‘Small Things Like These’: Irish Nunneries Were Like the Mafia

“Small Things Like These” is a kind of muted, Irish version of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” with Cillian Murphy playing Nicholson’s Randle McMurphy.

A laundry girl (Ella Cannon) begs Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) to save her, in “Small Things Like These." Lionsgate

PG-13 | 1h 38m | Drama | 2024

As Brad Pitt’s character, Rory Devaney, tells Harrison Ford’s character, Tom O'Meara, in “The Devil’s Own,” “It’s not an American story, it’s an Irish one.”