Mick Nolan
Actor
Movies12
Movie7.3ComedyDramaJimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
The Commitments
1991 · 632 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 · 349 votes
Movie6.4DramaDesmond 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.
Evelyn
2002 · 117 votes
Movie4.2FantasyFamilyNine year old Molly and her father move to Ireland into a house they've inherited, nicknamed "Misfortune Manor". It brings bad luck to anyone who lives in it, and Molly and her father soon fall victim to the curse: they will lose their new found home unless they can pay the taxes they owe on it. Lucky the Leprechaun is on hand to help Molly break the curse and help with pots of gold.
A Very Unlucky Leprechaun
1998 · 13 votes
Movie5.5DramaA wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with.
Movie9.0DramaIt's Ireland in the 1960s and showbands and ballrooms are big business. However, Tony is struggling to repay his bank loan and is in danger of losing his ballroom. In order to save it, he sets out to turn unknown female performer Denise into a superstar practically overnight.
Showbands
2005 · 1 votes
Movie3.9Science FictionActionThe luxury space cruiser Star Princess' maiden voyage is sabotaged when the treacherous second make, Alex Barnes, kills the captain and "spacejacks" the ship. Barnes then severs communications with Earth and activates a bomb which will blow up the liner unless he is given access to the wealthy passengers' bank accounts. But he mistakenly underestimates the courage of the first mate, Ryan Taylor and an adventurous young passenger, Dawn Taggert, who together risk life and limb to try to save the Star Princess and her passengers from inevitable destruction.
Spacejacked
1997 · 8 votes
- Movie6.0Drama
A lowlife salesman has to sell some fire extinguishers. An unlikely road movie begins.
Hard Shoulder
1990 · 1 votes
Movie4.6ActionThrillerWhen an unsuspecting American tourist and former kickboxer journeys to the West of Ireland to meet his online love interest, he accidentally intercepts nuclear detonators concealed inside a six-pack of Beamish, and finds himself embroiled in a cat-and-mouse chase between the IRA, US intelligence and the Garda Síochána.
Moving Target
2000 · 14 votes
Movie9.0ThrillerA charming woman in trouble entices a lawyer to pose as her husband which leads to him being framed for murder.
Stray Bullet
1999 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaComedyA look at exam day in a modern Irish school, where students try to pass their oral Irish language exams, even though they have little knowledge and less affection for the subject.
Lipservice
1999 · 1 votes
Movie3.8DramaEileen has something important to discuss with her teenage son, Stephen. But on the day she decides to talk to him, Stephen has his own surprise in store for her.
Odd Sock
2000 · 4 votes