the best and the most underrated IRISH movies
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1. Once (I) (2007)
R | 86 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick
Votes: 121,302 | Gross: $9.44M
2. The Butcher Boy (1997)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle
Votes: 11,475 | Gross: $1.82M
3. 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
4. Parked (III) (2010)
94 min | Drama
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets ... See full summary »
Director: Darragh Byrne | Stars: Colin Morgan, Colm Meaney, Milka Ahlroth, Stuart Graham
Votes: 2,745
5. 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: 3,184 | Gross: $4.79M
6. In the Name of the Father (1993)
R | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King
Votes: 187,192 | Gross: $25.01M
7. Ondine (2009)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan, Alison Barry
Votes: 22,646 | Gross: $0.55M
8. Kings (I) (2007)
88 min | Drama
A group of men reunite for a friend's funeral.
Director: Tom Collins | Stars: Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy, Donncha Crowley
Votes: 655
9. Savage (II) (2009)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and its consequences.
Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Darren Healy, Nora-Jane Noone, Gerry Shanahan, Brian Fortune
Votes: 785
10. 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: 4,857 | Gross: $0.62M
11. The Quiet Man (1952)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond
Votes: 42,412 | Gross: $10.55M
12. 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
13. The Secret of Kells (2009)
Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.
Directors: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey | Stars: Evan McGuire, Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally, Christen Mooney
Votes: 38,311 | Gross: $0.69M
14. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson
Votes: 24,555 | Gross: $0.83M
15. Veronica Guerin (2003)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 21,899 | Gross: $1.57M
16. The MatchMaker (1997)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Marcy is an assistant to Senator John McGlory, who is having problems with a re-election campaign. Desperate for Irish votes, McGlory's chief of staff Nick sends Marcy to Ireland to trace ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Joffe | Stars: Janeane Garofalo, David O'Hara, Milo O'Shea, Jay O. Sanders
Votes: 5,941 | Gross: $3.38M
17. 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: 1,967
18. The Field (1990)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty
Votes: 6,773 | Gross: $1.41M
19.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Snapper
(1993)
R | 91 min | Drama
20 year old Irish girl Sharon Curly lives at home with her large family. But notoriety in her neighbourhood suddenly arrives when, after a night out on the town, she becomes pregnant and refuses to divulge the identity of the baby's father.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Eanna MacLiam
Votes: 6,126 | Gross: $3.32M
20. Sweety Barrett (1998)
TV-14 | 92 min | Crime, Drama
Sweety Barret is a big man with a gentle nature, who is not exactly known for his brain power. He loses his job with a travelling circus and is stranded in an Irish village, where he gets caught up in a local vendetta.
Director: Stephen Bradley | Stars: Brendan O'Carroll, Brendan Gleeson, Tony Rohr, Andrew Scott
Votes: 292
21. Intermission (2003)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence.
Director: John Crowley | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson
Votes: 16,601 | Gross: $0.90M
22. How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
R | 99 min | Drama
This drama is set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney ('Colm Meany') sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty - the most powerful man in town, who ... See full summary »
Director: Goran Paskaljevic | Stars: Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Cillian Murphy, Kerry Condon
Votes: 940
23. Guiltrip (1995)
90 min | Thriller
Army corporal Liam and his wife live on a housing estate at the edge of a small Irish town. Late one night Liam arrives home drunk, and the bitter arguments that develop between them result... See full summary »
Director: Gerard Stembridge | Stars: Andrew Connolly, Jasmine Russell, Peter Hanly, Pauline McLynn
Votes: 81
24. Downtime (1997)
90 min | Romance, Thriller
Chrissy contemplates suicide with her son. Rob, a former police psychologist, intervenes and asks her on a date. The two, along with Chrissy's son and elderly Pat, become trapped in an elevator after a drunken gang damages it.
