Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea (born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in a number of high profile films, both Irish and international, such as V for Vendetta, Michael Collins, Interview with the Vampire and Breakfast on Pluto. Rea was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2427 |
| Birthday | 1946-10-31 |
| Place of Birth | Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK |
| Also Known As | Стивен Ри, 斯蒂芬·瑞, استیون ری, |
2008
Kisses
7.088/40
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
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Kisses
2005
Breakfast on Pluto
7.2/428
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother...
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Breakfast on Pluto
1994
Interview with the Vampire
7.385/6318
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
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Interview with the Vampire
1998
Still Crazy
6.8/117
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an over...
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Still Crazy
2006
V for Vendetta
7.898/15374
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive B...
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V for Vendetta
2007
The Reaping
5.755/881
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking r...
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The Reaping
Visitation
0/0
14-year-old Maria is sent to live with Catholic nuns as her mother is dying. Her arrival at the convent turns sinister when one of her caretakers beco...
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Visitation
1996
Michael Collins
6.881/509
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a compl...
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Michael Collins
2004
The Good Shepherd
5.141/32
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.
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The Good Shepherd
1994
Prêt-à-Porter
5.184/224
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
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Prêt-à-Porter
2005
Tara Road
5.316/38
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
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Tara Road
1999
The End of the Affair
6.6/262
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended...
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The End of the Affair
2007
Until Death
5.9/235
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges...
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Until Death
1998
The Butcher Boy
6.831/121
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, su...
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The Butcher Boy
2001
The Musketeer
5.2/240
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
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The Musketeer
1992
The Crying Game
6.841/832
Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA...
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The Crying Game
2006
Sixty Six
6.6/50
A boy's Bar Mitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final.
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Sixty Six
2004
The I Inside
5.939/278
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his br...
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The I Inside
2005
River Queen
5.625/36
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between B...
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River Queen
1984
The Company of Wolves
6.306/378
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which i...
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The Company of Wolves
1995
Citizen X
7.179/375
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17...
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Citizen X
2002
FearDotCom
3.789/403
When four bodies are discovered among the industrial decay and urban grime of New York City, brash young detective Mike Reilly teams with ambitious De...
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FearDotCom
2004
Control
6.06/184
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
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Control
2018
Hard Border
0/0
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of the Irish border in a short film written by Clare Dw...
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Hard Border
2007
Stuck
6.183/194
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
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Stuck
2010
The Heavy
4.8/47
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady...
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The Heavy
2008
The Devil's Mercy
3.8/10
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters dwelling in the...
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The Devil's Mercy
1990
Life Is Sweet
7/171
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts o...
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Life Is Sweet
2009
Spy(ies)
5.5/68
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terr...
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Spy(ies)
1999
Guinevere
5.7/37
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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Guinevere
1994
Princess Caraboo
5.4/27
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims...
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Princess Caraboo
1996
The Last of the High Kings
5.6/44
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood...
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The Last of the High Kings
2010
Ondine
6.383/346
On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds...
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Ondine
2009
Nothing Personal
6.5/101
Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture s...
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Nothing Personal
2001
On the Edge
6.7/54
A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.
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On the Edge
2011
Blackthorn
6.629/286
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber an...
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Blackthorn
1985
The Doctor and the Devils
6.22/59
In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of gettin...
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The Doctor and the Devils
2002
Copenhagen
7.5/11
No one knows for sure what transpired when German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with his Jewish Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen -- the...
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Copenhagen
2012
Underworld: Awakening
6.333/4294
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Va...
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Underworld: Awakening
2011
Roadkill
5.623/69
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form o...
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Roadkill
2006
Sisters
3.865/63
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of twins.
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Sisters
2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
0/0
The playwright Brian Friel stands among the giants of Irish literature. From the 1980s onwards, he withdrew from media and public life. This film sets...
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Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2003
Bloom
4.667/9
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...
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Bloom
1994
Angie
5.703/37
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll have...
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Angie
2012
Stella Days
6.438/16
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new...
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Stella Days
1982
Angel
5.725/20
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedi...
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Angel
1993
Bad Behavior
5.375/8
The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the...
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Bad Behavior
1996
Trojan Eddie
4.9/8
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather tha...
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Trojan Eddie
2012
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
5.851/261
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
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Werewolf: The Beast Among Us
2001
Snow in August
7/11
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
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Snow in August
2013
Tasting Menu
4.4/5
As one of the world's best restaurants opens for its final evening, a couple in the midst of a divorce who made their reservation a year ago (before s...
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Tasting Menu
2013
Asylum
3.265/17
A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atro...
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Asylum
1984
Four Days in July
6.4/13
Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland.
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Four Days in July
1995
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
6.5/6
A Greek-Irish sailor becomes friends with a 10-year-old sampan girl while his freighter is docked in Hong Kong.
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
1996
Crime of the Century
6.7/11
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Ri...
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Crime of the Century
1997
Double Tap
5/10
A drug-lord targets an undercover FBI agent and the hit man she falls in love with while tracking.
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Double Tap
1995
Shadow of a Gunman
0/0
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, D...
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Shadow of a Gunman
1989
Endgame
0/0
A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett's first play 'Waiting for Godot' in which nothing...
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Endgame
2014
The Curse of Styria
4.459/37
In 1989, Lara Hill, accompanies her art historian father to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerg...
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The Curse of Styria
1993
Hedda Gabler
0/0
Hedda Gabler is a beautiful woman married to the solid and respectable academic George Tesman. Then an old flame, the dreamer Eilert Lovborg, turns up...
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Hedda Gabler
2020
Disclosure
7.8/143
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...
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Disclosure
2022
The Ghost of Richard Harris
7.5/3
A candid and revealing insight into the private life and public career of Richard Harris. One of the most remarkable actors of his generation, the doc...
