John LynchFilmography

Lassie

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton

Synopsis: Everyone's favorite collie returns to the screen -- and to her native home back in Britain -- in director Charles Sturridge's faithful adaptation of author Eric Knight's sentimental kid and canine novel Lassie Come Home. When Lassie saves a fox from the hunting hounds of the duke of Rudling (Peter O'Toole Read More

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Actors: Robert De Niro, F. Murray Abraham, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Thornton Wilder's award-winning novel is given a lavish screen adaptation in this historical drama from writer and director Mary McGuckian. In Peru in 1714, a rickety bridge collapsed as five people were attempting to cross, forcing them to plunge to their deaths. Brother Fray Juniper (Gabriel Byrne Read More

Bleak House

Actors: Gillian Anderson, Patrick Kennedy, Carey Mulligan, Nathaniel Parker

Synopsis: A trio of orphans becomes embroiled in a mysterious and long-running lawsuit in this sprawling BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel. A legend in the legal circles of Victorian London, the messy inheritance case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has been trickling through the courts for years with no Read More

Isolation

Actors: John Lynch, Essie Davis, Marcel Iures, Sean Harris, Ruth Negga

Synopsis: An experiment in bovine genetic modification goes horrifically wrong in writer/director Billy O'Brien's debut feature, Isolation. John Lynch stars as Dan a cattle farmer on the remote Irish countryside, whose ex, Orla (Essie Davis of the Matrix films), a veterinarian, has convinced him to take Read More

Conspiracy of Silence

Actors: Jonathan Forbes, Jason Barry, Brenda Fricker, Hugh Bonneville, John Lynch

Synopsis: U.K. filmmaker John Deery makes his writing and directing feature debut with the religious drama Conspiracy of Silence, dealing with the controversial topic of reforming the Catholic Church. At an Irish seminary school, student Daniel McLaughlin (Jonathan Forbes) is caught in a compromising Read More

Alien Hunter

Actors: John Lynch, Leslie Stefanson, James Spader, Janine Eser

Synopsis: James Spader stars in the made-for-TV movie Alien Hunter. Berkley professor Dr. Julian Rome (Spader) is a former code-reader for the government project known as Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. His skills are needed to assist Dr. Alexi Gierach (Nikolai Binev) in the Antarctic, where Read More

Evelyn

Actors: John Lynch, Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea, Sophie Vavasseur, Alan Bates

Synopsis: One man takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children in this drama, based on a true story. In 1953, Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) was a house painter and decorator who, despite a strong work ethic, had a hard time holding on to steady Read More

Puckoon

Actors: Sean Hughes, Elliott Gould, Daragh O'Malley, John Lynch, Griff Rhys Jones

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Irish comedian Spike Milligan, Puckoon is a political satire about a town cut in half by the partitioning of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State in 1924. The action takes place in a town known as Puckoon where an ordinary fellow named Dan Madigan wakes up Read More

Re-inventing Eddie

Actors: John Lynch, Geraldine Somerville, Lauren Cook

Synopsis: Nontraditional father Eddie Harris (John Lynch) takes great pride in his approach to parenting, which stresses openness and honesty with his children. His wife, Jeanie (Geraldine Somerville), agrees for the most part, but is just as often frustrated by his frequent bluntness. Eddie's parenting Read More

The Quarry

Actors: John Lynch, Jonne Phillips, Oscar Petersen, Sylvia Esau, Jody Abrahams

Synopsis: Marion Hansel directed this Belgian-French-Dutch-Spanish drama, adapted from the novel by Damon Galgut, about an escaped criminal (John Lynch), who gets a lift from a minister (Serge-Henri Valcke). When the minister makes a sexual advance, the two skirmish -- leading to the minister's accidental Read More

Best

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Lynch, Ian Bannen, Jerome Flynn, Ian Hart, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Mary McGuckian directs this bleak biopic about famed Manchester United soccer star George Best, who dumped his career down the drain with booze, brawling, and drugs. The film charts Best's (John Lynch) rise from Belfast, to fame, to dissipation. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Lewis and Clark and Other Great Adventures

Synopsis: As produced by the BBC, the release Lewis & Clark and Other Great Adventures presents three back to back docudramas that recreate the excitement and suspense of history's most courageous explorers, via sweeping on-camera reenactments. The first segment follows Meriweather Lewis and William Clark Read More

Sliding Doors

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Zara Turner

Synopsis: British actor Peter Howitt wrote and directed this British romantic comedy-drama with a "road not taken" premise recalling the 1921 play If by Lord Dunsany (1878-1957), Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and O.Henry's short story Roads of Destiny (1909). Howitt's storyline branches in two Read More

This Is The Sea

Actors: Samantha Morton, Ross McDade, Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne, John Lynch

Synopsis: Mary McGuckian wrote and directed this "Romeo and Juliet"-style story set in Northern Ireland after the 1994 cease fire. Young Hazel Stokes (Samantha Morton) is very much a part of her family's austere, rural Protestant way of life, and her family, despite the cease-fire, feels betrayed by the Read More

Some Mother's Son

Actors: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David Patrick O'Hara, John Lynch

Synopsis: A 1981 hunger strike in a Belfast prison is the historical inspiration for the drama Some Mother's Son, which attempts to focus on the personal dimensions of the event through its portrayal of the families of the striking prisoners. Directed by Terry George, co-author of In the Name of the Father Read More

