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  • Mo on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Julie Walters,  David Haig,  Gary Lewis
    Director: Philip Martin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Oscar-nominated actress Julie Walters (Mamma Mia, Harry Potter) takes on the lead role in a revealing portrait of Mo Mowlam; the powerfully charismatic woman whose no-nonsense approach to politics helped achieve one of the most monumental landmarks in British history, the Good Friday Agreement. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 673 members
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  • Eye of the Dolphin on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Carly Schroeder,  Adrian Dunbar,  George Harris
    Director: Michael D. Sellers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Following her mother's death, 14-year-old Alyssa (Carly Schroeder) travels to the Bahamas to meet her estranged father, Hawk (Adrian Dunbar), in this heart-warming family film. It turns out, dad's a dolphin researcher. Soon, Alyssa discovers she shares her father's gift for communicating with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 68 members
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  • Cracker - Cracker on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Robbie Coltrane,  Adrian Dunbar,  Barbara Flynn
    Director: Antonia Bird
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Written by Paul Abbott and Jimmy McGovern, Cracker makes a long-awaited return to the small screen and DVD. Nine years on and Fitz is still married and visiting the UK for a family event. Since moving to Australia, he has immersed himself in the academic world and has begun to doubt whether he ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 682 members
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  • The Quatermass Experiment : BBC on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Adrian Dunbar,  Jason Flemyng,  Mark Gatiss
    Director: Sam Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The British Experimental Rocket Group launches a manned space ship and Professor Bernard Quatermass and his collegues track the rocket's journey. All contact is lost and the rocket crash lands leaving the only survivor with a debilitating illness.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 748 members
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  • Mickybo And Me on DVD (2004)
    Starring: John Joe McNeill,  Niall Wright,  Julie Walters
    Director: Terry Loane
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the play of the same name the film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 396 members
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  • Triggermen on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Pete Postlethwaite,  Neil Morrissey,  Donnie Wahlberg
    Director: John Bradshaw
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Set in Chicago, this comedy crime caper sees two British conmen (Neil Morrissey and Adrian Dunbar) mistaken for hired hitmen. Consummate opportunists they pretend they really are those hitmen in the hope of making a killing but get in too deep. Rival mob bosses are devilishly played by Pete ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 347 members
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  • How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
    Starring: Colm Meaney,  Adrian Dunbar,  Cillian Murphy
    Director: Goran Paskaljevic
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harry is devastated by the deaths of his wife and eldest son, and is subsequently haunted by strange dreams of being turned into a tree. Determined to direct his grief and frustration at someone in the village, Harry wages a bitter war against influential publican George. The two men's feud becomes ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 5 members
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  • Wild About Harry on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Amanda Donohoe,  James Nesbitt
    Director: Declan Lowney
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Celebrity chef Harry McGee (Brendan Gleeson) used to have it all, from a loving wife and family to a successful career as host of a television cooking show. But things have changed--due to his drunken ways, his wife (Amanda Donohoe) wants a divorce, his kids won't speak to him, and his career is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 263 members
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  • Shooters on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Adrian Dunbar,  Emma Fielding,  Gerard Butler
    Director: Colin Teague
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When Gilly gets out of prison all he wants to do is collect the money he's owed and start a new life. But his friend J has other ideas and has invested the money in a drugs for guns deal.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 493 members
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  • The General on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Adrian Dunbar,  Sean McGinley
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Brendan Gleeson stars as Martin Cahill, the leading Irish criminal of the 1980s. A protean figure, Cahill was a man of extraordinary intelligence, obsessive secretiveness, and vicious brutality who was never stopped by the Irish police despite having pocketed more than $60 million of other people's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,319 member
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  • Martina Cole - The Jump (1998)
    Starring: Adrian Dunbar,  Jonathan Cake,  Susan Vidler
    Director: Richard Standeven
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. He swears he has been set up and persuades Donna to help him escape. Implementing the jump takes Donna into a world she never knew existed and she is confronted by a series of shattering revelations that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 129 members
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  • Melissa (2 discs) on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tim Dutton,  Julie Walters,  Jennifer Ehle
