Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen début came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. The actor has now starred in over 35 feature films, such as The Usual Suspects, Miller's Crossing and Stigmata, in addition to writing two. Byrne's producing credits include the Academy Award-nominated In the Name of the Father. Currently, he is receiving much critical acclaim for his role as Dr. Paul Weston in the HBO drama In Treatment.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 34.028 |
| Birthday | 1950-05-12 |
| Place of Birth | Dublin, Ireland |
| Also Known As | Gabriel James Byrne, Гэбриэл Бирн, Гэбриел Бирн, Гэбриел Бёрн, Гебріел Бірн, |
1990
Miller's Crossing
7.5/1651
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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Miller's Crossing
1995
Dead Man
7.303/1566
William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a jou...
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Dead Man
1995
The Usual Suspects
8.176/10456
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also res...
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The Usual Suspects
2009
Leningrad
5.5/83
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate D...
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Leningrad
1999
Stigmata
6.261/1102
A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus re...
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Stigmata
2022
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
6.4/602
Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of tractors, a creator of military vehicles during World War II, and the designer of Lambo...
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Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
1993
Point of No Return
6.24/697
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent...
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Point of No Return
2006
Jindabyne
5.4/69
Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.
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Jindabyne
1981
The Search for Alexander the Great
0/0
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.
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The Search for Alexander the Great
1981
Excalibur
6.948/1009
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his...
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Excalibur
2004
Vanity Fair
5.796/335
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a...
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Vanity Fair
2006
Played
3.8/17
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sent...
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Played
2004
P.S.
5.5/71
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in...
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P.S.
2005
Assault on Precinct 13
6.166/1086
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and crim...
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Assault on Precinct 13
1986
Gothic
5.706/163
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and a...
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Gothic
1992
Into the West
6.543/46
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
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Into the West
1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow
6.308/232
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
6.637/3822
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical K...
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The Man in the Iron Mask
1994
Little Women
7.284/1232
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a c...
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Little Women
1999
End of Days
6.1/1863
On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by comi...
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End of Days
1998
Enemy of the State
7.045/3837
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is...
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Enemy of the State
2002
Spider
6.6/858
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a k...
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Spider
2002
Ghost Ship
5.97/2414
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towi...
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Ghost Ship
1983
The Keep
5.7/249
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i...
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The Keep
2008
Emotional Arithmetic
5.4/15
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital vet...
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Emotional Arithmetic
2009
Perrier's Bounty
5.7/96
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
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Perrier's Bounty
1987
Hello Again
5.771/94
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.
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Hello Again
1986
Defence of the Realm
6.5/34
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenag...
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Defence of the Realm
1994
Trial by Jury
5.4/45
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
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Trial by Jury
1992
Cool World
5.62/733
A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Jack Deebs, who's been drawing Cool World, crosses o...
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Cool World
2000
Making Love
6.8/52
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not...
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Making Love
2003
Shade
6.2/235
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean...
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Shade
1987
Siesta
5.1/38
American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the...
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Siesta
2005
Wah-Wah
6/33
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, throu...
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Wah-Wah
1994
A Simple Twist of Fate
6/110
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collec...
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A Simple Twist of Fate
2002
Virginia's Run
7.2/12
A teenage girl, trying to come to terms with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
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Virginia's Run
1994
All Things Bright and Beautiful
8/1
A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic ru...
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
1996
The Last of the High Kings
5.8/41
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood...
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The Last of the High Kings
1983
Hanna K.
6/28
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United Sta...
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Hanna K.
1998
Polish Wedding
5.102/41
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily marrie...
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Polish Wedding
2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
5.1/58
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of seve...
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1997
This Is the Sea
5.7/6
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by...
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This Is the Sea
1996
Mad Dog Time
5.386/44
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
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Mad Dog Time
1997
The End of Violence
5.3/67
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him...
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The End of Violence
1988
The Courier
0/1
When a courier at the D-Day Courier Service mistakenly finds a pile of money in his regular delivery, he does some digging only to discover that the m...
