Irish Movies/Docs Watchlist
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1. Glassland (2014)
R | 93 min | Drama
Set in Dublin, 'Glassland' tells the story of a young taxi driver who gets tangled up in the world of human trafficking while trying to save his mother from drug addiction.
Director: Gerard Barrett | Stars: Will Poulter, Toni Collette, Jack Reynor, Michael Smiley
Votes: 1,620
2. Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
R | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca, Mark Ryder
Votes: 13,253 | Gross: $0.01M
3. The Boxer (1997)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly, Frank Coughlan
Votes: 22,312 | Gross: $5.80M
4. The General (1998)
R | 124 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Votes: 9,244 | Gross: $1.21M
5. Bloody Sunday (2002)
R | 111 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea
Votes: 25,755 | Gross: $0.77M
6. Adam & Paul (2004)
83 min | Comedy, Drama
2 heroin addicts negotiate their way through Dublin's city centre, encountering friends and family as they search for their next fix.
Director: Lenny Abrahamson | Stars: Tom Murphy, Mark O'Halloran, Gavin Dowdall, Luke Keeler
Votes: 3,301
7. Borstal Boy (2000)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Director: Peter Sheridan | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 2,571 | Gross: $0.09M
8. The Last of the High Kings (1996)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
After finishing exams June 1977 near Dublin, Frankie spends the summer with his two friends, siblings and mom while dreaming of two cute girls and waiting for exam results. College?
Director: David Keating | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 1,966
9. The Devil's Own (1997)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades
Votes: 71,643 | Gross: $42.87M
10. Kisses (2008)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Director: Lance Daly | Stars: Kelly O'Neill, Shane Curry, Paul Roe, Roy Dempsey
Votes: 1,961 | Gross: $0.08M
11. War of the Buttons (1994)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoelaces, and underwear of their captured opponents, in order to get the boys in trouble ... See full summary »
Director: John Roberts | Stars: Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara
Votes: 4,593 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Into the West (1992)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Rúaidhrí Conroy
Votes: 3,183 | Gross: $4.79M
13. Hear My Song (1991)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The owner of a failing club seeks infamous Irish singer Josef Locke in order to bring business and success to his club.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Ned Beatty, Adrian Dunbar, Brian Flanagan, Constance Cowley
Votes: 1,930 | Gross: $4.31M
14. Cherrybomb (2009)
Not Rated | 76 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Three teenagers go on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars that quickly spins beyond their control.
Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Stars: Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt, Niamh Quinn
Votes: 7,544
15. Divorcing Jack (1998)
Not Rated | 110 min | Thriller, Comedy
Black romantic comedy set around the troubled "peace process" and its effect on a cynical Belfast hack.
Director: David Caffrey | Stars: David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Adam Black, Simon Magill
Votes: 2,173
16. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea
Votes: 9,367
17. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
Stephen Dedalus is a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century. His search for knowledge and understanding, and the decline of his family's circumstances, ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Bosco Hogan, T.P. McKenna, John Gielgud, Rosaleen Linehan
Votes: 231
18. Ulysses (1967)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama
James Joyce's masterpiece incarnated: The story of two seperated Dublin wanderers, Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus, struggling to control their personal lives.
Director: Joseph Strick | Stars: Milo O'Shea, Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 979
19. Anne Devlin (1984)
121 min | Drama
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.
Director: Pat Murphy | Stars: Brid Brennan, Bosco Hogan, Des McAleer, Gillian Hackett
Votes: 29
20. The Dead (1987)
PG | 83 min | Drama
Gabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany
Votes: 8,900 | Gross: $4.37M
21. James and Lucia
Drama | Announced
The last years of James Joyce, when in Paris and Zurich he struggles with his fading eyesight and the so-called madness of his beloved daughter, Lucia.
Director: Robert Mullan
22. The Secret Scripture (2016)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A woman keeps a diary of her extended stay at a mental hospital.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Theo James, Rooney Mara, Laurence O'Fuarain, Eric Bana
Votes: 8,474
23. Dollhouse (2012)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A group of street teens from Dublin's inner city break into a house in an upper class suburb. The break-in quickly moves into a night of frenzy, scandal and consequence.
