Michael McElhatton

Michael McElhatton

Born: January 1, 1963
in Terenure, Dublin, Ireland
Michael McElhatton (born 12 September 1963) is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for playing the role of Roose Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones. He joined the series as a guest star in the second season, and continued to play this role until the sixth season, promoted to a regular cast member from the fifth season onwards.

Movies for Michael McElhatton...

The Ghastly Ghoul
Title: The Ghastly Ghoul
Character: Orson
Released: October 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Every year, the monsters from Halloween Town come to Earth to trick or treat for one glorious night of mischief before the gateway back to their world closes again. The Ghastly Ghoul is the story of Gary, a cute little monster who doesn’t believe he’s scary enough and so disguises himself as the Ghastly Ghoul. When he misses the gateway back home, he is trapped in the human world. He forms a friendship with a young girl, Beatrix, who is struggling with her own fears around the macabre holiday and together they help inspire a sense of self-belief in one another and try to find a way to get Gary home again on a Halloween night filled with magic and adventure.
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Title: The Long Shadow
Character: CC Ronald Gregory
Released: September 25, 2023
Type: TV
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
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Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Character: Jean de Merteuil
Released: November 6, 2022
Type: TV
A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction. TV adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses".
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Title: The Wheel of Time
Character: Tam al'Thor
Released: November 18, 2021
Type: TV
Follow Moiraine, a member of the shadowy and influential all-female organization called the “Aes Sedai” as she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women. Moiraine believes one of them might be the reincarnation of an incredibly powerful individual, whom prophecies say will either save humanity or destroy it.
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Monster
Title: Monster
Character: Lieutenant
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Set in Ireland in 1845 the film centers on Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, who takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen.
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The Last Duel
Title: The Last Duel
Character: Bernard de Latour
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
Title: Zack Snyder's Justice League
Character: Black Clad Alpha
Released: March 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.
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The Winter Lake
Title: The Winter Lake
Character: Ward
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
When Holly’s dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.
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Togo
Title: Togo
Character: Jafet Lindeberg
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: Movie
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.
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The Last Right
Title: The Last Right
Character: Frank Delaney
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Daniel Murphy is lumbered with a corpse that has the same last name as his, who dies on his flight from Boston to County Cork. Travelling back to Ireland to attend his mother’s funeral, Daniel also checks on his autistic brother. What follows is an unconventional road trip with his brother and the mortuary assistant as they take the coffin from Clonakilty to Rathlin Island.
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Title: Chernobyl
Character: Prosecutor Andrei Stepashin
Released: May 6, 2019
Type: TV
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder
Title: Agatha and the Truth of Murder
Character: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Released: December 23, 2018
Type: Movie
England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.
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Boy Saint
Title: Boy Saint
Character: Poem Narrator
Released: September 28, 2018
Type: Movie
A sumptuous short film of friendship and adoration between boys, based on a poem by Peter LeBerge. Moments of joy, bonding and roughhousing on a school trip to the beach counterpoint one teen boy’s introspective sexual awakenings and questionings. Magnificent cinematography and editing create a visual feast that provides the imagery for a narrated poem by Peter Laberge alluding to early homosexual desires, but with Catholic overtones never directly expressed.
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Title: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Character: Bill Tuttle
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: TV
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.
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Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Title: Captain Morten and the Spider Queen
Character: Felix (voice)
Released: August 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Morten, a ten-year-old boy, is shrunk to the size of an insect due to a magical fog gun. Soon, he finds himself on his makeshift model ship sailing through a flooded cafe.
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The Overcoat
Title: The Overcoat
Character: Petrovich (voice)
Released: July 14, 2018
Type: Movie
An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.
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Title: The Alienist
Character: Dr. Markoe
Released: January 22, 2018
Type: TV
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
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Justice League
Title: Justice League
Character: Black Clad Alpha
Released: November 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
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The Foreigner
Title: The Foreigner
Character: Jim Kavanagh
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Title: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Character: Jack's Eye
Released: May 10, 2017
Type: Movie
When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword Excalibur from the stone, his life is turned upside down and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy... whether he likes it or not.
