
Karl Shiels
Actor · 1971 – 2019 · Dublin, Ireland
Karl Shiels (15 September 1971 – 15 July 2019) was an Irish actor of both stage and screen. His stage roles included Henry IV, Part 1, Penelope, At Swim-Two-Birds, The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Shadow of a Gunman and This Lime Tree Bower. His screen roles included Fair City, Peaky Blinders and Batman Begins.
Movies16
Movie7.7DramaCrimeDriven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Batman Begins
2005 · 23K votes
Movie5.7ActionThrillerA black ops soldier seeks payback after she is betrayed and left for dead.
Haywire
2011 · 1.5K votes
Movie6.7DramaCrimeIn 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.
Veronica Guerin
2003 · 348 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerIn 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Shadow Dancer
2012 · 289 votes
Movie6.2ComedyCrimeA raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Intermission
2003 · 180 votes
Movie6.2HorrorThe clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
Stitches
2012 · 467 votes
Movie6.4DramaChristina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.
Noble
2014 · 43 votes
Movie7.0ComedyRats is released from prison and needs to make some money; fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence; his mother no longer has time for him and his ex-bandmates alike. He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunt's trip to Lourdes. He struggles to find a job, yet never fails to find himself in a difficult situation.
Spin the Bottle
2003 · 4 votes
Movie3.7DramaCrimeTaiwo hopes to make a life for herself and her twin sister in the faraway city of Dublin. Fearing what may await her on her arrival, Taiwo makes a desperate bid for freedom from her Dublin smugglers. However she is hunted down by a petty thief and conman, Keely, who on kidnapping her, decides to tell nobody of his catch and brings the girl home.
Capital Letters
2004 · 3 votes
Movie4.0DramaA married couple's relationship begins to fall apart as their 10th wedding anniversary approaches.
Eden
2008 · 7 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Mystics
2003 · 11 votes
Movie8.0Science FictionShort film combining the true life event of Che Guevara's stopover at Shannon Airport with Science Fiction elements involving the Invisible Man.
Meeting Che Guevara & the Man from Maybury Hill
2003 · 2 votes
Movie4.0ComedyDramaSet in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve.
W.C.
2009 · 4 votes
- MovieDrama
An ensemble of mourners travel in their cars to the funeral of an Irishman who took his life in a car.
Davin
2014
Movie7.0DramaIt's been two weeks. Jane can't get Philip out of her head. There would be fewer problems with a single man, but she's getting close.
Getting Close
1998 · 1 votes
MovieA troubled teenage girl and an unhappily married man meet in secret. They both have something to escape from. Now they need to find out if there is somewhere to escape to. And whether they have what it takes to make the leap.
The Hard Way
2013
Series5
TV8.5DramaCrimeA gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Peaky Blinders
2013 · 11K votes
TV7.9MysteryDramaAs WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
Foyle's War
2002 · 111 votes
TV7.2DramaBelfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
Titanic: Blood and Steel
2012 · 30 votes
- TV5.8Drama
Mike and Luce aim to turn their website SeeThru into a fully-fledged internet start-up.
Attachments
2000 · 5 votes
TV8.0ComedyThe show follows the Walshes, a tight-knit family living in the fictional West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown.
The Walshes
2014 · 4 votes