Ruth McCabe
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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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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Inside I'm Dancing
Overview: Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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The Field
Overview: "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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The Snapper
Overview: Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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An Everlasting Piece
Overview: Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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The Miracle
Overview: Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her and even follows her home. She, too, seems to like him, but for a mysterious reason keeps him at a distance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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The Note
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-13
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The Closer You Get
Overview: Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Wake Wood
Overview: The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-03-25
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Run & Jump
Overview: After a stroke leaves her husband disabled and fundamentally changed, a spirited Irish wife struggles to keep her family members together. All the while they are under the microscope of an American researcher documenting their recovery process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-24
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That They May Face the Rising Sun
Overview: Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-26
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Wild About Harry
Overview: A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Overview: No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-07
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Joyride
Overview: 12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-29
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Aisha
Overview: Aisha, a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, is floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. As her situation becomes increasingly dire, Aisha struggles to maintain hope and dignity against the looming threat of deportation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Philomena
Overview: A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Overview: Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-11
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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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The Blackwater Lightship
Overview: A man in the final stages of AIDS is cared for by his sister and mother and grandmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-04
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Fatal Inheritance
Overview: Jack Carnegie is an American 'heir-hunter', whose job it is to trace unknown family members who should rightly inherit unassigned fortunes. He arrives in Ireland to find the sole heir to a fortune.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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Hostages
Overview: True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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Victoria & Abdul
Overview: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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Crossroads of Laredo
Overview: Tex is a gunslinger who murders a cowboy and steals his money. Lem is an honest man who wants nothing more than to marry Barbara. When Tex marries Barbara and treats her badly, Lem decides to settle the score.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Damo & Ivor: The Movie
Overview: Damo and Ivor embark on the mother of all adventures to find the last piece of their family puzzle and track down their long lost brother John Joe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Good Vibrations
Overview: The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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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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Titanic Town
Overview: Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-08
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Circle of Friends
Overview: Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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Sinners
Overview: Powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland about a young, unmarried mother-to-be whose family sends her to a convent. There, out of sight of society, her work in the laundry provides her with close friendships, which bring hope and relief from daily prayer and penance. (Radio Times)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-26
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Shadow of a Gunman
Overview: The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donal and Seamus who share a flat in Dublin.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-07
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Out of Innocence
Overview: After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-04-12
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Stella Days
Overview: A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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