Eileen Colgan
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Enniskerry, County Wicklow, Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 20, 1934
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 10, 2014
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Tara Road
Overview: A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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I Sell the Dead
Overview: 18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-07
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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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Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Overview: When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-21
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Durango
Overview: In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-25
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Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
Overview: In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-13
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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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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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A Film with Me in It
Overview: A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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In Two Minds
Overview: Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-01
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The Return
Overview: A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-30
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Captain Busby: The Even Tenour of Her Ways
Overview: The first half of Ann Wolff's BFI-funded short sees the eponymous captain (played by O'Connor) enacting the bizarre actions of the verse, chewing his beard, bouncing through a window and "frowning at a passing ceiling". In the second half, a curious interplay involving a carrot unfolds at a railway station.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-01
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Far and Away
Overview: A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh winter conditions, they must fend off her parents who are determined to bring her back home.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-22
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Angela's Ashes
Overview: An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-25
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Fools of Fortune
Overview: A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-20
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Oliver Twist
Overview: Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-15
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Mystics
Overview: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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John Duffy's Brother
Overview: A man who thinks he is a train.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-18
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