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  • Sliding Doors
  • Sliding Doors review by A customer from Leyland
    Rated - 2.0 stars A Film Of Two Halves 19 April 2005
    ... do much other than look fey in a faux-Shakespeare-in-Love kind of wistfulness. John Lynch is very good with his one-dimensional character and John Hannah does his usual ...   Read customer review
  • Holy Water
  • Holy Water review by rkeen from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Feel good fun 27 May 2010
    ... hatches a plan to hijack a shipment of viagra and together with his bandmates (John Lynch, Lochlainn O Mearin, Cian Barry), the heist is set in motion. This is a fun fi...   Read customer review
  • Ghosted
  • Ghosted review by itstinks from
    Rated - 2.0 stars Ghostly outline of other prison dramas 1 August 2011
    ...the reasonable performances which still don't gloss over the abundant cliches. John Lynch manages to have a certain gravitas to as Jack a prisoner soon to be paroled but...   Read customer review

John Lynch - filmography


  • Ghosted on DVD (2011)
    Starring: John Lynch,  Martin Compston,  Craig Parkinson
    Director: Craig Viveiros
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Jack (John Lynch), a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife leaves him on the anniversary of their son s death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the presence of a new prisoner, Paul (Martin Compston). But when Paul falls under the influence of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 479 members
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  • Black Death on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Sean Bean,  Eddie Redmayne,  Carice van Houten
    Director: Christopher Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In a plague-ridden medieval England, Osmund (Eddie Redmayne), a young monk, is charged in leading the fearsome knight Ulric (Sean Bean) and his group of mercenaries to a remote village where the inhabitants are unaffected by the deadly pestilence. Their quest is to hunt down a necromancer - someone ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 17,448 members
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  • 13Hrs on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Tom Felton,  Isabella Calthorpe,  Gemma Atkinson
    Director: Jonathan Glendening,  Jonathan Glendening
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A full moon hangs in the night sky and lightning streaks across dark storm clouds. Sarah Tyler (Isabella Calthorpe) returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As the storm rages on, Sarah, along with her family and friends shore up for the night, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,912 member
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  • Black Death - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Sean Bean,  Eddie Redmayne,  Carice van Houten
    Director: Christopher Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    In a plague-ridden medieval England, Osmund (Eddie Redmayne), a young monk, is charged in leading the fearsome knight Ulric (Sean Bean) and his group of mercenaries to a remote village where the inhabitants are unaffected by the deadly pestilence. Their quest is to hunt down a necromancer - someone ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 5,698 members
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  • The Tournament on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Ian Somerhalder,  Robert Carlyle,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Scott Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 6,441 members
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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 645 members
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  • The Tournament - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Ian Somerhalder,  Robert Carlyle,  Ving Rhames
    Director: Scott Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The world's best assassins converge upon the streets of a small Scottish town to compete in a deadly tournament in which the last killer standing gets a million-dollar prize while wealthy thrill-seekers watch a live video stream and gamble on the outcome. Robert Carlyle (TRAINSPOTTING) stars as a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,266 member
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  • Holy Water on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Angeline Ball,  Cian Barry,  Cornelius Clarke
    Director: Tom Reeve
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    For four bachelors of Killcoulin's Leap, life is slowly passing them by. The remote Western Irish town holds no future for them, no career opportunities, very few eligible women, and (save for the handful of geriatrics their band plays for on Saturday night) no night-life to speak of. It seems they'..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,447 member
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  • Isolation on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Essie Davis,  Sean Harris,  Marcel Iures
    Director: Billy O'Brien
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At the end of a muddy road lies an isolated, forlorn farm, run by farmer Dan Reilly - so desperate for cash to support his business that he agrees for a local biotechnology firm to carry out supposedly simple experiments on his cattle. But what should have been routine pregnancy tests becomes a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,867 member
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  • Puckoon on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Griff Rhys Jones,  Elliott Gould,  Daragh O'Malley
    Director: Terence Ryan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Adapted from Spike Milligan's comic novel this story, in the vein of PASSPORT TO PIMLICO, where a small area of land is segregated from the rest of society. When an Irish Free State is set up in the 1920s when the Sligo border is drawn bisecting the Irish village of Puckoon right down the middle, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 344 members
