Here we've displayed a list of the best Ireland films : In the Name of the Father(1993), Mattress Men(2016), Barry Lyndon(1975), Once(2006), The Magdalene Sisters(2002), The Quiet Man(1952), The Snapper(1993), Philomena(2013), Hunger(2008), The Commitments(1991), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), The Wind That Shakes the Barley(2006) ... ...
Drama
Ireland|UK
1993
132 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Pete Postlethwaite Emma Thompson John Lynch Corin Redgrave Beatie Edney Daniel Massey Alison Crosbie
thief father barrister judge friend police detective disturbing powerful inspiring ireland courtroom prison pub injustice imprisonment false accusations father/son relationship terrorism patriotism wretched excess
A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.
Comedy, Drama, Documentary
Ireland
2016
81 Minutes
Michael Flynn Paul Kelly
sales manager business owner father friend colleague eccentric amusing cheeky endearing heartwarming lighthearted offbeat house ireland shop club computer world desperation failing business debt
Trying to save his struggling mattress business, Michael Flynn reinvents himself as the eccentric online persona 'Mattress Mick', under the guidance of his friend Paul Kelly. As business begins to grow, their friendship starts to implode.
Drama
UK|USA
1975
184 Minutes
Ryan O'Neal Marisa Berenson Patrick Magee Hardy Kruger Steven Berkoff Gay Hamilton Leonard Rossiter Godfrey Quigley Arthur O'Sullivan Diana Koerner Marie Kean
soldier spy wealthy woman gambler love interest maid engaging emotional village ireland farm england romance infidelity war marriage suicide wealth fall rise
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Musical, Romance, Drama
Ireland
2006
86 Minutes
Glen Hansard Marketa Irglova Hugh Walsh Gerry Hendrick Alaistair Foley Geoff Minogue Bill Hodnett Danuse Ktrestova
singer songwriter repairman florist love interest immigrant charming emotional dreamy ireland store street household romance song and dance hope friendship love triangle love discovery
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.
Drama
Ireland|UK
2002
119 Minutes
Geraldine McEwan Anne-Marie Duff Nora-Jane Noone Dorothy Duffy Eileen Walsh Mary Murray Britta Smith Frances Healy Eithne McGuinness Rebecca Walsh Eamonn Owens
teen girl mother superior nun rebel orphan inmate bleak disturbing ireland convent school orphanage church imprisonment sexism abuse religion pregnancy rape growing up
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Drama
USA
1952
129 Minutes
John Wayne Maureen O'Hara Barry Fitzgerald Victor McLaglen Mildred Natwick Arthur Shields Ward Bond Jack MacGowran
boxer brother love interest widow doctor emotional touching church ireland united states village small town deception love confrontation wedding gambling death escape forbidden love
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.
Comedy
Ireland
1993
94 Minutes
Colm Meaney Tina Kellegher Ruth McCabe Fionnuala Murphy Patricia Laffan Deirdre O'Brien Karen Woodley
daughter mother father brother sister brash gutsy intense raw family home ireland small town illegitimate child pregnancy catholicism rumors growing up transformation 1990s
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.
Drama
UK|USA|France
2013
97 Minutes
Judi Dench Steve Coogan Michelle Fairley Barbara Jefford Anna Maxwell Martin Mare Winningham Sophie Kennedy Clark Peter Hermann Ruth McCabe
pregnant teen television reporter adopted son nun irishwoman emotional gripping heartwarming ireland convent united states city town adoption teen pregnancy search friendship discovery love quest
A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
Drama, History
Ireland|UK
2008
92 Minutes
Michael Fassbender Liam Cunningham Stuart Graham Brian Milligan Liam McMahon Helena Bereen Laine Megaw Lalor Roddy
inmate officer terrorist mother priest orderly bleak uneasy prison ireland hunger strike prison life irish republican army death politics protest fall discovery 1980s
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
Comedy, Drama, Music
Ireland|UK|USA
1991
117 Minutes
Robert Arkins Johnny Murphy Angeline Ball Michael Aherne Maria Doyle Kennedy Dave Finnegan Bronagh Gallagher Félim Gormley Glen Hansard Kenneth McCluskey Andrew Strong
promoter musician singer lighthearted moving amusing dublin ireland music friendship poverty pursuit transformation rise 1990s
Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
Drama
Ireland|UK|Denmark|Spain
2003
98 Minutes
Aidan Quinn Iain Glen Marc Warren Dudley Sutton Alan Devlin Stuart Graham John Travers Chris Newman
school principal schoolboy schoolteacher prefect irishman teacher friend rival bully intense sad emotional endearing ireland school teaching school abuse sadism courage
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 1939 Ireland.
