James Greene
Also Known As: James Green , Jimmy Greene
Biography: James Greene was a Northern Irish actor of film, TV and stage
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Birthday: March 19, 1931
Deathday: January 05, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-23
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Les Misérables
Overview: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-18
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Dimensions
Overview: Stephen is a brilliant young boy who lives in England, in what appears to be the 1920s—but nothing in Stephen’s life is quite as it seems. His world is turned upside down upon meeting a charismatic and inspirational professor at a garden party, who demonstrates to Stephen and his friends what life would be like if they themselves were merely one, or two, dimensional beings. He then proceeds to explain that by manipulating other dimensions, time travel may actually be possible. As Stephen’s life unfolds, events lead him to dedicate himself to turning the Professor’s theories of time travel into reality. Jealousy, love, obsession, temptation and greed surround him, influencing his fragile mind and the direction of his work.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-20
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Brimstone and Treacle
Overview: The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to be her college friend. He charms them into accepting him as a lodger and carer for Pattie, but Martin is not all he seems.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-25
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Chocky
Overview: Matthew Gore is an intelligent boy chosen by a mysterious extraterrestrial visitor to be a source of information about life on Earth. As his schoolwork and artistic talent improve dramatically he arouses the suspicion of powerful groups who wish to tap into the amazing fund of knowledge to which he is now party.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-09
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Empire of the Sun
Overview: Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirit, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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Brothers of the Head
Overview: In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-28
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Albert Nobbs
Overview: Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-21
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Love/Loss
Overview: A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have their separate experiences shaped their lives over this long period apart, and is there still time for them to share the happiness that has so long been denied? As Mary and Joe confront the mistakes of their past and share memories of a previously unspoken love, their reunion appears to take them on a path to happiness. But the gentle narrative hides a twist that will challenge any preconceptions of love and loss.
Genres: Romance Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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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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What a Girl Wants
Overview: An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-27
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Pauline Calf's Wedding Video
Overview: Spoof video diary. Steve Coogan takes on the roles of downtrodden Paul and the vivacious blonde Pauline Calf, who finally gets herself up the aisle with the man of her dreams. Even a punch-up in the toilet can't spoil her special day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-29
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The Jazz Detective
Overview: Jazz musician Bernie Weston find himself falsely accused of murder in Bristol. With the aid of a local reporter he sets out to clear his name and find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-27
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Dracula
Overview: The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate their marriage. Arthur has laid his hopes of being cured on the enigmatic count; as it is said that Dracula has extraordinary powers. But these supernatural powers have sinister origins. The Count is a vampire. Soon Arthur realizes his serious mistake as all hell breaks loose and the Count infects others with his ancient curse. But Dracula has not counted on the young Lord acquiring the assistance of the Dutch Vampire expert Prof. Abraham Van Helsing.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-28
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You, Me & Marley
Overview: A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-30
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Breakfast on Pluto
Overview: In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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This Life +10
Overview: A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-02
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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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Loving Vincent
Overview: A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Genres: Animation Drama Mystery History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-22
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Tom & Viv
Overview: The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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Perfect Witness
Overview: An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-28
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From Hell
Overview: Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-08
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Photographing Fairies
Overview: Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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Janice Beard 45 WPM
Overview: Janice Beard is a dreamer who can't seem to quite make it big. She is working in an auto design company and falls for the mailboy, but he is hiding secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Whole Lotta Sole
Overview: In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters, including a man who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-21
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James Ellis: An Actor's Life
Overview: Documentary tracing the life of James Ellis, one of Northern Ireland’s best loved actors.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-02
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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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Instinct to Kill
Overview: Escaped serial killer James Becket, who killed his own father whose expectations he never fulfilled, but now especially targets his wife Theresa 'Tess' and her family, is too good at disguising himself and other deceit for detective Diffs task force. Only one man proves able to fight back in his league: former cop J.T. Dillon, who was already training Tess in self-defense and becomes her lover. Becket decides to find hiding place by kidnapping Diffs wife, and thus enforce a final show-down.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-01
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Mad Dog Coll
Overview: Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-12
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The Christmas Candle
Overview: Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-22
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Johnny English
Overview: A lowly pencil pusher working for MI7, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When a billionaire entrepreneur sponsors the exhibition of the Crown Jewels—and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night and on English's watch—the newly-designated agent must jump into action to find the thief and recover the missing gems.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-14
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Guinevere
Overview: As border wars break out in Camelot, the young princess Guinevere is taken to live in safety with the High Priestess L'Fei. When King Arthur claims the crown, Guinevere is promised to him and she must leave her true love, Prince Lancelot in order to unite the land. In a tale of honor, loyalty and the price of war, Guinevere is forced to choose between the only man she has ever loved and her duty to her kingdom.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-07
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The Spell
Overview: A distraught mother must cope with her embittered daughter who has the ability to cause "accidents" to happen.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-20
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Eleanor
Overview: Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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London Is Drowning
Overview: A fictional look at what might happen if the Thames were to flood before completion of the Thames Barrier at the end of 1982. A series of freak weather conditions coincide and there is a real possibility that the Thames will flood as a surge tide is racing down the East Coast.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-27
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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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Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
Overview: After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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A Different Hand
Overview: A musical comedy drama about a young woman (played by Tina Leslie) rebelling against society's attitudes (including her parents, her doctor, her priest and teacher) towards people like her who are without hands or in other ways different. Everyone is trying to force her to wear artificial hands, everyone except for her disabled friend (Nabil Shaban), who assists in her revolt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-23
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John Brown's Raid
Overview: White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Based on true events.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-25
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