Alan Barry
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Deathday: July 13, 2005
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The Old Curiosity Shop
1995-03-19
The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: 1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of money to Nell's grandfather as an investment, expecting a large profit. But when Quilp finds out the old man has lost all the money with playing cards, he is determined to get the man in a madhouse as revenge. Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their house and to start traveling across the country. But Quilp isn't sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nell's grandfather.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
1969-12-01
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Overview: Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.
Genres: Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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Dead Man's Evidence
1962-08-01
Dead Man's Evidence
Overview: When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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Back to the Beach
1987-08-07
Back to the Beach
Overview: Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-07
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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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The Hard Knock
1962-07-08
The Hard Knock
Overview: Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-08
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Achilles Heel
1973-03-18
Achilles Heel
Overview: A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-18
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The Treaty
1991-12-05
The Treaty
Overview: How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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Crossfire
1988-03-15
Crossfire
Overview: A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-15
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Hennessy
1975-12-31
Hennessy
Overview: Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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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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The General
1998-05-01
The General
Overview: The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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The Brylcreem Boys
1996-11-14
The Brylcreem Boys
Overview: In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-14
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Some Mother's Son
1996-09-13
Some Mother's Son
Overview: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Fugitive
1974-12-05
Fugitive
Overview: After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order. Author Sean Walsh fled the Franciscan order to become first a journalist, then a playwright and is now a radio drama producer in Ireland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-05
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Evelyn
2002-09-30
Evelyn
Overview: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-30
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And the Band Played On
1993-09-11
And the Band Played On
Overview: The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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