Director: Bharat Nalluri | Stars: Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper
Votes: 264
25. Trojan Eddie (1996)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Eddie, a small town ex-con, discovers he has talent for selling anything and everything. Eddie sees a way to rise above the low life by setting up on his own. What he didn't bargain for, was the murder and mayhem along the way.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Stephen Rea, Richard Harris, Stuart Townsend, Aislín McGuckin
Votes: 327
26. Ryan's Daughter (1970)
R | 200 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Christopher Jones
Votes: 10,686 | Gross: $30.85M
27. Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Gerard McSorley, Catherine McCormack
Votes: 4,033 | Gross: $2.29M
28. Evelyn (2002)
PG | 94 min | Drama
Desmond's wife leaves him and their 3 kids after Christmas 1953. As he's unemployed in Dublin, the authorities place the kids in orphanages; when he finds a job, he tries to get his kids back.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, Sophie Vavasseur
Votes: 7,128 | Gross: $1.48M
29. Angelos (1982)
R | 126 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A handsome young Athenian attempts to escape his abusive alcoholic father and the grinding poverty of his daily life by falling in love with a macho sailor who promises him a better life.
Director: Giorgos Katakouzinos | Stars: Michalis Maniatis, Dionysis Xanthos, Katerina Helmy, Vasilis Tsaglos
Votes: 431
30. Hunger (2008)
Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw
Votes: 73,572 | Gross: $0.15M
31. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Young Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally, Pat Slowey
Votes: 9,875 | Gross: $6.10M
32. 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: 8,908 | Gross: $4.37M
33. 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: 19,529
34. 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
35. 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: 1,962 | Gross: $0.08M
36. King of the Travellers (2012)
PG-13 | 80 min | Drama
In the Travelling community, a young man must put his past behind him and settle a long running feud between two families so he can be with the love of his life.
Director: Mark O'Connor | Stars: John Connors, Michael Collins, Peter Coonan, Packy Lee
Votes: 346
37. 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: 7,181 | Gross: $2.07M
38. The Guard (2011)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an uptight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
Director: John Michael McDonagh | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Ronan Collins
Votes: 95,651 | Gross: $5.36M
39. Waking Ned Devine (1998)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Director: Kirk Jones | Stars: Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan, Susan Lynch
Votes: 28,047 | Gross: $24.79M
40. Some Mother's Son (1996)
R | 112 min | Drama, History
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Director: Terry George | Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara
Votes: 2,991 | Gross: $0.61M
41. 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: 523
42. 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: 2,231 | Gross: $0.14M
43. Stay (I) (2013)
TV-14 | 99 min | Drama
A couples happy existence is upended when Abbey gets pregnant and Dermot is too immature to consider the idea of fatherhood, despite being in his 50's.
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld | Stars: Aidan Quinn, Taylor Schilling, Gina Moxley, Barry Keoghan
Votes: 846
44. Taffin (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Megahy | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child
Votes: 2,116 | Gross: $0.16M
45. Man About Dog (2004)
85 min | Comedy
Three losers leave town owing $50k to a bookie. They go on a journey involving drinking, gambling on greyhounds, and hiring prostitutes, leading them into further debt and misadventures.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Allen Leech, Tom Murphy, Ciaran Nolan, Sean McGinley
Votes: 1,094
46. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,816 | Gross: $14.74M
47. The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, War
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald
Votes: 54,649 | Gross: $1.83M
48. How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1997)
80 min | Comedy
"How to cheat the Leaving Certificate ?" : a question posed by thousands of students every year in France... and Ireland. A group of pupils set up an elaborate masterplan to beat the system and top the points race.
Director: Graham Jones | Stars: Eamon Morrissey, Aileen O'Connor, Garret Baker, Lee Dunne
Votes: 73
49. 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: 14,376
50. 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: 9,372
51. The Commitments (1991)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Votes: 38,814 | Gross: $14.92M
52. Holy Mackerel
Comedy | Announced
A dead woman comes to life in her coffin and the local priest declares the event a miracle.
53. 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: 25,763 | Gross: $0.77M
54. 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: 22,332 | Gross: $5.80M
55. Circle of Friends (1995)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Three women, who've been friends since childhood, meet at university in Dublin in 1957. Student and boyfriend life begins.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Geraldine O'Rawe, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 9,238 | Gross: $23.40M
56. Widows' Peak (1994)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows' Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Hostility escalates between her and an Irish spinster.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Joan Plowright, Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar
Votes: 1,881 | Gross: $6.24M
57. P.S. I Love You (2007)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Director: Richard LaGravenese | Stars: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Harry Connick Jr., Lisa Kudrow
Votes: 218,443 | Gross: $53.70M
58. What Richard Did (2012)
TV-MA | 88 min | Drama
A promising young man about to start university suddenly throws his life into uncertainty when he accidentally commits a serious crime.
