Cyril Cusack
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Cyril James Cusack (26 November 1910 – 7 October 1993) was an Irish actor, who appeared in more than 90 films.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.708 |
Birthday | 1910-11-26 |
Place of Birth | Durban, Natal, South Africa |
Also Known As | Cyril James Cusack, |
1971
Harold and Maude
7.603/1047
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold...
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Harold and Maude
1972
All the Way Boys
6.75/372
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in...
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All the Way Boys
1978
Les Misérables
6.8/22
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1966
Where the Spies Are
5.2/10
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co...
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Where the Spies Are
1973
The Day of the Jackal
7.5/523
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated genda...
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The Day of the Jackal
1992
Far and Away
6.8/1162
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklah...
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Far and Away
1981
True Confessions
6.016/144
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
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True Confessions
1967
The Taming of the Shrew
6.912/164
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptis...
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The Taming of the Shrew
1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four
6.8/1375
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
7.044/274
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1951
The Secret of Convict Lake
6.5/28
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an...
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The Secret of Convict Lake
1948
Escape
5.6/14
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
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Escape
1971
King Lear
6.6/18
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
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King Lear
1962
Waltz of the Toreadors
5.167/9
General Fitzhugh, an ageing Lothario has an over-active eye for a pretty woman. Despite a long and satisfying career as a seducer extraordinaire, some...
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Waltz of the Toreadors
1947
Odd Man Out
7.343/182
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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Odd Man Out
1956
The Man Who Never Was
7.1/82
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a Britis...
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The Man Who Never Was
1958
Gideon's Day
6.259/29
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From t...
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Gideon's Day
1949
The Small Back Room
6.483/58
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal office...
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The Small Back Room
1987
Little Dorrit
6.4/11
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young sea...
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Little Dorrit
1971
Sacco & Vanzetti
7.571/183
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist politi...
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Sacco & Vanzetti
1989
Danny the Champion of the World
6.1/21
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a pi...
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Danny the Champion of the World
1957
Ill Met by Moonlight
6.1/36
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
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Ill Met by Moonlight
1958
Floods of Fear
6.6/5
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
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Floods of Fear
1950
Gone to Earth
6/26
Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack...
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Gone to Earth
1972
Execution Squad
7/33
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begu...
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Execution Squad
1962
I Thank a Fool
5.4/5
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
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I Thank a Fool
1976
Fear in the City
5.4/10
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night p...
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Fear in the City
1983
The Comedy of Errors
6.7/3
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just de...
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The Comedy of Errors
1973
The Homecoming
5.8/11
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and int...
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The Homecoming
1956
The Spanish Gardener
6.2/16
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harri...
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The Spanish Gardener
1956
The Man in the Road
6/2
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
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The Man in the Road
1970
Tam Lin
5.4/10
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wand...
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Tam Lin
1981
Lovespell
3.7/3
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
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Lovespell
1970
Brotherly Love
5.9/4
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
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Brotherly Love
1951
The Blue Veil
6.6/7
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
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The Blue Veil
1969
David Copperfield
5.4/14
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phi...
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David Copperfield
1948
Esther Waters
5.9/7
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter....
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Esther Waters
1968
Galileo
6.26/25
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
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Galileo
1941
Once a Crook
0/0
Once a Crook is a 1941 British crime film directed by Herbert Mason and featuring Gordon Harker, Sydney Howard, Bernard Lee, Kathleen Harrison, and Ra...
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Once a Crook
1950
The Elusive Pimpernel
6/7
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
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The Elusive Pimpernel
1951
Soldiers Three
4.4/5
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
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Soldiers Three
1957
The Rising of the Moon
6.9/20
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashio...
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The Rising of the Moon
1965
Deirdre
0/0
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats delibera...
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Deirdre
1918
Knocknagow
4.3/3
The agent of an absentee landlord resorts to underhand means in order to evict tenants from land that could be more profitably used for cattle. Adapte...
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Knocknagow
1941
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
6.9/9
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an...
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
1949
The Blue Lagoon
6/12
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island...
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The Blue Lagoon
1957
Miracle in Soho
5.3/6
In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets...
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Miracle in Soho
1992
As You Like It
5/1
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad...
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As You Like It
1990
The Fool
7/2
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...
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The Fool
1963
80,000 Suspects
6.5/8
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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80,000 Suspects
1974
Run, Run, Joe!
