Mark O'Rowe (Writer)

Dublin Oldschool

Join Jason on a chemically enhanced trip through the streets of Dublin as he stumbles from one misguided adventure to another. Somewhere between the DJs, decks, drug busts and hilltop raves, he stumbles across a familiar face from the past, his brother Daniel. Daniel is an educated homeless heroin addict living on the streets of Dublin. The brothers haven’t seen or spoken to each other in years but over a lost weekend they reconnect and reminisce over tunes, trips, their history and their city. Two brothers living on the edge but perhaps they have more in common than they think.

Release Date2018-06-29

Charactersd Man with Cat

Vote Count11

Normal People

Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

Release Date2020-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1214

Temple

Talented and successful surgeon Daniel Milton has his world shattered when his wife Beth develops a fatal degenerative disease. After conventional treatment options run out, Daniel partners with the lonely yet resourceful Lee to start a literal Underground clinic in the vast network of tunnels beneath Temple Tube Station in London.

Release Date2019-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count68

The Delinquent Season

In Dublin, two couples (Jim and Danielle; Yvonne and Chris) are seemingly living in marital bliss. However, when Chris's behaviour begins to change, Yvonne seeks solace in the arms of Jim, and before long they are in the midst of an affair. When a life-changing secret is later revealed, all four are forced to re-evaluate their lives, their marriages, and their friendships - but can anything be salvaged from the wreckage?

Release Date2018-04-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count47

Boy A

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.

Release Date2007-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count470

Intermission

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 grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.

Release Date2003-08-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count156

Broken

Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

Release Date2012-08-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count273

Perrier's Bounty

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

Release Date2009-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count101

Epithet

Epithet: a short film starring Patrick Stewart. Inspired by the Young Vic theatre's recent production of Edward Bond's play Bingo.

Release Date2012-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Ghosts

Helene Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's death, she is about to open an orphanage as a memorial to him. To mark this occasion, her bohemian painter son Oswald has returned from Paris. Helene plans to take the opportunity to tell Oswald the truth about his father. But ghosts of the past erupt during an eventful evening, bringing the facade of civilised family life crashing down.

Release Date2023-05-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Debris

Several years after the suicide of a long term girlfriend, David is in a new relationship. However, a chance encounter with the dead woman's sister raises complex questions about just how complicit he was in her death.

Release Date2013-07-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Approach

Three women—two of them sisters—who were once best friends but have drifted apart are catching up over coffee. Over the course of three conversations spanning five years, we learn that they have allowed relationships with their partners to come between their relationships with each other—and gradually, a common secret of tragic consequence is revealed.

Release Date2021-01-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1