Phelim Drew
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ireland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1969
Age: 56 years old
Gender: Male
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The Catalpa Rescue
Overview: The Catalpa Rescue is the extraordinary story of the daring rescue of six Irish rebels from a notoriously brutal penal colony in Fremantle, West Australia in 1876.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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The Nephew
Overview: Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. Soon, Chad falls for Aislin, who has a bit of a crush on him too. But there is an old conflict going on between her father and Chad's uncle. This conflict resurfaces and begins to draw circles, wider and wider.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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King Arthur
Overview: The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.
Genres: Adventure War History Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-07
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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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Speed Dating
Overview: The film tells the story of speed dating addict James Van Der Bexton as he approaches his 30th birthday.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2007-03-26
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The Commitments
Overview: Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-14
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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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Fatal Inheritance
Overview: Jack Carnegie is an American 'heir-hunter', whose job it is to trace unknown family members who should rightly inherit unassigned fortunes. He arrives in Ireland to find the sole heir to a fortune.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-01
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The Drummer and the Keeper
Overview: The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in. This heartwarming story shows the strength of the human bond in the face of adversity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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Ronnie Drew: September Song
Overview: The name of the documentary comes from Drew's recording of "September Song", the Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson song made popular through recordings by a number of artists. With the founding of his revolutionary folk band, The Dubliners in 1962, Ronnie Drew has become synonymous with his native Dublin. September Song (2008) is an intimate portrayal of the legendary singer in which he recalls growing up in his granny's house in Dun Laoghaire, the founding of The Dubliners in O'Donoghue's pub on Merrion Row, his days of touring the world, the poignant loss of his wife of forty years, and his own battle with cancer. Featuring interviews with son Phelim, daughter Cliodhna and friends and fans Bono, Billy Connolly and Damien Dempsey.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-01
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Bless Me Father
Overview: In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-11
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With or Without You
Overview: Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn't like her job, he isn't too pleased working with her dad. They're trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-10
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The Explosive 80s: How Heysel Changed Football
Overview: A look at this football tragedy
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-24
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
Overview: A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-19
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Bloom
Overview: Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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Chaos
Overview: In the near future a young biker leaves his crumbling life in rural Ireland to join a strange 'metal circus' as it tours the cities of Europe. He discovers a dark side to the circus and decides to leave, but finds he is caught between his love of a circus girl and the dark hand of the boss who is determined he stays.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-26
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Studs
Overview: The hot-tempered, unruly players of this pub league soccer team are in dire straits after having lost everything -- their drive, their skills and soon, their playing field. When mysterious Walter Keegan shows up offering to be their coach, captain Bubbles and the rest of his loopy, obnoxious teammates are so desperate to succeed, they agree to give him the job. Drilled into the ground with a fierce discipline they have never known, the team pushes beyond their aches and pains to gain not only redemption on the field, but more importantly, their self-respect.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-16
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