Here we've displayed a list of the best Belfast, Northern Ireland films : A Sense of Loss(1972), Odd Man Out(1947), Mickybo and Me(2004), Some Mother's Son(1996), Zoo(2017), Closing the Ring(2007), An Everlasting Piece(2000), Titanic Town(1998), This Is the Sea(1997), The Gentle Gunman(1952), The Most Fertile Man in Ireland(2000), Nothing Personal(1995) ... ...
Documentary
USA|Switzerland
1972
135 Minutes
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Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1947
115 Minutes
James Mason Robert Newton Kathleen Ryan Robert Beatty William Hartnell F.J. McCormick Fay Compton Beryl Measor Cyril Cusack Dan O'Herlihy Roy Irving
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A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Comedy, Drama
UK|France|Ireland
2004
94 Minutes
Adrian Dunbar Ciarán Hinds Gina McKee Susan Lynch Julie Walters Niall Wright Brendan Caskey Charlie Clarke Gemma Hills John Joe McNeill
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This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Drama
Ireland|USA
1996
112 Minutes
Helen Mirren Fionnula Flanagan Aidan Gillen David O'Hara John Lynch Tim Woodward Tom Hollander Ciarán Hinds Gerard McSorley Geraldine O'Rawe Dan Gordon
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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.
War, Drama, History
Ireland|UK
2017
97 Minutes
Art Parkinson Penelope Wilton Toby Jones Ian McElhinney Amy Huberman Damian O'Hare Stephen Hagan Ian O'Reilly James Stockdale Pauline Hutton
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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.
Romance, Drama
UK|Canada|USA
2007
119 Minutes
Shirley MacLaine Christopher Plummer Mischa Barton Gregory Smith Martin McCann Dylan Roberts Gene Dinovi Neve Campbell
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A young man searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a U.S. World War II bomber gunner who crashed in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 1, 1944.
Comedy
USA
2000
103 Minutes
Barry McEvoy Brian F. O'Byrne Anna Friel Colum Convey Billy Connolly Pauline McLynn Ruth McCabe Laurence Kinlan Des McAleer
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Colm is a Catholic, and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast, Northern Ireland in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead, they became business partners. After ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1998
100 Minutes
Julie Walters Ciarán Hinds Nuala O'Neill James Loughran Barry Loughran Elizabeth Donaghy Ciaran McMenamin Jaz Pollock Caolan Byrne Aingeal Grehan
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A Belfast, Northern Ireland housewife takes up the peace cause, which causes her family trouble with I.R.A. sympathizers.
Drama
Ireland
1997
104 Minutes
Samantha Morton Ross McDade Richard Harris Gabriel Byrne John Lynch Dearbhla Molloy Ian McElhinney Marc O'Shea Stella McCusker Mary McGuckian Des McAleer
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Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
Drama
UK
1952
86 Minutes
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In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.
Comedy
UK|Ireland
2000
91 Minutes
Kris Marshall Kathy Kiera Clarke Bronagh Gallagher James Nesbitt Kenneth Cranham Tara Lynne O'Neill Pauline McLynn Olivia Nash Marc O'Shea Alvaro Lucchesi Toyah Willcox
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The most fertile man in Ireland is in serious demand.
Drama
1995
86 Minutes
Ian Hart John Lynch James Frain Michael Gambon Gary Lydon Ruaidhri Conroy Maria Doyle Kennedy Jeni Courtney Gerard McSorley Gareth O'Hare
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Sectarian violence nourishes Protestant gang members (Ian Hart, James Frain) and envelops a Roman Catholic's (John Lynch) children in 1970s Belfast.