Biography
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish filmmaker and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game (1992). Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

A Look Through His Lens
2024
as Self
Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot offers a master class in image making, with insightful examples from his work on Diva, Hope and Glory...

Marlowe
2023
Director, Screenplay
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to tr...

An Accidental Studio
2019
as Self
Charts the early years of HandMade Films seen through the eyes of the filmmakers, key personnel, and the man who started it all: former Beatle George ...

Greta
2019
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
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 mig...

Love Express. The Disappearance of Walerian Borowczyk
2018
as Self
A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labeled as a mak...

Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
as Self
This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever ...

Byzantium
2013
Director
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local resort.

Ondine
2010
Writer, Producer, Director
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 Film with Me in It
2008
as Director
A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deat...

U2: The Joshua Tree (Bonus DVD)
2007
Director
On 20 November 2007, a 20th anniversary edition of The Joshua Tree was released. Three-disc box set came with bonus audio CD and DVD. The bonus DVD fe...

The Brave One
2007
Director
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

Breakfast on Pluto
2005
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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...

Imagining Ulysses
2004
This documentary film, with its innovative style and content, looks at the masterpiece that is Ulysses and like the original book takes the form of 18...

Intermission
2003
Producer
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and gr...

The Actors
2003
Story, Producer
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his charac...

The Good Thief
2002
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
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.

The Last September
2000
Executive Producer
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, a...
Not I
2000
Director
A young woman sits down in a chair. Only her mouth is visible as she begins to speak at a rapid clip, describing events that she insists did not reall...

In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire
2000
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1994 film, Interview with the Vampire.

The End of the Affair
1999
Director, Producer, Screenplay
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 ...

In Dreams
1999
Director, Screenplay
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.

The Butcher Boy
1998
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...

Michael Collins
1996
Director, Writer
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 compl...

Lumière & Company
1995
as (segment "John Boorman")
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...

Interview with the Vampire
1994
Director
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa
1993
as Self (archive footage)
The documentary examines Frank Zappa and his music through archive footage, including unique video excerpts from Austrian television archives featurin...

The Crying Game
1992
Director, Screenplay
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA...

The Miracle
1991
Writer, Director
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild storie...

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990
Director
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of...

We're No Angels
1989
Director
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.

High Spirits
1988
Director, Writer
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunte...

The Courier
1988
Executive Producer
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the m...
Hooray For Holyrood
1986
as Self
Scottish Television's film on the 40th Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1986, starring Robbie Coltrane (a former EIFF chauffeur) and featuring...

Mona Lisa
1986
Screenplay, Director
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...

Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
as Self
A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'. Chris Menges discusses his early career in tele...

The Company of Wolves
1984
Director, Screenplay
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 i...

Night in Tunisia
1984
Writer
A widower tries to spark his son's interest in music in this period drama set in a seaside holiday setting in Ireland in the early 1960's.

Angel
1982
Director, Writer
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedi...

Traveller
1981
Writer
Reluctantly-married young Irish travellers Michael and Angela head north of the border at the behest of Angela’s father, to smuggle electrical equipme...
The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie
1981
Director
Neil Jordan goes behind the scenes of the production of John Boorman's 1981 take on the Arthurian legend, "Excalibur." Includes interviews with the ca...
Mobile Homes
1979
Writer
Shea, a young artist, is fighting for habitants of a trailer parking to have access to essential public commodities.
The Riker's Ghost
N/A
Director
A convict set for release is forced to break a terrorist out of prison.
The Well of Saint Nobody
N/A
Novel, Director, Screenplay
Famous concert pianist William retires to a rectory in West Cork, Ireland. There, he hires a local woman, Tara, as a housekeeper, whom he has met thre...