Cast: Johnny Murphy

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Johnny Murphy. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Commitments

1991 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Robert Arkins · Michael Aherne · Angeline Ball · Maria Doyle Kennedy

Synopsis In The Commitments (1991), a gritty yet uplifting tale set in Dublin, young music enthusiast Jimmy Rabbitte assembles a ragtag group of working-class talents to form a soul band. Dreaming of bringing "the music of the people" to Ireland, they...

7.2

6K votes

7.2

6K votes

Waiting for Godot

2001 · Movie · 120 min. · Ireland

Direction Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Cast Barry McGovern · Johnny Murphy · Alan Stanford · Stephen Brennan

Synopsis Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.

7.1

67 votes

7.1

67 votes

Light Years Away

1981 · Movie · 107 min. · Switzerland

Direction Alain Tanner

Cast Trevor Howard · Mick Ford · Odile Schmitt · Louis Samier

Synopsis A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.

6.4

330 votes

6.4

330 votes

Into the West

1991 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Gabriel Byrne · Ellen Barkin · Colm Meaney · Ciaran Fitzgerald

Synopsis Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.

5.0

126 votes

5.0

126 votes

4.8

254 votes

Direction Roy Ward Baker · Robert Chetwyn · John Howard · Peter Sykes

Cast Peter Bowles · Bryan Murray · Beryl Reid · Niall Toibin

Synopsis TV Series (1983-1985). 3 Seasons. 18 Episodes. A drama about a retired English army officer who becomes a resident magistrate in turn-of-the-20th-century West Ireland. When fine gentleman Major Sinclair Yeates leaves his home in England to work as the pre-Independence...

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