Alan Devlin

Alan Devlin

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Three Wise Women
Title: Three Wise Women
Character: Mr. Kearney
Released: December 14, 2010
Type: Movie
After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forced to abandon her. Later, when she grows to be a miserable woman, her angel is given a second chance to save her from a life of sadness. To accomplish his goal, he travels through time to recruit the woman's past and future selves to help her reconcile with her father and change her direction in life.
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Leap Year
Title: Leap Year
Character: Joe
Released: January 8, 2010
Type: Movie
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
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The Wednesdays
Title: The Wednesdays
Character: Detective
Released: July 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Sometimes, when you're in the autumn of your days, you'll try anything just to put a smile on your face again. And so in this funny, sad (and sometimes wobbly) tale we meet two pensioners who manage to re-ignite the love they'd almost forgotten about. Unfortunately, soon the law comes knocking at their door
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Tara Road
Title: Tara Road
Character: Barney
Released: May 11, 2005
Type: Movie
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
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Omagh
Title: Omagh
Character: Laurence Rush
Released: March 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
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Bloom
Title: Bloom
Character: Simon Dedalus
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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Song for a Raggy Boy
Title: Song for a Raggy Boy
Character: Father Damian
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: Movie
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.
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Sinners
Title: Sinners
Character: Father Flannery
Released: March 26, 2002
Type: Movie
Powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland about a young, unmarried mother-to-be whose family sends her to a convent. There, out of sight of society, her work in the laundry provides her with close friendships, which bring hope and relief from daily prayer and penance. (Radio Times)
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
Title: Ordinary Decent Criminal
Character: Lord Mayor
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
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Resurrection Man
Title: Resurrection Man
Character: Chalky White
Released: February 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
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Oliver Twist
Title: Oliver Twist
Character: Doctor
Released: May 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the unscrupulous leader of the young pick-pockets Oliver (Alex Trench) initially falls in with after escaping from a sweat shop and going to London to find his relatives. Written by John Sacksteder
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War of the Buttons
Title: War of the Buttons
Character: Mr Riley
Released: September 29, 1994
Type: Movie
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
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High Boot Benny
Title: High Boot Benny
Character: Manley
Released: September 3, 1993
Type: Movie
A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Ulster and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant school headmistress; Marley, an unfrocked missionary priest; and Benny, a seventeen-year-old criminal who has taken sanctuary in the school...
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The Playboys
Title: The Playboys
Character: Malone
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
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Rebecca's Daughters
Title: Rebecca's Daughters
Character: Lord Waterstone
Released: March 5, 1992
Type: Movie
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.
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The Englishman's Wife
Title: The Englishman's Wife
Character: Mr Alexander
Released: January 8, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.
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Nineteen96
Title: Nineteen96
Character: Sir Rex Ferriday
Released: September 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
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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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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Bill
Released: September 18, 1982
Type: Movie
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her.
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Traveller
Title: Traveller
Character: Clicky
Released: September 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Reluctantly-married young Irish travellers Michael and Angela head north of the border at the behest of Angela’s father, to smuggle electrical equipment back to resell. Joining up with IRA man Clicky on the way, the ill-matched couple embark on an uneasy journey marked by blood and murder.
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The Long Good Friday
Title: The Long Good Friday
Character: Priest
Released: November 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
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Afternoon of War
Title: Afternoon of War
Released: March 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Adapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war. The story of a man who is as handy with his fists as with his poetic fantasy. His masculinity fascinates Gilda, the wife of the owner of the mine.
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Phoelix
Title: Phoelix
Released: August 1, 1979
Type: Movie
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.