John Lynch
Actor | Director
Actor | Director
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John Lynch (born 26 December 1961) is an Irish actor from Northern Ireland.
As: George Bogue
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Directed by: Chris Baugh
Stars: John Lynch | Nigel O'Neill | Michael Hough | Jack Rowan | Louisa Harland
As: Aquila
Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Andrew Hyatt
Stars: Jim Caviezel | John Lynch | Joanne Whalley | Olivier Martinez | James Faulkner
As: Gary
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The conguest, which was at first thrilling, turns to complete war with the men who still dominate.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Tonie Marshall
Stars: Benjamin Biolay | Suzanne Clément | Emmanuelle Devos | Sami Frey | Richard Berry
As: Donal
Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Aoife McArdle
Stars: Ryan McParland | Ryan Lincoln | Ann Skelly | Conall Keating | Caitriona Ennis
As: The Herbalist - Brother Ciaran
In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Brendan Muldowney
Stars: John Lynch | Jon Bernthal | Tom Holland | Stanley Weber | Richard Armitage
As: Sean
Homer and Joé trace the rivers of Croatia aboard a small boat. In spite of being fifty years old each one, none of them knew of the existence of the other until the recent death of the father of both. Now, however, they are half brothers. During the voyage, they meet Sean, an enigmatic Irish adventurer who will join them on the journey.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Marion Hänsel
Stars: John Lynch | Olivier Gourmet | Sergi López | Nikša Butijer | Igor Kovač
As: Redman
When bike courier Chris witnesses what looks like a murder, his first instinct is to cut and run. But when his curiosity draws him back in, he's soon embroiled in a world of corruption, political power, and illegal bike racing.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Ian Bonhôte
Stars: John Lynch | Eleanor Tomlinson | Sam Keeley | Sonoya Mizuno | Josh Whitehouse
As: Frank Malone
A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Christopher Smith
Stars: John Lynch | Stephen Moyer | Emory Cohen | Tye Sheridan | Bel Powley
As: Powell
From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-Soviet bunker to extract the vital specimens and information being paid for by a mysterious backer, but what they seek should never have been found!
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Billy O'Brien
Stars: John Lynch | Craig Conway | Morjana Alaoui | Jumayn Hunter | Antonia Thomas
As: Joshua
An FSB officer fall in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Eric Rochant
Stars: Tim Roth | Jean Dujardin | Aleksey Gorbunov | Émilie Dequenne | Cécile de France
As: Sergeant Hanley
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: Frances de la Tour | Richard Griffiths | Jack O'Connell | Maxine Peake | George MacKay
As: McRae
Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Glendening
Stars: Isabella Calthorpe | Tom Felton | Gemma Atkinson | Joshua Bowman | Gabriel Thomson
As: Jack
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps him from going under is the new prisoner, Paul. Jack’s cell mate Ahmed, attempts to guide him on a path of salvation, a path that involves saving Paul from the ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Craig Viveiros
Stars: David Schofield | John Lynch | Martin Compston | Art Malik | Craig Parkinson
As: Wolfstan
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Christopher Smith
Stars: Sean Bean | John Lynch | Carice van Houten | Kimberley Nixon | Eddie Redmayne
As: Gerry Adams
A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Philip Martin
Stars: Steven Mackintosh | Gary Lewis | Julie Walters | Tony Maudsley | David Haig
As: Tom Gaffney
The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its people, and its decline seems inexorable. When local Postie, Podger Byrnes, comes up with a plan to hijack a consignment of Viagra, and sell it on the open market in Amsterdam, his friends are desperate enough to try it. Not counting on the muscular response of ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Tom Reeve
Stars: John Lynch | Cornelius Clarke | Angeline Ball | Lochlainn O'Mearain | Adam Astill
As: Gene Walker
Every ten or 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.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Scott Mann
Stars: Ving Rhames | Liam Cunningham | Robert Carlyle | Kelly Hu | Ian Somerhalder
As: Yakov
Nazi POWs suspected of heinous acts are locked up in a Soviet women's prison run by vengeful female guards. To weed out the guilty, the innocent must pay. Can supposed enemies turn into great loves? Based on a true post-World War II story, this drama stars Thomas Kretschmann, John Malkovich and Vera Farmiga in a bitter game of cat and mouse and a battle between hate and humanity, mercy and revenge.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Tom Roberts
Stars: John Malkovich | Daniel Brühl | Vera Farmiga | Thomas Kretschmann | Natalie Press
As: Sean O'Casey
Indiana Jones and Remy Baudouin arrive in Ireland in April 1916 on their way to London where they plan to join the Belgian Army. In order to raise enough money for their fare to Englandm, they both start get a job at a local pub. Here Indy meets struggling play wight Sean O'Casey and soon impresses two Irish girls who think he's an American millionaire traveling the world. When they finally arrive in ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Gillies MacKinnon | Carl Schultz
Stars: Elizabeth Hurley | John Lynch | Sean Patrick Flanery | Shane Connaughton | Ronny Coutteure
As: Paul Gaugin
John Simm stars as Vincent Van Gogh in The Yellow House, a feature-length drama that tells the moving human story of the most influential and explosive housemates in art history. For just nine weeks, in late 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin share a home, The Yellow House, in Arles, southern France.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Chris Durlacher
Stars: John Lynch | Scott Handy | John Simm | Sukie Smith | Sarah Smart
As: Sam Carraclough
A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Charles Sturridge
Stars: John Lynch | Peter Dinklage | Peter O'Toole | Samantha Morton | Jonathan Mason
As: Dan
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Billy O'Brien
Stars: Essie Davis | John Lynch | Marcel Iureș | Sean Harris | Crispin Letts
As: Captain Alvarado
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge.[ A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Mary McGuckian
Stars: Robert De Niro | Harvey Keitel | Kathy Bates | F. Murray Abraham | Gabriel Byrne
As: Dr. Michael Straub
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Ron Krauss
Stars: John Lynch | James Spader | Leslie Stefanson | Nikolai Binev | Janine Eser
As: O'Brien
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Runtime: 82 min.
