Don Baker
Actor
Movies6
Movie7.9DramaA 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.
In the Name of the Father
1993 · 2K votes
Movie5.4ComedyFantasyRobbie Coltrane stars as Delaney, a university janitor and reformed gambler whose past habits come back to haunt him. Having squandered the savings set aside for his daughter’s education through ill-judged horse-race bets, Delaney has promised his wife to give up gambling for good. But when his daughter Sinead is accepted into Trinity College in Ireland and the tuition money is suddenly needed, desperation sets in. While carrying out his duties at the university, Delaney makes an extraordinary discovery: the preserved head of an Aboriginal tribesman which, under the right conditions, can accurately predict racehorse winners. As Delaney is tempted back into gambling to secure his daughter’s future, he must fend off the mob and a determined representative from an Australian university intent on reclaiming the head and returning it home, pushing Delaney’s morality, resolve, and luck to their absolute limits.
On the Nose
2001 · 14 votes
Movie5.5ComedyA black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Mystics
2003 · 11 votes
Movie5.3DramaConcerns an Irish woman, Cathy (Pauline Cadell), who dearly loves her Portuguese lawyer husband, Pedro (Rui Morisson); however, unbeknownst to her, he engages in one tryst after another. Cathy soon finds herself trying to help a young delinquent get off heroin, while the youth's desperate mother joins a weird religious cult. In other segments, an elderly man is nearly driven mad with grief at the loss of his granddaughter in a train station, while a down-and-out jeweler ushers the young girl to a hotel room.
Movie6.0Drama13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy. When the pair escape the home, they embark upon a daring adventure in search of the beach.
Soft Sand, Blue Sea
1998 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0
Successful criminal partners Jimmy Gaffney and Gino Kane pull off a bank robbery with their new young and unpredictable accomplice Mickey Crowley. The robbery goes horribly wrong when Crowley accidentally kills a young rookie policewoman. The pressure put on them by the police and their own personal guilt now strains the friendship sending them on a journey of deceit, betrayal and ultimately murder. But is something more sinister at work. Something unnatural. Something dark. Something with plans of it's own.
Underworld
1 votes
Series2
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
TV7.1CrimeDramaArmed with a self-effacing manner and a lively sense of humour, Dominic 'Nicky' Cole quickly discovers that being a good cop doesn't always win you friends. Stuck away from the land of the living as a night detective, he learns that new friends are in short supply. The other detectives look upon him with suspicion and his boss DI Carter doesn't do much to make his new recruit welcome. Although his methods can, at times, be unorthodox, Nicky always tries to do the right thing, even if it does make him unpopular with his new colleagues.
55 Degrees North
2004 · 7 votes