Donal O'Kelly

Donal O'Kelly

Movies for Donal O'Kelly...

Eveline
Title: Eveline
Character: Narrator
Released: January 13, 2024
Type: Movie
From James Joyce's "Dubliners" short story comes an adaptation that places Eveline's heartbreaking tale of paralysis, memory & escape in a contemporary Dublin. Eveline must make a life-altering decision to leave Ireland while navigating a city plagued by housing and cost-of-living crises, vanishing cultural spaces, and dereliction.
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Prisoners of the Moon
Title: Prisoners of the Moon
Character: Immigration Official
Released: July 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Was Arthur Rudolph, a central figure in the first Moon Landing, also involved in war crimes involving the death of 20,000 slave labourers in World War 2?
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Jimmy's Hall
Title: Jimmy's Hall
Character: Cian
Released: May 30, 2014
Type: Movie
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
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Black Ice
Title: Black Ice
Character: Sergeant Devlin
Released: September 20, 2013
Type: Movie
A story of youthful misadventure set against the backdrop of a lawless border terrain during the last gasps of the Irish boom.
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Stella Days
Title: Stella Days
Character: Des
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
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Kings
Title: Kings
Character: Jap Kavanagh
Released: September 21, 2007
Type: Movie
In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever.
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Spin the Bottle
Title: Spin the Bottle
Character: Brains
Released: November 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Rats is released from prison and needs to make some money; fast. To his dismay, things have changed dramatically during his absence; his mother no longer has time for him and his ex-bandmates alike. He wishes to help donate towards his obese aunty's trip to Lourdes. He struggles to find a job, yet never fails to find himself in a difficult situation.
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The Last Bus Home
Title: The Last Bus Home
Character: Richie
Released: October 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Though it is late in the punk rock movement, four Dublin youths get together in 1979 to form their own band. Accurately recounting the energy and rawness of the era, this drama follows their tumultuous and ill-fated journey on the rocky road to success. It takes three long years of unpaid performing for Reena, her lover Jessop, bassist Joe and drummer Petie to make a name for The Dead Patriots. Just as they are about to find real success, internal difficulties arise that leave each of them suspicious and mistrustful of the other.
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I Went Down
Title: I Went Down
Character: The Friendly Face
Released: October 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?
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The Van
Title: The Van
Character: 'Bimbo'
Released: November 29, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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The Lilac Bus
Title: The Lilac Bus
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The lives of seven friends who share a bus from their village to Dublin every day get complicated as the reasons for their discontent are revealed.
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The Outcasts
Title: The Outcasts
Character: Owen
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1810 Ireland, a man whose wife has died finds that his daughter is accused of being a witch. A magic fiddler comes to her aid.