Des McAleer

Des McAleer

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

  • Title: Des McAleer
  • Popularity: 8.506
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1952-05-25
  • Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Des McAleer Movies

  • 1998
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    I Want You

    I Want You

    5.8 1998 HD

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

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  • 2000
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    An Everlasting Piece

    An Everlasting Piece

    5.9 2000 HD

    Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business...

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  • 2000
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    When the Sky Falls

    When the Sky Falls

    5 2000 HD

    Fact-based story about Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton, who invaded the Irish underworld and attempted to expose the illegitimate...

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  • 1983
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    The Writing on the Wall

    The Writing on the Wall

    1 1983 HD

    A youth workshop in Derry is mounting various projects, including a dramatized enquiry into the death of a soldier. But when a squaddie is shot on...

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  • 2006
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    Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand

    Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand

    7 2006 HD

    The Nuremberg trials, 1946 Goering and the Nazi high command stand trial. Within the prison a dangerous mind game is being conducted by Goering and...

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  • 1984
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    Four Days in July

    Four Days in July

    6.4 1984 HD

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

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  • 2023
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    Handmade - A tale of stop-motion

    Handmade - A tale of stop-motion

    10 2023 HD

    A documentary about an old animation technique and the film studio that tries to carry on the legacy. The worlds oldest animation studio still making...

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  • 2016
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    National Theatre Live: The Seagull

    National Theatre Live: The Seagull

    1 2016 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Butterfly Kiss

    Butterfly Kiss

    6.5 1995 HD

    Deeply mentally unbalanced drifter Eunice roams grim northern Britain committing psychosexual serial murders of both men and women while ostensibly...

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  • 1986
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    No Man's Land

    No Man's Land

    1 1986 HD

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  • 2014
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    North

    North

    7 2014 HD

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

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  • 1988
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    Crossfire

    Crossfire

    1 1988 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    Hidden Agenda

    Hidden Agenda

    6.9 1990 HD

    In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British...

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  • 2005
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    Deadlines

    Deadlines

    1 2005 HD

    Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23,...

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  • 1988
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    Coppers

    Coppers

    6 1988 HD

    Two bored twentysomethings buy a Vauxhall Cavalier kit it out with a siren and spend their evenings masquerading as police officers in this Screen...

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  • 1994
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    Family

    Family

    8.5 1994 HD

    This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief,...

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  • 1999
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    Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes

    7.272 1999 HD

    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty,...

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  • 1990
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    Shoot to Kill

    Shoot to Kill

    1 1990 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    My Week with Marilyn

    My Week with Marilyn

    6.686 2011 HD

    London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince...

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  • 1998
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    Titanic Town

    Titanic Town

    5.2 1998 HD

    Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally...

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  • 2013
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    How I Live Now

    How I Live Now

    6.7 2013 HD

    An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the...

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  • 1984
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    Anne Devlin

    Anne Devlin

    5 1984 HD

    The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.

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  • 2008
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    Hunger

    Hunger

    7.3 2008 HD

    The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win...

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  • 2018
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    The Children Act

    The Children Act

    6.6 2018 HD

    In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite...

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  • 2019
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    Out of Innocence

    Out of Innocence

    6.6 2019 HD

    After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.

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  • 1997
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    This Is the Sea

    This Is the Sea

    5.7 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    Life After Life

    Life After Life

    1 1995 HD

    Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon...

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  • 1984
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    The Bill

    The Bill

    6.6 1984 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

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  • 1996
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    Silent Witness

    Silent Witness

    7.512 1996 HD

    Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

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  • 1992
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    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat

    7 1992 HD

    Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

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  • 1992
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    Between the Lines

    Between the Lines

    5.6 1992 HD

    Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims...

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  • 2009
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    Wuthering Heights

    Wuthering Heights

    7.03 2009 HD

    Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.

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  • 1996
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    Safe And Sound

    Safe And Sound

    1 1996 HD

    Belfast-set comedy series about best mates and colleagues, Catholic Tommy and protestant Dougy, who own and run the Safe And Sound garage

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  • 2021
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    Hope Street

    Hope Street

    5.8 2021 HD

    The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging – what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town? Warm-hearted...

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  • 2016
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    The Crown

    The Crown

    8.216 2016 HD

    The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The...

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  • 1986
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    Casualty

    Casualty

    5.9 1986 HD

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and...

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  • 2016
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    My Mother and Other Strangers

    My Mother and Other Strangers

    6.857 2016 HD

    Drama series set in 1943 following the Coyne family and their neighbours as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is...

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  • 1989
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    The Paradise Club

    The Paradise Club

    5.8 1989 HD

    The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were...

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  • 2018
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    Death and Nightingales

    Death and Nightingales

    6.4 2018 HD

    Fermanagh, Irish countryside, 1885. On her 23rd birthday, Beth, who lives on a remote farm with Billy Winters, her tyrannical stepfather, whom she...

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  • 1997
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    Touching Evil

    Touching Evil

    7.667 1997 HD

    Follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is the newest member of the unit, an...

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