Martin Dunne
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Department: Acting
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Joyriders
Overview: The growing relationship of two people who travel through Ireland in a series of stolen cars.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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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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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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The Courier
Overview: When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the messenger company is a front for a drug ring. A reformed drug user himself, he sets out to crack the lethal ring.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-10
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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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Electric Frank
Overview: 1970's Dublin. Cowboy mad Evie, 11, has to decide whether she can forgive her father when he leaves home and is taken to hospital because of his drinking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-23
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Taffin
Overview: When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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War of the Buttons
Overview: War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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Braveheart
Overview: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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The Van
Overview: In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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The Devil's Own
Overview: Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-13
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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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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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