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The Hard Knock (1962)
Character: Derek
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
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Crossfire (1988)
Character: Padraig Redmond
A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.
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Achilles Heel (1973)
Character: Ted
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.
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Fugitive (1974)
Character: John
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 run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order. Author Sean Walsh fled the Franciscan order to become first a journalist, then a playwright and is now a radio drama producer in Ireland.
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The Brylcreem Boys (1996)
Character: Mr Guerin
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
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The Old Curiosity Shop (1995)
Character: Groves
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
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The Treaty (1991)
Character: Austen Chamberlain
How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
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The General (1998)
Character: Judge 2
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.
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And the Band Played On (1993)
Character: Hemophiliac Patient
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Some Mother's Son (1996)
Character: Judge
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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The Return (2003)
Character: Dr. Brian Cullen
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.
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Character: Archivist Jenkins
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
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Dead Man's Evidence (1962)
Character: Airport Clerk
When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.
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Hennessy (1975)
Character: Sgt Duggan
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Though he still knows people in the IRA, including fugitive leader Tobin, Niall has given up his violent ways. One day his family is caught in a chaotic street shootout and killed by British forces. Overwhelmed with rage and hunted by a Scotland Yard inspector, Niall heads to London to exact his deadly revenge.
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Character: Sailor
Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.
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Evelyn (2002)
Character: Justice McLaughlin
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 the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission (1985)
Character: General Bulldog Bardsley
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
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Back to the Beach (1987)
Character: Salesman
A former beach boy and his wife go to California to visit their daughter and become part of the new beach scene.
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