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The Courier
1994
Royal Deceit
5.6/35
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.
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Royal Deceit
1998
Quest for Camelot
6.845/804
During the times of King Arthur, Kayley is a brave girl who dreams of following her late father as a Knight of the Round Table. The evil Ruber wants t...
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Quest for Camelot
1990
Shipwrecked
6.6/66
A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.
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Shipwrecked
1995
Frankie Starlight
5.3/12
The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
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Frankie Starlight
1988
Julia and Julia
5.3/17
Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day....
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Julia and Julia
2011
A Man's Story
6.9/8
Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.
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A Man's Story
1987
Lionheart
5.167/15
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves...
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Lionheart
1996
The Brylcreem Boys
3.9/8
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or...
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The Brylcreem Boys
2022
Walking with Ghosts
0/0
A stage adaptation of Gabriel Byrne's 2020 memoir of the same name
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Walking with Ghosts
2012
Capital
6.131/137
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
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Capital
1995
Buffalo Girls
6.6/21
The bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' ru...
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Buffalo Girls
1993
A Dangerous Woman
5.3/30
Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a qual...
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A Dangerous Woman
2004
Patrick
0/0
A fascinating story of the truth behind the legend and history of St Patrick. This special will feature the world reknown voices of two of Ireland's i...
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Patrick
1982
The Rocking Horse Winner
0/0
In Paul's family, there is always talk about needing more money. The tension in the household over lack of funds weighs heavily on Paul's young mind....
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The Rocking Horse Winner
1990
Dark Obsession
3/8
Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problem...
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Dark Obsession
2012
I, Anna
5.2/39
A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.
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I, Anna
2012
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
7.8/3
Dreaming the Quiet Man’ includes interviews with aficionados of Ford like, Martin, Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovicz, Jim Sheridan, William Dowling, and Jo...
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John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
2013
All Things To All Men
4.342/60
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
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All Things To All Men
2014
Vampire Academy
6.334/1751
Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run...
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Vampire Academy
2013
Just a Sigh
6.1/30
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stran...
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Just a Sigh
2022
Murder at Yellowstone City
5.5/76
A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same...
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Murder at Yellowstone City
2023
Dance First
7.9/16
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of...
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Dance First
1988
A Soldier's Tale
4/6
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach...
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A Soldier's Tale
2002
Horses: The Story of Equus
0/0
The story of three horses who were all born on the same night but their lives take very different paths.
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Horses: The Story of Equus
1984
Reflections
4.5/2
A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Reflections
Sauver Mozart
0/0
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Sauver Mozart
2000
When Brendan Met Trudy
4/10
Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the movies....
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When Brendan Met Trudy
2002
Killing Emmett Young
5.5/20
In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon k...
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Killing Emmett Young
2003
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
7/2
Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Fest...
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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
1997
Weapons of Mass Distraction
5.1/14
As two warring media moguls grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations...
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Weapons of Mass Distraction
2015
Louder Than Bombs
6.457/326
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad...
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Louder Than Bombs
2022
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
8.2/593
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
2015
Endless Night
6/49
Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of...
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Endless Night
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
0/0
Documentary about the origins and making of the 1995 Oscar-winning suspense thriller. Includes rare unseen footage and revisits many of the film's ic...
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Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
1984
The Treatment
0/0
Liam is a south London teenager, out of a job, living for Saturday afternoon, for the excitement of the match and the hope of a fight after it. A beau...
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The Treatment
2008
2:22
5.2/46
The plan was easy; the job was not. On a snowy night a tight crew of four criminals plan to pull off a routine heist. When things go horribly wrong, f...
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2:22
2015
The 33
6.4/923
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
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The 33
2025
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
0/0
Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.
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From the World of John Wick: Ballerina
2017
Mad to Be Normal
5.8/32
The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s.
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Mad to Be Normal
2008
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
0/0
Documentary profile of the acclaimed Irish actor.
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Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
2025
Four Letters of Love
0/0
Nicholas and Isabel were made for each other but how will they ever know it? As ghosts, fate and the sheer power of true love pull them together, so t...
