13 Movies Starring Colm Meaney

The Snapper

The Snapper

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1993-12-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (4739 Reviews)

Director:

Stephen Frears

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Roddy Doyle (novel)

Roddy Doyle (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set in Ireland, Sharon Curley is a 20 year old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters. When she gets herself pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1995-05-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (12793 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Ifor David Monger (story)

Christopher Monger

Fullplot:

Two English cartographers visit the small South Wales village of Ffynnon Garw, to measure what is claimed to be the "first mountain inside of Wales". It's 1917, and the war in Europe continues. The villagers are very proud of their "mountain", and are understandably disappointed and furious to find that it is in fact a "hill". Not to be outwitted by a rule (and the Englishmen who enforce it), the villagers set out to make their hill into a mountain, but to do so they must keep the English from leaving, before the job is done.

The Van

The Van

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-05-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Ireland, USA

Runtime:

100 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3268 Reviews)

Director:

Stephen Frears

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Roddy Doyle (novel)

Roddy Doyle (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The third installment of Irish author Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown Trilogy', following 'The Commitments' and 'The Snapper', depicts the hilarious yet poignant adventures of Bimbo. Upon being fired from his job at the bakery, Bimbo and his best mate go into business for themselves and purchase a chipper (a fish and chips van); but will the pressures of financial success sour their friendship forever?

Con Air

Con Air

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-06-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (209572 Reviews)

Director:

Simon West

Fullplot:

Cameron Poe, a highly decorated United States Army Ranger, came home to Alabama to his wife, Tricia, only to run into a few drunken regulars where Tricia works. Cameron unknowingly kills one of the drunks and is sent to a federal penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter for seven years. Cameron becomes eligible for parole and can now go home to his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the country's most dangerous criminals, who took control of the plane and are now planning to escape the country. Cameron has to find a way to stop them while playing along. Meanwhile, United States Marshal Vincent Larkin is trying to help Cameron get free and stop the criminals, including Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.

This Is My Father

This Is My Father

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-05-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, Canada

Runtime:

119 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1492 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Quinn

Genres:

RomanceDrama

Fullplot:

Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown of Kilronan, County Galway, Ireland after he discovers an old photograph of her, she who now cannot speak due to a stroke, with a man he has never seen. He suspects this man may be his biological father. On the urging of his sister, Kieran takes his teen-aged nephew Jack on the trip. In Kilronan, Mrs. Kearney, the innkeeper's mother and a bit of a gypsy woman who has lived in the area for the better part of her life, tells Kieran and Jack about life in the town in 1939 when a high-spirited Fiona Flynn, Kieran's mother, started seeing a peat farmer named Kieran O'Day. Kieran O'Day grew up a "poorhouse bastard", and as such he was always shy and considered an outsider amongst the townsfolk. Because of his standing in the community and the differences in their ages (she being only seventeen, he in his thirties), Fiona and Kieran's relationship was looked down upon by those considered the upstanding in town, including Fiona's widowed mother, Mary Flynn, and those associated with the church. Mrs. Kearney slowly tells the entire story of Kieran and Fiona's relationship, the tragedy that prevented their love for not being enough to endure the scrutiny, the stories of the "curses" that befell the Flynn family, and the truth behind the person Kieran Johnson knew as his father.

Claire Dolan

Claire Dolan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-11-18

Languages:

French, English

Countries:

USA, France

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (1094 Reviews)

Director:

Lodge Kerrigan

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Claire Dolan is an Irish immigrant, working as a Manhattan call girl, paying off a debt she owes her pimp, Roland Cain. She's almost without affect, much like the sterile, glass-and-concrete high-rises where she lives and works. Violence lurks just below the surface. Cain can be menacing as are men who approach her. When her mother dies, Claire tries to escape the life, moving to Newark, visiting a cousin, working as a manicurist, realizing that she wants to have a baby, and going out a couple of times with a cabby. But Cain finds her and insists on payment, so she returns to Manhattan. The cabby wants to help: can Claire leave prostitution and find happiness in motherhood?

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-11-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA, Germany

Runtime:

139 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (2865 Reviews)

Director:

John Henderson

Fullplot:

American businessman Jack Woods rents a cottage on the enchanted Emerald Isle which is occupied by a family of leprechauns. Leprechaun Seamus Muldoon's son and son's friends crash the fairies' costume ball and Muldoon's son falls in love with fairy Princess Jessica. Their love re-ignites a feud between the leprechauns and the fairies, which escalates into a war. The Grand Banshee warns of terrible consequences and Jack Woods is chosen to make peace. Woods interrupts his own romance with an Irish beauty to help, and becomes involved in a strange and wonderful magical adventure.

Alan Partridge

Alan Partridge

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-02-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, France

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(22362 Reviews)

Director:

Declan Lowney

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Baynham (based upon characters created by)

Peter Baynham (screenplay)

Steve Coogan (based upon characters created by)

Steve Coogan (screenplay)

Neil Gibbons (screenplay)

Rob Gibbons (screenplay)

Armando Iannucci (based upon characters created by)

Armando Iannucci (screenplay)

Patrick Marber (based upon characters created by)

Fullplot:

Radio DJ Alan Partridge is facing uncertain times with his radio station being taken over by a corporate conglomerate. He makes things worse when he talks down a colleague after a promise to talk him up. The colleague handles things badly and takes the radio station into his own hands, literally, by taking them all hostage. Envisioning all his action heroes in his head, Alan is going to save the day by becoming a go-between for the Scotland Yard. His method though will put himself and others in harm's way because Alan Partridge just can't keep his mouth shut.

A Deal Is a Deal

A Deal Is a Deal

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-04-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1724 Reviews)

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Paul is a London tube driver with dreams of a cottage in a bee-loud glade. He's told that if his train strikes and kills one more person this month, he'll get a large severance, enough for the cottage. So he offers è1500 to Tommy Cassidy, a down-and-out Irishman, if Tommy will walk in front of Paul's train come Monday. He gives Tommy the cash on Friday. Wanting to ensure that Tommy honors the deal, Paul accompanies a cleaned-up Tommy on his trip (in a new suit and a hired car) to make things right with family he hasn't seen in eight years. Can Tommy, an inveterate gambler, make anything come out right? And what about Paul - can this suicide pact fulfill his dreams?

One Chance

One Chance

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-10-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (6334 Reviews)

Director:

David Frankel

Cast:

Writer:

Justin Zackham (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for -- and ultimately winning -- Britain's Got Talent (2007).

Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-10-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

109 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (200068 Reviews)

Director:

F. Gary Gray

Fullplot:

Clyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. The ones responsible are caught. However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence. So he decides to get one of them to testify against the other. When Shelton learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, the one who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong; his execution goes awry and he suffers. They learn that someone tampered with the machine. And the other one is found dead, killed in a gruesome manner. Rice suspects Shelton, so he has him picked up. At first, Shelton agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but changes his mind. It appears that Shelton is not done, it appears he blames the whole system and is declaring war on it going after everyone involved with his family's case. So Rice has to stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him.

The Damned United

The Damned United

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-03-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (29550 Reviews)

Director:

Tom Hooper

Cast:

Writer:

Peter Morgan (screenplay)

David Peace (novel)

Fullplot:

Taking over England's top football club Leeds United, previously successful manager Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor who has loyally stayed with Brighton & Hove Albion.

Parked

Parked

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-11-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

Ireland, Finland

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (1389 Reviews)

Director:

Darragh Byrne

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.

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