T. P. McKenna
Biography: Born in Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland, Thomas Patrick 'T. P.' McKenna was a distinguished character actor of film and TV and a prolific stage actor. He made his stage debut in "Summer and Smoke" by Tennessee Williams at the Pike Theatre in Dublin in 1954 and his film debut in the 1960 film The Night Fighters. Film credits included Straw Dogs, Ulysses, Perfect Friday, Villain, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Red Scorpion and Valmont, whilst his TV credits included Bleak House, Inspector Morse, Doctor Who, Casualty, Ballykissangel and Lovejoy.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 07, 1929
Deathday: February 13, 2011
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Straw Dogs
1971-11-25
Straw Dogs
Overview: David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-25
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Villain
1971-05-26
Villain
Overview: In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-26
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Red Scorpion
1988-12-24
Red Scorpion
Overview: A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels.
Genres: Adventure Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-24
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Percy's Progress
1974-08-01
Percy's Progress
Overview: Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Girl with Green Eyes
1964-05-14
Girl with Green Eyes
Overview: A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice her age.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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The Beast in the Cellar
1970-08-01
The Beast in the Cellar
Overview: Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-01
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Perfect Friday
1970-11-10
Perfect Friday
Overview: The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Ferry Cross the Mersey
1965-02-10
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Overview: Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through the early-1960s Liverpool Beat Scene. Art students by day and musicians by night, the boys' big break comes by winning a local talent contest. But first, they must retrieve their instruments, which have been mistakenly carried to the airport.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-10
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Beasts: Baby
1976-11-06
Beasts: Baby
Overview: A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-06
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1977-09-01
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Overview: Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty and politics. However his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-01
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Young Cassidy
1965-02-25
Young Cassidy
Overview: In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-25
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Ulysses
1967-03-14
Ulysses
Overview: Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-14
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Deirdre
1965-01-01
Deirdre
Overview: The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats deliberately frames his 1906 play as an extension of the legend, writing a new death-tale for Deirdre that is also a personal statement about love, death, and the making of art. Goodreads
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Rivals
1970-05-17
The Rivals
Overview: The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-17
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Monarch
2000-10-08
Monarch
Overview: From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-08
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Freedom to Die
1961-01-01
Freedom to Die
Overview: Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Random Moments in a May Garden
1981-05-22
Random Moments in a May Garden
Overview: A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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Shoot to Kill
1990-06-03
Shoot to Kill
Overview: Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-03
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Anne of the Thousand Days
1969-12-18
Anne of the Thousand Days
Overview: Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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The Doctor and the Devils
1985-10-04
The Doctor and the Devils
Overview: In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done.
Genres: Horror History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Events at Drimaghleen
1991-07-17
Events at Drimaghleen
Overview: The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-17
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Blood of the Lamb
1969-12-03
Blood of the Lamb
Overview: A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-03
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A Warm December
1973-05-23
A Warm December
Overview: Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming but elusive woman who seems to have some mysterious men following her. A romance slowly develops between the doctor and Catherine, but there are complications to their happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-23
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Love Lies Bleeding
1977-07-12
Love Lies Bleeding
Overview: Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set against the backdrop of a dinner party. The guests are a mixture of the stupid and intelligent, imaginative and unimaginative. One of them is a major politician. However, outside the comfort of the party... is death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-12
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Crimes
1982-04-13
Crimes
Overview: 2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-13
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Unreported Incident
1988-02-23
Unreported Incident
Overview: Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-23
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Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
1984-12-31
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Overview: Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-31
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Exposure
1978-11-28
Exposure
Overview: Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel with a French girl photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-28
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A Child's Voice
1978-10-13
A Child's Voice
Overview: A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-13
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Downfall
1964-01-01
Downfall
Overview: Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Siege of Sidney Street
1960-10-11
The Siege of Sidney Street
Overview: A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-11
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The 5th Day of Peace
1970-04-17
The 5th Day of Peace
Overview: Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested Allied officers oblige him, and the two men face the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace".
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Strong Medicine
1986-01-01
Strong Medicine
Overview: TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious and cut-throat business pharmaceutical industry can be.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Law Lord
1992-03-22
The Law Lord
Overview: A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment to heel and bypass Parliament altogether. Anthony Andrews says of writer and barrister John Cooper (who wrote the ITV series The Advocates): "John is writing about a world he knows intimately. It is a most original and exciting screenplay and extremely prescient in view of the current controversies surrounding the judiciary." Producer Simon Passmore Director Jim Goddard
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-22
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Valmont
1989-11-17
Valmont
Overview: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-17
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The Scarlet and the Black
1983-02-02
The Scarlet and the Black
Overview: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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The Changeling
1974-01-20
The Changeling
Overview: Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-20
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To the Lighthouse
1983-03-22
To the Lighthouse
Overview: A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley, spend a summer in an isolated house in Cornwall just before World War I. The stern Mr. Ramsay scolds everybody, while Mrs. Ramsay is the linchpin in keeping the family together. Aunt Lily paints, and the family talk about sailing to the lighthouse, but the trip is always postponed.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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Pascali's Island
1988-07-22
Pascali's Island
Overview: 1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who may not be quite what he seems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-22
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Longitude
2000-01-02
Longitude
Overview: Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-02
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Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1988-12-14
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Overview: The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a self-centred explorer named Captain Cook, his companion Mags and a biker known as Nord.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-14
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Silver Dream Racer
1980-06-13
Silver Dream Racer
Overview: David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968-04-10
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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All Creatures Great and Small
1975-07-27
All Creatures Great and Small
Overview: James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures during his work, which are just as often caused by the characters of the county, including the Farnon brothers, as the animals in his care.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-27
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Memed My Hawk
1984-05-10
Memed My Hawk
Overview: In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-10
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The Libertine
2004-09-16
The Libertine
Overview: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-16
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The Boys & Girl from County Clare
2003-09-12
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Overview: In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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Percy
1971-02-18
Percy
Overview: Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1989-12-25
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
Overview: While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
Genres: Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-25
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The Outsider
1980-06-02
The Outsider
Overview: Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-02
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The Quare Fellow
1962-10-02
The Quare Fellow
Overview: Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-02
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Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
2003-03-08
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Overview: Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-08
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Stones
1976-10-27
Stones
Overview: From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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Britannia Hospital
1982-05-27
Britannia Hospital
Overview: Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-27
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Moving on the Edge
1984-03-06
Moving on the Edge
Overview: A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-06
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Pasmore
1980-10-21
Pasmore
Overview: Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-21
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Lady Killer
1973-01-18
Lady Killer
Overview: A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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The Next Victim
1975-09-23
The Next Victim
Overview: A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-23
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Deasey (Desperate)
1979-12-06
Deasey (Desperate)
Overview: Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish Novel'. Perhaps a meeting with old friend, pop-star Noel, will clarify things in his unclear mind? But then again, perhaps it won't.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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The World of James Joyce: His Life & Work
The World of James Joyce: His Life & Work
Overview: Produced by Ireland's National Television with the assistance of Richard Ellmann, the program was shot in Joyce’s tracks in Dublin, Trieste, Zurich, Rome, London, and Paris; it draws on the reminiscences of numerous associates, friends, and relatives, and shows the role in Joyce’s development of such figures as Harriet Weaver and Sylvia Beach.
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Original Language: en
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