Karl Shiels
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Biography: Karl Shiels (15 September 1971 – 15 July 2019) was an Irish actor of both stage and screen. His stage roles included Henry IV, Part 1, Penelope, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shadow of a Gunman and This Lime Tree Bower. His screen roles included Fair City, Peaky Blinders and Batman Begins.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: September 25, 1971
Age: 53 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 15, 2019
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Eden
Overview: A married couple's relationship begins to fall apart as their 10th wedding anniversary approaches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-07
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Capital Letters
Overview: Taiwo hopes to make a life for herself and her twin sister in the faraway city of Dublin. Fearing what may await her on her arrival, Taiwo makes a desperate bid for freedom from her Dublin smugglers. However she is hunted down by a petty thief and conman, Keely, who on kidnapping her, decides to tell nobody of his catch and brings the girl home.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-09
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Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
Overview: Short film combining the true life event of Che Guevara's stopover at Shannon Airport with Science Fiction elements involving the Invisible Man.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-08
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Getting Close
Overview: It's been two weeks. Jane can't get Philip out of her head. There would be fewer problems with a single man, but she's getting close.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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Veronica Guerin
Overview: In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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Davin
Overview: An ensemble of mourners travel in their cars to the funeral of an Irishman who took his life in a car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-10
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Batman Begins
Overview: Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-10
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Shadow Dancer
Overview: In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-12
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Haywire
Overview: A black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-01
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Intermission
Overview: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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The Hard Way
Overview: A troubled teenage girl and an unhappily married man meet in secret. They both have something to escape from. Now they need to find out if there is somewhere to escape to. And whether they have what it takes to make the leap.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-15
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Noble
Overview: Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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W.C.
Overview: Set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-13
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Spin the Bottle
Overview: Rats is released from prison and needs to make some money; fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence; his mother no longer has time for him and his ex-bandmates alike. He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunty's trip to Lourdes. He struggles to find a job, yet never fails to find himself in a difficult situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-28
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Mystics
Overview: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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Stitches
Overview: The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-05
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