Director: Kirsten Sheridan | Stars: Seána Kerslake, Johnny Ward, Kate Stanley Brennan, Shane Curry
Votes: 446
24. On the Edge (2001)
R | 85 min | Drama
Jonathan, like many teenagers, is used to concealing the pain of growing up behind a witty sense of humor. One day, fate brings Jonathan into contact with a group of teenagers who are attempting to cope with their own teen angst.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Tricia Vessey, Martin Carney, Paul Hickey
Votes: 4,815
25. Agnes Browne (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The unexpected death of her husband sends a woman and her seven children, ages 2-14, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis in 1967 Dublin. She is forced to borrow money from a ... See full summary »
Director: Anjelica Huston | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Marion O'Dwyer, Niall O'Shea, Ciaran Owens
Votes: 2,229 | Gross: $0.14M
26. Tara Road (2005)
PG | 97 min | Drama
Two women -- one American, one Irish -- swap houses and alter the course of their lives.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Sarah Bolger, Jennifer Buckley, Virginia Cole
Votes: 1,962
27. Michael Inside (2017)
96 min | Drama
An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to 3 months in prison.
Director: Frank Berry | Stars: Dafhyd Flynn, Lalor Roddy, Moe Dunford, Leroy Harris
Votes: 1,893
28. Small Engine Repair (2006)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Doug, an aspiring country singer, has spent his life as a loser in a non-descript small town with nobody believing in his heartbreaking voice and talent as a musician. His wife has left him... See full summary »
Director: Niall Heery | Stars: Iain Glen, Steven Mackintosh, Stuart Graham, Laurence Kinlan
Votes: 275
29. 32A (2007)
89 min | Drama
This story is set in "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman.
Director: Marian Quinn | Stars: Ailish McCarthy, Sophie Jo Wasson, Orla Long, Riona Smith
Votes: 398
30. I Used to Live Here (2014)
80 min | Drama
Amy Keane, a thirteen-year-old trying to cope with the death of her mother and the reappearance of her father's ex-girlfriend, experiences the temptation of suicide after witnessing the outpouring of love for a local suicide victim.
Director: Frank Berry | Stars: Jordanne Jones, Dafhyd Flynn, James Kelly, Ross Geraghty
Votes: 116
31. Sanctuary (III) (2016)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Larry and Sophie, two people with intellectual disabilities, long to be together in a world that does everything to keep them apart.
Director: Len Collin | Stars: Tara Breathnach, Stephen Marcus, Christopher Dunne, Amy-Joyce Hastings
Votes: 508
32. The Drummer and the Keeper (2017)
94 min | Drama
An unlikely friendship develops between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an institutionalized teen living with Asperger's syndrome.
Director: Nick Kelly | Stars: Dermot Murphy, Jacob McCarthy, Adrian Hudson, Aoibhinn McGinnity
Votes: 400
33. Cellar Door (2018)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
The story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out, as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church.
Director: Viko Nikci | Stars: Karen Hassan, Catherine Walker, Una Carroll, Jack Michael Cloke
Votes: 69
34. The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid (2017)
76 min | Documentary
Farmer Thomas Reid lives a solitary life in Ireland. Suspicious of intrusion, Thomas does not welcome the State agents who come to forcibly purchase his home and lands. He vows to resist.
Director: Feargal Ward | Stars: Thomas Reid, Phil Kelly, Anthony McNeill, Raymond Keane
Votes: 97
35. Rosie (I) (2018)
PG-13 | 86 min | Drama
The story of a mother trying to protect her family after their landlord sells their rented home and they become homeless.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Sarah Greene, Molly McCann, Darragh Mckenzie, Ruby Dunne
Votes: 2,175 | Gross: $0.01M
36. Float Like a Butterfly (2018)
PG | 104 min | Drama, History, Sport
From the producers of "Once" and "Sing Street", "Float Like a Butterfly" is a powerful, timely story of a girl's fight for freedom and belonging. In a gender-reversal of the classic film "... See full summary »
Director: Carmel Winters | Stars: Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins, Hilda Fay
Votes: 370
37. Dublin Oldschool (2018)
95 min | Drama
Over a drug-fuelled weekend in Dublin, Jason reconnects with his estranged brother, a recovering addict living on the streets.