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  • Sliding Doors on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow,  John Hannah,  John Lynch
    Director: Peter Howitt
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    British actor Peter Howitt wrote and directed this British romantic comedy-drama with a 'road not taken' premise recalling the 1921 play IF by Lord Dunsany, Frank Capra's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). Howitt's storyline branches in two directions: Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) loses her job at a classy ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 31,039 members
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  • This Is the Sea (1997)
    Starring: Richard Harris,  Gabriel Byrne,  John Lynch
    Director: Mary McGuckian
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 ..read more »
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  • Some Mother's Son (1996)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Fionnula Flanagan,  Aidan Gillen
    Director: Terry George
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 51 members
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  • Nothing Personal on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Ian Hart,  John Lynch,  James Frain
    Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Belfast 1975. A bomb goes off in a crowded pub and battle lines are drawn. Loyalist and Republican bosses are negotiating a cease-fire but the foot soldiers want vengeance. Leonard a high-ranking Loyalist, orders his men to keep control but gang leader Kenny wants blood. Innocently caught in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 177 members
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  • The Secret Garden on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Maggie Smith,  Laura Crossley,  Andrew Knott
    Director: Agnieszka Holland
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic fairy tale, THE SECRET GARDEN is a highly entertaining family picture that is overflowing with gorgeous imagery. Ten-year-old Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is a spoiled rich girl living in colonial India with her aloof parents who ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3,796 members
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  • Edward II on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Steven Waddington,  Tilda Swinton,  Kevin Collins
    Director: Derek Jarman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In EDWARD II, director Derek Jarman revisits Christopher Marlowe's play of bloodletting and royal intrigue, bringing the homosexual theme to the forefront. Steven Waddington stars as Prince Edward II, who upsets England's noblemen by sharing his throne with his commoner lover, Gaveston (Andrew ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 690 members
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  • Chimera (2 discs) on DVD (1991)
    Starring: John Lynch,  Christine Kavanagh,  Kenneth Cranham
    Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A maniac is on the loose in the wilds of North Yorkshire after a bloody massacre at a fertility research clinic. The Jenner Clinic has been destroyed in an explosion and the entire staff wiped out by someone or something of superhuman strength. Journalist Peter Carson (John Lynch) fears his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 157 members
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  • Hardware - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Dylan McDermott,  Stacey Travis,  John Lynch
    Director: Richard Stanley
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    IN THE 21ST CENTURY THERE’S A NEW ENDANGERED SPECIES...MAN. In a post-apocalyptic, nuclear-scarred future the world has become a radioactive, neon drenched, industrial wasteland populated by the disenfranchised and the demented. Amidst the dust and decay of a poisoned landscape a “Zone Tripper” ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 651 members
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  • Hardware on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Dylan McDermott,  Stacey Travis,  John Lynch
    Director: Richard Stanley
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    IN THE 21ST CENTURY THERE’S A NEW ENDANGERED SPECIES...MAN. In a post-apocalyptic, nuclear-scarred future the world has become a radioactive, neon drenched, industrial wasteland populated by the disenfranchised and the demented. Amidst the dust and decay of a poisoned landscape a “Zone Tripper” ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,486 member
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  • Cal (1984)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  John Lynch,  Donal McCann
    Director: Pat O'Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3 members
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John Lynch facts

5 most recent films

Ghosted - 3.0 stars
Black Death - 3.0 stars
13Hrs - 2.5 stars
Black Death - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Tournament - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Mo - 4.0 stars
Some Mother's Son - 4.0 stars
The Secret Garden - 3.5 stars
Sliding Doors - 3.5 stars
The Secret Of Roan Inish - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

This Is the Sea - 3 stars
Cal - 3.0 stars
Hardware - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars
Hardware - 2.5 stars
Edward II - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Julie Walters - 6 times - show films
Roger Allam - 5 times - show films
Cornelius Clarke - 5 times - show films
Andy Nyman - 5 times - show films
Antony De Liseo - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Offer - 5 times - show films
Christopher Smith - 3 times - show films
Lawrence Gordon Clark - 3 times - show films
Jonathan Glendening - 3 times - show films
Jonathan Glendening - 3 times - show films