Stanley Townsend
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1961-08-20
Locus Natus: Dublin, Ireland
Et ut:
Happy-Go-Lucky
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
release : 2008.04.18popularis : 9.053
The Nativity Story
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and...
release : 2006.11.30popularis : 14.553
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
Wondrous Oblivion
David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the...
release : 2004.04.23popularis : 4.626
Dot.Kill
Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As...
release : 2005.03.08popularis : 6.753
Isolation
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
release : 2005.09.10popularis : 8.998
Flawless
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
release : 2007.09.01popularis : 17.726
Altmann's Tongue
A rare adaptation of a short story by cult American Horror Author Brian Evenson. The action involves three misfit characters who gather in a wood...
release : 2000.05.02popularis : 1.086
National Theatre Live: Phèdre
A new English adaptation of the classic French tragedy Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-1699). It retells the ancient Greek tale of the wife of the...
release : 2009.06.25popularis : 1.427
Holy Water
The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its...
release : 2009.07.01popularis : 8.369
Monsieur N.
This film covers the last years of the Emperor's life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon...
release : 2003.01.15popularis : 2.767
Killing Bono
The true story of Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2...
release : 2011.04.01popularis : 5.836
My Friend Joe
During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they...
release : 1996.08.29popularis : 1.024
Mystics
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
release : 2003.12.12popularis : 2.405
The Pizza Miracle
A pizza chef's death causes his son to reconsider their relationship.
release : 2010.06.18popularis : 1.828
The Miracle
Two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild...
release : 1991.04.05popularis : 3.817
Burton and Taylor
Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."
release : 2013.07.22popularis : 2.457
Phil Lynott: The Long Goodbye
Philip Parris Lynott took the world by storm when he dominated the stage with his most notable rock band Thin Lizzy. The Irish frontman battled his...
release : 2022.02.01popularis : 2.55
Psychomanteum
A portmanteau style feature length film made up of several very different short horror films shot in the UK.
release : 2018.07.26popularis : 2.079
Lovely Louise
André, 55, lives with his mother Louise, 80, and leads an unspectacular life. He works as a taxi driver while the elderly diva dreams of...
release : 2013.09.05popularis : 3.264
The Teacher
A Palestinian schoolteacher struggles to reconcile his risky commitment to political resistance with the chance of a new relationship with a...
release : 2024.05.16popularis : 7.206
Taffin
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all out war.
release : 1988.02.26popularis : 4.162
Standby
Twenty-something Alan (Gleeson) is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his...
release : 2014.11.14popularis : 3.838
The Voices
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving...
release : 2014.01.19popularis : 35.678
Cars 2
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes...
release : 2011.06.11popularis : 69.847
Rat
After a night of drinking Guiness at the local watering hole, an ordinary, working-class, family man in Dublin's life is turned upside-down when he...
release : 2001.04.01popularis : 2.772
Beyond Reason
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 0.564
In the Name of the Father
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He...
release : 1993.12.12popularis : 16.636
The Physician
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many...
release : 2013.12.25popularis : 23.287
Fallen
Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to...
release : 2004.11.30popularis : 0.892
Hilde
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
release : 2009.03.11popularis : 7.095
Byron
Life and adventures of lord George Gordon Byron. BBC dramatization of the poet's final thirteen years
release : 2003.09.27popularis : 3.774
Florence Foster Jenkins
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
release : 2016.05.06popularis : 10.951
Station Jim
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon...
release : 2001.12.30popularis : 2.292
What a Girl Wants
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother,...
release : 2003.03.27popularis : 21.987
Omagh
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...
release : 2005.03.23popularis : 2.546
National Theatre Live: King Lear
An aged king decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him. His favourite,...
release : 2014.05.01popularis : 2.452
National Theatre Live: All About Eve
The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan....
release : 2019.03.11popularis : 3.641
The Van
In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips...
release : 1996.11.29popularis : 8.128
The Snapper
Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the...
release : 1993.08.06popularis : 6.907
Inside I'm Dancing
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...
release : 2004.10.15popularis : 9.961
The Current War
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
release : 2018.02.01popularis : 10.679
One Chance
This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by...
release : 2013.09.09popularis : 7.011
A Girl From Mogadishu
The story of the life and times of Ifrah Ahmed, Somali-Irish campaigner against female genital mutilation and cutting.
release : 2019.11.14popularis : 4.504
The Song of Names
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the...
release : 2019.12.25popularis : 10.132
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar
On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.
release : 2019.12.15popularis : 16.194
Saddam's Tribe
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 brought a dramatic end to Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. But behind the headlines lay an even more extraordinary story...
release : 2007.05.09popularis : 0.795