Director: Dave Tynan | Stars: Calum Jess, Malcolm Denby, Emmet Kirwan, Ryan Farrell
Votes: 734
38. The Delinquent Season (2018)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Two married couples with kids start having problems with fidelity.
Director: Mark O'Rowe | Stars: Laoise Murray, Catherine Walker, Nora Cooper, Lochlainn McKenna
Votes: 2,604
39. Lost in the Living (2015)
77 min | Drama
The much anticipated debut feature film from award-winning director Robert Manson is a pulsing drama set in Berlin. "Lost in the Living" follows a young man, Oisín (Tadhg Murphy), who ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Manson | Stars: Tadhg Murphy, John Kelly, Ian McFarlane, Roy Duffy
Votes: 45
40. Metal Heart (2018)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
There is much rivalry between twin sisters Emma and Chantal, quite different in just about every way, when their mysterious young neighbour moves back in.
Director: Hugh O'Conor | Stars: Jordanne Jones, Leah McNamara, Moe Dunford, Seán Doyle
Votes: 223
41. Dark Lies the Island (2019)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
The film follows the characters in a long standing family feud in a small Irish town over the course of a week.
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon | Stars: Peter Coonan, Moe Dunford, Charlie Murphy, Pat Shortt
Votes: 153
42. Life's a Breeze (2013)
R | 83 min | Comedy, Drama
Tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Director: Lance Daly | Stars: Kelly Thornton, Fionnula Flanagan, Pat Shortt, Eva Birthistle
Votes: 1,236 | Gross: $0.00M
43. Death of a Superhero (2011)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon | Stars: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Lilly Forgách, Ian Fitzgibbon, Michael McElhatton
Votes: 3,706 | Gross: $0.00M
44. The Runway (2010)
TV-14 | 101 min | Comedy
The citizens of Ireland's County Cork come to the aid of a South American pilot who has crash landed in their town.
Director: Ian Power | Stars: Demián Bichir, Kerry Condon, James Cosmo, Jamie Kierans
Votes: 706
45. Sensation (2010)
107 min | Comedy
A naive young Irishman starts a relationship with a sexy call girl; and together they hatch a plan to open a brothel using the proceeds from the farm he recently inherited.
Director: Tom Hall | Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Patrick Ryan, Luanne Gordon, Marie O'Neill
Votes: 395
46. When Harvey Met Bob (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
In October 1984, rock musician Bob Geldof is appalled by the misery of starving Ethiopians as seen on television and persuades his pop musician friends to record the million-selling charity... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Ian Hart, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Rhys
Votes: 300
47. My Brothers (2010)
87 min | Drama
Set over Halloween weekend of 1987, My Brothers is the story of three young brothers' epic quest to replace their dying father's watch: Noel, 17, serious, weighed down by responsibility; ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Fraser | Stars: Tim Creed, Paul Courtney, Tj Griffin, Don Wycherley
Votes: 224
48. A Shine of Rainbows (2009)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Family
A lonely orphan's life is transformed by an extraordinary woman who teaches him to conquer grief and discover the magic in nature and himself.
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, John Bell, Jack Gleeson
Votes: 2,442
49. Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
After years of performing the same comedy sketch at performances, Tony Hawks decides to find inspiration for his scripts by traveling around Ireland with a portable fridge.
Director: Ed Bye | Stars: Tony Hawks, Valerie O'Connor, Ed Byrne, Sean Hughes
Votes: 490
50. A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot (2017)
84 min | Documentary
One night, Majella O'Donnell took her teenage son Philly to be shot in both legs. Majella, Philly, and his shooters all live in an extraordinary community in Derry, Northern Ireland. 'The ... See full summary »
Director: Sinéad O'Shea
Votes: 103
51. Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne (2009)
90 min | Drama
Austin moves back to Ireland with his mother after she fails to procure an abortion in the UK and gives birth to him there.
