Gerard McSorley
Also Known As: Gerard McSorely, Gerard Mcsorley
Biography: Gerard McSorley (born 1950) is a theatre, television and an Irish film actor. He is known for hit films Veronica Guerin, Braveheart & In The Name of The Father. He also known for playing Father Todd Unctious in the Christmas special episode ("A Christmassy Ted") of the sitcom Father Ted. He now resides in County Donegal, he has three children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gerard McSorley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: September 14, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Veronica Guerin
Overview: In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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The Constant Gardener
Overview: Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-31
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Omagh
Overview: The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-23
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The Front Line
Overview: An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-16
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Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne
Overview: Born in London to single mum Bridget, Austin Byrne returns with her to her hometown in Ireland as a very young boy and learns that, from family to neighbours to the Church, no-one has a good word to say about either of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-11
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Taffin
Overview: When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Agnes Browne
Overview: Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with adversity after the unexpected death of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-08
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Dead Bodies
Overview: The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy. Tommy (Andrew Scott) had thought he had seen the last of Jean (Katy Davis) after their recent breakup, but when she returns to stake her claim on Tommy's apartment, the confrontation that ensues makes their previous quarrels look petty by comparison. After leaving the apartment in the head of the fight to cool his head and gather his thoughts, he returns only to find that Jean has died and enlists the aid of his friend Noel (Darren Healy) in ditching the body and ensuring that no one ever finds out what happened.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-25
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The Serpent's Kiss
Overview: A man sends a young architect to build an extravagant garden to bankrupt the husband of the woman he once loved.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-14
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Middletown
Overview: Having spent most of his life in religious instruction, Gabriel returns to his hometown as its new preacher. The town is full of drinkers and gamblers, including Jim and Caroline, his younger brother and sister-in-law. Gabriel believes he must save the townspeople, especially Jim and Caroline and their unborn child. In the battle to save their souls, some amazing revelations take place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-02
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Felicia's Journey
Overview: Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Trapped
Overview: When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan. Blinded by hatred and misguided patriotism 'Anton' is led into an illicit world of violence and is forced to choose between his family and his country. Hunted and on the run, Anton is drawn into a battle of wills with the law and his former accomplices, ending in a showdown in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-10
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Withdrawal
Overview: Based on the writings of David Chapman and Jimmy Brennan, Withdrawal is about Jimmy, a heroin user in a Dublin psychiatric hospital. His thoughts and observations dominate, his subjective voice-over speculating on the lives of his companions. Jimmy leaves the hospital, returning to the city to reconcile with his loved ones, but his withdrawal leads ultimately to a dead end.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs?
Overview: An aging criminal, about to pull an armed robbery,reflects on a friend of his: a fellow criminal, who lost his life in a recent robbery attempt,on a woman whom he's been seeing and for whom he has strong feelings and whether or not he should go ahead with the present crime.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-12
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Overview: A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-12
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Just in Time
Overview: Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to keep casual. Frank's secret is a burden he bears lightly, but he finds himself increasingly drawn into examining his unworthiness which ultimately horrifies him. Maria, an artist, is his good humoured wife putting a brave face on his neglect. Feeling increasingly emotional and isolated as she approaches middle age, she eventually breaks down admitting her loneliness at Frank's absences. The cathartic point of the film is when Michael, the co-owner of the cottage where they're staying, pays a visit with a woman other than his wife. Not knowing that he has left his wife and has moved in with this other woman, embarrassment and awkwardness increase, straining this social setting. With the illicit couple hot-footing it back to the city, Frank and Maria are left feeling threatened trying to reason the situation, at the midst of which lies Frank's secret.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Blood Creek
Overview: A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Braveheart
Overview: Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-24
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Hesitation
Overview: A middle aged man, on a package holiday in France with his wife, focuses all his frustrations and discontent onto a local boy who has got under his skin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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The Rockingham Shoot
Overview: Rigid nationalist Reilly's frustration at the last remains of British rule draws him to the Rockingham Shoot, where a violent incident occurs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-10
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War Horse
Overview: On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Genres: War History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-25
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S.O.S. Titanic
Overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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In the Name of the Father
Overview: A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
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Who Bombed Birmingham?
Overview: Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Genres: Documentary Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-22
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Easter 2016
Overview: Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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The Hanging Gale
Overview: In this historical miniseries created for BBC Northern Ireland, four brothers struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s while facing persecution from an agent (Michael Kitchen) of their indifferent English landlord. Looking on in horror as their primary food source dwindles, the Phelan brothers (portrayed by real-life siblings Joe, Mark, Paul and Stephen McGann) are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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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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Robin Hood
Overview: When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-12
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Michael Collins
Overview: Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Genres: War Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-25
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Dancing at Lughnasa
Overview: Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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Nothing Personal
Overview: A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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Lift
Overview: Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In the confines of the lift, love has a chance of blossoming - violence has a chance of erupting - Sean has little chance of escape. With his freedom hanging in the balance can the people who fear him offer him one last chance of redemption?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-11
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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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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Overview: Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-07
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Wide Open Spaces
Overview: Have you ever had a best friend you couldn't stand? Myles has one - Austin - only he's too much of a slacker to do anything about it. In fact, each one of these layabouts is as useless as the other: a pair of thirty-somethings who laze around watching their lives flutter past. Fate, however, has plans to remedy their lack of motivation. Up to their necks in debt, they decide to help a dodgy entrepreneur, Gerard, to create a new landmark in Irish tourism: a Famine Theme Park.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-19
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Vicious Circle
Overview: Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-09
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Penance
Overview: Unequivocal about the need for violence to force Britain out of Ireland, Father Eoin O’Donnell seals the fate of the young and impressionable Antaine by convincing him to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later, the reappearance of the now-experienced gunman Antaine in a divided Derry throws Father O’Donnell into turmoil. Once allies, the pair are now placed on opposite sides of the same agenda.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ga
Release Date: 2018-05-01
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Bloody Sunday
Overview: The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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Runway One
Overview: An Irish Garda finds himself involved in a complex smuggling operation.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-28
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The Boxer
Overview: Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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Some Mother's Son
Overview: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Inside I'm Dancing
Overview: Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-15
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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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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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Angel
Overview: Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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Words Upon the Window Pane
Overview: In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-10
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Tell It to the Fishes
Overview: The tide is slowly coming in and Finn, a worthless low-rent hood, has been dropped on an isolated beach, his feet set in concrete. Finn's misery is compounded when Jack, a hard and edgy minor gangster responsible for his predicament, lands a few yards away, feet also set in concrete.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Halo Effect
Overview: Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is getting the better of him and he has to contend with an endless succession of loan sharks and debt collectors. He employs hopelessly incompetent staff and generally manages to keep the entire community around him ticking over. However just as Fatso seems to be getting everything under control, he is faced with a dilemma that could destroy him for good.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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Fractured City
Overview: Dance culture brings communities together in 1990s Belfast but there will be consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-15
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