters, part of our 52...