Geraldine McAlinden

Acting

Geraldine McAlinden

Known for

Acting

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Emmerdale poster
4.3

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

Emmerdale

1972

Miss Scarlet poster
7.4

When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

Miss Scarlet

2020

Bad Sisters poster
7.5

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.

Bad Sisters

2022

Dalgliesh poster
6.7

A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.

Dalgliesh

2021

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast poster
7.1

Three lifelong pals embark on a chaotic quest to solve the mystery of their old friend's suspicious death and keep their own dark secret under wraps.

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

2026

Murphy's Law poster
7.6

Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he's given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. A loner with little to lose and dealing with everything on his own terms, this time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.

Murphy's Law

2001

Film credits

2020s · 13 titles

The Last Rifleman poster
6.6

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

The Last Rifleman

2023

TRAD poster
6.0

From their home in the Donegal Gaeltacht, gifted fiddle player Shóna McAnally and her little brother Mickey take to the road with a troupe of wandering musicians, on a cross-country journey of adventure, romance, and musical exploration. 

TRAD

2026

No artwork available
NR

In 1960s rural Ireland, a priest is called to the bedside of a parishioner, the wife of a prominent politician. She has just given birth. Whilst her husband has gone out to celebrate, she confides a secret in the priest and asks for help.

Our Father

2025

Turnaround poster
NR

Following a sudden, tragic bereavement, a West Cork cleaner must decide if she will uphold a tightly hidden secret whilst navigating the fast paced pressures of a tourist property turnaround.

Turnaround

2024

Aisha poster
6.0

Aisha lives at a centre for asylum-seekers in Ireland in a state of ongoing uncertainty. Having fled Nigeria after a violent gang murdered members of her family, she is desperately trying to find some degree of permanency, where she and her mother can be reunited and live without fear. As she navigates the complex legal system to seek settlement in Ireland, she sparks an unlikely friendship with Conor, a new guard at the centre. A former prisoner, Conor’s life experience and calming presence resonate with Aisha, allowing for a tentative romance to begin. But the bond between the pair comes under strain as the threat of deportation looms ever larger.

Aisha

2022

The Assassination of Michael D. Higgins poster
NR

On his final shift, a worn-down hospital employee decides to indulge a patient's fantasy that he is the president of Ireland.

The Assassination of Michael D. Higgins

2025

Chasing Millions poster
NR

The Northern Bank chain was owned by the National Australia Bank. Diana, a young Australian police detective in Belfast at the same time, seizes the opportunity to investigate the biggest crime of her career and prove herself to her misogynistic bosses back home who have passed her over for promotion. Diana is teamed with Crawford, a gruff, veteran Northern Irish police detective who does not want her help. As the case takes one more bizarre turn after another, the duo learn to grudgingly respect each other. As they almost give up hope of catching the criminals, Diana comes up with an ingenious plan which will make the stolen millions worthless.

Chasing Millions

2026

Panic Attack poster
1.0

Eighteen-year-old Alex is in the throes of his transition. When his best friend abandons a joint venture to assert their identity he’s forced to confront his anxieties before entering the unknown alone.

Panic Attack

2020

Sucking Diesel poster
5.0

After a bungled robbery, a petrol station owner must decide whether to protect her idiot employee or turn him over to the most dangerous man in Ballybeg.

Sucking Diesel

2022

Faraway Home poster
NR

Two young Jewish children are sent by their parents away from Nazi occupied Austria during WWII, on the Kindertransport, where they end up at a refugee farm in Northern Ireland.

Faraway Home

2026

Who We Love poster
5.5

The story of Lily, a girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman. With her best friend, the fiercely loyal and flamboyant Simon, she navigates the treacherous waters of school life. When a misunderstanding with the beautiful and popular Violet leads to a vicious attack, Lily is faced with the greatest challenge of her young life.

Who We Love

2023

Reavey Brothers poster
NR

In a trouble-ridden Northern Ireland, football and writing prospect Anthony's relationship with his brothers comes under danger. Exploring religious divides and the importance of family, Anthony will come face-to-face with the one thing he is trying to fight.

Reavey Brothers

2022

Verdigris poster
NR

A reluctant retiree struggles in a controlling marriage, until an unlikely friendship with an abandoned teen sex worker teaches her to live life on her own terms, no matter the cost.