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Four Letters of Love
2018
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
8.7/3
A featurette that sheds light on the filmmaker’s approach, and how he turned a character-driven domestic drama into one of the 2018’s most harrowing c...
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Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
2017
Carrie Pilby
6.9/430
Awkward, isolated and disapproving of most of the people around her, a precocious 19-year-old genius is challenged to put her convictions to the test...
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Carrie Pilby
1994
Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
0/0
Originally broadcast to critical acclaim on PBS, this documentary traces the story of flight from the famine-swept villages of 19th century Ireland to...
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Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America
2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
6.6/16
A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepa...
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
1996
Somebody Is Waiting
2/1
An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed.
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Somebody Is Waiting
2016
No Pay, Nudity
4/3
Aging actor Lester Rosenthal (Gabriel Byrne), who has lost his way with his career, with his family, and with his friends (Nathan Lane, Frances Conroy...
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No Pay, Nudity
2002
Pursuing the Suspects
6.7/3
Short documentary featuring footage of the movie, director Bryan Singer talking about the casting and the five main actors telling more about their ro...
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Pursuing the Suspects
2018
An L.A. Minute
2/1
Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embodiment of integrity, rocks his...
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An L.A. Minute
A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
10/1
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact.
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A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
2017
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
8/2
We don’t know how. We don’t know when. But death comes for us all. To be human is to wrestle with this truth and with the great unanswered question: H...
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Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
2018
Lies We Tell
5.5/21
A trusted driver must deal with his dead boss's Muslim mistress, her dark past pulling him into a life-and-death showdown with her notorious gangster...
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Lies We Tell
2018
Hereditary
7.3/7716
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not o...
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Hereditary
2018
In the Cloud
5.045/22
To stop a terrorist bomber, two estranged tech geniuses (Justin Chatwin, Tomiwa Edun) reunite after the death of their mentor (Gabriel Byrne) to devis...
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In the Cloud
2008
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
0/0
A production of the beloved Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot," about the love triangle involving King Arthur (Gabriel Byrne), Guenevere (Marin Mazzie...
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Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
2018
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
6/1
Award-winning Irish actor Gabriel Byrne explores the life, works and passions of George Bernard Shaw, a giant of world literature, and - like Byrne -...
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My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
2020
Lost Girls
6.079/701
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen...
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Lost Girls
2018
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
8/1
An epic journey through the oceanic kingdom of the Atlantic Salmon in an attempt to unravel the mystery of their life at sea. Salmon are plummeting to...
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Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
1980
The Outsider
5.6/8
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterli...
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The Outsider
2010
The Women of SNL
7.3/3
A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.
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The Women of SNL
1978
On a Paving Stone Mounted
0/0
An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.
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On a Paving Stone Mounted
2021
Death of a Ladies' Man
5.5/13
A carousing college professor's life takes a series of unimaginable turns, and all the old stories are given a new twist, when he begins to have surre...
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Death of a Ladies' Man
2002
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
6.5/2
Featurette in which director Bryan Singer tells more about the mysterious criminal Keyser Soze.
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Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
2002
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
7/2
Documentary that includes interviews with Singer as well as the rest of the cast - mainly Spacey. There is no "plot" or "promotional" elements to this...
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Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
2020
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
2/1
The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl becomes a master of reinvention on a 50+ year journey through rock and roll, TV, and movie...
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Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
1998
Pirates
6/1
Discovery examines the history of "Golden age of Piracy." The program takes a detailed look at the harsh lives of pirates, their tactics, motivations...
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Pirates
1995
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
5/2
The Irish entry in the BFI's "Century of Cinema" documentary series examines Irish filmmaking in a decade when the country is going through a highly s...
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Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
2013
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
0/0
This retrospective documentary looks back on the making of director John Boorman's 1981 movie, Excalibur. Self-described as the toughest film he ever...
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2025
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
0/0
Emerging from rural Ireland, Edna O’Brien broke multiple taboos with her sexually provocative literature and equally adventurous love life. Here, she...
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