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Title: Genius
Character: Philipp Lenard
Released: April 25, 2017
Type: TV
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.
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Title: Genius
Character: Jonas Salk
Released: April 25, 2017
Type: TV
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius.
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The Zookeeper's Wife
Title: The Zookeeper's Wife
Character: Jerzyk
Released: March 24, 2017
Type: Movie
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
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Handsome Devil
Title: Handsome Devil
Character: Walter Curly
Released: February 15, 2017
Type: Movie
A music-mad 16-year-old outcast at a rugby-mad boarding school forms an unlikely friendship with his dashing new roommate.
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Title: The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Character: Sheriff Sheldon
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
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The Siege of Jadotville
Title: The Siege of Jadotville
Character: General McEntee
Released: September 19, 2016
Type: Movie
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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Mammal
Title: Mammal
Character: Matt
Released: April 1, 2016
Type: Movie
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
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Norm of the North
Title: Norm of the North
Character: Laurence (voice)
Released: January 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in New York, Norm begins life anew as a performing corporate mascot, only to discover that his new employers are directly responsible for the destruction of his polar home.
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The Hallow
Title: The Hallow
Character: Colm Donnelly
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now ensure his family's survival from their relentless attacks.
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Title: New Worlds
Character: John Hawkins
Released: April 1, 2014
Type: TV
Set in the turbulent 1680s, this four-part drama takes place on both sides of the Atlantic, as these two young men and two young women commit their lives to a fairer future with blood, passion and urgency. New Worlds is a gripping story of love and loss and the human price paid for the freedoms we enjoy today.
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Title: The Fall
Character: Rob Breedlove
Released: May 12, 2013
Type: TV
When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must track down and stop a serial killer who is terrorising the city of Belfast.
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Title: Titanic: Blood and Steel
Character: Albert Hatton
Released: May 13, 2012
Type: TV
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.
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Shadow Dancer
Title: Shadow Dancer
Character: Liam Hughes
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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Albert Nobbs
Title: Albert Nobbs
Character: Mr. Moore
Released: December 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
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Death of a Superhero
Title: Death of a Superhero
Character: James Clarke
Released: May 4, 2011
Type: Movie
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
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Title: Game of Thrones
Character: Roose Bolton
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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The Santa Incident
Title: The Santa Incident
Character: Ross
Released: December 9, 2010
Type: Movie
During a ride on his sleigh Santa is mistaken for an alien in a UFO. After an attack, he ends up seriously injured in a small town. Two children must help him, so Christmas is not jeopardized.
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Parked
Title: Parked
Character: Frank
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.
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Pentecost
Title: Pentecost
Character: Pat Lynch
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Ireland 1977. Eleven-year-old Damian Lynch (Scott Graham) is called in at the last moment to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in his local parish. Following his last appearance as an altar boy when he knocked Father O'Toole off the altar, Damien is serving a 3 month ban from his only passion in life...football. To make matters worse, Damian's team, Liverpool FC, are playing in their first European cup final in two weeks time. Damien's father (Michael McElhatton) offers him a reprieve and crucially a chance to see the European cup final if he serves the mass correctly. Damien now faces a choice: either conform to the status quo or never watch his beloved Liverpool play again...
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Perrier's Bounty
Title: Perrier's Bounty
Character: Ivan
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
Title: Fifty Dead Men Walking
Character: Robbie
Released: September 10, 2008
Type: Movie
It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces officer 'Fergus', McGartland gains unparalleled insight into the organisation's dealings, providing his British handler with priceless, life-saving information. Based on a true story.
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My Boy Jack
Title: My Boy Jack
Character: Leo Amery MP
Released: November 11, 2007
Type: Movie
Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WWI.