Drama, History
Ireland|UK|Germany|Italy|Spain|France|Belgium|Switzerland|Netherlands
2006
126 Minutes
Cillian Murphy Padraic Delaney Liam Cunningham Orla Fitzgerald Mary Riordan Mary Murphy Laurence Barry Damien Kearney Máirtín de Cógáin Myles Horgan Martin Lucey
brother doctor soldier hostage prisoner of war emotional dark ireland farm household barracks siblings war death independence quest underdog 1920s
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
Comedy
UK
1937
85 Minutes
stationmaster loser sidekick gunrunner goon amusing witty unrestrained madcap ireland rural community train station gun running adventure comedy adventure pursuit 1930s
With the help of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.
Romance, Drama, History
UK|Canada|Ireland
2015
112 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Domhnall Gleeson Emory Cohen Jim Broadbent Julie Walters Jessica Paré Eve Macklin Bríd Brennan Fiona Glascott Jane Brennan Nora-Jane Noone
irishwoman mother immigrant italian friend family member charming emotional engaging ireland brooklyn boat store boardinghouse apartment immigrants homesickness love family culture clash
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Documentary
Ireland
2016
77 Minutes
documentarian young man director narrator moving heartwarming emotional inspiring ireland life disease living with disability filmmaking pursuit underdog 2010s
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.
Biography, Documentary, Music
Ireland
2001
93 Minutes
Nick Cave Philip Chevron Victoria Mary Clarke Shane MacGowan
singer-songwriter band member elvis costello friend family member somber profound ireland london concert stage studio shane macgowan alcoholism the pogues music industry punk rock folk music fall rise temptation
Music videos and archived footage of ex-Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. We follow his life from the early days in Ireland and England, through his formation of - and later dismissal from - The Pogues, to his new band The Popes.
Drama
Ireland
1990
107 Minutes
Richard Harris John Hurt Tom Berenger Sean Bean Frances Tomelty Brenda Fricker John Cowley Sean McGinley Jenny Conroy
farmer son american priest widow idiot somber dark winsome ireland town farm ecology land ownership murder family dysfunction fable fall revenge 1930s
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.
Drama
UK
1970
206 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Sarah Miles Christopher Jones Trevor Howard John Mills Leo McKern Barry Foster Arthur O'Sullivan Marie Kean Evin Crowley Barry Jackson
teacher wife british soldier bar owner villager melodramatic emotional thrilling suspenseful touching passionate ireland bar dublin village affair trust betrayal war violence
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.
Horror
USA
2018
81 Minutes
Ashleigh Dorrell Matthew O'Brien Nigel Mercier Angel Hannigan David Collins Martin Maguire Emma Healy Jennifer Hennephof Daniel Fitzgibbon Mary Geaney
hotel worker hotel guest murderer murder victim colleague creepy frightening brutal disturbing tense ireland haunted hotels serial murders escape saving the day time warp discovery escape mystery pursuit
For 5 years, Stephen McCoy attempted to document nocturnal street life in the subterranean parts of downtown Boston; People he calls 'Nightcrawlers'. Now... He's become one.