Stars: Elliott Gould | John Lynch | Sean Hughes | Griff Rhys Jones | Daragh O'Malley
As: Tomas Dunhill
She's a beautiful stranger lost in his world. Can they find a place in each other's hearts?
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: John Gray
Stars: John Lynch | Scott Glenn | Saffron Burrows | Joseph Kelly
As: George Best
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Mary McGuckian
Stars: Ian Bannen | John Lynch | Ian Hart | Patsy Kensit | Jerome Flynn
As: The Man
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest people based on the usual prejudices, black and coloured people who plant marijuana in this case. Meanwhile, the true assassin not only goes his way unpunished ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Marion Hänsel
Stars: John Lynch | Jonny Phillips | Serge-Henry Valcke | Oscar Petersen
As: Gerry
Gwyneth Paltrow plays London publicist Helen, effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Peter Howitt
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow | Jeanne Tripplehorn | John Lynch | John Hannah | Zara Turner
As: Padhar McAliskey
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 brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Mary McGuckian
Stars: Richard Harris | John Lynch | Gabriel Byrne | Samantha Morton | Ross McDade
As: Bobby Sands
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 their sons.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: David O'Hara | Helen Mirren | John Lynch | Aidan Gillen | Fionnula Flanagan
As: Liam
A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend Liam, a Catholic.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Stars: John Lynch | James Frain | Michael Gambon | Ian Hart | Gary Lydon
As: Fielding
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but ...
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Pen Densham
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Robin Wright | Brenda Fricker | John Lynch | Stockard Channing
As: Harry
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Michael Rymer
Stars: Colin Friels | John Lynch | Deborra-Lee Furness | Jacqueline McKenzie | Geoff Brooks
As: John Corbet
In 1928 Dublin, during séances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Mary McGuckian
Stars: Geraldine James | Geraldine Chaplin | Ian Richardson | Orla Brady | Jim Sheridan
As: Tadhg
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate..
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: John Sayles
Stars: John Lynch | Mick Lally | Jeni Courtney | Eileen Colgan | Pat Slowey
As: Paul Hill
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Emma Thompson | John Lynch | Corin Redgrave | Daniel Day-Lewis
As: Lord Archibald Craven
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Agnieszka Holland
Stars: Maggie Smith | Irène Jacob | Andrew Knott | Kate Maberly | Heydon Prowse
As: Spencer
A modern-dress adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan tragedy about King Edward II's homosexual relationship with the ambitious Gaveston, and his overthrow by the queen and the outraged nobility.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Derek Jarman
Stars: Andrew Tiernan | John Lynch | Tilda Swinton | Steven Waddington | Nigel Terry
As: Damian Sweeney
An Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bombing, gradually learns that the American man she has become involved with is not who he seems.
Directed by: Michael Whyte
Stars: John Lynch | Mark Tandy | Ingrid Craigie | Donald Sutherland | Julie Christie
As: Shades
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Richard Stanley
Stars: William Hootkins | Stacey Travis | Dylan McDermott | Iggy Pop | Carl McCoy
As: O'Brien
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Ken McMullen
Stars: John Lynch | Timothy Spall | Ana Padrão | Roshan Seth | Jack Klaff
As: IRA man in cottage
Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Michael Beckham
Stars: John Kavanagh | John Hurt | Roger Allam | Robert Lang | Martin Shaw
As: Cal
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.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: John Kavanagh | Helen Mirren | John Lynch | Donal McCann | Ray McAnally