Rynagh O'Grady
Actor · 1951 – 2021 · Dublin, Ireland
Movies23
Movie6.8AdventureDramaA young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers. They escape to America, ready to take advantage of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush.
Far and Away
1992 · 1.4K votes
Movie7.2ComedyDramaJimmy 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 · 629 votes
Movie7.2DramaComedyIn 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.
Breakfast on Pluto
2005 · 453 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceThe daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
Moll Flanders
1996 · 85 votes
Movie6.0DramaThrillerWhen a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...
Dorothy Mills
2008 · 262 votes
Movie6.5ComedyDramaSharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
The Snapper
1993 · 93 votes
Movie6.0HistoryDramaThe Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
S.O.S. Titanic
1980 · 43 votes
Movie5.2ComedyFour aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.
Supervized
2019 · 38 votes
Movie5.5ComedyWhen their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean-Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Côte d’Azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However, many other parents had the same idea, so they meet more of their own than English folks and end up more at beach parties than in class. Only with the girls do they seem to have no luck, although they desperately try...
Movie4.4ComedyRomanceBrendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies. That is until he meets Trudy, a woman who is gregarious and adventurous beyond his imagination. His entire persona changes as he becomes enveloped in her carefree and sometimes dangerous world.
When Brendan Met Trudy
2000 · 13 votes
Movie7.3DramaBritish academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993 · 3 votes
Movie8.0TV MovieDramaThe Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
Flying Into the Wind
1983 · 4 votes
Movie4.6DramaWarAscendancy is a 1983 British film. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it.
Ascendancy
1983 · 10 votes
Movie8.0DocumentaryOn the 15th anniversary of its launch, this documentary follows Father Ted creators Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews on a return trip to Craggy Island to take in its location and discuss how the series was made with cast and crew.
Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted
2011 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaRomanceA man released from jail, where he had served time for doctoring the books of a gangster, has to go into hiding from the gangster's men. He moves into a Dublin boarding house run by a woman and her timid daughter. The timid woman immediately takes a shine to the new boarder and to his train sets, which they each use as an escape from reality.
Night Train
1998 · 4 votes
Movie7.5TV MovieDramaA young American writer visits a famous author in the English countryside, and notices antagonism between the author and his wife over the upbringing of their young son.
Movie7.5ComedyHorrorWhen a seasoned parish priest is bitten on the arse by a mysterious animal, he begins transforming into a werewolf every full moon. The ensuing bloodshed leads to a resurgence in Mass attendances from fearful locals, much to the delight of his senior colleagues.
Sins of a Werewolf
2020 · 1 votes
MovieComedyTwo ladies in their seventies drive through north County Sligo in a neat Japanese car. As they pass by village pubs and beaches, they imagine the terrible, immoral lives people are living today. Their one consolation is the innocence of children… Adapted from a Kevin Barry short story, this is an absurd and macabre tale about how the petty-minded destroy themselves
Ernestine & Kit
2016
Movie6.5DramaThe dramatic true story of a marriage between a Catholic man and a Protestant woman in 1950s Ireland.
A Love Divided
1999 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaTV MovieGrania did something 15 years ago that brought her great happiness but also great pain. The events of that day have been a heavy secret to bear that, if discovered, would devastate those closest to her.
August Saturday
1990 · 1 votes
- Movie8.5DramaRomance
The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
The Lilac Bus
1990 · 2 votes
MovieDramaComedyAn improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.
Blooming Youth
1973
Movie9.0Deasey is a dreamer - torn between earning his precarious living as reporter on the London end of a Dublin paper, and writing the 'Great Irish Novel'. Perhaps a meeting with old friend, pop-star Noel, will clarify things in his unclear mind? But then again, perhaps it won't.
Deasey (Desperate)
1979 · 1 votes
Series8
TV7.0Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 3 votes
TV8.2ComedyA crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Father Ted
1995 · 359 votes
TV7.3ComedyAn unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by true events.
Modern Love
2019 · 401 votes
TV7.0DramaFollows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.
Number 10
1983 · 2 votes
- TV8.0Drama
A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James.
TV9.0DramaThree-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.
The Rector's Wife
1994 · 2 votes
TV6.3ComedyYanks Go Home is a British sitcom about U.S. Army Air Forcemen stationed in Lancashire, England in the Second World War. It was produced and directed by Eric Prytherch for Granada Television and broadcast on ITV between 1976 and 1977. The series ran for 2 series and 13 episodes in total before its cancellation.
Yanks Go Home
1976 · 3 votes
TV10.0DramaBased on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis C by a contaminated anti-D injection years before. Despite the devastating effects on the women and their families, they unite in a campaign group to take on the health authorities and expose the evasions and lies of the political and bureaucratic establishment.
No Tears
2002 · 1 votes