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Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and writer for film and television.
Total trailers found: 20
01 July 1971
The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the blossoming romance between her husband and his new mistress; a good-natured young widow who holds a dark past.
02 July 1969
Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis.
01 April 1984
The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in mind.
01 July 1982
A unique anthology of six short vignettes on the subject of love, all of them written, directed and produced by women.
13 December 2017
An account of the life and work of Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941) narrated by US actress Anjelica Huston.
19 February 1980
John Connor is a soon-to-retire hitman that agrees to take on one last job. After years plying his deadly trade, he has finally had enough.
01 April 2009
The film, based on the novel of the same title by Edna O'Brien, is a dark story about love and land set in County Clare in the West of Ireland.
26 September 1967
Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a different theme underscored by music: A early version of Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive” plays behind some arty nightclub scenes, while Chris Farlowe’s rendition of the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time” accompanies a young woman’s description of London nightlife and the vacuousness of her own existence.
30 October 1981
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at a French hotel.
11 September 1976
Edna O’Brien is interviewed by Russell Harty about her writing and her relationship with Ireland, as explored in her latest non-fiction book Mother Ireland.
01 April 1966
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to her home by the sea, and to her first love, Colin.
01 January 1985
A story of loss told through a daughter looking back on her mother’s life in rural Ireland who receives a package one day from the postman.
22 February 1963
Mr. Berry starts to sell his wife's clothes. His wife, not being dead, is alarmed and upset.
17 July 1968
An intense court case involving divorce proceedings is adjourned for lunch. Husband and wife then discover they are both going to be eating in the same cafeteria.
14 May 1964
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
07 July 2019
Edna O’Brien is one of the greatest literary talents and rule breakers of her generation. In 1960, her revolutionary debut novel, The Country Girls, broke down social and sexual barriers for women and was subsequently banned in her native country of Ireland.
31 January 2025
Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and equally adventurous love life.
24 September 1973
A woman ruminates about her ex-partner. He is involved in a new relationship. She is alone.
