Lalor Roddy

Lalor Roddy

Born: January 1, 1954
in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Movies for Lalor Roddy...

That They May Face the Rising Sun
Title: That They May Face the Rising Sun
Character: Patrick Ryan
Released: April 26, 2024
Type: Movie
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
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Unwelcome
Title: Unwelcome
Character: Rory
Released: January 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?
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God's Creatures
Title: God's Creatures
Character: Paddy O'Hara
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips apart their family and close-knit community.
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It Is in Us All
Title: It Is in Us All
Character: Grandfather
Released: September 23, 2022
Type: Movie
A Londoner returns to his ancestral homeland of Donegal in the west of Ireland and is drawn in by a teenage boy who almost kills him in a car crash.
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VIVA
Title: VIVA
Character: Justin
Released: July 6, 2022
Type: Movie
On their final night before departing Justin and Nicole gather their closet family together for one last meal.
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Birthday
Title: Birthday
Released: March 31, 2022
Type: Movie
A man decides to use any means necessary to aid his local community.
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Boys from County Hell
Title: Boys from County Hell
Character: Elliot
Released: August 6, 2021
Type: Movie
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
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Harvest
Title: Harvest
Released: July 24, 2021
Type: Movie
Joe Gibbons prepares to go back to the local cattle mart for the first time since his near fatal heart attack. But, it's no ordinary day and Joe is soon confronted with the harsh truth of his future.
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Neon Meets Argon
Title: Neon Meets Argon
Released: July 23, 2021
Type: Movie
A neon sign-maker has his solitude interrupted by an energetic young intruder. Can these men forge a kinship amidst the flickering of neon lights?
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Black Medicine
Title: Black Medicine
Character: Stevie
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
Jo is a black-market medic who carries out illegal operations for the criminal underworld. When she gives refuge to a young girl, she must choose between breaking her medical oath or crossing her ruthless employers.
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Sins of a Werewolf
Title: Sins of a Werewolf
Character: Fr. Fox
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: Movie
When a seasoned parish priest is bitten on the arse by a mysterious animal, he begins transforming into a werewolf every full moon. The ensuing bloodshed leads to a resurgence in Mass attendances from fearful locals, much to the delight of his senior colleagues.
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Stir
Title: Stir
Character: Leonard
Released: July 11, 2020
Type: Movie
A young woman finds herself a prisoner in the home of an old man who has recently lost his wife. As her desperate attempts to escape accelerate, the man soon realises that he has taken on more than he can handle.
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Ordinary Love
Title: Ordinary Love
Character: Smoking Man
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: Movie
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
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End of Sentence
Title: End of Sentence
Character: Murphy
Released: September 23, 2019
Type: Movie
Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.
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Float Like a Butterfly
Title: Float Like a Butterfly
Character: Grandad Joyce
Released: May 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Irish Traveller Frances has to fight for the right to pursue her passion... boxing. She is determined to make her idol Muhammad Ali proud, as well as her father who has recently been released from prison. But when she wants to show him just how tough she is, she soon comes to realise he's got other plans for her.
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Don't Go
Title: Don't Go
Character: Removal Man
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream. But is it just a dream? Or is Ben losing his mind?
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The Devil's Doorway
Title: The Devil's Doorway
Character: Father Thomas Riley
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: Movie
In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.
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Kissing Candice
Title: Kissing Candice
Character: Mr. DeBoer
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.
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Lost in the Living
Title: Lost in the Living
Released: June 14, 2018
Type: Movie
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Zoo
Title: Zoo
Character: Curfew Man 1
Released: June 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
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Michael Inside
Title: Michael Inside
Character: Francis McCrea
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: Movie
An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and sentenced to 3 months in prison.
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Don't Leave Home
Title: Don't Leave Home
Character: Alistair Burke
Released: March 10, 2018
Type: Movie
An American artist's obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story's origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.
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Bad Day for the Cut
Title: Bad Day for the Cut
Character: Leo McMahon
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
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Wren Boys
Title: Wren Boys
Character: Conor
Released: October 14, 2017
Type: Movie
On the day after Christmas, a Catholic priest from Cork drives his nephew to prison.
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Maze
Title: Maze
Character: Henry
Released: September 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
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A Sign of Things
Title: A Sign of Things
Character: Gibbo
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Having lost his job when the factory closed, dad Daniel is now seemingly devoting himself to the church. When his wife, stay-at-home mum Zara, agrees to let a racy cabaret club pay to advertise on the side of their house a family showdown ensues.
