Movies by Gabriel Byrne
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I, Anna (2012)
Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell …
Directed by: Barnaby Southcombe
In this modern noir thriller set in London, a police detective pursues a woman he encountered at a crime scene, following her to a speed-dating event. They develop an instant attraction, but…
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Perrier's Bounty (2009)
Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, James McAvoy, Cillian Murphy …
Directed by: Ian Fitzgibbon
When a gangster orders his henchmen to collect a debt from small-time crook Michael McCrea, his unstable gal pal accidentally shoots one of the goons during the shakedown and the couple must…
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Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl …
Directed by: Aleksandr Buravsky
Based on a true story, this World War II epic tells the tale of a foreign journalist trapped in Leningrad during the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union who teams up with a local police…
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2:22 (2008)
Cast: Mick Rossi, Robert Miano, Aaron Gallagher …
Directed by: Phillip Guzman
Even the best-laid plans can go astray, as a quartet of rough-edged thieves find out when they attempt to rob an elegant hotel on a snowbound winter night in this contemporary noir thriller…
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Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning (2007)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Susan Sarandon, Max von Sydow …
Directed by: Paolo Barzman
Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow star in this powerful drama about a group of friends who reunite 35 years after their release from a Nazi internment camp…
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Jindabyne (2006)
Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness …
Directed by: Ray Lawrence
Marital relations between Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne) and his wife, Claire (Laura Linney), begin to crumble after Stewart finds a corpse on a fishing excursion with his friends but waits to…
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Played (2006)
Cast: Bruno Kirby, Mick Rossi, Vinnie Jones …
Directed by: Sean Stanek
Eight years ago, a heist went south, and professional thief Ray Burns (Mick Rossi) was the only one to go to jail. Now that he's done his time, however, he's ready to settle the…
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Maria Bello …
Directed by: Jean-François Richet
With nothing more than a bare-bones operation to back him up, detective Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) must take on a deadly mob of criminals who have thrown down the gauntlet and are openly…
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2005)
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Mary McGuckian
Mary Mcguckian directs this complex drama based on a novel by Thornton Wilder. When an elaborate rope bridge collapses on July 20, 1714, five strangers share a horrible fate. But is it…
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Wah-Wah (2005)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson …
Directed by: Richard E. Grant
In his directing debut, Richard E. Grant dishes up a slice of his Swaziland boyhood. As the sun sets on Britain's colony, young Ralph Compton (played by Zachary Fox and later Nicholas…
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Vanity Fair (2004)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Romola Garai …
Directed by: Mira Nair
Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a lower-class girl who uses her considerable wit to climb her way up the precipitous ladder of 1820s London society in this faithful film version of William…
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P.S. (2004)
Cast: Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Lois Smith …
Directed by: Dylan Kidd
College admissions officer Louise Harrington (Laura Linney), a divorced woman in her late thirties, is looking for someone special enough to put her heart on the line, but the only man…
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Patrick (2004)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Mike Vernon …
Directed by: Pamela Mason Wagner
Liam Neeson narrates this absorbing docudrama about St. Patrick. Shot in the Emerald Isle and featuring commentary by best-selling author Frank McCourt, the film chronicles the 5th-century…
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Killing Emmett Young (2003)
Cast: Scott Wolf, Tim Roth, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Keith Snyder
Emmett Young (Scott Wolf), a homicide detective, has only a short time left to live. While working a serial killer case, he meets a shadowy government agent who convinces him that the best…
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Shade (2003)
Cast: Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton …
Directed by: Damian Nieman
Looking for a chance to take down a legendary cardsharp, a trio of grifters tries to bankroll their scheme by bilking a mob bagman. But all bets are off when his Mafia pals come looking for…
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Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne
Directed by: Patrick Shen
Gabriel Byrne narrates this award-winning documentary that examines death and how anxiety about dying drives human behavior on a psychological, spiritual and cultural level. The film sticks…
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Ghost Ship (2002)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Isaiah Washington …
Directed by: Steve Beck
Dispatched to recover a long-lost passenger ship found floating lifeless on the Bering Sea, the crew of the Arctic Warrior salvage tug soon becomes trapped inside the mysterious vessel --…
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Spider (2002)
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: David Cronenberg
A man tries to piece his life back together after being prematurely released from a mental institution. Writing in a journal, he tries to uncover the truth about his past and his…
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Virginia's Run (2002)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Joanne Whalley, Lindze Letherman …
Directed by: Peter Markle
After his wife is killed in a riding accident, Ford Lofton (Gabriel Byrne) prohibits his young daughter Virginia (Lindze Letherman) from riding horses. Defying her father, Virginia secretly…
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Horses: The Story of Equus: IMAX (2002)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne
Directed by: Michael Caulfied
Fueled by a sweeping story and lush photography, this stunning IMAX film charts the lives of three very different horses that happened to be born at the same stud farm on the very same night:…
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Short: International Release #2 (2000)
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Jane Campion
Aficionados of short films will relish the award-winning, cosmopolitan flicks contained in Warner Bros.' "Short Cinema Journal" series. The DVDs group the movies by category -- in this…
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Stigmata (1999)
Cast: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce …
Directed by: Rupert Wainwright
After an atheist woman's hands and feet begin to mysteriously bleed, the Vatican sends a priest to investigate the phenomenon, and soon, the two are thrust headlong into supernatural terror.
