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Birthday:1945-02-17
Place of Birth:Dublin, Ireland
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Also Known As:برندا فریکر

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) p2qt
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic...

A Time to Kill (1996) 284y6v
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Utz (1992) 1u1qa
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the...

Veronica Guerin (2003) g195a
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream,...

Tara Road (2005) mr4d
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.

The Music Machine (1979) 4l3nd
At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.

So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) 4f715g
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers...

Omagh (2005) 6et3k
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...

Inside I'm Dancing (2004) 5p3yb
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable...

The Field (1990) 3z51g
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to...

Angels in the Outfield (1994) 6p46t
Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins...

Masterminds (1997) 6q1i50
A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.

The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) y1k13
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties,...

How About You... (2007) 703f4w
A young woman, struggling with the direction of her life, spends Christmas watching over a retirement home filled with demanding residents.

Closing the Ring (2007) gn21
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man...

The War Bride (2001) g1qu
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.

Pete's Meteor (2002) 6a6xo
Lives change for of an Irish family after a meteor crashes in their backyard. The kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead...

Watermelon (2003) 16413b
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.

A Man of No Importance (1994) 45sk
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and...

Conspiracy of Silence (2003) 45h
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken...

Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004) a451k
The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute...

Painted Angels (1998) 2x4114
The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the...

Cloudburst (2011) 1o6369
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a...

Resurrection Man (1998) 9296k
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...

A Long Way From Home (2013) 306yv
Joseph and Brenda have done what many only dream of and retired to the South of to live out the rest of their days as if they were permanently...

Torso: The Evelyn Dick Story (2002) 5m5443
The 1946/1947 murder trial of young and beautiful Evelyn Dick remains the most lurid murder case in Canadian history. After children find only the...

The Picnic (1989) 677340
A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, and her anticipation of a birthday picnic by the...

The Ballroom of Romance (1982) 3c4d6t
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

Locked In (2010) 5u284o
Josh leaves his advertising career at its peak, everyone wants either to be him or to have him. A car accident will leave his daughter in a strange...

Deadly Advice (1994) 1s3s70
Mother rules the house with an iron hand and has such power over her daughters that they see themselves as becoming old unmarried, maids. Jodie has...

The Miracle Club (2023) 6j3a1t
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the...

Sinful Davey (1969) 684v3p
A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood friend is equally...

Albert Nobbs (2011) 212o23
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...

Moll Flanders (1996) 3g1eu
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest...

The Sound and the Silence: The Alexander Graham Bell Story (1993) 6j4o15
True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.

Journey (1995) b626e
Deserted by their mother, a young boy and his sister discover the true meaning of family while living with their grandfather.

Licking Hitler (1978) 1u734w
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But...

Deadly (2014) 6p6b4q
Deadly tells the story of Boney, a working stiff who doesn’t care about his dead-end job. That is until, he has a run-in with a spirited old...

Trauma (2004) 72a56
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out...

Milk (2005) 6x2v6d
Reluctant Jennifer must bathe her mischievous grandmother. Once close, they are now virtually strangers. The enforced intimacy of the situation...
The Virgins (1974) 4m5s1
Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryder can't shatter their celibacy.

Exploits at West Poley (1985) 1t2p2r
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.

Out of Ireland: The Story of Irish Emigration to America (1994) 1v3l3q
Originally broadcast to critical acclaim on PBS, this documentary traces the story of flight from the famine-swept villages of 19th century Ireland...

Bloody Kids (1980) 2t5a5r
Two boys pull a Saturday night prank on the police in a seaside British town.

The Intended (2002) 1l324t
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory...

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) 2v45j
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite...
Resurrection (1999) 441z2f
After a woman is crippled in an auto accident which killed her husband, she suddenly develops the powers to heal. First she uses the power to heal...

Swann (1997) 354xo
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an...

The American (1998) 2wv4t
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to is search of cultural treasures. He won't get...

The Woman Who Married Clark Gable (1985) 571t26
Period drama. A woman living in Dublin in the late 1930's relieves her humdrum existence with fantasies that her newly-moustachioed husband is her...

Durango (1999) 1uf3g
In 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.

I Was a Rat (2001) m5v6l
A little boy found wandering the streets is taken in by Bob and Joan, a kindly couple. The boy is cold, wet and desperate for shelter, but Bob and...

Stone of Destiny (2008) 2e3n5x
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled...

Your Man from Six Counties (1976) 715p59
When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the...

Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of...

The Swallow (2024) z691i
In a small house, on the Irish coast, a woman writes a letter to an unknown correspondent. She ponders the evanescence of memory and art. Her home...

Out of Ireland (1995) 2b4i2q
Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for America's shores. In just one horrifying decade,...

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) 4q1m35
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

Angels (1975) 5p4x5m
Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus...

Play for Today (1970) 153d1z
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...
Black and Blue (1973) 5u3mi
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. It was so named because of the black and blue humour. The show consisted...

BBC Play of the Month (1965) w6040
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on...

The Oscars (1953) 1tf4g
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

Cam Boy (2021) 1f2mo
When Aston finds himself left to his own devices with bills to pay while his boyfriend is in New York, he turns to camming to make ends meet.

Casualty (1986) 71159
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...
Eh Brian! It's A Whopper (1984) c2f2l
The adventures of a motley gang of fishing enthusiasts

Beautiful People (2008) 375u5m
Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys creative director Simon Doonan. The series takes place...

Holding (2022) 122c2e
Local police officer Sergeant PJ Collins is a gentle man who hides from people and fills his days with comfort food and half-hearted police work. He...

Relative Strangers (1999) 435173
Maureen is an Irishwoman, happily married and living in . Or so she thinks. When her husband dies, she finds that not only had he debts, but...

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) 4q1m35
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) 4q1m35
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

The Gathering Seed (1983) 1q3259
The saga of Manchester lad Joe Henshaw, a story that takes in family life, the trials and tribulations of the Labour movement and World War Two

No Tears (2002) 336a5t
Based on the hepatitis C scandal that rocked Ireland in the mid-1990s. Two very different women discover that they have been infected with hepatitis...

Seekers (1993) z4446
Seekers is a four-part TV mini-series released in 1992 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers......

The Catch (2023) 1p3yn
The story follows fisherman Ed Collier, who is highly protective over his family, which includes wife Claire and daughter Abbie. However, when a rich...

Brides of Christ (1991) 2a6h6s
Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to a convent after being sure she has a calling...
I Was a Rat (2001) m5v6l
I Was a Rat is a UK children's drama series broadcast on BBC One in autumn 2001 based on the popular children's book I Was a Rat! or The Scarlet...

Quatermass (1979) 6pe1e
In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.

A Woman of Independent Means (1995) 6f2u25
Bess Steed marries her childhood sweetheart in the early part of the 20th century and begins a life in the high society of Dallas, Texas. As time...