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Digs for Pennies
Title: Digs for Pennies
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: Movie
It's post famine and bare-knuckle boxer Dan Power is trying to earn enough money to escape to an easier life in America, but he's starting to suspect that his manager Matty Gandon is ripping him off.
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The Truth Commissioner
Title: The Truth Commissioner
Character: Witness 1
Released: February 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.
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Title: Rebellion
Character: Thomas Clarke
Released: January 3, 2016
Type: TV
A group of young men and women in Dublin in 1916 are embroiled in a fight for independence during the Easter Rising. The story begins with the outbreak of World War I. As expectations of a short and glorious campaign are dashed, social stability is eroded and Irish nationalism comes to the fore. The tumultuous events that follow are seen through the eyes of a group of friends from Dublin, Belfast and London as they play vital and conflicting roles in the narrative of Ireland's independence.
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Two Angry Men
Title: Two Angry Men
Character: JG Devlin
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Short film telling the story of James Ellis and Sam Thompson as they battle against the establishment to stage a controversial play in Belfast in 1959.
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Insulin
Title: Insulin
Character: The Customer
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Holed up in a run down pharmacy, a man helps his diabetic wife to survive on dwindling supplies of insulin, trading medicine for food from the outside world. When a stranger comes looking for insulin, and refuses to be turned away, both husband and wife must face the reality of her rapidly shortening life.
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Robot Overlords
Title: Robot Overlords
Character: Swann / Survivor
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
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Robot Overlords
Title: Robot Overlords
Character: Swann
Released: October 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Earth has been conquered by robots from another galaxy and the human survivors must stay in their homes, or risk incineration.
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Title: Quirke
Character: Old Man
Released: February 16, 2014
Type: TV
Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue – a charismatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden deaths in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw and deep, a drink, a smoke, good food, a woman: With one woman in particular – his adoptive brother's wife Sarah and the forbidden love that has shaped and dominated Quirke's life.
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Made in Belfast
Title: Made in Belfast
Character: Kevy
Released: April 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Jack Kelly is a successful novelist who leads a reclusive life in his apartment in Paris. His first novel, Made in Belfast, was a critical and commercial success – there was only one problem: it exposed the private lives and innermost secrets of his close friends and family, and none of them have spoken to him since he ran away. But when circumstances conspire to bring him back to his hometown for a few days, he decides to spend that time putting things right with the friends he betrayed, the brother he abandoned, and the fiancée he jilted.
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Title: Vikings
Character: Fisherman
Released: March 3, 2013
Type: TV
The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
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Title: Ripper Street
Character: Birdseller
Released: December 30, 2012
Type: TV
A drama set in the East End of London in 1889, during the aftermath of the "Ripper" murders. The action centres around the notorious H Division – the police precinct from hell – which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of Whitechapel. Ripper Street explores the lives of characters trying to recover from the Ripper's legacy, from crimes that have not only irretrievably altered their lives, but the very fabric of their city. At the drama's heart our detectives try to bring a little light into the dark world they inhabit.
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Grabbers
Title: Grabbers
Character: Paddy Barrett
Released: August 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Something sinister has come to the shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to the quaint population of this sleepy fishing village resting somewhere off Ireland’s coast. First, some fishermen go missing. Then there is the rash of whale carcasses suddenly washing up on the beach. When the murders start, it’s up to two mismatched cops – an irresponsible alcoholic and his new partner, a by-the-book woman from the mainland – to protect the townsfolk from the giant, bloodsucking, tentacled aliens that prey upon them. Their only weapon, they discover, is booze. If they want to survive the creatures’ onslaught, everyone will have to get very, very drunk!
