Pauline McLynn
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pauline McLynn (born 11 July 1962) is an Irish actress, comedienne and author, best known for playing Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, and Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pauline McLynn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Birthday: July 11, 1962
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Gender: Female
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Gypo
Overview: Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The film tells the story of the a couple of weeks in this family's life, beginning when a young Czech girl, Tash, comes to visit. The film is made in the Dogme95 tradition, so no costumes, no lighting, no props or sets, which gives the film a gritty texture appropriate to the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-24
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Last Night in Soho
Overview: A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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An Everlasting Piece
Overview: Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Heidi
Overview: Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especially accompanying young goatherd Peter. Grandpa refuses to send her to school in the city, but aunt Detie returns and forces him to give in. She's sent to a posh lady in Frankfurt, where she'll be a companion for crippled daughter Clara after school hours.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-19
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My Friend Joe
Overview: During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they become inseparable. Things turn horribly wrong however, when Chris discovers his new best friend isn't a he, but a she. The sadness only begins as Chris learns why Joe's gender must be kept a secret.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-29
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Gina And Stella
Overview: Gina barges in on Stella after a hard day of shopping.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-05
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Dermot Morgan - Fearless Funnyman
Overview: A selection of Dermot Morgan's family, friends, colleagues and admirers, including Pat Shortt, Oliver Callan and Pauline Mc Lynn, look back on the life of the comedian, writer, satirist and actor whose savage wit belied a caring nature and reflect on his place in the annals of comedy greats.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-27
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Black Day at Black Rock
Overview: Satirical take on the reactions of the inhabitants of an Irish village when they learn that a group of thirty asylum seekers is to be relocated to their village.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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Out!
Overview: A heartfelt comedy drama about the parent/child relationship, the generation gap, the fear of rejection and the need for acceptance.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-03
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The Playboy of the Western World
Overview: A story of love, rivalry and betrayal – Synge’s best-known work is a must-see from this multi-award winning company.' Synge’s great comic masterpiece tells the story of Christy Mahon, who stumbles into a public house in County Mayo claiming he has killed his father and so capturing the romantic attention of the daughter of the house, Pegeen Mike. Performed at Donmar Warehouse in London's Covent Garden by the Druid Theatre Company of Galway, Ireland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-14
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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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Noble
Overview: Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-19
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The Secret Scripture
Overview: The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-23
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Iris
Overview: True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-14
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Family
Overview: This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-08
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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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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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Transformers: The Last Knight
Overview: Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Saving our world falls upon the shoulders of an unlikely alliance: Cade Yeager; Bumblebee; an English Lord; and an Oxford Professor.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-16
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When Brendan Met Trudy
Overview: Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies. That is until he meets Trudy, a woman who is gregarious and adventurous beyond his imagination. His entire persona changes as he becomes enveloped in her carefree and sometimes dangerous world.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-14
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Dave Allen at Peace
Overview: Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen
Genres: TV Movie Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-02
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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Overview: Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing through a flooded cafe.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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Quills
Overview: A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Nora
Overview: In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-05
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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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Making Noise Quietly
Overview: Three stories of strangers meeting on the edge of war. A conscientious objector and a roaming artist find tenderness as the carnage of the Second World War unfolds across the English Channel. A bereaved mother struggles with bitterness and love in recollecting her estranged son, lost in the Falklands. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany, an ageing holocaust survivor seeks to bring peace to disturbed young boy and his equally wild stepfather.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-19
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A Girl From Mogadishu
Overview: The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-14
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Johnny English Strikes Again
Overview: Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, he’ll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterday’s analogue methods faces off against tomorrow’s digital technology.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Riverdance: The Animated Adventure
Overview: A young Irish boy named Keegan and Spanish girl named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration of life. Based on the stage show phenomenon of the same name and featuring Bill Whelan’s multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning music.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Music Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Overview: Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during the Troubles. Local girl, Mary Malloy (Tara O'Neil) decides that since she has probably slept with every man in town Eamonn should be next on her list. He proves to be quite a catch... and Mary gets pregnant even though she took precautions. A doctor discovers that Eamonn has a very high sperm count and, with the birth rate in Ireland decreasing, Millicent (Bronagh Gallagher) decides to hire out Eamonn to women whose husbands have been firing blanks; all with the blessing of the local Catholic church which sees it as morally better than artificial means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-08
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Deadly Cuts
Overview: A black comedy set in a working-class Dublin hair salon where the stylists become accidental vigilantes and community heroes as they take on the gang members and gentrifiers threatening their community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-08
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Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
Overview: Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd seeks out a reclusive witch to break the evil enchantment that has long kept him from taking a wife. When he completes the three impossible trials the witch prescribes, the man earns the hand of the legendary Princess, only heir of the Old King of the Cursed Kingdom. But when he arrives at the altar with a perfect fairytale ending hanging in the balance, both the goatherd and mysterious witch who helped transform him into the perfect eligible bachelor find that there is one enchantment they can't figure out how to break... true love.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-28
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