Sean McGinley

Sean McGinley
Total Credits at Criticker: 23 (Actor)
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The Claim
A raw, romantic tale of stark beauty and primal authenticity about how dreams collided with greed in the making of California.
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The Closer You Get
A group of bachelors in a shrinking village on Ireland's craggy Donegal coast scheme to entice American beauties to the village. When their plan goes awry, the result is an unexpected round of romances with the least likely of women -- the one's who've been right in front of them all along. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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)
Freeze Frame
A fast-moving, contemporary thriller with a deep and disturbing resonance for the paranoid world in which we currently find ourselves. (Universal)
On a Clear Day
This inspirational drama illustrates how when you aspire to something extraordinary, you can find the hero within. When Glasgow shipbuilder Frank Redmond is suddenly laid off, he finds himself without a job or a sense of direction. An offhand remark from a friend inspires Frank to challenge himself. Determined to shore up his own self-confidence, he will attempt the near-impossible -- swimming the English Channel. (Focus Features)
The Butcher Boy
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. Unfortunately, one tragedy after another, Francie's world sinks deeper and deeper into paranoia and fantasy.
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The General
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the IRA, the UVF and members of his own team. (imdb)
48 Angels
Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail. On his quest he encounters James and Darry. Despite initial conflict, the trio decide to stay together and enter upon a journey that results in the healing of hearts and minds. (imdb)
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The Tiger\
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself. (imdb)
The Informant
A young IRA member is forced to turn informant on his comrades when he is caught in an assassination attempt on a judge. (imdb)
The Mighty Celt
Young boy trains a beloved greyhound for racing in this coming of age film.
Man About Dog
A road movie about irish man and their dog.
Watermelon
A woman (Anna Friel) retreats to her hometown to contemplate her future after her lover learns he is not the father of her baby and leaves her. (reelzchannel)
What Where
What Where (2000) - Short Film
There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have said where. What Bam means is unclear, but he distrusts all. (imdb)
Simon Magus
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid asks the 'Squire' to sell him some land so he can build a railway station, a ruthless businessman from the neighbouring gentile community uses Simon to find out who wants to buy the land so he can 'persuade' him otherwise. (imdb)
Family
Family (1994) - TV Mini-Series
Four-part drama about a working class Dublin family with an abusive, drunken father. Each episode is seen through the eyes of a different member of the family.
Butterfly
Butterfly (2018) - TV Mini-Series
11-year-old Max identifies as a girl and wants to live her life as Maxine. Her estranged parents Vicky and Stephen attempt to work out how best to cope with and support this huge life decision. (imdb)
Death and Nightingales
An epic tale of love, betrayal, deception, and revenge set in the Irish countryside in 1885. (imdb)
Republic of Doyle
Jake Doyle and his father Malachy run a private investigations agency in St. John's, Newfoundland. Their cases involve them in all sorts of dealings - not all of them on the right side of the law. {From IMDb}
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. (imdb)
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That They May Face the Rising Sun
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere.
Paula
Paula (2017) - TV Mini-Series
The fallout in a chemistry teacher's life after her one-night stand with a good-looking but dangerous ducker and diver. (imdb)
The Hanging Gale
The Hanging Gale (1995) - TV Mini-Series
The four brothers of the Phelan family battle to save their farm and their family from the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine in 1846, and from an English land agent who takes a dislike to them. (imdb)