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Barber is a mystery thriller film directed by Fintan Connolly, who also co-wrote the script with Fiona Bergin. The thriller film follows the story of Val Barber, a private investigator who is hired by a wealthy widow to find her missing granddaughter. During his investigations, several dark secrets surface, and Barber gets entangled with some powerful men who don’t want this investigation to reach its conclusion. So, if you loved Barber here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Synopsis: Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) accepts an invitation to surreptitiously investigate a forty year old unsolved murder on behalf of the victim’s uncle, Swedish industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Meanwhile, tattooed hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), hired to investigate Blomkvist, discovers the truth behind the conspiracy that led to his fall from grace.

Judging by its trailer, "Barber" is the story of a private investigator out to find a missing girl. A down-and-out protagonist, in over his head, stumbles onto a larger conspiracy that goes all the way to the top. If you've seen it once, you've seen it a thousand times, right? Not necessarily.

That may be the spine of "Barber," but half of the story is a family drama. The titular Pi has a loving relationship with his teenage daughter, and is trying to navigate how to raise her with his ex-wife. And instead of being set in the seedy streets of Los Angeles, the neo-noir capital of the world, this one's set in Ireland, a locale that's far from typical for this subgenre. Those two elements are enough to make this movie stand out from its contemporaries.

Add to that the fact that Aidan Gillen, the wonderful character actor from "Game of Thrones,...

’Silent Roar’, ‘Shoshana’ and ’How To Have Sex’ will also play at the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema.

France’s Dinard Festival of British Film has unveiled the line-up of its 34th edition, which includes Cannes titles Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex.

Also on the line-up is Charlotte Regan’s Sundance title Scrapper. The comedy drama stars Harris Dickinson and follows a young girl forced to confront reality when her estranged father returns, and is currently on release in...

"Stay out of my way, if you know what's good for you." Brainstorm Media has revealed an official trailer for a disappearance crime thriller film titled Barber from Ireland. This already opened in Ireland earlier this year, and will be getting a US release later in September. Co-written and directed by Fintan Connolly, Barber stars Aidan Gillen as Val Barber, a private investigator hired by a wealthy widow to find her missing granddaughter Sara. Barber's initial investigation quickly darkens as many secrets begin to surface in unexpected ways in this Irish neo-noir. As he digs deeper around Dublin, he exposes powerful men and dangerous corruption. Also starring Aisling Kearns, Gary Lydon, Helen Behan, Deirdre Donnelly, and Liam Carney. Even more crime films, this one from Ireland, to keep everyone addicted to watching dark content. At least this one shows how corrupt & vicious many powerful men are, and how they will...

Dublin International Film Festival will run from February 23 - March 4.

World premieres of Fintan Connolly’s Barber and Claire Dix’s Spotlight are among the line-up for the Dublin International Film Festival.

Connolly’s Barber stars Aidan Gillen as a private investigator investing the disappearance of a wealthy widow’s granddaughter. Gillen previously led Connolly’s 2005 film Trouble With Sex which was nominated for eight Irish Film and Television awards.

Sunlight follows a recovering addict who is caring for his terminally ill sponsor. The cast includes Barry Ward and Liam Carney. Dix was last as Diff in 2013 with audience award-winner Broken Song.

Finnegan’s ’Nocebo’ received €750,000, the highest single award this quarter.

New projects from filmmakers Lee Cronin and Lorcan Finnegan are among several new productions being backed by Screen Ireland in its latest round of funding decisions.

Cronin (The Hole In The Ground) will direct the psychological thriller Box Of Bones from a screenplay he co-wrote with Stephen Shields, to be produced by Wild Atlantic Pictures (Black ’47).

Box Of Bones tells the story of Alice, a devoted young woman who battles to save her fiancé from his conviction that a supernatural entity is trying to possess his body. Wild Atlantic Pictures...