Adrian Dunbar
Also Known As: 阿德里安·敦巴
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an actor from Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adrian Dunbar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, UK
Birthday: August 01, 1958
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Gender: Male
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The Dawning
Overview: An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-08
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The Crying Game
Overview: Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-02
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The Wedding Tackle
Overview: The sexual rivalries between a group of friends cause comic chaos during a stag night celebration.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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Richard III
Overview: A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-29
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Widows' Peak
Overview: Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce
Overview: Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-29
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The Quatermass Experiment
Overview: Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-02
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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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Eye of the Dolphin
Overview: Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her grandmother Lucy, at wit's end, decides to take Alyssa to her father, James, whom Alyssa thought was dead for years. He studies dolphin communication at Smith's Point, on the Grand Bahama Island. James has not known of Alyssa's existence and is clueless about parenthood. The women arrive at the same time that James may lose his research operation to a tourist attraction. Father, daughter, dolphins, and town are on a collision course. Alyssa and James get encouragement from James's girlfriend and her father. It's the dolphins who can teach, and Alyssa who discovers how to listen.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-24
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Force of Duty
Overview: RUC detective Simon Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually loses control of his life
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-08
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Two Angry Men
Overview: Short film telling the story of James Ellis and Sam Thompson as they battle against the establishment to stage a controversial play in Belfast in 1959.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Dealers
Overview: The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the board room. Despite the high stakes, many of the firm's staff are eager to step into Tony's now-vacated shoes and get credit for saving the company. Daniel Pascoe, the leading trader at the firm, is convinced that he's first in line for the assignment, but the firm imports a new trader from America, Anna Schuman. Daniel is enraged and makes a point of trying to dig up as much dirt on Anna as he can, but things are going to take another turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-03
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How Harry Became a Tree
Overview: Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most of the businesses in the area, but is also the local matchmaker. When Harry's son Gus (Cillian Murphy) – upon whom Harry regularly heaps abuse (mostly mental and verbal) – falls for the lovely Eileen, George helps get the two together. During this time, Harry quietly mobilizes his dastardly plans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Shooters
Overview: Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds from the job that landed him inside, J soon talks him into getting involved in one last scam.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-25
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Drowning in the Shallow End
Overview: Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be smooth and confident as he imagines other men to be?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-28
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Reasonable Force
Overview: In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-27
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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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Lost Lives
Overview: This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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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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A Sudden Case of Christmas
Overview: An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it’s August. The fact is they are breaking up, and once Claire realizes there’s not going to be a family Christmas this year, she insists on everyone making it out for Christmas in August. Claire, in collusion with her grandfather, plan activities that are designed to re-unite her parents.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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Wild About Harry
Overview: A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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Hear My Song
Overview: Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-27
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Innocent Lies
Overview: In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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Act of God
Overview: When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for revenge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Cruel Train
Overview: In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he could continue having sexual access to her. The husband and wife kill him together, but are seen by a train driver, who also has problems of his own. The wife tries to divert suspicion by implicating another driver and befriending the witness, but it doesn't go that smoothly.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Child of Mine
Overview: A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to the crime scene for answer.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-13
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The Near Room
Overview: Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in an alleged child pornography scandal with a top ranking police officer. As the trail to Tommy begins to heat up, so the bodies begin to mount up. Allegiances fall by the wayside as Charlie's life begins to spiral out of control and the deadly world of drugs, blackmail and murder that lies in the deepest heart of the underworld threatens to consume him and his missing daughter forever.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-11
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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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Mo
Overview: A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-31
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A Box of Swan
Overview: A moving and unusual film about a young man who returns to his Liverpool roots for his father's funeral.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-09
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The Wake
Overview: Alone after her mother's funeral, Frances relives the tangle of emotions between her husband, her mother and herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-18
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The Four Minute Mile
Overview: A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-09
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Mickybo and Me
Overview: The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-25
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Tough Love
Overview: DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is approached by the police complaints division asking him to go undercover and investigate allegations of corruption against his friend. Milton finds this difficult at first and tries to dismiss the evidence building up. But as his suspicions begin to take shape his position appears to be in danger.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-01
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Sky Bandits
Overview: A pair of old west cowboys become fighter pilots in World War I.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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The Price
Overview: Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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The Long March
Overview: A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Car Crash: The Delorean Story
Overview: Former General Motors high-flyer John DeLorean had a plan to build a stylish European sports car, at a price that would make it attractive to the American market. The site he chose for his state-of-the-art factory was on the outskirts of Belfast, a city best-known for sectarian violence and high levels of unemployment. The unexpected marriage of high-tech glamour with the gritty reality of 1970s Northern Ireland captured the public's imagination but this early optimism would end in failure. Although the cars looked great, the windows leaked and the engines seized; as his financial problems mounted the maverick DeLorean faced charges of drugs trafficking. Adrian Dunbar narrates the story.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-07
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The Snowman
Overview: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-08-24
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Good Vibrations
Overview: The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-31
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The Blue Boy
Overview: Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways." There, Marie is told the story of a young boy who drowned in a nearby lake long ago, and finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with his ghost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-02
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Pleasure
Overview: Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-25
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Walter
Overview: DI Walter Gambon is a self-styled “Yoda of the force”, whose workload suddenly increases when he’s handed the cases of an officer who committed suicide by throwing himself under a Tube train. Or was he pushed? Gambon must work out whether his former colleague was murdered, while tracking down another officer who has gone so far undercover that nobody knows where he (or she) is.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-08
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Hideaways
Overview: The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother. Haunted by this mysterious evil he hides in a forest not to harm anybody. A few years later, Mae also takes refuge it in the forest and meets James.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-23
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The Attendant
Overview: Frankie is a car park attendant at the spectacular Giant’s Causeway in Co. Antrim. His friend Cathy and her husband Paul are in trouble. Nevertheless as Frankie always says, "Something will turn up!"
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-14
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A Statement of Affairs
Overview: A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide?
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-08
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Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
Overview: Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-22
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Children of the North
Overview: The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-30
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Mother's Milk
Overview: An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-12
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Tailwind
Overview: During World War 2, Northern Ireland served a crucial part in airforce operations against the Axis, used as a base for Allied nations across the world. Combining contemporary footage and interviews with veterans who served in the Ulster Province, John T Davis creates a tribute to those who fought the war effort from the six counties.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Cry
Overview: Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indifference. Or is it fear?
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-31
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Unusual Ground Floor Conversion
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Emily
Overview: The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-14
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Kidnapped
Overview: 15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the hands of a Scottish rogue, Alan Breck, leaves them racing across the Scottish moors, with English bounty hunters in hot pursuit.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-27
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Triggermen
Overview: Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend they are the hitmen but soon find they get more than they bargained for when the real ones turn up.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-26
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Kiss Me, Kate
Overview: Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-17
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Brendan Behan: The Roaring Boy
Overview: Actor Adrian Dunbar has played Brendan Behan on the stage many times, and now sets out on a journey to discover the real story of the poet and playwright. He travels to all the cities Behan lived in, to places where he is still highly regarded, including the one where it all began for him as a poet – Paris.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-01
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