Acting

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Veronica GuerinVeronica Guerin · 2003
Veronica Guerin
★ 6.72003
MovieDramaCrime
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.
The GeneralThe General · 1998
The General
★ 6.71998
MovieCrimeDrama
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.
Don't GoDon't Go · 2018
Don't Go
★ 4.92018
MovieMystery
Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream. But is it just a dream? Or is Ben losing his mind?
Cry of the InnocentCry of the Innocent · 1980
Cry of the Innocent
★ 5.31980
MovieActionCrime
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
The OutsiderThe Outsider · 1979
The Outsider
★ 5.81979
MovieDramaHistory
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man · 1977
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
★ 5.71977
MovieDrama
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty, and politics. However, his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.
Philadelphia, Here I ComePhiladelphia, Here I Come · 1975
Philadelphia, Here I Come
★ 7.01975
MovieDrama
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).
WatermelonWatermelon · 2003
Watermelon
★ 4.32003
MovieComedyDrama
A tangled web of deceit pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.

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