Drama, Crime, Thriller
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Sound of Music
Amazing Grace
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Skin
The Critic
The Kill
The Miracle Club
Twilight Over Burma
The Beilis Case
Just Ask My Children
The King
Lost In Harmony
Zločin v Polné
Ten Italians for One German
She's Got No Name
The Pregnancy Scheme
When the Game Stands Tall
50-50
The Boy with Pink Pants
A Day and a Half
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Sound of Music
IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 1965
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.Amazing Grace
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2006
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 2005
Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.Skin
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2008
In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his father. This leads to Frankie becoming the interest of the local Nazi skinhead group.The Critic
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2024
Jimmy Erskine is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle dies, and his son takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a Faustian pact with a struggling actress, entangling them and the boss in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail, and betrayal.The Kill
IMDB 8 | Sep , 1952
Jeff and his family just moved into a small, rural community. When two sinister locals tamper with Jeff's water pump, a fight breaks out among the three. Jeff is seen as a fugitive in the eyes of this bloodthirsty community...and there seems to be no way to stop them. Studio One, Season 5, Episode 1.The Miracle Club
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2023
Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.Twilight Over Burma
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 2015
The U.S. scholarships Austrian student Inge and young mining student from Burma Sao Kya Seng fall in love. But it's only at the lavish wedding ceremony that Inge discovers her husband is the ruling prince of the Shan state of Burma. After a coup staged by the Burmese military, Sao is imprisoned. Inge does everything she can to free him. Base on the true story of Inge Sargent.The Beilis Case
IMDB 5.5 | Apr , 1917
Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kyiv, in the then Russian Empire, in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the Beilis trial or Beilis affair.Just Ask My Children
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2001
Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.The King
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 2002
A 35-year old man, just released from jail, decides to make a clean break from the big city and his troubled past. He retreats to the abandoned village his father came from and moves into an old, collapsing house. Alone, far from the bigger village and doing petty jobs to survive, he will strive to find himself once more. Amidst a haze of suspicion and scorn by villagers who treat him an intruder, his past catches up to him in the form of his girlfriend from Athens. Conflict is inescapableLost In Harmony
IMDB 9.5 | Oct , 2025
Jessica, a young carer, and her mum, who is deeply paranoid and who sees and hears unexplained things have a strong and loving relationship. But the misfit relationship they have brings many challenges they struggle to overcome. The mum's deterioration in her mental health causes her to be sectioned, leaving Jessica lost in her life.Zločin v Polné
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 2016
An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anežka Hrůzová - was found between the village of Věžnička and the town of Polná. She was 19 and she had a cutting wound on the throat. There was no sexual violence involved and since the local doctors thought that there was not enough blood on the crime scene, everyone jumped to the conclusion that Jews must have killed her and added her blood to their passover matzot. There was a potential murderer at hand too - a cheeky, not very bright young Jewish rover, Leopold Hilsner…Ten Italians for One German
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1961
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.She's Got No Name
IMDB 4.5 | Jun , 2025
A bizarre case caused thousands of waves. There are different opinions on the truth. When the whole story of the case was gradually restored like pieces of a puzzle, people realized that the truth was not that important anymore.The Pregnancy Scheme
IMDB 5.2 | Jun , 2023
Pregnant and newly single, Julia faces a looming catastrophe when she loses her job. An unlikely lifeline arrives in the form of her new friend Alana, who says she knows people who would pay top dollar for positive pregnancy tests. Inspired by true events.When the Game Stands Tall
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 2014
A young coach turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons.50-50
IMDB 5.5 | Mar , 2011
Follows Nellie Cameron, a real life prostitute famous on the streets of Sydney in the 1920s and 30s. Nellie is enjoying the perks of her world, the drugs, the money, the fame but in her game she can't afford love.The Boy with Pink Pants
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2024
On 20 November 2012, 15-year-old Andrea Spezzacatena took his own life. It was the first case in Italy of bullying and cyberbullying that led to a minor's suicide. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red trousers, a gift from his mother, which turned pink due to a washing mishap.A Day and a Half
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2023
In a desperate bid to reunite with his daughter, an armed man bursts into the medical center where his estranged wife works and kidnaps her.