Director: Conor McDermottroe | Stars: Martin McCann, Jodie Whittaker, Kellie Hughes, Sandra O'Malley
Votes: 90
52. A Film with Me in It (2008)
89 min | Comedy, Thriller
A broke, jobless actor and a broke, jobless screenwriter set out to make a movie and then find that life starts imitating art.
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon | Stars: Dylan Moran, Mark Doherty, Keith Allen, Amy Huberman
Votes: 3,939
53. The Bachelor Weekend (2013)
TV-MA | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A bachelor party weekend in the great outdoors takes some unexpected detours.
Director: John Butler | Stars: Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald, Brian Gleeson
Votes: 4,494
54. Silent Grace (2001)
87 min | Drama
Based on true events, this is the story of a young girl who is caught joyriding and ends up sharing a prison cell with a political prisoner: a high ranking IRA woman.
Director: Maeve Murphy | Stars: Orla Brady, Cathleen Bradley, Cara Seymour, Dawn Bradfield
Votes: 75
55. Puckoon (2002)
82 min | Comedy
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
Director: Terence Ryan | Stars: Sean Hughes, Elliott Gould, Daragh O'Malley, John Lynch
Votes: 392
56. Words Upon the Window Pane (1994)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
This film is based on the one-act play by W B Yeats and concerns another great figure from Irish literature, Jonathan Swift, whose spirit, with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa, ... See full summary »
Director: Mary McGuckian | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Brid Brennan, Geraldine James, Hugh O'Conor
Votes: 86
57. Frankie Starlight (1995)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, War
A writer with dwarfism shares the story of his unconventional, though not altogether bad, upbringing as his mother struggled to raise him in the mid-20th century with help from a surrogate father.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Matt Dillon, Anne Parillaud, Gabriel Byrne, Corban Walker
Votes: 929 | Gross: $0.08M
58. Falling for a Dancer (1998)
Unrated | 200 min | Drama, Romance
After a casual fling with an actor, a 1930s Irish woman becomes pregnant and avoids the stigma of raising a bastard child by marrying a boring older man.
Stars: Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, Liam Cunningham, Eleanor Methven, Maurice O'Donoghue
Votes: 724
59. Bogwoman (1997 TV Movie)
84 min | Drama
In 1958 Ireland, family problems force a Donegal woman to the city of Derry; a city in turmoil as the Irish nation suffers and revolts from the brutal British invading forces.
Director: Tom Collins | Stars: Rachael Dowling, Peter Mullan, Sean McGinley, Noelle Brown
Votes: 151
60. A Love Divided (1999)
Unrated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The true story of a Catholic man and his Protestant wife, and the events resulting in the Co. Wexford, Ireland community when the wife decides she doesn't appreciate being forced to send ... See full summary »
Director: Syd Macartney | Stars: Peter Caffrey, Brendan Conroy, Orla Brady, Liam Cunningham
Votes: 367
61. Love & Rage (1999)
R | 100 min | Drama
This film is based on true events that happened in the Valley House on Achill Island off the west coast of Ireland.
Director: Cathal Black | Stars: Greta Scacchi, Daniel Craig, Stephen Dillane, Valerie Edmond
Votes: 522
62. Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
Brilliant, flamboyant master criminal Michael Lynch is more interested in his image and his posterity than the actual profit from his ill-gotten gains.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane
Votes: 14,374
63. I Could Read the Sky (1999)
86 min | Drama
The film tells of the memories and feeling of loss of an Irish immigrant who eventually winds up doing construction work in the anonymous cities of England.
Director: Nichola Bruce | Stars: Dermot Healy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Coyle, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Votes: 95
64. Black Day at Black Rock (2001 TV Movie)
57 min | Drama
Satirical take on the reactions of the inhabitants of an Irish village when they learn that a group of thirty asylum seekers is to be relocated to their village.
