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Movies on TG4 Christmas 2024

03.12.24

How to Steal a Million –  22/12 10am

(1966 Comedy, Romance) Starring Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole & Eli Wallach. Directed by William Wyler. The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father’s forgeries and protect his secret.
 
Diary of a Wimpy Kid  – 22/12  1.20pm

(2010, Comedy, Family) Starring Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron & Rachael Harris. Directed by Thor Freudenthal. Greg Heffley is a 12 year old who is fresh out of elementary and transitions to middle school, where he has to learn the consequences and responsibility to survive the year.
 
The Secret Life of Pets – 22/12  5.30pm

Irish Language Version. Find out what happens when pets are left ar home by themselves for the day, and also how they work together when unexpected events happen.
 
Meet the Parents –  22/12  9.30pm

(2000, Comedy) Starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro and Teri Polo. Directed by Jay Roach. Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend’s parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date’s worst nightmare.
 
Pillow Talk –  23/12 10.15am

(1959, Romantic Comedy) Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall. Directed by Michael Gordon. A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.
 
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days – 23/12  1.15pm

(2012 Comedy, Family) Starring Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron & Devon Bostick. Directed by David Bowers. School’s out. Summer vacation is on. However, Greg may not have the best summer vacation ever. What could go wrong?
 
Stuart Little 2  – 23/12  5.30pm

(1999 Comedy, Family) Starring Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis & Hugh Laurie. Directed by Rob Minkoff. Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.
 
Froggie –  23/12 9.30pm

(2024 Comedy) Starring Seán T Ó Meallaigh, Carrie Crowley, Gearoid Kavanagh, Lucia Evans and Paul Oakley Stovall. Directed by Luke Morgan. Fiachra and Tadhg peaked at the age of 7 when they appeared on TV to sing a song with their homemade puppet Froggie. 25 years later, they must team up again when Froggie is kidnapped.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Christmas Eve 10.20

(2009 Animation, Comedy) Flint Lockwood, an inventor who is considered a nuisance, puts his latest invention to work when his town faces an economic crisis. His invention makes him popular until it spirals out of control. (Irish Language Version)

The Italian Job – Christmas Eve 1.25pm

(1969 Crime/Comedy) Starring Michael Caine, Noël Coward and Benny Hill directed by Peter Collinson. A comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.

Fantastic Mr. Fox Christmas Eve 5.25pm

(2009, Animation) Starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray. Directed by Wes Anderson. An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers’ retaliation.
 
Die Hard – Christmas Eve 10.05pm

(1988, Action) Starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman and Bonnie Bedelia. Directed by John McTiernan. A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
 
Superworm: Sár-phéist   – Christmas Day 8.15am

(2021, Comedy) Featuring the voice of storyteller Dónal De Barra. Directed by Cathal Gillespie. Superworm is a long, strong worm with amazing skills and a big heart, who keeps on saving the day. But what happens when he gets too full of himself and starts to ignore his friends? (Irish Language Version)

Some Like it Hot- Christmas Day 10.15am

(1959 Comedy) Starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Directed by Billy Wilder. After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
 
The BFG- Christmas Day 1.25pm

(2016 Fantasy) Starring Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill and Penelope Wilton. Directed by Steven Spielberg. An orphan girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

Despicable Me 3 – Christmas Day 4.45pm

(2017 Animated Comedy) Irish language Version: Gru meets his long-lost, charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru, who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist.
 
Cine4: An Cailín Ciúin – Christmas Day 8pm

(2022 Drama) Starring Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett and Catherine Clinch. Directed by Colm Bairéad. Cáit is sent from her overcrowded, dysfunctional household to live with distant relatives for the summer. Slowly a warmth grows within this makeshift family and Cáit begins to blossom in their care. But in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth. Based on Claire Keegan’s acclaimed story, Foster.

This is Spinal Tap – Christmas Day 00.20am

(1984, Comedy, Music) Starring Rob Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest. Directed by Rob Reiner. Spinal Tap, one of England’s loudest bands, is narrated by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.

Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island – St. Stephen’s Day 6.25am

The Pteranodon family boards the dinosaur train and move to a new theme park on a volcanic island but when an earthquake erupts, the young ones are separated from their family. (Irish Language Version).
 
Oliver! – St. Stephen’s Day 9.50am

(1968 Musical) Starring Mark Lester, Ron Moody and Shani Wallis. Directed by Carol Reed. After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry in 1830s London, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin. This musical is based on Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.
 
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown– St. Stephen’s Day 1pm

(2006 Animation) Irish language version: faced with global warming and the thawing of a gigantic ancient glacier, our heroes Manny, Sid, and Diego, find themselves forced to leave their once-hospitable valley to embark on a long-distance journey to safety.
 
Into the West – St. Stephen’s Day 5.05pm

(1992, Adventure) Starring Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin and Ciarán Fitzgerald. Directed by Mike Newell. Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
 
The Full Monty – St. Stephen’s Day  10.10pm

(1997 Comedy) Starring Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson and Mark Addy. Directed by Peter Cattaneo. Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full monty” – total nudity.

Gandhi  – 27/12 9.20am

(1982, Biography, History) Starring Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud and Rohini Hattangadi. Directed by Richard Attenborough. The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
 
The Secret Life of Pets – 27/12 1.15pm

(2016 Animation) Starring Louis C.K, Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart. Directed by Chris Renaud. The quiet life of a terrier named Max is upended when his owner takes in Duke, a stray whom Max instantly dislikes.
 
About a Boy – 27/12  4.20pm

(2002, Comedy, Drama, Romance) Starring Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collette. Directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz. A cynical, immature young man is taught how to act like a grown-up by a little boy.
 
Knives Out – 28/12 9.50pm

(2019, Comedy) Starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas. Directed by Rian Johnson. A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

It Happened To Jane- 28/12 9.45am

(1959, Comedy) Starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs. Directed by Richard Quine. Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the “meanest man in the world”.
 
Vertigo – 28/12  12in

(1958 Thriller/Mystery) Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. An ex-police officer who suffers from an intense fear of heights is hired to prevent an old friend’s wife from committing suicide, but all is not as it seems. Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” has taken its place as the director’s most spellbinding and deeply personal achievement.
 
Doctor Dolittle 2 – 28/12  5.25pm

(2001 Comedy, Family) Starring Eddie Murphy, Cedric The Entertainer and Kristen Wilson. Directed by Steve Carr. Dolittle must save a forest and a bear’s life.

High Fidelity- 28/12 9.50pm

(2000, Comedy) Starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso. Directed by Stephen Frears. Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
 
Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island – 29/12 8.15am

The Pteranodon family boards the dinosaur train and move to a new theme park on a volcanic island but when an earthquake erupts, the young ones are separated from their family. (Irish Language Version).

Guys and Dolls – 29/12 9.45am

(1955, Comedy) Starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

Despicable Me 3-  29/12 1.05pm

(2017 Animated Comedy) Starring Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig and Trey Parker. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda. Gru meets his long-lost, charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru, who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist.

Marley & Me – 29/12 4.50pm

(2008, Comedy) Starring Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston and Eric Dane. Directed by David Frankel. A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.
 
Poitín -29/12  7.15pm

(1978 Crime Drama) Digitally re-mastered version of Bob Quinn’s famous film, starring Cyril Cusack, Mick Lally and Donal McCann. A poitín maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí in Conamara.
 
Pulp Fiction 29/12 9.45pm

(1994, Drama) Starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
 
Send Me No Flowers – 30/12 10pm

(1964, Comedy, Drama, Romance) Starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day and Tony Randall. Directed by Norman Jewison. A hypochondriac believes he is dying, and makes plans for his wife which she discovers and misunderstands.
 
Matilda – 30/12  12.50pm

(1996 Comedy) Starring Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman and Mara Wilson. Directed by Danny DeVito. A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
 
The Little Rascals Save the Day – 30/12  5.10i.n.