Drama
USA
1935
91 Minutes
Victor McLaglen Heather Angel Preston Foster Margot Grahame Wallace Ford Una O'Connor Joe Sawyer
drunk soldier terrorist prostitute bleak disheartening intense dark ireland dublin friendship guilt alcoholism patriotism betrayal sacrifice pursuit 1920s
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
Comedy, Drama
Ireland|UK
2014
105 Minutes
Brendan Gleeson Chris O'Dowd Kelly Reilly Aidan Gillen Dylan Moran Marie-Josée Croze Isaach De Bankolé M. Emmet Walsh Domhnall Gleeson David Wilmot Pat Shortt
father pastor emotional engaging ireland death threat confession faith mystery future
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Documentary
Ireland
2013
76 Minutes
irishman irishwoman spirited engaging endearing pub ireland brewery beer beer brewing drinking social event adventure discovery 2010s
The tradition of the Irish pub. Speaking to pub owners all over Ireland, Alex Fegan gets into the heart of what makes "the Irish pub" the institution that it is.
Drama
Switzerland|France
1981
105 Minutes
young man old man mentor drifter mentee offbeat dreamy gritty ireland rural community shed gas station eccentricity apprenticeship schemes relationships friendship fantasy discovery growing up
A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds.
Drama
Ireland
2017
94 Minutes
Niamh Algar Peter Coonan Phelim Drew Olwen Fouere Jane Herbert Adrian Hudson Beibhinn Jones Charlie Kelly Dale Leadon Bolger Hannah Mamalis Jacob McCarthy
mentally disabled person autism football player therapist friend charming emotional endearing heartwarming offbeat spirited ireland mental illness friendship society discovery 2010s
An unlikely friendship develops between the bipolar drummer of a rock band and an institutionalized teen suffering from Asperger's syndrome.
Comedy
UK|Ireland|France|USA
1998
91 Minutes
Ian Bannen David Kelly Fionnula Flanagan Susan Lynch James Nesbitt Maura O'Malley Robert Hickey Paddy Ward James Ryland Fintan McKeown Matthew Devitt
lottery winner best friend wife villager farmer claim inspector quirky amusing ireland village household church pub lottery deception death blackmail friendship teamwork quest
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
Documentary
UK
1934
74 Minutes
Colman "Tiger" King Maggie Dirrane Michael Dillane Pat Mullin
fisherman farmer wife son bleak striking ireland island aran islands survival farming family poverty fishing discovery sacrifice 1930s
In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
Drama
Ireland
1962
100 Minutes
Gary Raymond Siobhan McKenna Elspeth March Michael O'Brian Liam Redmond Niall MacGinnis
criminal tough guy son father dark gutsy ireland village violence father/son relationship romance deception bad behavior rivalry 1900s
A quiet little village, and especially a pretty young woman, falls under the spell of a charming, somewhat roguish stranger who suddenly appears one day.
Documentary
UK|Ireland
2019
93 Minutes
Kenneth Branagh Dermot Lavery
irishman irishwoman ira agent bleak intense ireland northern ireland the troubles sacrifice rivalry 20th century
Inspired by the book of the same name, it records the circumstances of every man, woman and child who died in a conflict - the Northern Irish 'Troubles.' A reminder that war is hell.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Ireland
2011
95 Minutes
Brendan Gleeson Don Cheadle Liam Cunningham David Wilmot Rory Keenan Mark Strong Fionnula Flanagan Dominique McElligott Sarah Greene Katarina Cas
guard fbi agent amusing thrilling ireland village murder case african-americans self-improvement transformation
An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an up-tight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
Drama, History
UK|Ireland|USA
1996
132 Minutes
Liam Neeson Aidan Quinn Stephen Rea Alan Rickman Julia Roberts Ian Hart Brendan Gleeson Stuart Graham Sean McGinley Gerard McSorley Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
revolutionary irishman fiancé british soldier detective rousing patriotic ireland great britain dublin irish civil war uprising assassination independence guerrilla warfare irish republican army rise quest 1920s
Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.