Jim Sheridan's drama with 7 Oscar nominations, about a man's coerced confession of an I.R.A. bombing he didn't commit, which imprisons his father as well. With Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead role.
Kubrick's multi Oscar winning screen adaption of the novel by Thackeray about an Irish rogue who seeks fortune and climbs the social ladder by through his marrigage to the widow of a European nobleman…
Jim Sheridan's adaption of John B. Keane's play about a man obsessed with a piece of land, with an Oscar nominated performance of Richard Harris in the lead role as "Bull" McCabe.
John Ford's Oscar winning classic about a retired Irish American boxer (John Wayne) who returns to the village where he was born in the west of Ireland and falls in love with a local woman (Maureen O'…
Brendan Gleeson starring as an unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality, who is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
Anna Brady travels to Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy, because according to Irish tradition a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap year day must accept it.
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. Won an Oscar for Best Original Song ("…
Romantic drama starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as two young Irish lovers who leave Ireland for America when there is trouble with the girl's father.
Romantic drama starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler, in which a young widow travels to Ireland after discovering 10 messages left by her late husband with the intention to help ease her pain and le…
Daniel Day-Lewis's Oscar winning performance as Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy and learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. Another Oscar went to Br…
Oscar nominated comedy drama, based on a novel by Roddy Doyle, about the travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the …
Neil Jordan's film about Michael Collins (Liam Neeson), who plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely …
Steve McQueen's biographical drama about the Irish republican Bobby Sands, who leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike. With Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands.
In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden (Cillian Murphy), comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender …
The Oscar nominated drama, based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the pove…
David Lean's Oscar winning drama about the love affair of a married Irish woman with a British officer against the backdrop of village life and gun running by Irish rebels in the early part of the 20t…
Drama based on the true abuse that occurred in the Magdalene Laundries. It follows three young Irish women who struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a M…
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a h…
Gritty realism meets Irish mythology when Grandpa Ward gives the horse Tír na nÓg from the Land of Eternal Youth of Irish legend to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin.
John Hustons last film, a screen adaption of a story by James Joyce, with Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann in the lead roles. Nominated for two Oscars.
Adaption of Roddy Doyle's novel about Sharon Curley, a 20 year old girl living with her parents and many brothers and sisterswho, when she gets herself pregnant and refuses to name the father, becomes…
Sports drama with Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead role, telling the story of a Belfast man who after serving a lengthy prison sentence for involvement with the I.R.A. attempts to steer clear of sectarian…
Drama based on the true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in…
Probably the best TV production ever by the Irish national broadcaster RTE, this miniseries about life in the Dublin tenements in the years before the Easter Rising of 1916, is an adaption of James Pl…
Drama about the lives of the five unmarried Mundy sisters in a village in rural Ireland in the 1930's, with Meryl Streep in the lead role and supporting performances by Michael Gambon and Rhys Ifans.
Hilarious romantic comedy about a the adventures and misadventures of a prim and proper Dublin school teacher after he meets a woman with a totally different outlook on life. Irish take on stuffy gent…
Drama about Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan), an unemployed Irishman in the 1950's whose children are put into court run orphanages after his wife leaves them, and his fight to get his children back.
Comedy drama directed by and starring Anjelica Huston, based on a novel by Bendan O'Carroll of Mrs Brown's Boys fame, about a woman, who is thrown into emotional turmoil and financial crisis after her…
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Our world is allegedly filled with hidden treasures and magical beings. Which of the following movies would you'd be least surprised to find out was an actual documentary on real world existence of s…
A song can either capture the mood and spirit of the film with nothing but simple words and a catchy melody or magically transcend the limits of its narrative. And sometimes it can do without the pret…
Some great entries in the genre for this decade, including a couple of best-picture Oscar winners as well as some cult movies to boot (hence the inclusion of Western comedies). Which of these '90s Wes…
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