
Brenda Fricker
Oyuncu · 1945 – 2026 · Dublin, Ireland
Brenda Fricker (February 17, 1945 – July 17, 2026) was an Irish actress, whose career spanned six decades on stage and screen. She appeared in more than 30 films and television roles. In 1990, she became the first Irish actress to win an Academy Award, earning the award for Best Supporting Actress for the biopic My Left Foot (1989). She also appeared in films such as The Field (1990), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993), Angels in the Outfield (1994), A Time to Kill (1996), Veronica Guerin (2003), Inside I'm Dancing (2004) and Albert Nobbs (2011). She was also a regular as a nurse in the BBC drama Casualty. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brenda Fricker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film6.8KomediAileKevin McCallister tekrardan karşımızda! Bu sefer New York şehrinde. Yeterli miktarda nakit para ve New York'u kendi oyun alanına çevirmesine sağlayacak kredi kartlarıyla birlikte. Fakat Kevin bu şekilde uzun süre tek başına kalamayacaktır. Kötü ruhlu haydutlar Harry ve Marv hala Kevin'in peşindedirler.
Film7.4SuçDram’Sonun Başlangıcı’ ve ’Çizgi Ötesi’ filmleriyle yeteneğini kanıtlayan Joel Schumacher’ın yönetmenliğini üstlendiği ’Öldürme Zamanı’, Güney Amerika’da hala süren ırk ayrımı üzerine bir film gibi gözükse de, işin haraketli yönüne ağırlık veren ve dolayısıyla bir macera filmi olarak tanımlanması daha uygun bir yapım. Mississippi’li bir fabrika işçisi olan Carl Lee Hailey, on yaşındaki kızı Tonya’nın gözü dönmüş iki beyaz ırkçı tarafından saldırıya uğraması sonucunda haklı olarak çok sinirleniyor ve bu iki adamı gördüğü ilk yerde öldürmeye teşebbbüs ediyor. Böylece bir anda ’suçlu’ durumuna düşen Carl Lee, Jake Brigance isimli bir avukatı savunma için tutuyor. Jake’e dava sırasında Ellen Roark isimli genç bir hukuk öğrencisi destek oluyor. Birlikte Klan’ın kirli yüzünü, ve 1860’larda çözülmüş olduğu iddia edilen siyah-beyaz ayrımının hala varolduğunu gören Jake ve Ellen, dava sırasında önemli kanıtlara rastlıyorlar..
Film7.5DramBeyin felçli olarak doğan Christy Brown, hastalığı nedeniyle hareketlerini kontrol edemez ve tekerlekli sandalyeye mahkum bir yaşam sürer. Ancak çocukluğunda, sol ayağının felçten etkilenmediğinin farkına varması hayatını değiştirecektir. Christy sol ayağını kendine verilmiş bir şans olarak görür ve azmin de yardımıyla hastalığının etkilerini yenmeye çalışır. Bu çalışmanın sonucunda ise sakat vücudunun içinde gizli olan zeka ve yazma yeteneği ortaya çıkacaktır.
Film6.3DramOndokuzuncu yüzyıl İrlanda’sında kadınların ikinci sınıf muamele gördüğü, çalışma hayatlarını sürdürme özgürlüklerinin olmadığı günlerde Albert Nobbs kendi başına hayatta kalmaya çalışır. Erkek görünümüyle Dublin'in en ünlü otellerinden birinde uşak olarak çalışmaya başlayan Nobbs çok uzun yıllar kadın olduğunu saklamayı başarır ve hayatını bir erkek olarak inşa eder. Fakat yıllar sonra yüreğinde hissettiği bir aşk yüzünden, içinde yaşadığı yalanla hisleri arasında kalacaktır.
Film6.0KomediAileRoger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn the team around. Sure enough, his prayers are answered in the form of angel Al.
Angels in the Outfield
1994 · 507 votes
Film6.3KomediDram1967'de geçen Mucize Kulübü, Dublin'in dışında bir şehir olan Ballygar'dan gelen Lily (Maggie Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates) ve Dolly (Agnes O'Casey) adlı üç kuşak yakın arkadaşın, her yıl milyonlarca ziyaretçinin gittiği mucizeler diyarı, Fransa'nın kutsal kasabası Lourdes'ye yapılan kutsal bir hac yolculuğu için bilet kazanma hikâyesini konu alıyor. Birlikte çıkacakları bu yolculuktan hemen önce eski arkadaşları Chrissie (Laura Linney), annesinin cenazesi için Ballygar'a gelir. Bu üç kadın, hayatlarını değiştireceğini umdukları yolculuğa çıkarlar ama yanlarında annesinin yerine onlara katılacak olan şüpheci bir gezgin olan Chrissie de vardır. Yolculuk boyunca eski defterler açılır, kadınlar bir mucize bulma umuduyla seyahat ederken geçmişleriyle yüzleşmek zorunda kalırlar.
