Olwen Fouéré
Also Known As: Olwen Fouere, Олвен Фуер
Biography: Olwen Fouéré is an actress and writer/director in theatre, film and visual arts. She was born on the west coast of Ireland of Breton parents Yann Fouéré and Marie-Magdeleine Mauger. In 2020, she was listed at number 22 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olwen Fouéré, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ireland
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Birthday: March 02, 1954
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Female
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Far Calls
Overview: A film about life and death, following the final moments of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, as the river dissolves into the ocean towards the Atlantic horizon.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Time After Time
Overview: 'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-26
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All You Need Is Death
Overview: A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-19
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Joyride
Overview: 12-year-old Mully has lost his mother and discovers his debt-ridden father stealing the charity money they've raised in her name. Grabbing the cash, Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. A straight-talking solicitor who didn't expect to get pregnant, Joy is struggling with motherhood and planning to give her baby to a friend who will raise the child as her own. She joins Mully on a wild journey across Ireland, stealing cars, hitch-hiking, catching ferries and breaking police barricades.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-29
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This Must Be the Place
Overview: A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-24
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The Other Side of Sleep
Overview: Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene, a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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The Sleep of Death
Overview: Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Radha
Overview: Rural Ireland. Twelve year old Radha lives a solitary life with her Grandmother. After witnessing the tragic death of a local girl, they find themselves complicit in hiding the truth from the community that surrounds them.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-15
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The Watchers
Overview: A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-06
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Bardo
Overview: A woman questions her lifestyle choices when the travails of urban living are one day jolted into juxtaposition with a simpler way of life.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-23
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The Irreducible Difference of the Other
Overview: "This experimental film embodies an implicit critique of the male paradigm where the fetishisation of property and privilege has resulted in a global ethical deficit."
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Original Language: en
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The Tower
Overview: Exploring the medieval female mystics who came before the witch trials, it resonates with seismic shifts in Ireland’s cultural and political landscape
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-24
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She Will
Overview: Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-15
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Falling into Place
Overview: A love story set in Scotland and London that follows a romance between Kira and Ian, two 30-somethings who meet while on the run from themselves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Sunrise
Overview: When an ex-cop named Fallon returns to the scene of a horrific crime, the residents of a rural town soon discover that this dark visitor is really a vampire who feeds on blood and fear. After he is befriended by a kind immigrant family, the instinctive killer is faced with a choice between revenge and redemption.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Cult Killer
Overview: A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Tarot
Overview: When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-01
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The Survivalist
Overview: In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-15
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The Actor
Overview: Paul Cole finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town with no memory of who he is or how he got here. As bits and pieces of his past slowly emerge, he attempts to find his way home, but time is slippery, appearances can't be trusted, and it's unclear which of his identities is real.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-14
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Four Letters of Love
Overview: Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so too does life threaten to tear them apart.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-07-18
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The Reckoning of Erin Morrigan
Overview: In a remote safe house on the borderlands of Northern Ireland, ex-IRA volunteer Erin Morrigan is dying from cancer. Living alone, she self-medicates using homemade opiates mixed with alcohol. The potent concoction causes hallucinatory flashbacks to her life as one of the ‘Unknowns’ an elite IRA unit that interrogated and killed suspected informers, burying them in the surrounding countryside. Haunted by the daily visitations, her private torment is further disturbed by the arrival of a teenaged boy, who bears a striking resemblance to one of her victims: an infiltrator whom she had once loved. A fervent young recruit, on the run after accidentally shooting a girl in a Derry riot, needing a place to hide. Erin allows him to stay and, as she deteriorates, the boy becomes her carer and confessor, an unready witness to her fight with her relentless demons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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4,000-Year-Old Cold Case: The Body in the Bog
Overview: Documentary following the discovery and investigation of a 4,000-year-old body that was preserved in a peat bog in Cashel in the Irish midlands
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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The Ulysses Project
Overview: An irreverent, modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 75 international actors. The film maintains the rhythm of the novel's stream of consciousness with intimate, minutely nuanced provocative performances.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-07-16
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Catching Dust
Overview: A criminal husband and his wife hide in a lone trailer. Exhausted by her husbands controlling ways, she decides to leave. But then a trailer arrives with a couple which creates dangerous consequences for them all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-23
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Traders
Overview: What if it made perfect sense for ordinary people to kill each other for money? Better than slow grinding financial ruin and misery, and all done according to a strict code by consenting adults. This is Trading.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-11
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National Theatre Live: Salomé
Overview: An occupied desert nation. A radical from the wilderness on hunger strike. A girl whose mysterious dance will change the course of the world. This charged retelling turns the infamous biblical tale on its head, placing the girl we call Salomé at the centre of a revolution. Internationally acclaimed director Yaël Farber (Les Blancs, Hamlet) draws on multiple accounts to create her urgent, hypnotic production.
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-22
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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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Beast
Overview: A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-18
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Mandy
Overview: The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Genres: Fantasy Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-13
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Overview: Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-14
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Animals
Overview: Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-02
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Procession
Overview: A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how - an elaborately eccentric folk music funeral
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-14
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Sea Fever
Overview: The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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Artaud on Aran
Overview: This documentary traces the fateful journey of Antonin Artaud across Ireland in 1937 and explores the Theatre of Cruelty and Ireland's impact on Artaud's life and thought after his deportation and incarceration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-25
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The Northman
Overview: Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-07
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Overview: After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-02-18
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Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Overview: The true and forgotten story of Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, who shot fascist dictator Benito Mussolini at point-blank range as she faced a Fascist mob in Rome in 1926. The film looks at how she almost changed the course of history and the enormous personal price she paid.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-03
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Where is Eva Hipsey?
Overview: Where is Eva Hipsey? is an experimental animated film that blends documentary, fiction and poetry. It is based on a short story written by Justin Spooner. The film seeks to convey the power of sound to store and evoke memory. It both recounts and reimagines aspects of his grandmother’s life. The film is told from the vantage point of her granddaughter, voiced by Olwen Fouéré. Where is Eva Hipsey? mixes fact and fiction to search for a truth or representation of Eva’s reality, past and present. It combines experimental animation techniques with archival material taken from both Spooner and Mc Hardy’s grandmothers’ collections; family photographs, vérité camerawork, sketchbooks and field recordings, to suggest a journey. Driven by curiosity and a desire to listen deeply, Eva explores and attempts to capture the world around her, stepping further and further from the familiar.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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The Tide
Overview: Once the pride of a North Sea trawler fleet, 'The Annie' struggles to survive in a tide of apathy and neglect. When tragedy threatens her future, the crew strive to define not only themselves but their way of life.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-14
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Zone 414
Overview: In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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Space Truckers
Overview: John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo turns out to be multitude of unstoppable and deadly killer robots.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Take Me Swimming
Overview: A son must overcome his own conflicted feelings and honour his father's intentions to keep his mother alive, despite her expressed wish to the contrary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-18
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Saltwater
Overview: An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles in school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-29
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