Emer McCourt

Emer McCourt


in Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, UK
Born in Newry, County Down in Northern Ireland in 1964, Emer McCourt is an actress, producer, novelist and singer.

Movies for Emer McCourt...

North
Title: North
Character: Mary
Released: November 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he watches his mother willingly die.
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Sunset Heights
Title: Sunset Heights
Character: Emer Bradley
Released: June 4, 1999
Type: Movie
Irish thriller starring Toby Stephens. Belfast of the near future finds the city ruled by two rival law-enforcing punishment squads. When Luke Bradley (Stephens)'s son is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the local preacher (Jim Norton). Taken to Sunset Heights, a druid's circle on a hill overlooking the city, the accused is summarily executed by the boy's father. However, when another child goes missing, it appears that they have killed the wrong man - or that the preacher has come back from the dead to wreak his revenge...
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Loop
Title: Loop
Character: Rachel
Released: September 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Rachel discovers she is pregnant. Just as she is about to break the news to her stockbroker boyfriend Bill, he dumps her. Heartbroken and angry, Rachel takes Bill's cherished sports car, clears out their joint bank account and heads off to the country and to her dysfunctional family's farmhouse. By trying to sort out her own family's problems Rachel hopes to come to terms with her own predicament. But Bill discovers her whereabouts and is on the warpath.
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Boston Kickout
Title: Boston Kickout
Character: Shona
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
School leaver Phil moves with his father from inner-city London to the satellite Hertfordshire New Town of Stevenage, where they are promised a brighter future...but all Phil finds there is a bleak, cultural wilderness; a world of unemployment, violence, alcoholism and drug abuse in 90s Britain
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Men of the Month
Title: Men of the Month
Character: Kim
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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Title: Frank Stubbs Promotes
Character: Siobhan
Released: July 12, 1993
Type: TV
Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas. He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and talented performers. In reality, his ambitions tend to outstrip his capabilities.
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Hush-a-Bye Baby
Title: Hush-a-Bye Baby
Character: Goretti Friel
Released: April 8, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1984, a pregnant Irish girl tries to contact her boyfriend in British prison but her letters are not allowed through to him because she writes in Irish.
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Title: The House of Bernarda Alba
Character: Beggar
Released: December 18, 1991
Type: Movie
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
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London Kills Me
Title: London Kills Me
Character: Sylvie
Released: December 13, 1991
Type: Movie
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
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Riff-Raff
Title: Riff-Raff
Character: Susan
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
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Shoot to Kill
Title: Shoot to Kill
Character: E4A Officer
Released: June 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.