Một cặp vợ chồng trẻ người Ireland chạy trốn đến Hoa Kỳ, nhưng sau đó phải đấu tranh để có được đất đai và sự thịnh vượng một cách tự do.
Lấy bối cảnh những năm 50 của thế kỉ 20, bộ phim ghi lại từng sự kiện trong cuộc hành trình từ quê hương đến thành phố New York của một cô gái trẻ người Ailen. Eilis Lacey đã bỏ lại gia đình mình và cố gắng kiếm tìm hạnh phúc ở một xứ sở xa lạ. Với phần kịch bản chân thực và sắc sảo của Nick Hornby cùng diễn xuất tuyệt vời của dàn diễn viên chính đã tạo ra một bộ biên niên sử thu nhỏ về tình yêu, sự mất mát và ý niệm về hai tiếng “gia đình” đầy sức lay động.Hoa Kỳ là quốc gia được thành lập bởi những người nhập cư. Dù cho nền văn hoá của quốc gia này đã tạo ra được những bản sắc riêng thì cội rễ của mỗi thành tố cấu tạo nên nó vẫn bắt nguồn từ rất nhiều nơi và vùng lãnh thổ khác nhau.
An Irish undertaker profits when outlaws take over a peaceful town, but his own family come under threat as the death toll increases dramatically.
Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.
Irish immigrant Tommy Shaughnessy leaves 19th-century New York City for Kansas and becomes a small-town sheriff.
A game becomes deadly serious! An insane cop hunts down five students in a shopping mall after closing time. His life is ruined as he was dishonorably discharged from the police force because of these people. Armed with a Rambo knife and a crossbow, he initially only wants to scare them off, but when he accidentally injures one of the boys deadly, there is no turning back. The witnesses to the murder must be eliminated! So begins a relentless hunt through the mall at night…
After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon arrival he is furious to find his father alive and well and even more so when he then discovers he can't leave. Soon, father and son are forced to deal with a painful history. At the core of their conflict is Larry's denial about the death of his wife, Jack's mother. The story explores the difficult and painful, but often very hilarious ways they try to communicate. Forging a begrudging peace, the reality of life sets in when Larry discloses to Jack another truth that leads to a final reconciliation.
A young woman seeks to expand her limited horizons, set against a backdrop of wartime London.
'Anner House' is a romantic story of dreams and aspirations. Neil Barry leaves Ireland after a bitter divorce and custody battle to face the demons of his alcoholism in another place, Cape Town. A chance meeting with an Irish woman, named Ruth Maguire, also trying to extricate herself from an unhappy relationship with Nicky helps him embark on a journey of self-healing and personal discovery. Inspired by the colorful locals they encounter, and the magical places they visit, Neil helps Ruth fulfill her dream, to open a boutique hotel set against the stunning Cape landscape. They decide to call it 'Anner House'. Of course the dream has its own obstacles - their personal predicaments plus coping with the social problems unique to Cape Town. But in the end it becomes clear to Neil and Ruth that they are the solutions to their own problems and the mutual attraction that sparked between them when they first met becomes irresistible.
The story of boxer Sean Mannion, born in the 1950s in Ros Muc in county Galway, Ireland, his boxing career, his emigration to America and the effect it had on him, his brush with organized crime in Boston.