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  • Layer Cake
  • Layer Cake review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
    Rated - 4 stars Great crime thriller 22 December 2005
    ...wo Smoking Barrels and Snatch. It has a very good cast (including Daniel Craig, Colm Meaney, Sienna Miller, Michael Gambon), great acting, is funny, dark and violent, and ...  
  • The Boys And Girl From County Clare
  • The Boys And Girl From County Clare review by from East Yorkshire
    Rated - 5 stars Good Craic 27 September 2006
    ...g it out in a musical competition in Ireland. The main leads, Bernard Hill and Colm Meaney, are a joy to watch with typical irish humour all the way through this enjoyabl...  

Colm Meaney - filmography


  • The Damned United on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Michael Sheen,  Timothy Spall,  Colm Meaney
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The chameleon-like Michael Sheen - an actor that has already portrayed Tony Blair in THE QUEEN and Sir David Frost in FROST/NIXON - stars as Brian Clough: the short-lived manager of Leeds United in the 1970s.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 78% from 5,238 members
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  • Kings (2007)
    Starring: Colm Meaney,  Donal O'Kelly,  Brendan Conroy
    Director: Tom Collins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland, took the boat out of Dublin Bay and sailed across the sea to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home--but does so in a coffin. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 6 members
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  • Five Fingers on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Laurence Fishburne,  Touriya Haoud,  Isa Hoes
    Director: Laurence Malkin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Martijn (Ryan Phillipe) is on a goodwill mission in Morocco when he is stabbed with a syringe and wakes up blindfolded and shackled in a hideout. His captors want information - and they’ll do anything to get it. So Martijn had better come up with a plan of action, because he’s running out of time, ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 2,914 members
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  • Bad Apple on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Chris Noth,  Colm Meaney,  Mercedes Ruehl
    Director: Adam Bernstein
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An undercover FBI agent tries to infiltrate a gang of goodfellas and falls in love with his informant's sister. Black humor and a cool attitude make the routine story fun.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 35% from 307 members
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  • Layer Cake on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Daniel Craig,  Tom Hardy,  Jamie Foreman
    Director: Matthew Vaughn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    As deeply cool and urbane as its unnamed hero, LAYER CAKE follows the precise, articulate XXXX (Daniel Craig) as he manoeuvres through what he intends to be his last business deal in modern-day London. His business...Drugs. On the cusp of turning 30, XXXX has amassed a personal fortune, deftly ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 68,201 members
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  • Backflash (2001)
    Starring: Colm Meaney,  Robert Patrick,  Jennifer Esposito
    Director: Philip J. Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This edgy road movie stars Robert Patrick, Jennifer Esposito, Colm Meaney, and Melissa Joan Hart. When an unhappy video store owner (Patrick) takes to the road, he encounters the alluring Harley (Esposito), who convinces him to join her on a bank heist. Chaos (and dark comedy) ensues.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 92 members
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  • Mystery Alaska on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Russell Crowe,  Hank Azaria,  Mary McCormack
    Director: Jay Roach
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hot stars Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander) and Burt Reynolds (Striptease, Boogie Nights) team up with an impressive cast to score big laughs in this offbeat sexy comedy. The hockey-loving village of Mystery, Alaska may look cold from the outside, but behind closed doors are ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 616 members
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  • Claire Dolan on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Katrin Cartlidge,  Vincent D'Onofrio,  Colm Meaney
    Director: Lodge Kerrigan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby. The steps that she takes to free herself from her pimp and find a father for the baby are the central story of this movie.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 31 members
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  • Money Kings on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Lauren Holly,  Timothy Hutton
    Director: Graham Theakston
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A hardhitting tale of urban betrayal and revenge starring Peter Falk (COLUMBO) as Vinnie, a kindhearted bookie who has lost the desire to play dirty and instead longs for a quiet life in the bar he owns. His plans are disrupted however with the arrival of the arrogant Tony (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 52 members
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  • Con Air on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 28,046 members
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  • The Snapper on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Colm Meaney,  Tina Kellegher,  Ruth McCabe
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Welcome to the helter-skelter Curley household. Dessie and Kay are proud parents of six loud, lively children. When their daughter Sharon announces that she is pregnant and refuses to name the father, shock-waves reverberate through the family and the neighbourhood.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 105 members
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  • Noose on DVD
    Starring: Denis Leary,  Famke Janssen,  Martin Sheen
    Director: Ted Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A man who makes his living from theft and enjoys gambling and hanging out in bars, is used to trouble. When his cousin arrives from Dublin and witnesses the local crime lord committing murder, loyalties are put to the test.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 125 members
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Colm Meaney facts

5 most recent films

The Damned United - 4.0 stars
Damned United, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Three and Out - 3.0 stars
Unnatural Causes - 2.5 stars
Kings - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Star Trek The Next Generation - Borg - 4.0 stars
Damned United, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
The Damned United - 4.0 stars
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Series 6 - 4.0 stars
Star Trek : Deep Space Nine - Series 7 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Unnatural Causes - 2.5 stars
Kings - 2.5 stars
Claire Dolan - 3.0 stars
Turning Green - 3.0 stars
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Avery Brooks - 7 times - show films
Rene Auberjonois - 7 times - show films
Cirroc Lofton - 4 times - show films
Maurice Roeves - 3 times - show films
John Cusack - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Les Landau - 3 times - show films
Allan Kroeker - 2 times - show films
James L. Conway - 2 times - show films
Stephen Frears - 2 times - show films
Winrich Kolbe - 2 times - show films