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Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August 1958) is an actor from Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards.

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Kiss Me, Kate (2024)

Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work tog ...

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A Sudden Case of Christmas (2024)

An American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence's hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it's August. The fact is they are breaking up, and once Claire realizes there's not goin ...

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Emily (2022)

The imagined life of one of the world's most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; he ...

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Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett (2019)

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot. ...

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Lost Lives (2019)

This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland. ...

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The Snowman (2017)

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman. ...

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Two Angry Men (2016)

Short film telling the story of James Ellis and Sam Thompson as they battle against the establishment to stage a controversial play in Belfast in 1959. ...

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Walter (2014)

DI Walter Gambon is a self-styled "Yoda of the force", whose workload suddenly increases when he's handed the cases of an officer who committed suicide by throwing himself under a Tube train. Or was he pushed? Gambon must work out whether his former collea ...

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The Attendant (2012)

Frankie is a car park attendant at the spectacular Giant's Causeway in Co. Antrim. His friend Cathy and her husband Paul are in trouble. Nevertheless as Frankie always says, "Something will turn up! ...

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Good Vibrations (2012)

The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts. ...

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Hideaways (2011)

The elder one of each generation in the Furlong family is equipped with an extraordinary capacity. James discovers the nature of his at the time of an accident which causes the death of his father and his grandmother. Haunted by this mysterious evil he hid ...

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Mother's Milk (2011)

An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence. ...

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Mo (2010)

A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam. ...

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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2009)

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce. ...

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Act of God (2009)

When a heart surgeon chooses to save one female patient's life over another, her boyfriend looks for revenge. ...

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Tailwind (2009)

During World War 2, Northern Ireland served a crucial part in airforce operations against the Axis, used as a base for Allied nations across the world. Combining contemporary footage and interviews with veterans who served in the Ulster Province, John T Da ...

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Eye of the Dolphin (2007)

Alyssa is a troubled 14-year old, suspended from school a year after her mother has drowned. Her grandmother Lucy, at wit's end, decides to take Alyssa to her father, James, whom Alyssa thought was dead for years. He studies dolphin communication at Smith' ...

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Child of Mine (2005)

A child psychologist adopted two girls whose mother was murdered, but when one begins acting strangely, fear drives her to the crime scene for answer. ...

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The Quatermass Experiment (2005)

Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save huma ...

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Mickybo and Me (2005)

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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Kidnapped (2005)

15-year-old Davie Balfour is poised to receive a vast inheritance when he's lured onto a cargo ship, knocked unconscious, and kidnapped by his malevolent uncle Ebenezer, who devises a scheme to sell him into slavery. But Davie's unforeseen rescue at the ha ...

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Car Crash: The Delorean Story (2004)

Former General Motors high-flyer John DeLorean had a plan to build a stylish European sports car, at a price that would make it attractive to the American market. The site he chose for his state-of-the-art factory was on the outskirts of Belfast, a city be ...

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Triggermen (2002)

Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend they are the hitmen but soon find they get more than they bargained for when the real ones turn up. ...

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Shooters (2002)

Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds from t ...

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How Harry Became a Tree (2001)

Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most of the businesses in the area, but is also th ...

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Wild About Harry (2000)

A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again. ...

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Tough Love (2000)

DC Lenny Milton (Winstone) is not as ambitious as his best friend and popular boss DCI Michael Love (Dunbar), but the pair are drinking partners and their wives and children are close. However, this goes very wrong over the space of 7 days, when Milton is ...

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The Wedding Tackle (2000)

The sexual rivalries between a group of friends cause comic chaos during a stag night celebration. ...

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The General (1998)

The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team. ...

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The Near Room (1997)

Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in a ...

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Richard III (1995)

A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, ...

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Cruel Train (1995)

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfather. With her assistance, Ruben plots murder on the Brighton Express. ...

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Innocent Lies (1995)

In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of ...

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Pleasure (1994)

Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bor ...

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The Blue Boy (1994)

Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe, is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways." There, Marie is told the story of a young boy who drowned in a ...

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Widows' Peak (1994)

Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. ...

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A Statement of Affairs (1993)

A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the question - were they murdered or did they commit suicide? ...

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The Crying Game (1992)

Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when ...

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The Playboys (1992)

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 (Alber ...

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Hear My Song (1991)

Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O'Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ...

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Children of the North (1991)

The murders of two MI6 agents in Northern Ireland add up to an explosive political situation. ...

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Force of Duty (1991)

RUC detective Simon Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. ...

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A Box of Swan (1990)

A moving and unusual film about a young man who returns to his Liverpool roots for his father's funeral. ...

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The Wake (1990)

Alone after her mother's funeral, Frances relives the tangle of emotions between her husband, her mother and herself. ...

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Drowning in the Shallow End (1990)

Nothing seems to go right for Colin, no matter how he tries. No one is offering him writing work, and his marriage is disintegrating. Why can't he be smooth and confident as he imagines other men to be? ...

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The Englishman's Wife (1990)

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. ...

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Dealers (1989)

The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide by putting a slug through his head while seated at his place in the ...

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

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 and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his le ...

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The Four Minute Mile (1988)

A dramatization of the race to the four-minute mile. ...

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The Dawning (1988)

An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause. ...

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Reasonable Force (1988)

In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable? ...

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Sky Bandits (1986)

A pair of old west cowboys become fighter pilots in World War I. ...

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The Price (1985)

Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his financ ...

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The Cry (1984)

Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indif ...

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The Long March (1980)

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest. ...

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Movies Made By Adrian Dunbar (2)

The Near Room (1997)

Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in a ...

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Hear My Song (1991)

Singer Josef Locke fled to Ireland 25 years ago to escape the clutches of the tax man and police Chief Jim Abbott. What he also left behind was the love of his life Cathleen Doyle. Now, Micky O'Neill is desperate to save both his ailing Liverpool nightclub ...

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