T. P. McKenna
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1929-09-07
Locus Natus: Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
Et ut: T.P. McKenna
Straw Dogs
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David...
release : 1971.11.25popularis : 12.275
Villain
In 1970s London, Scotland Yard orchestrates the downfall of mob boss Vic Dakin after he crosses the line by blackmailing Members of Parliament.
release : 1971.05.26popularis : 4.87
Red Scorpion
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians...
release : 1988.12.24popularis : 11.124
Percy's Progress
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
release : 1974.08.01popularis : 2.647
Girl with Green Eyes
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
release : 1964.05.14popularis : 2.845
The Beast in the Cellar
Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes ...
release : 1970.08.01popularis : 3.449
Perfect Friday
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady...
release : 1970.11.10popularis : 4.551
Ferry Cross the Mersey
Gerry and Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves in a romp through the early-1960s Liverpool Beat Scene. Art students...
release : 1965.02.10popularis : 2.274
Beasts: Baby
A young couple move to the countryside and discover a strange mummified animal in the wall of their cottage. The wife increasingly feels that she and...
release : 1976.11.06popularis : 3.068
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures...
release : 1977.09.01popularis : 2.075
Young Cassidy
In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family,...
release : 1965.02.25popularis : 3.365
Ulysses
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship...
release : 1967.03.14popularis : 3.658
Deirdre
The ancient story of the ill-fated Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach. Building on the many earlier literary retellings of the story, W. B. Yeats...
release : 1965.01.01popularis : 1.166
The Rivals
The play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
release : 1970.05.17popularis : 2.849
Monarch
From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler...
release : 2000.10.08popularis : 3.213
Freedom to Die
Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the...
release : 1961.01.01popularis : 2.323
Random Moments in a May Garden
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
release : 1981.05.22popularis : 1.124
Shoot to Kill
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six...
release : 1990.06.03popularis : 2.414
Blood of the Lamb
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic...
release : 1969.12.03popularis : 1.876
Events at Drimaghleen
The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary...
release : 1991.07.17popularis : 1.18
Anne of the Thousand Days
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
release : 1969.12.18popularis : 10.865
The Doctor and the Devils
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple...
release : 1985.10.04popularis : 7.455
A Warm December
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself...
release : 1973.05.23popularis : 1.79
Love Lies Bleeding
Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set against the backdrop of a dinner party. The guests are...
release : 1977.07.12popularis : 3.582
Crimes
2002: In a paranoid UK, with the threat of nuclear war ever closer and prisons full to bursting, four convicts tell of the ‘crimes’ they...
release : 1982.04.13popularis : 0.893
Give Us a Break: Hustle Bustle Toil and Muscle
Mickey and Mo head to Liverpool for the chance of a big score
release : 1984.12.31popularis : 1.263
Unreported Incident
Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably...
release : 1988.02.23popularis : 1.595
Exposure
Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel...
release : 1978.11.28popularis : 0.89
A Child's Voice
A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story,...
release : 1978.10.13popularis : 1.743
Downfall
Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young wife
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 1.803
The Siege of Sidney Street
A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.
release : 1960.10.11popularis : 3.11
The 5th Day of Peace
Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel...
release : 1970.04.17popularis : 3.297
Strong Medicine
TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 1.748
The Law Lord
A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment...
release : 1992.03.22popularis : 1.352
Valmont
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that...
release : 1989.11.17popularis : 9.405
The Scarlet and the Black
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families....
release : 1983.02.02popularis : 7.227
The Changeling
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. ...
release : 1974.01.20popularis : 1.749
To the Lighthouse
A faithful dramatization of Virginia Woolf's novel. A lecturer, his family, the spinster Aunt Lily, an old friend, and a student, Charles Tansley,...
release : 1983.03.22popularis : 2.756
Pascali's Island
1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who...
release : 1988.07.22popularis : 2.503
Longitude
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.
release : 2000.01.02popularis : 9.972
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
The Doctor and Ace head for the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they meet a disparate group of performers and visitors, including a...
release : 1988.12.14popularis : 1.085
Silver Dream Racer
David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is...
release : 1980.06.13popularis : 4.35
The Charge of the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an...
release : 1968.04.10popularis : 7.522
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his...
release : 1975.07.27popularis : 4.055
Memed My Hawk
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the...
release : 1984.05.10popularis : 2.208
The Libertine
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn...
release : 2004.09.16popularis : 10.29
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
release : 2003.09.12popularis : 8.016
Percy
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the...
release : 1971.02.18popularis : 3.419
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major...
release : 1989.12.25popularis : 6.027
The Outsider
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus...
release : 1980.06.02popularis : 6.693
The Quare Fellow
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in...
release : 1962.10.02popularis : 7.112
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."
release : 2003.03.08popularis : 1.253
Stones
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
release : 1976.10.27popularis : 1.092
Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative...
release : 1982.05.27popularis : 6.024
Moving on the Edge
A woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.
release : 1984.03.06popularis : 1.419
Pasmore
Colin Pasmore tests his strength against his family ties but finds them stronger than he ever imagined.
release : 1980.10.21popularis : 0.813
Lady Killer
A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
release : 1973.01.18popularis : 3.83
The Next Victim
A woman confined to a wheelchair is terrorized by a killer.
release : 1975.09.23popularis : 4.26