Enda Oates

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Enda Oates

Enda Oates is a Irish Film and Television Award winning Actor (IFTA). He has appeared in movies An Everlasting Piece, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Damo and Ivor, God's Creatures among others. Television series include, Moone Boy, The Fall, Harry Wild, Fair City and Valhalla 3. He is also a renouned Irish Theatre and Radio actor having played Prosporo in The Tempest and Shylock in The Merchant of …

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The Secret ScriptureThe Secret Scripture · 2017
The Secret Scripture
7.22017
MovieDramaRomance
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.
Halo: NightfallHalo: Nightfall · 2014
Halo: Nightfall
6.82014
MovieScience FictionAction
Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians… Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific biological attack while investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra. As they unravel a plot that draws them to an ancient, hellish artifact, they will be forced to fight for their survival, question everything and ultimately choose between their loyalty and their lives.
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.
Ordinary Decent CriminalOrdinary Decent Criminal · 2000
Ordinary Decent Criminal
6.22000
MovieComedyThriller
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
God's CreaturesGod's Creatures · 2022
God's Creatures
6.12022
MovieDrama
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
I, DoloursI, Dolours · 2018
I, Dolours
7.32018
MovieDocumentary
Dolours Price, the infamous IRA radical convicted of bombing England's Old Bailey in 1973, granted a series of revealing interviews in 2010 on the strict condition of their posthumous release. The interviews, brought to life through vividly cinematic reenactments, uncover the birth of her fierce commitment to Irish Republicanism. Price revisits the bombing and the 200-day hunger strike that followed, and discusses her role in the disappearances of some suspected Republican informants. With 2018 marking the 20th anniversary since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, and 50 years since the start of the Troubles, filmmaker Maurice Sweeney presents an eye-opening portrait of a once passionate, now disillusioned nationalist whose clarity of purpose both inspired allegiance and promised terror for so many.
Death of a SuperheroDeath of a Superhero · 2011
Death of a Superhero
6.92011
MovieDrama
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
An Everlasting PieceAn Everlasting Piece · 2000
An Everlasting Piece
5.92000
MovieComedyCrime
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

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I, DoloursI, Dolours · 2018
I, Dolours
7.32018
MovieDocumentary
Dolours Price, the infamous IRA radical convicted of bombing England's Old Bailey in 1973, granted a series of revealing interviews in 2010 on the strict condition of their posthumous release. The interviews, brought to life through vividly cinematic reenactments, uncover the birth of her fierce commitment to Irish Republicanism. Price revisits the bombing and the 200-day hunger strike that followed, and discusses her role in the disappearances of some suspected Republican informants. With 2018 marking the 20th anniversary since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, and 50 years since the start of the Troubles, filmmaker Maurice Sweeney presents an eye-opening portrait of a once passionate, now disillusioned nationalist whose clarity of purpose both inspired allegiance and promised terror for so many.

Joe Lynskey