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Neil Jordan has 19 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Interview with the Vampire.
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The Company of Wolves
1984 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 31%Prime Video · Included

The Borgias
2011 · Series · Creator
Top 40%Paramount+ · Included

Mona Lisa
1986 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 40%Max · Included

The Crying Game
1992 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 42%MGM+ · Included

The End of the Affair
1999 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 46%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Ondine
2010 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 72%Prime Video · Included

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas

In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson

An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner

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 counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle, Fiona Shaw

Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger

George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea

A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow might not be all that she seems.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Chloë Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, Maika Monroe

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt

Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore

On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Dervla Kirwan

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Saïd Taghmaoui

When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg

Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea

Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange
After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he maintained was surrounded by violence, lies and murder. She soon must step out of her comfort zone to protect the family...and herself.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Julia Stiles, Rupert Graves, Clare-Hope Ashitey