Director: Gerard Stembridge | Stars: Don Wycherley, Julie Hale, Tom Hickey, Andrew Lovern
Votes: 24
65. The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (2000)
96 min | Comedy
The most fertile man in Ireland is in serious demand.
Director: Dudi Appleton | Stars: Kris Marshall, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Bronagh Gallagher, James Nesbitt
Votes: 614
66. The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery
Finbar is an Irish youth who, late one night, leapt from a freeway overpass and was never heard from again. When he suddenly reappears three years later, his family and friend Danny attempt to rebuilt their shattered lives.
Director: Sue Clayton | Stars: Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor, Chris Meehan
Votes: 652
67. The Ballroom of Romance (1982)
52 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Brenda Fricker, John Kavanagh, Mick Lally, Brid Brennan
Votes: 84
68. A Dark Song (2016)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Director: Liam Gavin | Stars: Steve Oram, Catherine Walker, Susan Loughnane, Mark Huberman
Votes: 21,392
69. Mother's Day (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
Focuses on two women living on either side of the Irish Sea, and how they are brought together in the wake of the Warrington bombing of March 1993.
Director: Fergus O'Brien | Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin, Vicky McClure, Daniel Mays, Simone Kirby
Votes: 388
70. The Treaty (1991 TV Movie)
107 min | Drama, History
In 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic and the British government is concluded after high-stakes negotiations.
Director: Jonathan Lewis | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Patrick Condren, Ian Bannen, Julian Fellowes
Votes: 177
71. Be Good or Be Gone (2020)
93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two petty criminal cousins receive a temporary release from prison.The film follows their misfortunes over four days.
Director: Cathal Nally | Stars: Les Martin, Declan Mills, Jenny Lee Masterson, Alan Sherlock
Votes: 155
72. Sinners (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Set in the ultra conservative Ireland of the 60s, Catholic Theresa is in trouble in a country where women are punished if they become pregnant out of wedlock.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Anne-Marie Duff, Doireann Ní Chorragáin, Siomha Murray, Niamh McGrath
Votes: 190
73. Girl with Green Eyes (1964)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
In 1960s Dublin a young girl becomes involved with an older man, a much-travelled and still married land-owner.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Kean
Votes: 1,483
74. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Approved | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being led by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns
Votes: 1,523
75. The Van (1996)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Ger Ryan, Caroline Rothwell
Votes: 4,853 | Gross: $0.62M
76. Beloved Enemy (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a ... See full summary »
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 385
77. The Informer (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame
Votes: 7,178 | Gross: $2.07M
78. Out of Innocence (2016)
108 min | Crime, Drama
Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia in the HARRY POTTER films) stars in this crime drama, based on real events. After a police investigation, a young mother, confused and scared, confesses to a crime she did not commit and is charged with murder.
Director: Danny Hiller | Stars: Fiona Shaw, Alun Armstrong, Judith Roddy, Nick Dunning
Votes: 89
79. Young Cassidy (1965)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century.
Directors: Jack Cardiff, John Ford | Stars: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 1,325
80. Odd Man Out (1947)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick
Votes: 11,417
81. No Stone Unturned (I) (2017)
PG | 111 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.
Director: Alex Gibney
Votes: 763
82. The Pipe (2010)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Drama
What do people do, when the law prevents them from protecting themselves? Documentary film on the small Irish village that stood up to Big Oil.
Director: Risteard O'Domhnaill | Stars: Bertie Ahern, Mary Corduff, Willie Corduff, Maura Harrington
Votes: 250
83. Atlantic (2016)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, News
Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their exploitation on the environment in various countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
Director: Risteard O'Domhnaill | Star: Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 83
84. The Forgotten Maggies (2009)
51 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
The documentary focuses on the human rights aspect of the Magdalene Laundries and shows how State and Church colluded to remand and keep these women against their will. The film challenges ... See full summary »
Director: Steven O'Riordan
Votes: 19
85. Sex in a Cold Climate (1998 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, History
Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty".