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Mickybo and Me
Title: Mickybo and Me
Character: Mechanic
Released: March 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
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Adam & Paul
Title: Adam & Paul
Character: Martin (voice)
Released: August 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Adam and Paul are two young junkies living in Dublin and perpetually on the lookout for their next fix. During their search, they encounter various unsavoury characters and make some futile attempts at petty theft. As their day progresses, Adam and Paul get into a good share of trouble as they do whatever they can to score heroin, eventually running afoul of an imposing thug—who only drags them into more shady activities.
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Spin the Bottle
Title: Spin the Bottle
Character: Rats
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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Intermission
Title: Intermission
Character: Sam
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
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The Actors
Title: The Actors
Character: Jock
Released: March 16, 2003
Type: Movie
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.
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Blow Dry
Title: Blow Dry
Character: Robert
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
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Title: Rebel Heart
Character: Cathal Brugha
Released: January 7, 2001
Type: TV
The move towards independence in Ireland, from the 1916 Easter Rising until the 1922 civil war is seen through the eyes of a naive idealistic young man
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Title: Paths to Freedom
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: TV
Paths to Freedom was a popular comedy on the Irish television network RTÉ Two. The shows stars two characters, Jeremy and Rats, who have both recently been released from a Dublin prison. The show takes the format of a mockumentary, with a fly-on-the-wall camera crew following the two characters, who are from thoroughly different backgrounds, as they try to reintegrate back into society. There were six episodes of the show produced, the first airing on November 1, 2000, and the final episode airing one month later. The series was followed-up by a movie based on the character Rats, Spin the Bottle. The show was written by Michael McElhatton, and directed by Ian Fitzgibbon.
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Saltwater
Title: Saltwater
Character: John Traynor
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, but has serious problems of his own, while his younger son and daughter are having troubles in school.
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Guy's Dog
Title: Guy's Dog
Character: Voice
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A short claymation film by Rory Bresnihan about a dog who wishes to be human
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Vicious Circle
Title: Vicious Circle
Character: Garrett
Released: February 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery
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Crush Proof
Title: Crush Proof
Character: Detective Sergeant Hogan
Released: September 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Out of prison at last, charismatic sociopath Neal tries to visit the baby son he's never seen, his indifferent parents, and the grave of his horse - not in that order. But mainly he wants to rejoin his old gang in the "pony club" subculture of the wild Northside- would be urban cowboys riding horses rough shod and bare back through the streets of Dublin. He then runs into the squealer who set him up.
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Just in Time
Title: Just in Time
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to keep casual. Frank's secret is a burden he bears lightly, but he finds himself increasingly drawn into examining his unworthiness which ultimately horrifies him. Maria, an artist, is his good humoured wife putting a brave face on his neglect. Feeling increasingly emotional and isolated as she approaches middle age, she eventually breaks down admitting her loneliness at Frank's absences. The cathartic point of the film is when Michael, the co-owner of the cottage where they're staying, pays a visit with a woman other than his wife. Not knowing that he has left his wife and has moved in with this other woman, embarrassment and awkwardness increase, straining this social setting. With the illicit couple hot-footing it back to the city, Frank and Maria are left feeling threatened trying to reason the situation, at the midst of which lies Frank's secret.
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All Souls' Day
Title: All Souls' Day
Released: October 18, 1997
Type: Movie
The date was November 2nd, All Soul's Day, when Nicole's naked body was found on the beach. Seven years on, Nicole's mother Madie, obsessed with finding out what really happened on that fateful day, visits her daughter's boyfriend Jim in prison. As memories unfold and secrets are unveiled in the search for truth and redemption, Madie and Jim stumble upon something more sinister. Shot in different formats, in colour and black and white, fragments of a tragic story emerge from this rich, visual film.
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I Went Down
Title: I Went Down
Character: Johnner Doyle
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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November Afternoon
Title: November Afternoon
Character: John
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Karen and her husband come to Dublin to visit her brother. Tensions arise when there are indications that Karin and her brother may have an incestuous relationship.