Cal is a 1984 Irish drama film directed by Pat O'Connor and starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. Based on the novella Cal (1983) written by Bernard MacLaverty, who also wrote the …

This film by Pat O'Connor from 1984 is a memory of English lessons at the reformed high school in the Federal Republic of Germany. The atmospherically dense and well-acted film is based …

Jul 19, 2025 · Cal is a 1984 Irish drama film directed by Pat O'Connor, starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. The movie tells the story of Cal, a young member of the Irish Republican Army …

“Cal” tells a story that has been told many times before, but tells it quietly and powerfully about a particular time and place: Northern Ireland in the 1980s.

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

A young man on the fringes of the IRA becomes involved with a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed the year before by the IRA.