Known for Sound
Stephen McKeon is an Irish composer of film and television soundtrack music. He has received two Irish Film and Television Awards for John Boorman films, The Tiger's Tail in 2007 and Queen & Country in 2015, and was previously nominated for Blind Flight, Savage and the children's animated feature Niko 2 - Little Brother, Big Trouble. His other works include the music for The Nephew (1998) and Borstal Boy (2000). He also scored the 2011 biopic Hattie. McKeon has written the scores of over 100 films (as of 2019), a number of Hercule Poirot TV movies, and many TV drama series, including Black Mirror. He has also scored the fourth and fifth seasons of the British fantasy drama Primeval. He is a multi-instrumentalist whose work covers a wide spectrum, from large orchestral scores to ambient guitar-based music, such as that written for the Scottish BAFTA-winning film Summer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen McKeon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
48 films, 6 shows


Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · 2h 13m
country: United States
The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.


One Last Deal
2026 · 1h 29m
country: Ireland
Jimmy Banks is an old school agent who desperately needs to get his star player one last big payday before Jimmy’s life, and his client’s reputation, comes tumbling down.


Sharp Corner
2025 · 1h 51m
country: Canada
A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.


The Damned
2025 · 1h 29m
country: Ireland
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.


Baltimore
2024 · 1h 38m
country: Ireland
Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House, Wicklow, in which nineteen masterpieces were stolen in an effort to support the IRA’s armed struggle. The film plays out over the course of the days following the raid, when Rose is in hiding in a remote cottage.


Apocalypse Clown
2023 · 1h 42m
country: Belgium
When a mysterious technological blackout plunges Ireland into anarchy and chaos, a group of failed, washed-up clowns are forced to traverse the country for one last shot at their dreams.


Evil Dead Rise
2023 · 1h 36m
country: New Zealand
A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.


Nuclear
2019 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.


The Hole in the Ground
2019 · 1h 30m
country: Belgium
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.


Pilgrimage
2017 · 1h 36m
country: Belgium
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.


The Flag
2016 · 1h 24m
country: Ireland
Builder Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside-down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that “fecking flag” and maybe his passion for life along the way.


Norm of the North
2016 · 1h 26m
country: India
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.


Absolution
2015 · 1h 33m
country: Finland
Kiia and Lauri, speeding toward the hospital overnight. Kiia in pain, holding the wheel with one hand and another in his stomach - the birth has started ahead of schedule. Surprisingly, the vehicle collides with something. Kiia fright and brakes, the car swerves before coming to a stop. Lauri rises to the car to check the situation and says he did not see anything. Kiia give birth to a healthy child in the hospital and befriends Hannah with. Hanna's husband has been in the same region hit by a car and drove onto the driver fled from the scene.


Ooops! Noah Is Gone...
2015 · 1h 25m
country: Belgium
It's the end of the world. A flood is coming. Luckily for Dave and his son Finny, a couple of clumsy Nestrians, an Ark has been built to save all animals. But as it turns out, Nestrians aren't allowed. Sneaking on board with the involuntary help of Hazel and her daughter Leah, two Grymps, they think they're safe. Until the curious kids fall off the Ark. Now Finny and Leah struggle to survive the flood and hungry predators and attempt to reach the top of a mountain, while Dave and Hazel must put aside their differences, turn the Ark around and save their kids. It's definitely not going to be smooth sailing.


Queen & Country
2015 · 1h 54m
country: Romania
In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.


Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble
2012 · 1h 19m
country: Denmark
Set right before Christmas, young reindeer Niko must deal with his mother's remarriage and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother.


Hattie
2011 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
Reveals how the home life of the larger-than-life Carry On actress Hattie Jacque was blown apart by a secret sexual liaison with her handsome young driver while she was married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier.


Gift of the Magi
2010 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.


Three Wise Women
2010 · 1h 27m
country: United States
After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forced to abandon her. Later, when she grows to be a miserable woman, her angel is given a second chance to save her from a life of sadness. To accomplish his goal, he travels through time to recruit the woman's past and future selves to help her reconcile with her father and change her direction in life.


Savage
2009 · 1h 25m
country: Ireland
An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and its consequences.


Summer
2008 · 1h 23m
country: Germany
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and Daz with him. Shaun has twelve years to reflect on an intense summer of love, sex and loyalty. But Daz's imminent death forces Shaun to confront his past.


Niko and the Way to the Stars
2008 · 1h 20m
country: Belgium
A young reindeer named Niko dreams about flying like his father, whom he has never met. Despite constant teasing from others, he sneaks out of his home valley to take flying lessons from Julius, a flying squirrel.


Summer of the Flying Saucer
2008 · 1h 26m
country: Ireland
It’s Ireland in 1967, when a flying saucer full of aliens lands on Dan’s farm. Dan falls in love with an alien girl and tries his best to make everybody believe that she and all the other aliens are humans.


The Old Curiosity Shop
2007 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.


The Tiger's Tail
2006 · 1h 47m
country: Ireland
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.


Footprints in the Snow
2005 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Paralysed from the waist down after a car crash, Julie Hill struggles to get used to her disability and to save her marriage. It looks as if her husband will leave her. Then doctors try a revolutionary treatment which feeds electrical impulses to her leg muscles - allowing her to ride a bicycle once again and so go out for bike rides with her family. Her marriage survives and she and her husband end up closer together than before.


The Ten Steps
2004 · 10m
country: Ireland
A teenage girl is babysitting in an old house rumoured to be haunted when a power outage forces her to descend the ten steps to the basement to fix the fuse. As she walks into the darkness, panic and terror begin to rise…


Blind Flight
2004 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
The true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.


Christmas in the Clouds
2001 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.


Carnivale
2000 · 1h 14m
country: Ireland
A group of children are transported through a portal to another dimension where they are thrilled to discover a magical amusement park just for them.


A Secret Affair
1999 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Vanessa Stewart is a beautiful American woman engaged to be married. Vanessa is an artist and is also a buyer for her father's company. She goes to Venice on a business trip and meets television reporter Bill Fitzgerald from Ireland. They fall madly in love in the four days they are in Venice.


Sweety Barrett
1999 · 1h 32m
country: Ireland
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.


Vicious Circle
1999 · 1h 39m
country: Ireland
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery


The American
1998 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.


The Nephew
1998 · 1h 45m
country: Ireland
Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad falls for Aislin, who has a bit of a crush on him too. But there is an old conflict going on between her father and Chad's uncle. This conflict resurfaces and begins to draw circles, wider and wider.


The Boy from Mercury
1996 · 1h 27m
country: Ireland
Set in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.