Film6.7DramSuçVeronica Guerin, gerçeği ararken her şeyi riske atan bir gazeteci hakkında aksiyon dolu ve eleştirmenler tarafından beğenilen gerçek bir hikaye.
Film6.1KomediSuçBağlanma sorunu yaşayan bir şair, hayallerindeki kadınla evlenir ama karısı ona en büyük kabusu yaşatmaya başlar. San Francisco'lu bir şair olan Charlie'nin kadınlarla şansı pek yaver gitmemiştir. Derken rüyalarını süsleyen Harriet'le tanışır ve evlenir. Lakin bir süre sonra Harriet'in kocalarını öldüren bir seri katil olduğundan şüphelenmeye başlayacaktır.
Film6.2DramRomantik300.000’e yakın Amerikalının öldüğü ya da Kuzey İrlanda’ya yerleştiği 2. Dünya Savaşı sırasında, 1 Haziran 1944’te 10 genç askerin içinde bulunduğu B-17 uçağı yoğun bir sis içerisinde kalır ve Belfast Cave Tepesi’ne çarpar. Kaza gerçekleşmeden önce bir asker nişan yüzüğünü uzaklardaki sevgilisine ulaştırması için köylülerden birine emanet etmiştir. Yüzüğün yıllar sonra ortaya çıkmasıyla, geçmişten kalan bazı sırlar da gün yüzüne çıkacaktır.
Film6.1DramRomantikBir hırsızın kızı olan küçük Moll, annesinin idam edilmesinden sonra bir manastırın bakımına verilir. Ancak, kötü bir rahibinin davranışları, bir genç kız olarak Moll'un isyan etmesine neden olur ve Moll kendisini Londra'nın tehlikeli sokaklarında bulur.
Film7.4DramBridget Jones'un Günlüğü ve Billy Elliot'ın yapımcılarından iki sıradışı arkadaşın kendi dünyalarıyla yüzleşmeye karar vermelerinin unutulmaz hikayesi. Michael, engelliler için özel inşa edilmiş Carrigmore Home'a yerleşmeye karar vermiştir taa ki asi ruhlu Rory O'Shea ile tanışana kadar. Rory'nin onları bu sistemin dışına çıkaracak bir planı vardır.
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A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
The Intended
2002 · 11 votes
Film4.6DramRomantikThe story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute for a well-known Los Angeles madam. She took over her boss' operation and soon was raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and highest-class hookers and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, European and American corporate executives and Arab sheiks. Her operation was broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993, and she eventually went to prison for income-tax evasion.
Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
2004 · 22 votes
Film6.0TarihDramTrue story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
FilmDramTV Movie1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and brilliant, working class writer Archie MacLean threaten to undermine her work.
Licking Hitler
1978
Film6.3KomediDramA young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.
How About You...
2007 · 36 votes
Film6.5DramSuçİskoçya, yıl 1950... İskoçların milliyetçi duyguları, Britanya’nın hükmünün ağırlığı altında kaybolup gitmeye yüz tutmuşken; Ian Hamilton’ın önderliğindeki dört üniversite öğrencisi ülkelerini ulusal gururunu canlandırmak adına dramatik bir eyleme imza atar. Neredeyse parasız ve aynı ölçüde tecrübesiz olmalarına rağmen dört arkadaş Noel sabahı erken saatlerde Westminster Katedrali’ne girer ve İskoçya’nın ulusal kimliğinin en önemli sembolü olan “Kader Taşı”nı “özgürleştirirler”. Öğrenciler olay sonrasında yakalanır ve taş, Londra’ya geri döner; fakat dört arkadaşın gerçekleştirdikleri eylem İskoçya’nın ulusal gururunu ve bağımsızlık iradesini tazeler.
Film5.3AksiyonMaceraA rebellious computer engineering prodigy uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.
Masterminds
1997 · 50 votes
Film4.9DramSuçLives change for members of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead parents, but the government hauls the rock away and sends it to the local university.
Pete's Meteor
2002 · 12 votes
Film4.7KomediDramMother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has feelings for the local doctor, a man much older than her, for which her mother strongly disapproves. Beth finds a relationship with a male stripper in Bristol, but sees nothing in the future with Mother around. While both girls would like to be rid of Mother, nothing happens until Jodie sees images of H. R. Armstrong, the man who put the town on the map by dispatching his un-loving wife
Deadly Advice
1994 · 7 votes
Film7.4RomantikDramIn County Leitrim in the 1950s, Bridie has been attending the local dance hall for years in the hope of finding a good husband who can help work her family's farm. Now surrounded by younger, prettier women at the dances, she comes to the realisation that all the good men of her generation have emigrated or have been spoken for, and her only remaining hope for marriage is with the alcoholic and unreliable Bowser Egan.
The Ballroom of Romance
1982 · 5 votes
Film7.0Dram"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
The Field
1990 · 107 votes
Film6.2KomediDramAlfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
A Man of No Importance
1994 · 21 votes
Film5.8DramSuçThe 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the torso of her missing husband, John, Evelyn is arrested for his murder.
Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story
2002 · 8 votes
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Dizi6.2DramPembe Diziİngiliz ait tıbbi dram televizyon dizisi Casualty (Kaza) , 6 Eylül 1986 tarihinde yayınlanmaya başladi.
Casualty
1986 · 88 votes
Dizi6.6DramPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Play for Today
1970 · 10 votes
Dizi5.2DramA BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · 8 votes
Dizi7.1DramSeries of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985 · 7 votes
Dizi7.0DramA one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974 · 1 votes
Dizi7.1An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
The Oscars
1953 · 85 votes
Dizi4.5DramAngels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama.
Angels
1975 · 4 votes
Dizi6.8DramBilim Kurgu ve FantastikIn the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.
Quatermass
1979 · 17 votes
Dizi8.8DramLong-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8 votes
Dizi4.8DramThe story follows fisherman Ed Collier, who is highly protective over his family, which includes wife Claire and daughter Abbie. However, when a rich young man by the name of Ryan Wilson starts to take an interest in his daughter, Ed feels her becoming increasingly distant and fears he may lose her for good.
The Catch
2023 · 14 votes
Dizi6.8DramKomediBeautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place in Reading, Berkshire, in 1997, where thirteen-year-old Simon Doonan and his best friend Kylie dream of escaping their dreary suburban surroundings and moving to cosmopolitan London "to live amongst the beautiful people." The first episode aired on BBC Two on 2 October 2008 and recorded overnight ratings of 1.5 million viewers and positive critical reaction. Episodes are self-contained, but do follow a loose story arc throughout the course of each series. The second and final series finished airing on 18 December 2009.
Beautiful People
2008 · 26 votes
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Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. The show consisted of six 50–60 minutes episodes, each a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the finale on 18 September 1973. The first, Secrets, was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the master by producer Mark Shivas.
Black and Blue
1973 · 2 votes
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Series of plays based on Irish short stories.
The Sinners
1970
Dizi7.0The Meaning of Life is an Irish television programme, the first series of which was broadcast on RTÉ One in 2009. It is presented by the veteran broadcaster Gay Byrne. Each episode involves Byrne interviewing a well-known public figure. The series is broadcast each Sunday night at 22:20. In 2010 The Meaning of Life returned for both a second and, later, a third series. Interviews with former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and actors Gabriel Byrne and Brenda Fricker during the second series attracted media attention when they spoke of their religious habits and child sexual abuse respectively. Gay Byrne appeared on The Late Late Show on 18 December 2009 to discuss the programme. A fourth series soon followed. Then a fifth series from January 2012. And a sixth in October 2012. And a seventh in January 2013.
The Meaning of Life
2009 · 1 votes
Dizi5.8DramSuçCrime drama series following Eve Lockhart, one of Britain's leading forensic pathologists, and her team of scientists at a state-of-the-art forensic research facility.
The Body Farm
2011 · 8 votes
Dizi6.0DramArmchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes
Dizi10.0DramBess Steed marries her childhood sweetheart in the early part of the 20th century and begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time goes by, things do not work out as she expects. Her husband dies of influenza, and she finds that she must pick up and carry along with her life. She proves to be a strong, committed, and loving individual who attracts new loves into her life and finds that she can take good care of the old ones. Despite further tragedy in losing her oldest son, and a second marriage that is not all that she expects it to be she continues to survive as independently as she has discovered the courage to do so.
A Woman of Independent Means
1995 · 2 votes
Dizi7.2DramDiane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, there is war in Vietnam and mandatory conscription, there is the Vatican controversy on abortion and contraception, and the changing face of the Church as a whole. Told in six parts, Diane faces her own demons and has to finally decide if she can teach what the Church preaches, or if it's simply impossible for her to reconcile all the contradictions of the faith and uphold her vow of obedience.
Brides of Christ
1991 · 8 votes
Dizi4.2DramWhen Aston finds himself left to his own devices with bills to pay while his boyfriend is in New York, he turns to camming to make ends meet.
Cam Boy
2021 · 5 votes
Dizi6.2DramLocal police officer Sergeant PJ Collins is a gentle man who hides from people and fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work. He is one of life's outsiders, lovable, but lonely and a bit rubbish at his job. When the body of long-lost local legend Tommy Burke is discovered, PJ is called to solve a serious crime for the first time in his career. Unearthing long buried secrets, PJ finally connects with the village he has tried so hard to avoid.
Holding
2022 · 12 votes
Dizi10.0DramThe saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two
The Gathering Seed
1983 · 1 votes
Dizi10.0DramBased 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
Dizi6.5DramMaureen is an Irishwoman, happily married and living in Germany. Or so she thinks. When her husband dies, she finds that not only had he debts, but was also a bigamist, having had a second wife and family in Ireland. Shocked and angry, she travels there to meet the other family. And she learns that they have troubles of their own, the worst of them being that the other woman's young son is suffering from leukemia and a suitable bone marrow donor is urgently needed.
Relative Strangers
1999 · 2 votes