Biography: James Nesbitt |
Born and raised in Northern Ireland, actor James Nesbitt didn't plan on becoming an actor until a teacher suggested he join the theater. Since then, he has gone on to appear in many international feature films set in Ireland, but he is mostly known as... more
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Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 90min
Oliver Hirschbiegel, director of Das Experiment and The Invasion, takes the helm for this film about a killer who dares not seek forgiveness, and another who feels incapable of granting it. The political divide in Ireland runs as far as it does deep....
Cast: Rupert Grint
Tags: Teen Movie Drama
Length: 85min
Tags: Thriller Psychological Thriller
Length: 328min
Robert Louis Stevenson's influential tale of terror gets a modern re-imagining in this limited BBC series penned by Steven Moffat (Dr. Who, Coupling) and starring James Nesbitt. The year is 2007, and Dr. Tom Jackson (Nesbitt) just can't seem to reign...
Cast: Danny Boyle
Tags: Adventure Comedy Comedy Drama Childhood Drama
Length: 97min
Director Danny Boyle revisits a theme from his Shallow Grave and Trainspotting days -- greed -- but focuses on a much younger protagonist with this comedy drama. Millions opens with recent widower Ronnie (James Nesbitt) moving his two precocious...
Cast: Paul Greengrass Jim Sheridan
Tags: Drama Political Drama Docudrama
Length: 107min
Paul Greengrass (The Theory of Flight) wrote and directed this powerful look at January 30, 1972 -- better known as "Bloody Sunday." Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt) attempts to organize a peaceful protest after Protestant leaders imprison Catholics...
Cast: Timothy Spall Olivia Williams Christopher Plummer Bill Nighy Stephen Fry
Tags: Prison Film Comedy Comedy of Manners
Length: 107min
The first feature by director Peter Cattaneo since his award-winning British smash hit The Full Monty, Lucky Break is another comedy in the same mold, this time taking place in prison. Small-time crooks Jimmy (James Nesbitt) and Rudy (Lennie James),...
The Most Fertile Man In Ireland (2001)
Tags: Comedy Sex Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 91min
Fate turns the most lovelorn man in Belfast into a sexual dynamo in this eccentric comedy. Eamonn (Kris Marshall) is a physically unimpressive and socially inept 24-year-old virgin who lives in Belfast with his mother (Olivia Nash), who conceived...
Cast: Amanda Donohoe Brendan Gleeson George Wendt
Length: 90min
A woman who wants to get rid of her husband has second thoughts when he's suddenly not the man he once was in this romantic comedy shot in Ireland. Harry McKee (Brendan Gleeson) is the host of a long-running television series called "What's Cooking?"...
Cast: Ian Bannen Susan Lynch Fionnula Flanagan
Tags: Comedy Comedy of Errors
Length: 90min
Just as the charming British film The Full Monty told the story of simple men willing to shed their clothes for money, Waking Ned Devine is the story of older Irish men who pursue money and take off their clothes. Commercial director Kirk Jones makes...
Cast: Michael Winterbottom Brenda Fricker John Hannah Stuart Townsend
Tags: Crime Thriller Drama
Length: 100min
Eoin McNamee based the screenplay for this drama on his own novel, which was itself based on real-life Protestant paramilitaries known as "The Shankill Butchers," who used the cover of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland to mask their often...
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