Des McAleer

Des McAleer

Birthday: 1952-05-25

Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Biography: Des McAleer is a Belfast born actor of film, TV and stage.

Movies

I Want You
I Want You

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover....

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An Everlasting Piece
An Everlasting Piece

Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could ha...

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When the Sky Falls
When the Sky Falls

Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish und...

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The Writing on the Wall
The Writing on the Wall

A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the deat...

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Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand

The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a danger...

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Four Days in July
Four Days in July

Two couples, one Catholic, one Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in ...

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Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion
Handmade - A Tale of Stop-motion

A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy...

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National Theatre Live: The Seagull
National Theatre Live: The Seagull

On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed,...

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Butterfly Kiss
Butterfly Kiss

Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial...

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No Man's Land
No Man's Land

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North
North

Isolated on a farm and fighting against his family's decision, Aaron struggles to be heard as he wat...

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Crossfire
Crossfire

A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole....

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Hidden Agenda
Hidden Agenda

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to unco...

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Deadlines
Deadlines

Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about t...

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Coppers
Coppers

Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings ...

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Family
Family

This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a...

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Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed ...

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Shoot to Kill
Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 ...

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My Week with Marilyn
My Week with Marilyn

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his ...

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Titanic Town
Titanic Town

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal...

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How I Live Now
How I Live Now

An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose whi...

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Anne Devlin
Anne Devlin

The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, ...

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Hunger
Hunger

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

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The Children Act
The Children Act

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving b...

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Out of Innocence
Out of Innocence

After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not ...

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This Is the Sea
This Is the Sea

The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy...

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Life After Life
Life After Life

Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a sc...

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The Schooner
The Schooner

8-year-old Terry comes to stay with his uncle and aunt on their farm on one of the magical Irish isl...

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Juno and the Paycock
Juno and the Paycock

During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life...

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