Moll Flanders

Actors: Paul Hickey, Robin Wright Penn, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, John Lynch, Aisling Corcoran

Synopsis: An orphaned young woman struggles to overcome a difficult childhood and her later experiences as a prostitute in this period drama set in 18th century London. Drawing only loose inspiration from the Daniel Dafoe novel that provided the film's title, writer-director Pen Densham creates a new story Read More

Angel Baby

Actors: John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Colin Friels, Deborra-Lee Furness, Robyn Nevin

Synopsis: In this unusual romantic drama from Australia, Harry (John Lynch) and Kate (Jacqueline McKenzie) are both patients at a psychiatric care facility. While in therapy, the two meet and fall in love, in spite of their troubled pasts. Despite the potential complications they might foresee with the Read More

The Cure

Actors: Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Erik (Brad Renfro) is a 13-year-old boy whose single mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid), has just moved to a new home in Minnesota. Erik feels like a fish out of water with his Southern accent, and he has trouble making friends until he meets Dexter (Joseph Mazzello), a kid a year or two younger who Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon, Gary Lydon

Synopsis: Northern Ireland's civil unrest is the backdrop for this tense drama. In Belfast in 1975, a bomb blast rips open a pub in a Protestant neighborhood, killing the patrons inside. Following this attack, representatives from the Irish Republican Army and local Loyalist forces call a mutual truce Read More

The Secret of Roan Inish

Actors: Mick Lally, Eileen Colgan, John Lynch, Jeni Courtney, Richard Sheridan

Synopsis: The magic of folklore forms the basis of this Irish tale by writer-director John Sayles. Adapted from the book Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, the 1940s story is told from the point-of-view of Fiona (Jeni Courtney), a young girl sent to live with her grandparents in an Irish fishing town. Her Read More

Princess Caraboo

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Jim Broadbent, Wendy Hughes, Kevin Kline, John Lithgow, Stephen Rea

Synopsis: Loosely based on an actual incident, this family-friendly British comedy is also a sly satire of class consciousness. Phoebe Cates stars as a woman who appears in the English countryside of 1817 wearing exotic garb and speaking gibberish. Delivered to a nearby manor, the mystery woman is sheltered Read More

Words upon the Window Pane

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Geraldine James, Ian Richardson, John Lynch, Gerard McSorley

Synopsis: The ghosts of Jonathan Swift and friends pay a visit to two Dublin spiritualists in this Irish drama, adapted from Yeat's one-act play. In 1928, Miss McKenna, an aging spinster and the head of the Dublin Spiritual Society invites a visiting medium, Mrs. Henderson over to try to contact Jonathan Read More

In the Name of the Father

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave

Synopsis: The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five in Guildford, England in 1974. After a brutal Read More

The Secret Garden

Actors: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Laura Crossley

Synopsis: The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden is a rendition of the classic Frances Hodgon Burnett novel about a young girl (Kate Maberly) who discovers an abandoned garden on her uncle's large Victorian country estate, as well as an invalid cousin she didn't realize she had. With the help of a local boy Read More

Edward II

Actors: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Kevin Collins

Synopsis: Two years before director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely ambitious variation on Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play. While Marlowe is the root of this film, Jarman has taken a great deal of leeway with the manner of presentation. The story revolves around King Edward's Read More

The Railway Station Man

Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, John Lynch, Frank MacCusker, Mark Tandy

Synopsis: The first theatrical feature for director Michael White, The Railway Station Man is based on the novel by Jennifer Johnston and tells the story of an Irish woman, played by Julie Christie, recently widowed when her husband is killed by the IRA. As she slowly attempts to recover from the tragedy Read More

Chimera

Actors: John Lynch, Douglas Mann

Synopsis: Chimera was originally produced for Britain's BBC television network. The title creature is a half man, half ape (Douglas Mann), the product of a hush-hush government project. Journalist John Lynch gets wind of the experiment when his girlfriend dies in a fertility clinic explosion. At the center Read More

Hardware

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, William Hootkins, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: Music video director Richard Stanley made his feature debut with this apocalyptic, post-industrial nightmare set in the distant future. Dylan McDermott stars as Moses "Hard Mo"' Baxter, a washed-up ex-soldier who spends most of his time in "The Zone" -- a scorched, ochre-colored desert littered Read More

Monkey Boy

Synopsis: Re-titled for American release, Monkey Boy is actually an edited version of Lawrence Clark's British production Chimera, about a half-human, half-ape creature who plots a murderous plan of escape from the genetics lab that gave him life. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1871

Actors: Ana Padrão, Roshan Seth, John Lynch, Jack Klaff, Timothy Spall

Synopsis: The bloody history of radical revolutionary movements in France has frequently provoked otherwise reasonable people in other countries to have an unreasoning fear of alternative political movements. In 1871, Napoleon III ruled France in a way that made him very popular with the rich and with Read More

Cal

Actors: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: In the opening scenes of this politically-oriented drama, a killer enters the home of a policeman and in a shocking sequence murders him in cold blood -- an act that becomes the key to the rest of this film about the conflict between politics and life. Young Catholic, Cal (John Lynch) works in a Read More