The Oscar winner plays a hard-working coal merchant and father haunted by Church-sanctioned cruelty in Ireland in the Lionsgate drama that will hit theaters on Nov. 8.

The film is set in 1985, and co-stars Emily Watson, Michelle Fairley, and Eileen Walsh. Playwright Enda Walsh (“Disco Pigs,” “Hunger”) adapated the script, with “Peaky Blinders” director Tim Mielants directing. The feature premiered at Berlinale 2024; it was later acquired by Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions.

Lionsgate has dropped the official trailer and set UK, Ireland and U.S. release dates for Small Things Like These, starring Oscar winner Cillian Murphy

Lionsgate has shared a poster and trailer for director Tim Mielants’ upcoming drama Small Things Like These. Based on Claire Keegan’s best-selling novel of the same name, the film stars Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy as a devoted father who uncovers disturbing secrets hidden by a convent in his small Irish town,

Cillian Murphy’s first role since winning Best Actor at the Oscars earlier this year—might never have happened without Oppenheimer. Murphy recently told Vanity Fair that he had his eye on the project,

After his Oscar-winning performance in Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy is gearing up to grace the screens once again. The actor stars in Small Things Like These, another historical drama, in a role that is starkly different from the one he played in his previous movie.