John Lynch
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020), and The Banishing (2021). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 26, 1961
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Sliding Doors
1998-04-23
Sliding Doors
Overview: London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-23
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Angel Baby
1995-10-26
Angel Baby
Overview: Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-26
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Alien Hunter
2003-07-19
Alien Hunter
Overview: Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-19
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Hardware
1990-09-14
Hardware
Overview: Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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The Tournament
2009-05-01
The Tournament
Overview: Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-01
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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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In Tranzit
2008-03-04
In Tranzit
Overview: Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this drama stars Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich and Vera Farmiga in a bitter game of cat and mouse and a battle between hate and humanity, mercy and revenge.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-04
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Isolation
2005-09-10
Isolation
Overview: On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Black Death
2010-06-07
Black Death
Overview: As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-07
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Cal
1984-08-24
Cal
Overview: Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-24
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The Secret of Roan Inish
1994-05-14
The Secret of Roan Inish
Overview: Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-14
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Lassie
2005-12-16
Lassie
Overview: A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-16
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Edward II
1991-10-18
Edward II
Overview: England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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Holy Water
2009-07-01
Holy Water
Overview: The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its people, and its decline seems inexorable. When local Postie, Podger Byrnes, comes up with a plan to hijack a consignment of Viagra, and sell it on the open market in Amsterdam, his friends are desperate enough to try it. Not counting on the muscular response of Viagra's makers, the boys panic and hide the lorry load of Viagra down the town's Holy Well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-01
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This Is the Sea
1997-09-15
This Is the Sea
Overview: The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-15
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Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
2023-02-13
Starting Tomorrow I'll Get Up Late
Overview: Massimo Troisi, away for a long time, reappears silently without anyone knowing. He contacts his friend Gaetano, and Anna, the woman of his life. Anna and Massimo rent a house by the sea, in Naples, to write the screenplay of a new movie.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-02-13
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13Hrs
2010-08-28
13Hrs
Overview: Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-28
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Out of the Blue
1991-08-22
Out of the Blue
Overview: Alan makes films in the warehouse studio where he lives, with the help of his friends Rudy and Liz. Even Rudy's girlfriend, Julie, finds herself caught up in his plans. But when Alan falls in love with a beautiful young girl, Chirsty, and decides to create the perfect romance between them, life begins to imitate the film fantasy which has become an obsession for him.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-22
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Conspiracy of Silence
2003-05-15
Conspiracy of Silence
Overview: When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Ghosted
2011-06-24
Ghosted
Overview: ‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the new prisoner, Paul. Jack’s cell mate Ahmed, attempts to guide him on a path of salvation, a path that involves saving Paul from the clutches of the wing beast, Clay.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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Best
2000-05-10
Best
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-05-10
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The Quarry
1998-09-09
The Quarry
Overview: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished from the very beginning, but becomes one of the rural town's most respected citizens. The sheriff at one point does begin having certain suspicions, and from there on the bulk of the plot is played out. The location is a very arid part of South Africa, so with so much desert rock, there are bound to be quarries. Some may reveal important secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-09
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The Yellow House
2007-03-22
The Yellow House
Overview: John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-22
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Private Peaceful
2012-10-12
Private Peaceful
Overview: Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Möbius
2013-02-17
Möbius
Overview: An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-17
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1871
1990-09-09
1871
Overview: A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-09
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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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Scintilla
2014-02-28
Scintilla
Overview: From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-Soviet bunker to extract the vital specimens and information being paid for by a mysterious backer, but what they seek should never have been found!
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-28
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Monkey Boy
1992-12-31
Monkey Boy
Overview: Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investigating a macabre mass-murder, discovers the mutant boy — a creature with the mind of a child and superhuman strength. But the reporter finds out the hard way that nothing, and nobody, can stand in the way of progress. (Re-titled for its American VHS release, "Monkey Boy" is an abbreviated film version of Lawrence Gordon Clark's 1991 mini-series "Chimera".)
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-31
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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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Sew Torn
2024-03-10
Sew Torn
Overview: A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-10
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Pilgrimage
2017-04-23
Pilgrimage
Overview: In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-23
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Night of the Hunt
2011-02-27
Night of the Hunt
Overview: Using the latest advances in camera technology, NGC penetrates the nocturnal hunting behaviors of the lion. Often asleep during the day, at night these iconic cats become active predators. With thermal imaging and infrared technology, see how experienced lions use the night to their advantage while stalking their prey
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-27
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Detour
2017-01-20
Detour
Overview: A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-20
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
1990-04-22
Who Bombed Birmingham?
Overview: Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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The Secret Garden
1993-08-13
The Secret Garden
Overview: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
Genres: Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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The Watchers
2024-06-06
The Watchers
Overview: A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Alleycats
2016-06-23
Alleycats
Overview: When bike courier Chris witnesses what looks like a murder, his first instinct is to cut and run. But when his curiosity draws him back in, he's soon embroiled in a world of corruption, political power, and illegal bike racing.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-23
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Upstream
2017-05-03
Upstream
Overview: Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the other until the recent death of the father of both. Now, however, they are half brothers. During the voyage, they meet Sean, an enigmatic Irish adventurer who will join them on the journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-03
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
2004-12-22
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Overview: The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Nothing Personal
1996-10-18
Nothing Personal
Overview: A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
1988-01-10
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
Overview: From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fantastic adaptations to film from passages of the novel. It also includes excerpts from a book written by Joyce's friend, the artist Frank Budgen, entitled "James Joyce and the making of Ulysses". Amongst those interviewed is author Anthony Burgess.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-10
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The Seventh Stream
2001-02-04
The Seventh Stream
Overview: She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-04
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The Railway Station Man
1992-10-18
The Railway Station Man
Overview: Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen son, Jack (Frank MacCusker), then move to a tiny town and start life anew. There, Helen meets a mysterious American man named Roger Hawthorne (Donald Sutherland), who is in the area to refurbish an old train station. A romance slowly blossoms between Roger and Helen, but Jack then gets involved with a violent political group, and tragedy looms.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-18
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Mo
2010-01-31
Mo
Overview: A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-31
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Kissing Candice
2018-06-22
Kissing Candice
Overview: Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Number One
2017-09-08
Number One
Overview: A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The conguest, which was at first thrilling, turns to complete war with the men who still dominate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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Puckoon
2002-01-01
Puckoon
Overview: Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Paul, Apostle of Christ
2018-03-23
Paul, Apostle of Christ
Overview: Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-23
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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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Waiting Tables
1986-01-01
Waiting Tables
Overview: Interviews with people whom Gloria Steinem calls "pink collar" workers--those who wait tables.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Words Upon the Window Pane
1994-06-10
Words Upon the Window Pane
Overview: In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-10
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Boys from County Hell
2021-08-06
Boys from County Hell
Overview: A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-06
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Princess Caraboo
1994-09-16
Princess Caraboo
Overview: Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?
Genres: Comedy Drama History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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The Banishing
2021-04-29
The Banishing
Overview: In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-29
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Caravan
2020-07-15
Caravan
Overview: The film centers on an outcast in a rural English community who draws the attention of a vengeful mother after a chance encounter with her two young boys.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-15
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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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