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6.7

♡ 11

drug addiction

Darragh Byrne Director

Colin Morgan as Cathal O'Regan

Colm Meaney as Fred Daly

Stuart Graham as George O'Regan

David Wilmot as Peter

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

1995

6.6

♡ 18

69%

Christopher Monger Director

Ian McNeice as George Garrad

Colm Meaney as Morgan the Goat

Hugh Grant as Reginald Anson

Robert Pugh as Williams the Petroleum

When an English cartographer arrives in Wales to tell the residents of the Welsh village of Ffynnon Garw that their 'mountain' is only a hill, the offended community sets out to remedy the situation.

Turning Green

2005

5.4

♡ 2

42%

Michael Aimette Director

Alessandro Nivola as Bill the Bookie

Frank Kelly as Father O'Hara

Gavin O'Connor as Postal Worker

Colm Meaney as Tom

Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to America. One lucky weekend in London, James discovers pornography and, desperate for cash, he decides to sell them back in Ireland. His success spreads wildly. After finding a possible way home, he must decide where home really is, and finds that one's place in the world is all a state of mind.

Screen Two The Snapper

1993

7.2

♡ 8

apparition

parent child relationship

rock music

train

Stephen Frears Director

Colm Meaney as Dessie Curley - Rabbitte

Ruth McCabe as Kay Curley - Rabbitte

Brendan Gleeson as Lester

Joan Sheehy as Woman in Hospital

Sharon 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.

Screen Two The Snapper

1993

7.2

♡ 3

97%

86%

Stephen Frears Director

Colm Meaney as Dessie Curley

Ruth McCabe as Kay Curley

Brendan Gleeson as Lester

Joan Sheehy as Woman in Hospital

Set in Ireland, Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters. When she gets herself pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.—Rob Hartill

A Dangerous Arrangement

2015

4.2

♡ 3

Thriller

Mario Azzopardi Director

Roark Critchlow as Daniel

Tamara Duarte as Ellen

Colm Meaney as Leslie

Deborah Kara Unger as Samantha

In a secluded cove in Malta, a beautiful young woman tries to drown herself. Her name is Ellen, a night club employee who just days before trying to end her life was drifting through each day uneventfully, spending most of her time at work and with her hard-partying boyfriend and lovable, yet incompetent roommates. But when Ellen meets Amy and Carrie, everything changes…all of their lives spin out of control thanks to one drug-fuelled night of partying and Amy’s overdose. Unfortunately, for Ellen and her friends Amy’s father is as vengeful as he is doting and will stop at nothing to make them pay, including murder.

A Belfast Story

2013

4.6

♡ 1

14%

Nathan Todd Director

Malcolm Sinclair as Chief Constable

Ian Beattie as Colum

Colm Meaney as Detective

Tommy O'Neill as First Minister Owen McKenna

A BELFAST STORY explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without winners, just victims. A new era brings new risks. There is peace, but that can also be deadly.

My Not So Irish Bride

2014

3.6

♡ 1

Comedy

ireland

Sean Lackey Director

Colm Meaney as Fintan McGuire

Kevin P. Farley as Fred Finnegan

Annie Kitral as Mrs. Fitzgerald

Fred Willard as Peter Murphy

Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.

Backflash

2001

5.3

♡ 7

19%

Philip J. Jones Director

Colm Meaney as Gin O'Malley

Jennifer Esposito as Olive Dee 'Harley' Klintucker

Robert Patrick as Ray Bennett

Kyle T. Heffner as Vinnie 'Pipe' Pipolino

A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.

The Commitments

1991

7.6

♡ 16

90%

Alan Parker Director

Bronagh Gallagher as Bernie McGloughlin

James Brown as Himself

Angeline Ball as Imelda Quirke

Colm Meaney as Mr. Rabbitte

Jimmy 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 Flight of the Swan

2010

4.2

♡ 1

Nikos Tzimas Director

James D'Arcy as Alexis

Colm Meaney as Giannopolus

Alicia Witt as Maria

Despina Mirou as Tragic mother

Alexis is an explosive personality, passionate about life, humanity, nature, love and beauty. That is until the breakneck rhythm, intensity, stress and convolutions of career and economic success shatter him, alienating him from everyone and everything he loves: even his children and his soul mate Maria. Alexis is jolted back to reality when the unbridled greed of the multinational conglomerate his company is involved in causes an unprecedented ecological catastrophe costing many human lives. The multinational's Golden Boy suddenly realizes that he is nothing more than a cog in the machine he had fought so passionately against in his youth. He is determined to rediscover himself, to reclaim his soul, to rebuild the dream with Maria - but he is completely trapped. He is caught in a web of intrigue that tightens like a vice driving him to an inevitably lethal conflict with the conglomerate.

Five Fingers

2006

6.3

♡ 7

55%

Laurence Malkin Director

Laurence Fishburne as Ahmat

Gina Torres as Aicha

Saïd Taghmaoui as Dark Eyes

Colm Meaney as Gavin

Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. Under threat of death, the young man engages in a mental chess match with Ahmat, trying to learn his captor's true objective and avoid a horrible fate

The Van

1996

6.7

♡ 3

42%

Stephen Frears Director

Colm Meaney as Larry

Sheila Flitton as Missis Twix

Tommy O'Neill as Nightclub Barman

Fionnuala Murphy as Young Woman

In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.

There's Always Hope

2021

5.4

Tim Lewiston Director

Colm Meaney as Jonathan

John Light as Luke

Bethany Antonia as Pen

Kate Ashfield as Samantha

Author Jonathan Stack, who has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus that he’s let his marriage to Samantha, who is also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she’s leaving him for her business partner.

Three Day Millionaire

2022

4.9

♡ 5

65%

Jack Spring Director

Melissa Batchelor as Demi

Colm Meaney as Mr Barr

Daniel Thrace as Nathan Banker

Adrian Hood as Securicor Guard

A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

War of the Buttons

1994

7.3

♡ 9

92%

1960s

Adventure

based on novel or book

John Roberts Director

Colm Meaney as Geronimo's Dad

Maureen Bennett as Master's Wife

Alan Devlin as Mr. Riley

Liam Cunningham as The Master

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

Zenon: Z3

2004

5.2

♡ 8

47%

Steve Rash Director

Joey Naber as

Colm Meaney as Commander Plank

Dominique Maher as Cosmic Blush

Raven-Symoné as Nebula Wade

Zenon Kar, a teenager living on a space station in the year 2054, competes in the first ever Galactic Teen Supreme contest.

Unnatural Causes

2008

4.2

♡ 2

Thriller

Robert Malenfant Director

George Wendt as Chuck

Tara Reid as Julia McKay

Angus Macfadyen as Matt McKay

Colm Meaney as Trevor Jones

A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.

No Way Up

2024