    Director: Bill Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Award-winning war correspondent Guy Foster (Tim Dutton), distraught after the loss of his first wife, joins a cruise to Cape Town, where he meets beautiful and mysterious Melissa (Jennifer Ehle). A sophisticated blonde, PR girl, Melissa is travelling with an exuberant group of media friends. Guy ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 701 members
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  • The Near Room on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Adrian Dunbar,  David O'Hara,  Julie Graham
    Director: David Hayman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Charlie Colquhoun is a journalist whose career has reached rock-bottom. He has a teenage daughter, Tommy, who was put into foster care many years before. Now, aged seventeen, Tommy has become inloved in a scandal that involves child pornography with a high-ranked police officer. Charlie and Tommy ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 195 members
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  • Inspector Morse - Deadly Slumber on DVD (1993)
    Starring: John Thaw,  Samantha Bond,  Adrian Dunbar
    Director: Stuart Orme
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dr. Mathew Brewster's suicide takes a particular twist when the pathologist determines that he had also been bound and gagged. The Brewsters, both medical doctors, ran a private clinic and their son John, who lived at home, is doctoral candidate in philosophy. One possible suspect is Michael ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,132 member
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  • Widow's Peak on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Mia Farrow,  Joan Plowright,  Natasha Richardson
    Director: John Irvin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    A quaint Irish town is set buzzing when a sexy, secretive stranger arrives, seducing the men and manipulating the women in this comic murder-mystery.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 205 members
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  • The Crying Game on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Miranda Richardson,  Stephen Rea,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this successful psychological thriller, a reluctant agent of the Irish Republican Army discovers that some people just aren't who you expect them to be. Fergus (Stephen Rea) is an IRA volunteer who, despite personal misgivings, takes part in the kidnapping of a black British soldier, Jody (..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 12,965 members
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  • Inspector Morse - Dead on Time on DVD (1992)
    Starring: David Haig,  Richard Pasco,  John Thaw
    Director: John Madden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Henry Fallon, who is wheelchair bound and is suffering from a neurological disorder, apparently commits suicide and Morse has mixed feelings working on this case as he was once engaged to the dead man's wife, Susan Fallon. The body was found by his son-in-law Peter Rhodes, a local antiques dealer ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 992 members
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  • The Crying Game - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Miranda Richardson,  Stephen Rea,  Forest Whitaker
    Director: Neil Jordan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This highly original film put screenwriter/director Neil Jordan on the international map. The story begins at a carnival in Ireland with British soldier Jody (Forest Whitaker) kidnapped by IRA terrorists Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Fergus (Stephen Rea). Fergus is assigned to guard Jody, and they ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 33 members
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  • My Left Foot on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis,  Ray McAnally,  Brenda Fricker
    Director: Jim Sheridan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance for the ages in this film based on DOWN ALL THE DAYS, the autobiography of Christy Brown, who overcame severe physical limitations to become an accomplished painter and writer. The film describes the astounding arc of Brown's life, starting with a childhood ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 11,468 members
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  • The Four Minute Mile on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Michael York,  Adrian Dunbar,  Richard Wilson
    Director: Jim Goddard,  Jim Goddard
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    To mark the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister breaking the four minute barrier for running the mile, this mini-series is released on DVD. Based on the true events back in May 1954, on a wet day in Oxford, when medical student Roger Bannister (Richard Huw) was running against John Landy (Nique ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 70 members
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Adrian Dunbar facts

5 most recent films

Mo - 4.0 stars
Eye of the Dolphin - 3.5 stars
Cracker - Cracker - 4.0 stars
The Quatermass Experiment : BBC - 3.0 stars
Kidnapped - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Mo - 4.0 stars
Cracker - The Mad Woman In The Attic - 4.0 stars
Cracker - Cracker - 4.0 stars
Inspector Morse - The Day of the Devil - 3.5 stars
Inspector Morse - The Death of the Self - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

How Harry Became a Tree - 3.5 stars
The Crying Game - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Near Room - 2.0 stars
Melissa - 2.5 stars
The Wedding Tackle - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Barbara Flynn - 39 times - show films
Robbie Coltrane - 39 times - show films
Geraldine Somerville - 37 times - show films
Lorcan Cranitch - 37 times - show films
Christopher Eccleston - 36 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Andy Wilson - 6 times - show films
Jean Stewart - 6 times - show films
Tim Fywell - 6 times - show films
Antonia Bird - 6 times - show films
Julian Jarrold - 6 times - show films