In director Neil Jordan's vampire thriller a mother and daughter struggle to hide their bloody secret from their adopted community. Having survived for over 200 years, itinerant single mother Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are offered shelter at the down-at-heel Byzantium guest house when they arrive at a rundown seaside resort. Whilst her cold-hearted mother plies her trade as a prostitute to keep their heads above water and indulges her bloodletting at any opportunity, Eleanor wrestles with keeping her secret from her latest love, Frank (Caleb Landry Jones). But when the truth finally spreads its way through the local population, the arrival of two strangers belonging to an all-male vampire sect known as 'The Brotherhood' heralds a reckoning neither woman is prepared for.

Ian Fitzgibbon directs this Dublin-set crime comedy starring Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson and Jim Broadbent. Indebted to Dublin's most ruthless gangster, Darren Perrier (Gleeson), Michael McCrea (Murphy) embarks on a voyage through the city's underworld in a frantic search for the cash that will save his skin. Along the way he listens to the lamentations of his neighbour Brenda (Jodie Whittaker), confronts his estranged hypochondriacal father Jim (Broadbent) and gets embroiled in a fight at his local pub with Brenda's cheating boyfriend.

Breakfast on Plutofollows the exploits of Patrick "Kitten" Braden, an endearing but deceptively tough young man. Abandoned as a baby in his small Irish hometown, and aware from a very early age that he is different, Patrick survives a harsh environment with the aid of his wit and charm, plus a sweet refusal to let anyone or anything change who he is. Apart from a few moments of piano music composed by Jordan's daughter, Anna Jordan, the film avoids a conventional score.