Emmett Scanlan
Also Known As: Emmet J. Scanlan, Emmett John Scanlan, Emmett J Scanlan
Biography: Emmett J. Scanlan is an Irish actor from Dublin. He is best known for playing the villain Brendan Brady in Hollyoaks. He is currently filming BBC2 drama The Fall in 2013-2014 and hitman movie Breakdown in which he appears alongside Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, Bruce Payne, Olivia Grant and Tamer Hassan. Scanlan recently finished filming BBC3 In The Flesh Series 2, and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
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Lapwing
Overview: Mute young woman Patience, from an isolated community in rural England in 1555, struggles with her controlling brother-in-law and leader, David, who is gradually unraveling after the failure of his idyllic community. The Egyptian Act has been passed, stipulating that all ‘gypsies’ must vacate England immediately and anyone found aiding them could be executed. In exchange for a fee, David agrees to help an Egyptian family who must stay a month on their land until a ship comes to take them away. But when Patience pursues an affair with one of the outsiders, she is thrust into a violent and vicious psychological battle with David.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-26
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Colour from the Dark
Overview: Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb. A strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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Savage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-10
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Studs
Overview: The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having lost everything -- their drive, their skills and soon, their playing field. When mysterious Walter Keegan shows up offering to be their coach, captain Bubbles and the rest of his loopy, obnoxious teammates are so desperate to succeed, they agree to give him the job. Drilled into the ground with a fierce discipline they have never known, the team pushes beyond their aches and pains to gain not only redemption on the field, but more importantly, their self-respect.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-16
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Charlie Casanova
Overview: After running over a woman and speeding off, an upper class man allows a deck of cards decide his fate as his behaviour grows increasingly erratic.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-06
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Legends of Valhalla: Thor
Overview: An over confident teen with a magical weapon and a handful of imperfect gods join forces against an evil queen and her army of giants
Genres: Animation Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2011-10-14
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Once Upon a Time in Dublin
Overview: Three brothers caught up in a deadly game, lost in a brutal underworld where extremes of sex and violence are the everyday reality... Is loyalty just another fairytale?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Inside
Overview: A group of girls are terrorized by violent vagrants before succumbing to a horrific supernatural evil.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-31
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Overview: Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-30
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Argylle
Overview: When the plots of reclusive author Elly Conway's fictional espionage novels begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, quiet evenings at home become a thing of the past. Accompanied by her cat Alfie and Aidan, a cat-allergic spy, Elly races across the world to stay one step ahead of the killers as the line between Conway's fictional world and her real one begins to blur.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-31
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A Working Man
Overview: Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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In the Grey
Overview: Two extraction specialists must plan an escape path for a high-level female negotiator.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
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Breakdown
Overview: A professional contract killer, haunted by visions of his violent past, spirals out of control. His work compromised as he reaches breaking point, he is forced to defend his family from his ruthless employers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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Strangers
Overview: Seeking revenge on her abusive husband, a woman's life takes a dark turn when she meets a mysterious hitman. Drawn into a whirlwind romance, she spirals into a dangerous vigilante spree. As the body count rises, she begins to unravel the true nature of her partner and the secrets they both conceal.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-16
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Lapse
Overview: Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom she came. Her quest to uncover forgotten events leads her on a journey of discovery where reality and memory collide and people are not what they seem.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-22
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My Daughter Is Missing
Overview: Sara, a former hacker and now an Internet security specialist, has come to Belgrade to attend a conference on cyber crime. Whilst she is there her daughter and a college friend are kidnapped by a Serbian human trafficking ring. Will Sara be able to save them before it's too late?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Christian Blake
Overview: Christian Blake is the story of a solitary young man growing up with his closest friend Steve. Unable to handle Steve's flowering relationship with Lucy, Christian becomes obsessed, with tragic consequences. Years later, in a barely functioning mental asylum run by the sadistic Dr Rush and his tormented accomplice Floyd, the journalist Sandra White is allowed a meeting with Christian under the guise of attempting to understand the actions of his past. Her motives are otherwise however and her efforts at personal retribution simply result in awakening the anger dormant inside of him. The results are violent and catastrophic for all involved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-03
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The Green Rabbit & The Ice Cream Girl
Overview: A man is stumbling through the desert, in only underwear, lost and confused. A car pulls alongside, driven by a beautiful young girl who knows his name. His name is Gerry and it's tattooed on his forehead. Her name is Eilis, from a pendant around her neck. With nowhere else to go, he gets into the car and begins a surreal journey to answer the reasons he's there at all.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-24
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Here Are the Young Men
Overview: Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-27
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Blood
Overview: Troubled young man Guy reaches out to his oldest friend Jonathon after the mysterious death of his younger sister Carrie, a visit to support a grieving friend soon takes a sinister twist as some very dark secrets come into light.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-09
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The Jester from Transylvania
Overview: What happens when you pick up a hitchhiker? Michael, an American scriptwriter, soon finds out when he picks up an Englishman in the middle of a Transylvanian forest. Touchstone - in fact the ghost of a former court jester - places him in some unimaginable situations of life and death. Despite being a firm believer in non-violence, Michael is forced to become a cold-blooded serial killer.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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Mebollix
Overview: A man has a nightmare journey home following a vasectomy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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