Director: Steve Humphries | Stars: Dervla Kirwan, Martha Cooney, Christina Mulcahy, Phyllis Valentine
Votes: 404
86. Shelter me: Apollo House (2018)
64 min | Documentary
As the homeless problem in Ireland seemed to go unnoticed by those in power, housing activists, well-known public figures, including Film Director Jim Sheridan, Musicians Glen Hansard , ... See full summary »
Director: Zahara Moufid | Stars: Jim Sheridan, Glen Hansard, Hozier, Brendan Ogle
Votes: 11
87. Nuala: A Life and Death (2011)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
In her late 50s Nuala O'Faolain wrote a memoir that sold a million copies and shocked the Irish public with its revelations of her sexual history and the bizarre manner of upbringing. She ... See full summary »
Directors: Patrick Farrelly, Kate O'Callaghan
Votes: 15
88. Waveriders (2008)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
The untold story of big-wave surfing in Ireland.
Director: Joel Conroy | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Kelly Slater, Richie Fitzgerald, Gabe Davies
Votes: 168
89. It's Not Yet Dark (2016)
81 min | Documentary
It's Not Yet Dark tells the ground breaking story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a talented young Irish film maker with ALS (MND), as he embarks on directing his first feature film through the use of his eyes and eye gaze technology.
Director: Frankie Fenton | Stars: Simon Fitzmaurice, Ruth Fitzmaurice, Damien Fitzmaurice, Florence Fitzmaurice
Votes: 250 | Gross: $0.00M
90. We Ourselves (2018)
96 min | Drama
An unconventional film dealing with the lives of seven Irish friends over a period of more than two decades.
Director: Paul Mercier | Stars: Caitríona Ennis, Gavin Drea, Seána Kerslake, Paul Reid
Votes: 24
91. Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home.
Director: Damien O'Donnell | Stars: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Alan King
Votes: 16,025 | Gross: $0.02M
92. Grabbers (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.
Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Killian Coyle, Stuart Graham, Michael Hough, Richard Coyle
Votes: 19,524
93. Hidden Agenda (1990)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch
Votes: 4,603 | Gross: $1.03M
94. The Dig (2018)
Not Rated | 97 min | Thriller
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim's father searching for the body. Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of him is to help him dig.
Directors: Andy Tohill, Ryan Tohill | Stars: Moe Dunford, Emily Taaffe, Francis Magee, Lorcan Cranitch
Votes: 910
95. Zoo (I) (2017)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Family, History
Young Tom Hall (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save "Buster" the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941.
Director: Colin McIvor | Stars: Toby Jones, Seamus O'Hara, Penelope Wilton, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 1,427
96. Ordinary Love (2019)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Stars: Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Esh Alladi, Melanie Clark Pullen
Votes: 5,235
97. Animals (I) (2019)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
Best friends Laura and Tyler fellow deviants, enablers and co-dependents. Laura is getting married and their booze and drug-fuelled Thelma and Louise life is in jeopardy and finds herself suspended between the two unable to give either up.
Director: Sophie Hyde | Stars: Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Amy Molloy, Kwaku Fortune
Votes: 2,295
98. Eamon (2009)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
A family holiday brings to a head the destructive love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with behavioral problems, his selfish mother Grace and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.
Director: Margaret Corkery | Stars: Robert Donnelly, Amy Kirwan, Darren Healy, Deirdre Monaghan
Votes: 144
99. Finian's Rainbow (1968)
G | 141 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
An Irish immigrant and his daughter move into a town in the American South with a magical piece of gold that will change people's lives, including a struggling farmer and African American citizens threatened by a bigoted politician.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks
Votes: 4,177 | Gross: $11.60M
100. Celtic Legends: Irish Legends (1999 Video)
50 min | Documentary
This revealing program shows that the search for the Celtic Gods of Britian is an extremely difficult task. Their origins are shrouded in mystery, but they are kept alive in a series of ... See full summary »
Stars: Christina Harrison, Paul Jackson, Richard Marsh, Daithi O'Hagain
Votes: 11
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