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Jump
Title: Jump
Character: Frank Feeney
Released: June 8, 2012
Type: Movie
The lives of four twenty-somethings collide one fateful New Year's Eve in this twisty, blackly comic crime thriller set amidst the ancient walls of Derry, Northern Ireland, in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue. Johnny, a small-time crook, and Marie, a dissatisfied shop assistant, are both looking for a fresh start. Greta is on the verge of taking her own life and Pearse has a bounty on his head for asking difficult questions about his missing brother Eddie Kelly. As the clock ticks down to midnight and the night's events expertly fall into place, Jump weaves an existential portrait of the characters' lives as their hopes, fears and secrets are revealed
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Sensation
Title: Sensation
Character: Mossy
Released: November 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Man-boy farmer Donal discovers that his father has suddenly passed away. Now on his own, Donal attempts to lose his virginity by hiring a prostitute to help him get out of his rut. And so he meets Kim, an aging Kiwi escort. After engaging in a strictly sexual encounter, their relationship soon progresses into a lusty romance, then to a business enterprise between two partners. Through these exploits, Donal and Kim provide each other with a sense of love and belonging that neither experienced beforehand.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Catspaw Assassin
Released: April 17, 2011
Type: TV
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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Mount Analogue Revisited
Title: Mount Analogue Revisited
Character: Sogal
Released: December 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Mount Analogue Revisited is based on a reworking of Rene Daumal’s book ‘Mount Analogue’. The book, unfinished before Daumal's death, is the story of a voyage to an unknown island with an improbable mountain which is seen as a means to link Heaven and Earth. Irish artists Walker and Walker adapt a short passage from the book which sees three of the crew from the voyage captured upon landing on the shore, and escorted to a municipal building. As an official demands an explanation for their actions, Walker and Walker fabricate a conversation between the three crew, the official, and the author himself. The dialogue uses the island's metaphysical nature to question the limits of reason and rationality, the quest for utopia, and whether truth can even exist. It is an adventurous philosophical tale—poetic passages leading to a spiritual quest, one which borders on science fiction.
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Hum
Title: Hum
Released: February 13, 2010
Type: Movie
Hum begins in the living-room of a derelict house engulfed by trees. A woman stands in the dilapidated room. The woman has come here in search of silence, of escape. From the urban din, the constant noise of her life. To silence the voice of a lover recently lost. She wants to leave behind even the possibility of communication. But she discovers that her search for silence is impossible. The closest she comes is playing a dumb piano into a still afternoon. Finally she goes in search of sound, to experience it in its full intensity, at deafening volume.
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Scapegoat
Title: Scapegoat
Character: Mr Hill
Released: October 26, 2009
Type: Movie
This is the fascinating true life story of one of Ireland's most famous unsolved murders. It is the tale of how an innocent man was found guilty but insane of the brutal homicide of a young woman from a very prominent family. Told in superb period detail, Scapegoat contains a combustible mix of sex, class, bogus respectability and dark domestic secrets
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Ditching
Title: Ditching
Released: March 27, 2009
Type: Movie
Northern Ireland, the future: in a post apocalyptic landscape of decaying towns and primitive technology, two people set out on a journey.
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Cherrybomb
Title: Cherrybomb
Character: Smiley
Released: February 8, 2009
Type: Movie
Teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can't get off the wild ride they've set in motion.
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Five Minutes of Heaven
Title: Five Minutes of Heaven
Character: Landlord
Released: January 19, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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Hunger
Title: Hunger
Character: William
Released: May 15, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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Boy Eats Girl
Title: Boy Eats Girl
Character: Fr. Cornelius
Released: June 7, 2005
Type: Movie
A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.
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As the Beast Sleeps
Title: As the Beast Sleeps
Character: Heck
Released: February 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.
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Best
Title: Best
Released: May 10, 2000
Type: Movie
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Love & Rage
Title: Love & Rage
Character: Eamon
Released: February 9, 2000
Type: Movie
Agnes MacDonnell, a strong and self-confident Englishwoman, owns a large estate on an island off the west coast of Ireland. When she begins a passionate but dangerous affair with her new estate manager, Agnes wages a desperate struggle to dominate this charismatic but destructive man.
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
Title: All Things Bright and Beautiful
Character: Pat Joe Coyle
Released: March 16, 1994
Type: Movie
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 rural Northern Ireland in the 1950's.
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Title: So You Think You've Got Troubles
Character: Danny Martin
Released: October 17, 1991
Type: TV
Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.
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Arise and Go Now
Title: Arise and Go Now
Character: Art Orge
Released: September 4, 1991
Type: Movie
Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father Dade, the local priest, try to drive some sanity into their world
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The Radio
Title: The Radio
Character: Martin
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An elderly widower depends on his radio to keep a foothold in his routine, when it breaks, his daughter, who knows how important it is to him, is forced to pay more attention to her isolated father.