(2014 Comedy, Family) Starring Doris Roberts, Greg Germann and Lex Medlin. Directed by Alex Zamm. The Little Rascals are unable to raise enough money to save their grandma’s bakery from shutting down. Their only hope is to win a local talent show and thereby use the prize money to save the shop.
 
Spider-Man: Far from home- 30/12 10pm

(2019 Action/Sci-fi) Starring Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson and Jake Gyllenhaal. Directed by Jon Watts. Peter Parker, the beloved superhero Spider-Man, faces four destructive elemental monsters while on holiday in Europe. Soon, he receives help from Mysterio, a fellow hero with mysterious origins.

The Way We Were – New Year’s Eve 10.20am

(1973, Drama, Romance) Starring Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford and Bradford Dillman. Directed by Sydney Pollack. Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
 
Babe  – New Year’s Eve  1pm

(1995, Comedy) Starring James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski and Christine Cavanaugh. Directed by Chris Noonan. Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
 
Mrs. Doubtfire – New Year’s Eve 4.35pm

(1993 Comedy) Starring Robin Williams, Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan. Directed by Chris Columbus. After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls – New Year’s Day 10am

(1943, Drama, History) Starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman and Akim Tamiroff. Directed by Sam Wood. During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

The Producers – New Year’s Day  1.20pm

(1967 Comedy/Musical) Starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Dick Shawn. Directed by Mel Brooks. A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
 
Shrek – New Year’s Day  5.25pm

(2001, Animation) Irish Language Version: Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared by all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings to the woods, Shrek loses his peaceful life – until he decides to do something about it.

Cine4: Róise & Frank – New Year’s Day  7.45pm

Award winning Irish language film featuring a woman who believes a dog is the reincarnation of her late husband. Róise is still grieving the loss of her husband, Frank, two years after his passing, when a mysterious dog shows up at her door. The dog loves sport and steaks, and has taken to a particular armchair in the house – Frank’s old spot. This series of coincidences convinces Róise that this dog is her husband, Frank, reincarnated. Her son thinks she has completely lost her mind, but the rest of the community begins to believe it too.
 
Rocketman- New Year’s Day   10.20pm

(2019 Biopic) Starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell and Richard Madden. Directed by Dexter Fletcher. The musical fantasy about Elton John’s breakthrough years, from his time as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.

An Western: Shepherd Of The Hills – 2/1/25 10.30am

(1941, Romance) Starring John Wayne, Betty Field and Harry Carey. Directed by Henry Hathaway. A mysterious stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl. Much to the dislike of her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
 
Rock Around the Clock- 2/1/25 1.45pm

(1956 Musical/Romance) Starring Bill Haley and the Comets and The Platters. Directed by Fred F. Sears. A frustrated big-band promoter bumps into rock-and-rollers Bill Haley and the Comets.
 
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown – 2/1/25 5.15pm

(2006 Animation) Starring Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary Manny. Directed by Carlos Saldanha. Sid and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny is not in fact the last of the woolly mammoths.

Bridesmaids – 2/1/25 10pm

(2011, Comedy) Starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Rose Byrne. Directed by Paul Feig. Competition between the maid of honour and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride’s best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.

African Queen – 3/1/25  10am

(1951 Adventure/Romance) Starring Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Morley. Directed by John Huston. In East Africa during WWI a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunboat.
 
Pitch Perfect – 3/1/25  5pm

(2012 Comedy) Starring Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow and Rebel Wilson. Directed by Jason Moore. Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school’s all-girls singing group. Injecting some much-needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.

Forrest Gump – 3/1/25  9.30pm

(1994 Comedy) Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. The history of the United States from the 1950s to the ’70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
 
The Last Waltz 3/1/25  00.05am

(1978, Documentary, Biography) Starring Robbie Robertson, Muddy Waters and Neil Young. Directed by Martin Scorsese. On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, “The Band” gave its farewell concert at Winterland in San Francisco. On hand to help say goodbye to this influential rock group were some of the most acclaimed musicians of the late ’60s & ’70s. This film is not only a vibrant documentary of that historic evening, but also a commentary on the rock world at the time. Most of the picture is footage from the night – highlighted by interviews with members of the group.