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The Ghost of Richard Harris
2014
Out of the Dark
5/173
A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
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Out of the Dark
1995
All Men Are Mortal
6/4
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
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All Men Are Mortal
1989
Nobody Here But Us Chickens
0/0
Three short plays celebrating people with disabilities.
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Nobody Here But Us Chickens
1999
The Life Before This
4.5/4
Several innocent persons are hurt after two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into a neighborhood cafe.
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The Life Before This
2002
Evelyn
6.423/110
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in t...
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Evelyn
1999
In Dreams
5.479/195
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
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In Dreams
1999
This Is My Father
5.4/12
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he loo...
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This Is My Father
2000
In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire
6/1
A behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1994 film, Interview with the Vampire.
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In the Shadow of the Vampire: The Making of Interview with the Vampire
1987
Scout
0/0
Palmer has been United's scout for many generations of young footballers, sending across the water the best Irish talent regardless of background. As...
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Scout
1977
Professional Foul
6/1
Three philosophy professors travel to Prague for a conference. One of them, Anderson, is forced to rethink his ideas on ethics when a former student i...
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Professional Foul
1978
The Seagull
0/0
A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man o...
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The Seagull
2015
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch
5.5/7
Ruby Strangelove Young Witch: When Ruby, a young witch discovers her long lost mother was abducted by evil forces she sets out to use all her magical...
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Ruby Strangelove Young Witch
2023
The Miracle Club
6.309/141
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesqu...
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The Miracle Club
1973
A Place Called Ardoyne
0/0
The award-winning 1973 documentary looks at the situation in Northern Ireland as it affects the Catholic community of Ardoyne. Includes interviews wit...
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A Place Called Ardoyne
1997
A Further Gesture
4.5/12
Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York...
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A Further Gesture
1997
Fever Pitch
6.443/256
A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher P...
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Fever Pitch
1978
On a Paving Stone Mounted
0/0
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
2004
Proud
4.4/9
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
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Proud
2007
Celebration
6.3/3
All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an ad...
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Celebration
1997
Sink Or Swim
5/6
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter betwe...
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Sink Or Swim
1995
Lumière & Company
6.2/69
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...
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Lumière & Company
1980
Caleb Williams
6.6/4
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Caleb Williams
1984
Loose Connections
1.667/3
A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.
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Loose Connections
1972
The Moonstone
8/1
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. T...
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The Moonstone
2018
Black '47
6.557/323
In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been...
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Black '47
2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
0/0
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theat...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
1999
I Could Read the Sky
4.2/10
The film concerns an old Irish immigrant living in London who is looking back over his life. He recalls his early life in the west of Ireland, his fir...
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I Could Read the Sky
2000
The King's Wake
0/0
It's Samhain (Hallowe'en) in old Ireland, and King Connor is haunted by his life, his legacy, and the enemies he killed in his time. Based on the famo...
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The King's Wake
2019
Greta
6.56/1434
A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow mig...
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Greta
2004
The Halo Effect
0/0
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is gett...
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The Halo Effect
2018
Unquiet Graves
8.3/3
This feature-length documentary investigates the role the British government played in the murder of over 120 civilians in Counties Armagh and Tyrone...
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Unquiet Graves
1986
Shergar
0/0
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison,...
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Shergar
2019
Cyprus Avenue
9/1
David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old gran...
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Cyprus Avenue
1984
The House
5/2
Set in 1884, and based on the assumption that Britain is one of the Baltic states between Russia and Latvia, making it part of Europe instead of an of...
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The House
2019
Lost Lives
6/1
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Lost Lives
2008
Heidi 4 Paws
6/2
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the ro...
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Heidi 4 Paws
2019
Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
10/1
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the...
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Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett
1996
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
0/0
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his...
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Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told
1974
Fugitive
0/0
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts r...
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Fugitive
2004
Fluent Dysphasia
7/1
Starring Academy Award Nominee Stephen Rea as Murph, who has little to say to his teenage daughter. He wakes one morning after a drunken night out, to...
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Fluent Dysphasia
2020
Secrets from Putumayo
1/1
Documentary about the man who is currently considered the father of violation of human rights inquests, Roger Casement (1864-1916). The actions during...
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Secrets from Putumayo
1976
Early Struggles
0/0
Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clin...
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Early Struggles
1979
The Out of Town Boys
0/0
A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.
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The Out of Town Boys
2021
Sadie
0/0
Filmed at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast for BBC's Lights Up season of theatrical films, David Ireland's play concerns Sadie, a sharp tongued Belfast clea...
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Sadie
1974
K Is for Killing
0/0
A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.
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K Is for Killing
1970
Cry of the Banshee
5.292/72
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers hav...
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Cry of the Banshee
2022
Nightride
5.591/23
In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dang...
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Nightride
The Body Is Water
0/0
Set between Houston, Texas, and the weathered coastline of West Cork, Ireland, a grieving man vanishes to a remote Irish village, only to find that di...
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The Body Is Water
2025
Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
0/0
Over an extraordinary acting career spanning a decade, Stephen Rea has shown himself to be a versatile, prolific and mercurial talent. With unpreceden...
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Stephen Rea: The Fire in Me Now
1983
Chekhov in Derry
0/0
A behind the scenes look at a theatre company formed by playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. It contains footage of rehearsals and the perfor...
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Chekhov in Derry
2006
'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
7.3/3
A documentary about the background and making of for the movie V for Vendetta.
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'V for Vendetta' Unmasked
You'll Never Believe Who's Dead
0/0
As the Cosgrove family gather for a traditional Irish Christmas, and their financial problems come to the fore, a solution presents itself in the form...
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