5/2
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
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Run, Run, Joe!
1949
All Over the Town
6.2/4
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's par...
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All Over the Town
1972
The Italian Connection
7.059/102
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispa...
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The Italian Connection
1966
I Was Happy Here
6.1/7
Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to...
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I Was Happy Here
1959
Shake Hands with the Devil
6.522/23
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea ho...
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Shake Hands with the Devil
1974
The Balloon Vendor
7/2
A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
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The Balloon Vendor
1989
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
7.527/883
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and...
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1956
Jacqueline
6/3
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from...
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Jacqueline
1983
The Outcasts
7/1
In pre-famine Ireland when poverty and magic were rife, introverted farm girl Maura discovers a magical world of the imagination through the mysteriou...
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The Outcasts
1982
The Ballroom of Romance
7.25/4
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
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The Ballroom of Romance
1956
The March Hare
6/2
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell h...
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The March Hare
1974
The Abdication
5.8/9
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church.
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The Abdication
1988
The Tenth Man
6.952/21
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execu...
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The Tenth Man
1953
Saadia
5/3
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she...
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Saadia
1955
Passage Home
5.6/6
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passe...
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Passage Home
1983
The Kingfisher
8/2
An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.
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The Kingfisher
1974
Juggernaut
6.053/103
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
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Juggernaut
1961
Johnny Nobody
6.5/12
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens...
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Johnny Nobody
1968
Oedipus the King
4.7/3
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invo...
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Oedipus the King
1975
Children of Rage
5/2
The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been g...
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Children of Rage
1984
Don Camillo
5.57/71
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
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Don Camillo
1982
The Ghost Downstairs
0/0
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The Ghost Downstairs
1973
The Bloody Hands of the Law
6.7/3
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the c...
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The Bloody Hands of the Law
1984
Rainy Day Women
0/0
In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of wa...
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Rainy Day Women
2000
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
5.667/12
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E. Lawre...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
1973
The Catholics
5.3/5
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has elimin...
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The Catholics
1986
Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
2/1
Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king...
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
1967
Dial M for Murder
6/1
A made-for-television remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film.
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Dial M for Murder
1978
The Man with the Power
0/0
Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual vo...
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The Man with the Power
1935
Guests of The Nation
5/1
During the Irish War of Independence in 1921, a pair of IRA soldiers are ordered to guard two British prisoners, but face a dilemma when they bond wit...
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Guests of The Nation
1978
Poitín
7/1
A moonshiner in the west of Ireland tries to avoid the Gardaí.
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Poitín
1992
Memento Mori
7/3
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...
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Memento Mori
1960
Once Upon a Tram
0/0
Take a nostalgic trip along the beautiful Dublin coast, escaping the hustle and bustle of the city while enjoying the clatter and clang of the old How...
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Once Upon a Tram
1960
A Terrible Beauty
4.9/6
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can h...
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A Terrible Beauty
1966
Fahrenheit 451
7.1/929
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to...
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Fahrenheit 451
1984
Dr. Fischer of Geneva
6.75/3
Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for mo...
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Dr. Fischer of Geneva
1949
Once a Jolly Swagman
5.4/12
A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
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Once a Jolly Swagman
1959
The Moon and Sixpence
0/0
A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.
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The Moon and Sixpence
1963
The Power and the Glory
0/0
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...
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The Power and the Glory
1981
Andrina
7/2
Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the d...
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Andrina
1973
Horowitz in Dublin
0/0
A New York cop, Dan Horowitz, arrives in Dublin to pay respects to the Irish parents of his young wife who had recently died. He suddenly finds himse...
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Horowitz in Dublin
1980
Cry of the Innocent
5/4
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a se...
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Cry of the Innocent
1965
A Passage to India
0/0
The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, an...
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A Passage to India
1950
W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
0/0
Yeats poems set to visuals of Sligo, Dublin and London. One of the series of non-fction films produced by the National Film Institute.
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W. B. Yeats: A Tribute
1962
Don Juan in Hell
0/0
The third act of George Bernard Shaw's philosophical comedy Man and Superman. This dream episode depicts a lively debate between Don Juan, the Devil,...
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Don Juan in Hell
1983
Wagner
0/0
A huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King...
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Wagner
1960
Cradle of Genius
0/0
Longtime playwrights and performers of the Abbey Theatre share colourful reminiscences of the national institution founded by W.B. Yeats and Lady Greg...
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