Shane Connaughton
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Redhills, Co. Cavan, Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: April 04, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
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Ghostwood
Overview: Driven to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his father, New York psychologist Ed Hunter travels to a remote village in the West of Ireland and finds a community that has been living in fear for centuries. He meets a mysterious girl who tells him that his father had been searching for the spirits of a mother and child who were buried alive in the nearby forest over 1000 years ago.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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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 Playboys
Overview: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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The Englishman's Wife
Overview: A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-08
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Ireland, Mother Ireland
Overview: A story of the timeless futility of war and death by war, of men who fought for their country, killed for a dream of freedom and died because they were betrayed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-03
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The Rank and File
Overview: Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-20
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Four Days in July
Overview: Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-29
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Enemy
Overview: Frightening events unfold that may or may not be figments of Marigold’s imagination.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Overview: Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a meeting with a rising young British cabinet member named Winston Churchill become vivid vignettes in Indy's life. So too do his brief but impassioned romances with the sister of a clandestine Irish rebel, and with an English suffragette for whom the vote comes before love.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-12
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Shergar
Overview: Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-23
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Redemption of a Rogue
Overview: Jimmy carries a leather, black doctor’s bag around with him containing the rope he plans to hang himself with. He returns home to the fictional town of Ballylough to the cold austere beauty of West Cavan to seek salvation for sins committed in the past before saying goodbye.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-27
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Needle
Overview: Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-12
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