Brian McGrath
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: August 23, 1943
Deathday: November 10, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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P.S. I Love You
Overview: A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-15
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Black Beauty
Overview: Anna Sewell's classic 1877 novel beautifully comes to life in this family drama set in England. Told from the point of view of Black Beauty himself, the story sheds light on the details surrounding the colt's birth and his perception of humans (he has various owners throughout his life). While some owners are compassionate -- none more than Joe Evans (Mark Lester), the boy who first owns the colt.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-01
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Kidnapped
Overview: When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. When staunch Stuart dynasty supporter Alan Breck Stewart accidentally boards the ship, he takes David along on his escape back to Edinburgh. They part and meet again repeatedly, mutually helpful against the Redcoats and respectful, although David is loyal to the English crown, but learns about its cruel oppression. Both ultimately face their adversaries.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-05
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Bad Company
Overview: A dramatization of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Carl Bridgewater and the subsequent trial and imprisonment of four men.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-17
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Alexander
Overview: Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Genres: War History Action Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-21
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After 68
Overview: The story of Frieda, a young girl growing up in strife-torn late 1960's Derry, and her attempts to have a normal adolescence despite the violence which surrounds her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-01
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Falling for a Dancer
Overview: Romantic drama set in rural Ireland of the 1930s. The story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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The Treaty
Overview: How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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A Week in the Life of Martin Cluxton
Overview: Based on real stories, using both actors and non-actors, and filmed on location in Dublin, A Week in the Life of Martin Cluxton (1971) is a rare example of Irish social realism. After years in an industrial school, Martin Cluxton (Derek King) returns home to Dublin but finds considerable prejudice and little opportunity. Broadcast on RTÉ, it was directed by Brian MacLochlainn, co-written by Caoimhín Ó Marcaigh and MacLochlainn, with music by jazz great Louis Stewart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-09
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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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Hostages
Overview: True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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Her Own Rules
Overview: Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-13
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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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Bogwoman
Overview: Bogwoman charts the experiences of a woman who moves to the city from Donegal in 1958. Down the years she copes with various personal and familiy pressures against the background of the emerging civil unrest and the redeployment of British troops into the area.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-13
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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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Someone at the Top of the Stairs
Overview: A young woman and her friend rent a room in a boarding house. Soon they become aware of the fact that the other "renters" are a very strange lot, and that there are some very odd goings-on in the house that seem to be centered in the attic... Part of the ITV 'Thriller' anthology series.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-28
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Evelyn
Overview: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-30
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The Achurch Letters
Overview: 1889: young Bernard Shaw falls under the spell of actress Janet Achurch. An important and highly charged relationship develops.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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