Steve Sweeney
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Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
Deathday: June 19, 2024
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Gender: Male
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Schadenfreude
Overview: Jeremy O'Reilly, the self-important presenter of a TV news show, returns to a clueless East End community where a prank leads to the murder of a beautiful local actress and a savage Press that demands to know, "Who killed Paige Boston?"
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Original Language: en
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Smack and Thistle
Overview: With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-20
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Made in Britain
Overview: After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-25
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Beyond the Rave
Overview: An English soldier must find and win back his girlfriend from the clutches of a mysterious group of hardcore ravers before he flies to Iraq in the morning.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-17
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Goodie-Two-Shoes
Overview: Goodie-Two-Shoes is a 1984 British short film written and directed by Ian Emes. A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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Shoreleave
Overview: Inspired by true events. Billy (Phil Daniels) comes home on shore leave from the Royal Navy, and discovers that his brother Michael has died two weeks prior to his leave. Trying to piece together what happened, Billy becomes enamoured with Myra (Joanne Whalley), a nightclub singer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Simulation Exercise
Overview: 'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do - just keep their heads down'. It was better advice then he knew.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-29
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Jack of Diamonds
Overview: Two jewel thieves take refuge in a remote village where, unbeknownst to them, the government is about to unleash a virus that turns people into savage killers.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-10
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Nil by Mouth
Overview: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-10
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Contact
Overview: A platoon of British paratroopers on border patrol in South Armagh face a series of tense encounters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-06
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A Mother Like Him
Overview: A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-16
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Skulduggery
Overview: Four lads decide to meet up and do a robbery planned by Sweeny, an angry, agressive but small young man who is like a time bomb waiting to go off. The robbery never happens because the boys soon realise Sweeny hasn't put enough thought into the job. His closest friend Tel has a more gentle side to him and falls for a girl at a party called Kak. Gombo is released from a young offenders, and along with Tony finds Sweeny to give him a kicking which actually ends up with Sweeny giving Gombo a kicking! In the end they find an empty house where the owners are away on holiday so they decide to break in. This doesn't quite go to plan either.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-29
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Staggered
Overview: Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-08
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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Overview: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Beautiful People
Overview: In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the Balkans all precipitate conflict and amusing situations. Meanwhile, the lives of four English families are affected in different ways by encounter with the refugees.
Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-16
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Mercy
Overview: A young boy, Ben, lost in a vortex of poverty, is bullied at achool and neglected at home. He takes control of his life and rids himself forever of his aggressors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-14
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I.D.
Overview: Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Face
Overview: Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-26
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Thacker
Overview: A Gothic comedy, featuring a distinguished cast, and starring Leslie Phillips and Margaret Tyzack. Retired colonial army officer George Thacker has high hopes of recapturing his memories of an idyllic English village life after a lifetime of meting out justice in the Far East. But instead of peace and quiet, he is greeted by violence, voodoo and a distressed damsel, brandishing a shotgun. Worst of all, the ghost of his old flame, Edith, still haunts him, threatening both his marriage and his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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The Firm
Overview: A seemingly respectable estate agent leads a double life as the head of a vicious, well-organised gang of football hooligans.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-26
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The Last Yellow
Overview: Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Crimes
Overview: 2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they have committed, some seemingly innocuous by today’s standards… at least, at first.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-13
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