Brendan Conroy
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Biography: Brendan Conroy is an Irish actor renowned for his impactful roles in film, television, and theater. Known for performances in The Ballroom of Romance, Albert Nobbs, and The Banshees of Inisherin, Conroy has also been a prominent figure in Irish theater, frequently collaborating with the Abbey Theatre.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tuam, County Galway, Ireland
Birthday: November 17, 1947
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Gender: Male
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The Bounty
Overview: The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-04
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Dolorosa
Overview: A young woman yields to a predetermined story. Someone’s son wrestles inside the abyss of his own skin. A woman’s face marked by hope, pain and triumph; a young girl rebels against expectation and success. Dolorosa is a short film reflecting on humanity in all its glory, innocence and desperation, power and vulnerability.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Foscadh
Overview: When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless recluse John Cunliffe discovers their land to be extremely valuable, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of trust, vengeance and romance for the first time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ga
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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Deadly Cuts
Overview: A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilantes and community heroes as they take on the gang members and gentrifiers threatening their community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Kings
Overview: In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ga
Release Date: 2007-09-21
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Harvest
Overview: Joe Gibbons prepares to go back to the local cattle mart for the first time since his near fatal heart attack. But, it's no ordinary day and Joe is soon confronted with the harsh truth of his future.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-24
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An Rinceoir
Overview: At a competition, a young dancer waits nervously in the wings. Once on stage, however, she shines, demonstrating her great passion for Irish dancing.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ga
Release Date: 2011-07-01
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Tufty
Overview: Maybe if you knew where your Teddy Bear came from you wouldn't hug him so tightly.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-11
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This Is My Father
Overview: When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-07
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The Legend of Longwood
Overview: When 12-year-old Mickey Miller moves from New York to Ireland, she soon discovers a link between herself and the 300-year-old legend of the mysterious Black Knight, who regularly haunts the sleepy Irish village. With courage and a sharp mind, she sets out to save a precious herd of white horses and to thwart the evil plans of a greedy, ambitious woman.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-16
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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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The Ballroom of Romance
Overview: A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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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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Sunshower
Overview: On her way home from a party, drunk and driving a stolen car, a girl (17) hits an old man walking by the side of the road. When he won't wake up and the car won't start, it seems all she can do is bury him
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-01
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Without Name
Overview: A land surveyor working in an unnamed woodland area is disturbed and beguiled by a strange silhouette that moves amongst the trees.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-05
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The Secret of Roan Inish
Overview: Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-14
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Lost and Found
Overview: 'Lost and Found' is a film with 7 interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-22
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The General
Overview: The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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A Man of No Importance
Overview: Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-24
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The Butcher Boy
Overview: Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-20
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The Lucky Man
Overview: A lonely, simple-minded barman's fleeting encounter in a rural Irish pub, with a difficult customer highlights his need for intimacy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-08
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Float Like a Butterfly
Overview: Irish Traveller Frances has to fight for the right to pursue her passion... boxing. She is determined to make her idol Muhammad Ali proud, as well as her father who has recently been released from prison. But when she wants to show him just how tough she is, she soon comes to realise he's got other plans for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-10
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The Green Knight
Overview: An epic fantasy adventure based on the timeless Arthurian legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight, a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-29
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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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