John Lynch

John Lynch
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Actor), 2 (Writer)
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Conspiracy of Silence
Set in modern day Ireland and ripped from today's headlines, Conspiracy of Silence is a controversial thriller that dares to ask the question - how far will the Catholic Church go to cover-up its own corruption? (Watch Entertainment)
Evelyn
This story of an Irish man's fight to keep his family intact is an uplifting testament to a father's love and the power of the human spirit. (MGM)
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Sliding Doors
Young Helen is fired from her job at a PR company, and when the sliding doors of the tube car close on her, we start to see what would have happened if she'd made the train, and if she hadn't. (imdb)
+17
Some Mother\
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war (imdb)
+3
In the Name of the Father
Nominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people. As if a forced confession weren't enough injustice, the police work to implicate Conlon's father (Pete Postlethwaite) in the same crime. Emma Thompson plays the lawyer who worked for years to uncover the truth.
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The Secret of Roan Inish
10 year old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland... (imdb)
+11
Hardware
A wandering soldier finds a robot head in the post-apocalyptic desert. He brings it back to his girlfriend for use in one of her sculptures... (imdb)
The Secret Garden
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle... (imdb)
+3
Moll Flanders
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother... (imdb)
Nothing Personal
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic. (imdb)
Lassie
The film is set on the eve of World War II in a Yorkshire mining town. After falling on hard times, the Carraclough family is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog, to the Duke of Rudling. When she succeeds in escaping her cage, Lassie finds herself transported five hundred miles away to the Duke's remote castle on the northern coast of Scotland. However, she is determined to defy the odds and return to the home she loves... (imdb)
Isolation
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong. (imdb)
Alien Hunter
In 1947, in New Mexico, a radio operator receives a signal following patterns and while investigating the occurrence, he vanishes. In the present days, the same signal is transmitted from a base in Malvinas Island to United States of America, and a satellite captures images of a unknown object in Antartic. The cryptologist Julien Rome (James Spader) is invited to investigate the mystery in the South Pole... (imdb)
+8
Edward II
Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favor in bed even to wield political influence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon. (imdb)
+8
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love\
Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin arrive in Ireland in April 1916 on their way to London where they plan to join the Belgian Army. In order to raise enough money for their fare to England, they both start get a job at a local pub. Here Indy meets struggling play wight Sean O'Casey and soon impresses two Irish girls who think he's an American millionaire traveling the world. When they finally arrive in London, Indiana meets a spunky female bus conductor named Vicky Prentiss. (imdb)
Puckoon
Puckoon is an Irish village that gets caught up in an argument about where the border separating Northern Ireland from Ireland should be. Keen to get the matter sorted before the pubs close, a random borderline is wrestled on the map of Ireland and Puckoon gets divided as well - literally. (imdb)
In Tranzit
The film tells the story of German prisoners of war who are mistakenly taken to a Russian transit women's prison, which temporarily contains women before they are sent to the Gulag. The prison's wardens are women, who want to take revenge of the German soldiers who killed their loved ones during the war. As time passes, the female wardens overcome their hatred for the prisoners and begin to treat them as ordinary people, including engaging in intimate relationships with them.
+9
The Tournament
Every seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself carries the legendary million dollar a bullet price tag. (imdb)
+7
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 people, and its decline seems inexorable. When local Postie, Podger Byrnes, comes up with a plan to hijack a consignment of Viagra, and sell it on the open market in Amsterdam, his friends are desperate enough to try it...
Black Death
The bubonic plague is sweeping over England and a young monk is given the task of leading a knight and his men to a village not touched by the scourge in an effort to find and hunt down a necromancer.
+8
Mo
Mo (2010) - TV Movie
The life and times of British politician Mo Mowlam, the darling of the Northern Ireland peace process and one of the foremost members of the New Labour movement, as she struggles with political strife and a life-threatening brain tumour.