Director: Lenny Abrahamson | Stars: Jack Reynor, Fionn Ó Loingsigh, Gavin Drea, Patrick Gibson
Votes: 5,324
59. 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: 1,524
60. 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
61. Da (1988)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Director: Matt Clark | Stars: Barnard Hughes, Martin Sheen, William Hickey, Karl Hayden
Votes: 513 | Gross: $0.60M
62. Cal (1984)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller, Romance
A young man fraught with guilt longs to defect from the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is drawn to the widow of a slain Protestant policeman but must hide his secret that he was involved in her husband's murder and evade the authorities.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh
Votes: 1,633
63. A Man of No Importance (1994)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus.
Director: Suri Krishnamma | Stars: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald
Votes: 1,184 | Gross: $0.93M
64. December Bride (1990)
88 min | Drama
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of the father.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves, Ciarán Hinds, Patrick Malahide
Votes: 365 | Gross: $0.07M
65. Circle of Friends (1995)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Three women, who've been friends since childhood, meet at university in Dublin in 1957. Student and boyfriend life begins.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Geraldine O'Rawe, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 9,238 | Gross: $23.40M
66. I Went Down (1997)
R | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Irish action comedy. An ex-con is forced into taking on a new task by a ruthless crime-boss, but finds he is hindered by the partner he has been teamed up with. However, he soon realizes they must work together if they are to survive.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Peter McDonald, Antoine Byrne, David Wilmot
Votes: 2,278 | Gross: $0.41M
67. Disco Pigs (2001)
TV-MA | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Pig and Runt - born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by blood.
Director: Kirsten Sheridan | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Sarah Gallagher, Charles Bark
Votes: 5,214
68. When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
A teacher meets a woman who turns out to be a thief and they introduce each other to new things.
Director: Kieron J. Walsh | Stars: Peter McDonald, Flora Montgomery, Marie Mullen, Pauline McLynn
Votes: 1,333 | Gross: $0.13M
69. Bloom (I) (2003)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
Director: Sean Walsh | Stars: Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball, Hugh O'Conor, Neilí Conroy
Votes: 402
70. 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: 3,302
71. Omagh (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama
An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker, Stuart Graham
Votes: 1,717
72. 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: 16,029 | Gross: $0.02M
73. Watermelon (2003 TV Movie)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marion Keyes' story about a young woman and her baby, Kate.
Director: Kieron J. Walsh | Stars: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán McMenamin, Sean McGinley
Votes: 401
74. Nothing Personal (1995)
R | 86 min | Drama
A raw depiction of the Belfast, Northern Ireland "troubles" as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, this movie focuses on the tribulations of Kenny (James Frain), ... See full summary »
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon
Votes: 530
75. 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: 13,256 | Gross: $0.01M
76. 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: 4,608 | Gross: $1.03M
77. The Informant (1997)
R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
A young I.R.A. member is forced to turn informant on his comrades, when he is caught in an assassination attempt on a judge.
Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Anthony Brophy, Cary Elwes, Timothy Dalton, Maria Lennon
Votes: 675
78. Resurrection Man (1998)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Evans | Stars: David Williamson, Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, George Shane
Votes: 831
79. 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: 9,251 | Gross: $1.21M
80. About Adam (2000)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.
Director: Gerard Stembridge | Stars: Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Tommy Tiernan, Frances O'Connor
Votes: 6,796 | Gross: $0.15M
81. The Crying Game (1992)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson
Votes: 60,079 | Gross: $62.55M
82. Lipservice (1998)
18 min | Comedy, Short
A look at exam day in a modern Irish school, where students try to pass their oral Irish language exams, even though they have little knowledge and less affection for the subject.
Director: Paul Mercier | Stars: Sean McGinley, Barry Ward, Karl Quinn, Joan Sheehy
Votes: 37
83. The Tiger's Tail (2006)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 1,466
84. 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
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