Verdigris

2023

2010s · 16 titles

Black '47 poster
6.6

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

Black '47

2018

The Secret Scripture poster
7.2

The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

The Secret Scripture

2017

Ordinary Love poster
6.8

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

Ordinary Love

2019

Zoo poster
6.7

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

Zoo

2018

Procession poster
NR

A bedraggled community of misfits gather to mourn one of their own the only way they know how - an elaborately eccentric folk music funeral

Procession

2018

Desmond poster
NR

Though released from prison Desmond is still in turmoil from the past events that lead him there. As he carves out the path for his new life Desmond struggles between the man he wants to become and the man he was.

Desmond

2016

How to be Happy poster
5.0

Following a bad breakup, relationship councilor Cormac Kavanagh starts sleeping with his clients in a misguided attempt to reignite their passions.

How to be Happy

2013

I Am Not a Monster poster
5.5

A young man returns home uninvited to his brother's engagement dinner only to find himself fighting for his sanity against the violent, mind controlling growth on the back of his head. (ALTER)

I Am Not a Monster

2018

No artwork available
NR

Northern Ireland 1981 - Faced with an impossible decision, a conflicted border-town mechanic is forced to make a choice that will change his life forever.

Volkswagen Joe

2013

The Truth Commissioner poster
4.5

Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. But, though Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country; truths which none of those in power are prepared to have revealed.

The Truth Commissioner

2016

Portrait of a Zombie poster
4.9

When their son, Billy, becomes a zombie, the family chooses to take care of him in the home, much to the chagrin of the neighbors and the local crime boss.

Portrait of a Zombie

2012

No artwork available
NR

Ian splits his time between working his dead end warehouse job and taking care of his ailing mother. The stresses of everyday life, alongside Anna's illness, have created a rift between the two that is seemingly insurmountable.

The Appointment

2019

Crone Wood poster
4.1

A found footage horror film about a man and a woman camping in Wicklow, Ireland.

Crone Wood

2016

The Bridge poster
NR

After the sudden death of his parents, a young man must choose between returning to his home village in the west of Ireland to care for his estranged younger brother, and a bright future in Canada.

The Bridge

2019

Monged poster
NR

Three very mismatched friends party from Friday to Monday in Dublin City in a riotous cocktail of drugs and alcohol while their personal problems - including a debt to a psychotic gangster, sexual confusion, and a lost phone number - remain in constant pursuit.

Monged

2015

No artwork available
4.5

A woman’s eyes are opened to her coercive, controlling partner when an old friend is allowed to come to dinner.

Run

2019

Series credits

Emmerdale poster
4.3

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

Emmerdale

1972

Miss Scarlet poster
7.4

When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner... step forward a detective known as the Duke. Eliza and The Duke strike up a mismatched, fiery relationship as they team up to solve crime in the murkiest depths of 1880’s London.

Miss Scarlet

2020

Bad Sisters poster
7.5

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.

Bad Sisters

2022

Dalgliesh poster
6.7

A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.

Dalgliesh

2021

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast poster
7.1

Three lifelong pals embark on a chaotic quest to solve the mystery of their old friend's suspicious death and keep their own dark secret under wraps.

How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

2026

Murphy's Law poster
7.6

Detective Sergeant Tommy Murphy is a maverick cop with a dark past. After failing a psychiatric assessment, he's given one last chance by his boss and given a dangerous undercover assignment. A loner with little to lose and dealing with everything on his own terms, this time around, however, Murphy has an ally in Detective Inspector Annie Guthrie.

Murphy's Law

2001

Maryland poster
6.4

Becca and her sister, Rosaline, have forged ahead with family lives and careers, growing distant through time and circumstance. But when the body of an older woman is discovered at sunrise on Laxey Beach in the Isle of Man, it brings devastating news for the sisters.

Maryland

2023

Bloodlands poster
6.7

Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick connects a suicide note with an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance.

Bloodlands

2021

Three Families poster
7.6

Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.

Three Families

2021

Blood poster
6.8

Cat Hogan returns to West Meath upon her mother's sudden death - she has an accident at home and died (or was it an accident?). Blood is about old secrets, older betrayals, mind games and the lies family tell each other.

Blood

2018