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End of Days (1999)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney …
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Burned-out ex-cop Jericho Cane is suddenly tasked with saving the world when Satan takes over the body of a Wall Street banker in a bid to mate with an innocent woman before the…
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Polish Wedding (1998)
Cast: Claire Danes, Lena Olin, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Theresa Connelly
In this tale about a large Polish-American family living in Detroit, Claire Danes stars as Hala Pzoniak, a woman torn between her family's wishes and her heart's desire as she faces…
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The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich …
Directed by: Randall Wallace
With France on the brink of revolution thanks to the reign of callous King Louis XIV, the fabled Musketeers reunite and hatch a scheme to replace the sovereign with his unjustly imprisoned…
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Quest for Camelot (1998)
Cast: Jessalyn Gilsig, Cary Elwes, Gary Oldman …
Directed by: Frederisck Du Chau
Spirited young Kayley, daughter of a celebrated Round Table knight, embarks on a crusade to recover the magical sword Excalibur after the maniacal Sir Ruber pilfers it, aiming to unseat King…
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Enemy of the State (1998)
Cast: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight …
Directed by: Tony Scott
Hotshot lawyer Robert Dean becomes a victim of high-tech identity theft when a hacker slips an incriminating video into his pocket. Soon, a rogue National Security agent sets out to recover…
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The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
Cast: Billy Campbell, Angus Macfadyen, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Terence Ryan
Even though Ireland remained neutral during World War II, the government promised Allied and Axis forces that any soldiers captured within its borders would remain there until the war's…
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The End of Violence (1997)
Cast: Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Director Wim Wenders splices the seemingly unrelated stories of an action flick producer (Bill Pullman) who retreats from the violence he's exploited in his films when it hits home, and…
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Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Cast: Julia Ormond, Ono Fleischer, Agga Olsen …
Directed by: Bille August
When her 6-year-old neighbor falls from a roof, Smilla Jasperson (Julia Ormond) suspects the boy's death was no accident. She starts investigating and discovers that the boy's…
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Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers …
Directed by: Stephen Surjik
As two warring media moguls (Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsley) grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations they own…
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Summer Fling (1996)
Cast: Jared Leto, Catherine O'Hara, Christina Ricci …
Directed by: David Keating
The dawning of summer brings little comfort to 17-year-old Frankie (Jared Leto), an underachieving student who knows he'll catch hell when his last report card comes in the mail. But he…
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Mad Dog Time (1996)
Cast: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss …
Directed by: Larry Bishop
Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a schizophrenic mob boss who arrives home after a brief stint in the hospital. Mickey (Jeff Goldblum), Vic's closest ally, has been seeing Vic's girlfriend…
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Out of Ireland: Story of Emigration into America (1995)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Brenda Fricker, Kelly McGillis …
Directed by: Paul Wagner
Writer-director Paul Wagner's thoughtful documentary details the history of Irish immigration to America using archival and contemporary film footage, readings from correspondence and…
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The Usual Suspects (1995)
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin …
Directed by: Bryan Singer
When five unacquainted crooks are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together. The plan gets complicated, however, when they intermix…
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Dead Man (1995)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen …
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Only Jim Jarmusch could direct a Western like this: a poetry-loving American Indian mistakes accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) for the English writer by the same name, while bounty…
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Buffalo Girls (1995)
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Rod Hardy
This colorful made-for-TV biopic follows maverick cowgirl Calamity Jane (Anjelica Huston) through the closing days of the Wild West -- from her stint as a mule skinner for Gen. Custer to her…
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Frankie Starlight (1995)
Cast: Corban Walker, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Parillaud …
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Based on the novel &NFi;The Dork of Cork&NFi_; by Chet Raymo, this heartwarming film is built around writer Frank Bois's (Corban Walker) recollections of his mother's (Anne…
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Little Women (1994)
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Gillian Armstrong
Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel comes to life in this sensitive, soulful adaptation. Four sisters (including Winona Ryder, Claire Danes and Kirsten Dunst) and their mother (Susan…
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Trial by Jury (1994)
Cast: Joanne Whalley, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan …
Directed by: Heywood Gould
While sitting as a juror in the murder trial of crime boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante), single mother Valerie Alston (Joanne Whalley) gets a visit from the mobster's enforcer (William…
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A Simple Twist of Fate (1994)
Cast: Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney …
Directed by: Gillies Mackinnon
Michael McCann (Steve Martin) feels totally betrayed by the world after his wife reveals that he's not the birth father of their child. A few years after his breakup, we find him living…
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Royal Deceit (1994)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Christian Bale …
Directed by: Gabriel Axel
Young Jute Amled (Christian Bale) avenges his father's murder at the hands of his dissembling uncle, only to be banished to Scotland for the deed. But Amled has other plans, and soon…
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Point of No Return (1993)
Cast: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: John Badham
In this American remake of La Femme Nikita, cop killer Maggie Hayward (Bridget Fonda) is on death row. After the government stages her execution by lethal injection, she wakes up to an…
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A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Cast: Laurie Metcalf, Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey …
Directed by: Stephen Gyllenhaal
At the center of this engrossing melodrama is a Golden Globe-nominated turn by Debra Winger, who plays a sheltered, slow-witted woman living with her widowed Aunt Frances (Barbara Hershey)…
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Into the West (1992)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciaran Fitzgerald …
Directed by: Mike Newell
Given the chance to escape their dreary lives, two impoverished Irish brothers flee Dublin on a magical white steed. But they must embark on a daring rescue mission after the stallion ends up…
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Cool World (1992)
Cast: Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi directed this dizzying mix of animated whimsy and live-action frenzy about two worlds colliding. Detective Frank Harris (Brad Pitt) works hard to ensure that humans and animated…
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
Cast: Ethan Coen, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden …
Directed by: Joel Coen
Trusted adviser to 1920s Irish crime boss Lee O'Bannon, Tom Reagan's loyalty is tested when he takes up with O'Bannon's gal pal, Verna Bernbaum. Meanwhile, rivals Johnny…
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A Soldier's Tale (1988)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Marianne Basler, Judge Reinhold …
Directed by: Larry Parr
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a…
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Hello Again (1987)
Cast: Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne …
Directed by: Frank Perry
Lucy (Shelley Long) dies after choking on a piece of chicken, and her plastic-surgeon husband, Jason (Corbin Bernsen), doesn't seem very heartbroken. Everyone quickly moves on, except…
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Gothic (1986)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson …
Directed by: Ken Russell
The poet Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) turns his estate into a haunted and horror-filled playground in this film that purports to tell the story of the night that inspired Mary Shelley (Natasha…
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Defense of the Realm (1986)
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott …
Directed by: David Drury
Reporter Nick Mullen (Gabriel Byrne) "stumbles" on a story that links a prominent member of Parliament to a KGB agent and to a near nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an…
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Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)
Cast: George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio …
Directed by: William A. Graham
George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Gabriel Byrne star in this Emmy-nominated program about the rise and fall of Italy's fascist…
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The Keep (1983)
Cast: Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow …
Directed by: Michael Mann
Director Michael Mann's visual artistry is highlighted in this 1983 horror outing starring Jürgen Prochnow as Capt. Klaus Woermann, whose German soldiers are slain by an ancient spirit…
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Excalibur (1981)
Cast: Nigel Terry, Terry Nigel, Helen Mirren …
Directed by: John Boorman
Visionary director John Boorman serves up a lush interpretation of Thomas Malory's classic novel Le Morte d'Arthur, weaving a rich tapestry around the legend of the Round…
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Psychotic Connections (1980)
Cast: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Phyllis Diller …
Directed by: Ken Russell, Dwain Esper, Wes Craven …
A triple dose of psycho-themed horror from three master directors. In Wes Craven's Chiller, a rich woman's son (Michael Beck) thaws out from the deep freeze and goes on a killing…