Alan Devlin

Alan Devlin

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Alan Devlin

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Three Wise Women
Mr. Kearney
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.
Casa Comigo?
Joe
Anna (Amy Adams) viaja a Dublin, Irlanda, para pedir o namorado Jeremy (Adam Scott) em casamento. Segundo a tradição local, o homem não pode recusar um pedido feito no dia 29 de fevereiro. Após contratempos na viagem, Anna vê-se obrigada a pegar carona com o charmoso e grosseiro Declan (Matthew Goode), dono de uma hospedaria. Logo, o que deveria ser uma simples travessia ganha rumos inesperados.
The Wednesdays
Detective
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
Vidas Trocadas
Barney
Duas mulheres trocam de casa durante o verão e aprendem muito vivendo uma no mundo da outra. Ria vive em Dublin com os seus dois filhos e o marido, mas certo dia ele decide sair de casa e ir morar com a namorada já grávida. Marilyn, de Nova Inglaterra, perdeu o filho e acabou por se separar do marido. Por acaso, elas conversam pelo telefone e decidem trocar de casa durante o verão. Elas vão aprender muito vivendo uma no mundo da outra...
Omagh
Laurence Rush
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.
Bloom
Simon Dedalus
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.
O Inferno de São Judas
Father Damian
Contra os desejos dos membros mais antigos da Igreja, Franklin (Aidan Quinn) é designado como o único professor laico no reformatório de São Judas. Encabeçado pelo sádico diretor, o Irmão John, Frank encontra-se sozinho no meio de todos os irmãos. Num forte contraste com o abuso verbal e físico a que a maioria dos jovens estão habituados, Franklin trata de construir uma amizade com os seus alunos baseada na confiança. No dia de Natal, o irmão John bate em dois pequenos irmãos por pressuposta quebra de uma regra do colégio. Franklin impede a agressão, mas não por muito tempo. A determinação do Irmão John em averiguar o porquê de Franklin ter decidido dar aulas em São Judas, está prestes a causar consequências inimagináveis.
Sinners
Father Flannery
A Catholic girl finds herself in trouble in the ultra conservative Ireland of the 60s; a country where women are punished if they become pregnant out of wedlock.
Um Criminoso Decente
Lord Mayor
Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey) é o mais famoso ladrão de Dublin, na Irlanda. Seus roubos fazem dele o pesadelo da polícia local e um herói entre os criminosos locais. Além disto, Lynch banca o chefe de sua família, que inclui suas duas esposas: as irmãs Christine (Linda Fiorentino) e Lisa (Helen Baxendale). Porém, enquanto elabora mais um sofisticado plano Lynch precisa se precaver contra o detetive Noel Quigley (Stephen Dillane), que está disposto a tudo para capturá-lo.
Resurrection Man
Chalky White
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.
As Aventuras de Oliver Twist
Doctor
O clássico da literatura escrito por Chares Dickens ganha aqui uma versão produzida para televisão. A história é situada na Inglaterra do século 19, quando o jovem Oliver Twist se vê sozinho nas ruas de Londres. Envolvido por um bando de patifes e ladrões, é preso por um crime que não cometeu. Agora ele precisa provar sua inocência, escapar da gangue, e achar a família que sempre desejou.
A Guerra dos Botões
Mr Riley
Grupos rivais de crianças se preparam para uma guerra, na qual o troféu são os botões dos adversários. Mentiras, amizades, lealdade e traições fazem parte de um conflito que preocupa os pais, professores e policiais. Refilmagem do clássico francês de 1961, baseado na obra de Louis Pergaud.
High Boot Benny
Manley
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...
Romance Proibido
Malone
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).
As Filhas de Rebecca
Lord Waterstone
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.
The Englishman's Wife
Mr Alexander
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.
Nineteen96
Sir Rex Ferriday
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
Hostage
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.
Angel
Bill
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. He seeks an answer to the simple question 'Why?' but finds only more, and deeper, questions which resonate with the wider context of 'the Troubles', the inter-communal strife gripping the modern-day Northern Ireland which is the film's setting.
Traveller
Clicky
Road movie telling the story of a newly wed couple of Irish travellers who set out on a smuggling trip to Northern Ireland.
Caçada na Noite
Priest
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.
Afternoon of War
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.
Phoelix
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.