Irish Films
My listing and some of the best and not so best films made in Ireland.
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- DirectorDudi AppletonStarsKris MarshallKathy Kiera ClarkeBronagh GallagherThe most fertile man in Ireland is in serious demand.
- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsPatrick McGoohanSylvia SymsWalter MackenIn Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
- DirectorDarragh ByrneStarsColin MorganColm MeaneyMilka AhlrothFred 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 attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.
- DirectorThaddeus O'SullivanStarsMartin SheenStephen ReaTrystan GravelleA small town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood and a man and his conscience.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJohn WayneMaureen O'HaraBarry FitzgeraldA 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.
- DirectorLenny AbrahamsonStarsTom MurphyMark O'HalloranGavin Dowdall2 heroin addicts negotiate their way through Dublin's city centre, encountering friends and family as they search for their next fix.
- StarsElisabeth Dermot WalshLiam CunninghamEleanor MethvenAfter 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.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsColin FarrellAlicja BachledaDervla KirwanAn Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.
- DirectorBob QuinnStarsCyril CusackDonal McCannNiall ToibinA poitín maker attempts to avoid the attentions of the Gardaí in Connemara in the west of Ireland.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsBrendan GleesonAdrian DunbarSean McGinleyThe 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.
- DirectorIan FitzgibbonStarsGabriel ByrneCillian MurphyMichael McElhattonA gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
- DirectorAisling WalshStarsAidan QuinnIain GlenMarc WarrenThe 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 1939 Ireland.
- DirectorConor McPhersonStarsCiarán HindsIben HjejleAidan QuinnIn a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
- DirectorDavid GregoryStarsJosslyn DeCrostaErica RhodesDavid LombardAn American family visiting their Irish roots accidentally stumbles on a horde of bloodthirsty mutant children.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCameron DiazDaniel Day-LewisIn 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher; his father's killer.
- DirectorIan PowerStarsDemián BichirKerry CondonJames CosmoThe citizens of Ireland's County Cork come to the aid of a South American pilot who has crash landed in their town.
- DirectorPaul FraserStarsTim CreedPaul CourtneyTj GriffinSet 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; Paudie, 11, cocky, not so bright, and dreaming of playing in goals for Liverpool; and Scwally, 7, naive, and obsessed with Star Wars (despite having never actually seen the films). Using a battered bread van, the brothers embark on a journey across the wild Irish landscape on Halloween weekend, grinding gears and screaming at one another to get to an arcade machine in Ballybunion. Along the way they are detoured by escalating brotherly battles in an offbeat, moving journey that can only lead them home.
- DirectorIan FitzgibbonStarsDylan MoranMark DohertyKeith AllenA broke, jobless actor and a broke, jobless screenwriter set out to make a movie and then find that life starts imitating art.
- DirectorJohn McIlduffStarsAoife DuffinNigel O'NeillShaun Paul McGrathBehold the Lamb is darkly comic road movie that follows Eddie, a fifty year old overweight and depressed accountant and Liz, a young tearaway as they travel across Northern Ireland to pick up a lamb.
- DirectorJohn CarneyStarsGlen HansardMarkéta IrglováHugh WalshA 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.
- DirectorTom HallStarsArdal O'HanlonEwen BremnerOwen RoeTwo Irishmen are heavily in debt and need a lot of money quickly. They come up with the idea to open a Famine theme park.
- DirectorPeter MullanStarsEileen WalshDorothy DuffyNora-Jane NooneThree young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.Brilliant film about the life of a prisoner to the Catholic reform schools in Ireland.
- DirectorSteph GreenStarsMaxine PeakeEdward MacLiamWill ForteAn American doctor travels to Ireland to study the Casey family after 38-year-old Conor suffers a stroke which changes his personality, leaving dynamo wife and mother Vanetia to run the show.
- DirectorJohn Michael McDonaghStarsBrendan GleesonChris O'DowdKelly ReillyAfter he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
- DirectorLance DalyStarsKelly ThorntonFionnula FlanaganPat ShorttTells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.