Oliver Maguire
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Oliver Maguire was an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: January 10, 2012
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Gender: Male
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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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Diane
Overview: Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a local church. What no one realises, is how close Diane and her father are.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-09
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A War of Children
Overview: A Protestant and a Catholic family's friendship is threatened by the sectarian violence in Belfast. When the daughter of the Catholic family falls in love with a British soldier, the situation worsens ...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-18
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The Rockingham Shoot
Overview: Rigid nationalist Reilly's frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-10
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The Empire Strikes Back
Overview: The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-20
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Carson Country
Overview: Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-23
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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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Hidden Agenda
Overview: In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan, a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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The Lilac Bus
Overview: The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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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 Ash Tree
Overview: Man of leisure Sir Richard receives notification that his Uncle has died, bequeathing him his stately country manor and all its lands. On his return to England he immediately sets about taking stock of all legal matters concerning his new property, but during these dealings Sir Richard seems to be more than a little distracted, he hears strange noises from the ash tree outside his bedroom window.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-23
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The Price
Overview: Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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Vicious Circle
Overview: Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-09
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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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The Thirty Nine Steps
Overview: The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-04
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Resurrection Man
Overview: Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-13
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Bogwoman
Overview: Bogwoman charts the experiences of a woman who moves to the city from Donegal in 1958. Down the years she copes with various personal and familiy pressures against the background of the emerging civil unrest and the redeployment of British troops into the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain
Overview: Two women navigate the challenges of life on a wintry day in 1980s Belfast. While Ruby has a cold and gets caught in the rain, Iris is job-hunting but feels lost in the traffic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-24
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Angela's Ashes
Overview: An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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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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Butley
Overview: Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-21
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Love & Rage
Overview: Agnes MacDonnell, a strong and self-confident Englishwoman, owns a large estate on an island off the west coast of Ireland. When she begins a passionate but dangerous affair with her new estate manager, Agnes wages a desperate struggle to dominate this charismatic but destructive man.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-09
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Dick Francis: Twice Shy
Overview: A fool-proof formula for picking winning horses on a computer disc is the Maguffin sought by Cleveland and others.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-14
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The Love She Sought
Overview: An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bishop (Prosky). As a result she retires and moves to Ireland where she seeks an admirer (Elliott) with whom she has been corresponding for five years.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Nasty Habits
Overview: In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-28
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Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: Play by Robert Holman, about two brothers at a rural comprehensive in Teeside. The older brother, Gordon, joins the army and is killed by the IRA in Northern Ireland. The younger blames his father for letting Gordon join the army.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-03
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The Cry
Overview: Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indifference. Or is it fear?
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-31
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According to the Rules
Overview: When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case is likely to have consequences for both the policeman and his family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-03
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Educating Rita
Overview: Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend and he can't get through the day without downing a bottle or two of whisky. What Frank needs is a challenge... and along comes Rita.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-16
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