Britta Smith
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Children in the Crossfire
1984-12-03
Children in the Crossfire
Overview: For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each other away from the ravages of their homeland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-03
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Talk of Angels
1998-10-30
Talk of Angels
Overview: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Silver Lining
2005-01-01
Silver Lining
Overview: "Silver lining" tells the surreal story of Mr. Price, an elderly man who begins a journey in the midst of a torrential rain without the shelter of his umbrella. Mr. Price will overcome all obstacles with a little magical intervention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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A Certain Justice
1998-01-01
A Certain Justice
Overview: The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily prove that her clients are innocent, she simply disproves the prosecution's case against them. In the course of her career ,she has made enemies and one of them kills her and she is found in a very ritualistic setting.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Durango
1999-04-25
Durango
Overview: In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-25
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Men of the Month
1994-05-25
Men of the Month
Overview: Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling office block - each of them with an interest in the women within.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-25
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Taffin
1988-02-26
Taffin
Overview: When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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The Magdalene Sisters
2002-08-30
The Magdalene Sisters
Overview: Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Moll Flanders
1996-06-14
Moll Flanders
Overview: The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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Breakfast on Pluto
2005-11-16
Breakfast on Pluto
Overview: In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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In the Name of the Father
1993-12-12
In the Name of the Father
Overview: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989-04-07
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Overview: No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
2002-02-24
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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The Summer House
1993-12-21
The Summer House
Overview: Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-21
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In Loving Memory
In Loving Memory
Overview: When her husband dies, Mrs. Duane finds a very particular way of dealing with his death. A love story set between this world and the next.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Hear My Song
1991-12-27
Hear My Song
Overview: Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-27
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The Return
2003-12-30
The Return
Overview: A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-30
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Her Own Rules
1998-10-13
Her Own Rules
Overview: Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-13
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Circle of Friends
1995-04-07
Circle of Friends
Overview: Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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Shadow of a Gunman
1995-10-07
Shadow of a Gunman
Overview: The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donal and Seamus who share a flat in Dublin.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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The Boxer
1997-12-31
The Boxer
Overview: Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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Hostage
1985-09-10
Hostage
Overview: Against the backdrop of the bombing campaign in Britain and the Northern Ireland Hunger Strike, a young woman joins a terrorist operation which takes three people hostage. Over the days of their captivity, she questions her own involvement and the history of Ireland which has brought her to this point.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-10
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The Snapper
1993-08-06
The Snapper
Overview: Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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The Country Girls
1984-04-01
The Country Girls
Overview: The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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Trojan Eddie
1996-09-09
Trojan Eddie
Overview: Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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Bloom
2003-06-13
Bloom
Overview: Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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