Director · Screenwriter · 1950

Neil Jordan

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13:00: average
26 min: in total

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Mona Lisa

Neil Jordan · 1986

Neil Jordan’s 1986 Mona Lisa follows ex-convict George (Bob Hoskins) as he becomes driver and reluctant protector to high-end call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson) in a rain-laced London underworld. Built on glances, silences, and unspoken class codes rather than plot turns, it’s a neo-noir that privileges psychological texture over thriller mechanics — elevated by Hoskins’ career-defining performance, undermined by its structural dependence on a male perspective that limits Simone’s interiority.

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The Crying Game

Neil Jordan · 1992

Neil Jordan’s 1992 drama follows an IRA volunteer who, after a killing he cannot undo, flees to London and falls for the lover of the man he failed to save. Its famous revelation reshapes everything that comes before—not as twist, but as recalibration. Shot with restraint by Ian Wilson and performed with quiet precision by Stephen Rea and Jaye Davidson, it remains a study in how ethics emerge from proximity, not principle.