+1
Cal
Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
This Is the Sea
The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings. (imdb)
The Quarry
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. (imdb)
Best
The life story of former Manchester United football legend, George Best. (imdb)
Ghosted
Jack is a model prisoner, keeping his nose clean and serving his time, but on the anniversary of his young son's death, he receives a devastating blow as his wife ends their marriage. Paul is the new kid on the block who quickly falls under the influence of psychotic "Baron" Clay. Jack must risk his own life and sanity to help the newcomer, but can he save Paul and himself in the process? (rottentomatoes.com)
Angel Baby
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall passionately in love. Ahead of them lies the inevitable road to disaster...one they share to the end. (imdb)
Möbius
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman, who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
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The Hot Potato
London's East End 1969. Based on real events. Two chancers 'find' a lump of Uranium and crisscross Europe to find a buyer. Accompanied by Danny's girl,the lovely Carole. They encounter a diverse cast of bizarre characters, all trying to steal the 'Hot Potato', but a deal agreed inside the Vatican has the co-conspirators confounding each other. The story twists and turns to an exciting and unexpected finale. (imdb)
The Hybrid
An elite team of mercenaries is hired for a covert operation, deep inside a former Soviet state. Arriving at an underground laboratory, their mission is to secure specimens of genetically engineered human and alien hybrids. Battling with a ferocious armed militia as well as dark, menacing creatures, the odds of survival are stacked against them. (imdb)
The Nativity
The Nativity (2010) - TV Mini-Series
British four-part drama television series. The series is a re-telling of the Nativity of Jesus (en.wikipedia.org)
+2
The Fall
The Fall (2013) - TV Series
A psychological thriller that examines the lives of two hunters. One is a serial killer who stalks his victims in and around Belfast and the other is a talented Detective Superintendent from the MET who is brought in to catch him.
Private Peaceful
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
+7
Detour
A young law student blindly enters into a pact with a man who offers to kill his stepfather, whom he feels is responsible for the accident that sent his mother into a coma.
The Assets
The Assets (2014) - TV Mini-Series
CIA counter-intelligence officer Sandy Grimes works to save Soviet intelligence officers from being exposed by a mole inside her organization. (imdb)
One of Us
One of Us (2016) - TV Mini-Series
A horrific murder rocks the lives of two families living side-by-side in isolated rural Scotland. (imdb)
Pilgrimage
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril. (imdb)
+6
The Passion
The Passion (2008) - TV Mini-Series
The last week in the life of Jesus.
Tin Star
Tin Star (2017) - TV Series
A British Police Officer becomes the New Chief of Police and moves his family to the Canadian Rockies. But as new faces appear around the sleepy town and a sudden big Oil Company and the promise of big money coming in, the small Canadian town begins to see violence and crime erupt. After tragedy strikes, secrets emerge and the fight begins. Welcome to Little Big Bear. (imdb)
Paul, Apostle of Christ
Paul goes from being the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle.
Five Day Shelter
A drama interweaving the lives of several characters in a contemporary urban setting over five days. All the characters live untenable existences of quiet desperation. It is only by letting go of the lies they've forced themselves to live that they can ultimately find release. They can then connect with the beauty and the poetry to which their numbing routines have made them blind. (imdb)
Numéro Une
A high executive is asked if she'd like to be the first female CEO in a water company, ruled by the government. But she'll not be the only one running for the job. She'll face some hard and dirty competition. (imdb)
The Banishing
The Banishing tells the story of the most haunted house in England. In the 1930s, a young reverend, his wife and daughter move into a manor with a horrifying secret. (imdb)
+7
The Head
The Head (2020) - TV Series
Winter has fallen on the South Pole. A small team, known as the Winterers, will remain at the Polaris VI Antarctic Research Station to continue their innovative research, a crucial part in the fight against climate change.
1871
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
The Watchers
Follows Mina, a 28-year-old artist, as she gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland. After finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night. (imdb)
+7
Chimera
Chimera (1991) - TV Mini-Series
A journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of a man and an ape. (imdb)
Sew Torn
A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way. (imdb)
+2