Britta Smith

Britta Smith

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Breakfast on Pluto
Title: Breakfast on Pluto
Character: Mrs. Clarke
Released: November 16, 2005
Type: Movie
In 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.
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Silver Lining
Title: Silver Lining
Character: Mrs. Moorehead
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
"Silver lining" tells the surreal story of Mr. Price, an elderly man who begins a journey in the midst of a torrential rain without the shelter of his umbrella. Mr. Price will overcome all obstacles with a little magical intervention.
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Bloom
Title: Bloom
Character: Martha
Released: April 16, 2004
Type: Movie
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
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The Return
Title: The Return
Character: Prison Governor
Released: December 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
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The Magdalene Sisters
Title: The Magdalene Sisters
Character: Katy
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Character: Bridget
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
In the seventh film in the series, in April 1916, a disillusioned Indy hops the ocean to Europe where he figures the Great War might offer him a greater sense of purpose.
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Durango
Title: Durango
Character: Nonie Doran
Released: April 25, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
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Talk of Angels
Title: Talk of Angels
Character: Duggan
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland
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Title: Amongst Women
Character: Mrs Brady
Released: July 15, 1998
Type: TV
Based on the novel by John McGahern and set in Ireland in the 1950s, the series tells the story of Moran and his children. Especially the girls find it difficult to get away from the influence of their despotic father and start living their own lives.
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A Certain Justice
Title: A Certain Justice
Character: Mrs. Carpenter
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The story is about the murder of Venetia Aldridge, a QC (Queen's Council) in a London "Chambers" and a very ambitious barrister who has a track record of winning her cases. She doesn't necessarily prove that her clients are innocent, she simply disproves the prosecution's case against them. In the course of her career ,she has made enemies and one of them kills her and she is found in a very ritualistic setting.
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Her Own Rules
Title: Her Own Rules
Character: Mrs. Mattingly
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
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The Boxer
Title: The Boxer
Character: Mrs Boots
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer.
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Trojan Eddie
Title: Trojan Eddie
Character: Lady Cash
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Trojan Eddie sells stolen goods for John Power, aging godfather of a local network of Irish gypsies, known as "travelers." Having done time rather than inform on his partner in a failed burglary, Eddie now struggles to raise his two daughters alone. Power falls for and marries traveler girl Kathleen, but when she runs off with Power's nephew Dermot — and takes the $11,000 dowry with her — Eddie must track the couple down.
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Moll Flanders
Title: Moll Flanders
Character: Artist's Mother
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
The 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.
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Shadow of a Gunman
Title: Shadow of a Gunman
Character: Mrs. Henderson
Released: October 7, 1995
Type: Movie
The first part of O'Casey's "The Dublin Trilogy". Set in 1920, as the War of Independence rages, "Shadow of a Gunman" is the story of two young men, Donal and Seamus who share a flat in Dublin.
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Circle of Friends
Title: Circle of Friends
Character: Mrs. Hogan
Released: April 7, 1995
Type: Movie
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
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Men of the Month
Title: Men of the Month
Character: Roisin
Released: May 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling office block - each of them with an interest in the women within.
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The Summer House
Title: The Summer House
Character: Mother Joseph
Released: December 21, 1993
Type: Movie
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Annie Maguire
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
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The Snapper
Title: The Snapper
Character: Woman in Police Station
Released: August 6, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Hear My Song
Title: Hear My Song
Character: Kitty Ryan
Released: December 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O’Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ‘Heartly’s’ and his failing relationship with the beautiful Nancy, Cathleen’s daughter. The solution? Book the infamous Josef Locke.
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Character: Nurse
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
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 essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
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Taffin
Title: Taffin
Character: Mrs. Taffin
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
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Hostage
Title: Hostage
Released: September 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of the bombing campaign in Britain and the Northern Ireland Hunger Strike, a young woman joins a terrorist operation which takes three people hostage. Over the days of their captivity, she questions her own involvement and the history of Ireland which has brought her to this point.
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Children in the Crossfire
Title: Children in the Crossfire
Released: December 3, 1984
Type: Movie
For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each other away from the ravages of their homeland.
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The Country Girls
Title: The Country Girls
Character: Lil
Released: April 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The lifelong friendship of two rural Irish girls is put on the test when they grow up and leave for the big city, each with different life goals in mind.