Movies like The Field
If you like "The Field" you are looking for realistic, talky and serious movies about / with farmer, fight, village, human spirit, life is a bitch, society and hopes themes of Drama and Thriller genre shot in Ireland.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
The Field (1990)
7K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, bleak, psychological, suspense, rough, independent film, sentimental, road movie ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
farmer, fight, village, human spirit, life is a bitch, society, hopes, love, death, tragedy, guilt, small town, storytelling, real estate, threat, hunger, family relations, starvation, dancing, horse, murder, priest, church, farm, dancer ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
ireland, europe, boston, american
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to The Field
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and crying films with plots about death, murder, family relations, society, father son relationship, cigarette smoking and runaway mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres. Some movies like The Field: My Left Foot (1989), The Inheritors (1998), Michael Collins (1996), Angela's Ashes (1999), Five Minutes of Heaven (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style:
inspirational, unusual plot structure, touching, sentimental, sad ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, paralysis, handicapped, medical, painter, poet, art ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1989, 1930s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, allegory
Plot:
village life, poverty, master servant relationship, swindle, sex, class differences, sexuality, manor, last will and testament, farm, rape, farm hand ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 1930s, 1890s, 19th century ...
Place:
austria, europe, america, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Michael Collins 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 independent Irish republic.
Style:
political, brutal, harsh, factual, intense ...
Plot:
politics, irish history, civil war, terrorism, revolution, biopic, ira, freedom, british empire, civil unrest, independence movement, fight ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place:
ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style:
sad, touching, depressing, compassionate, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, ira, injustice, parents and children, youth, family relations, depression, life is a bitch, death, children, rich and poor, human nature ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, 90s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
psychological, intense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
redemption, vengeance, reconciliation, murder, memory, haunted by the past, secrets, life is a bitch, acceptance, trouble, terrorism, revenge ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, year 1975, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, australia, london
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
his 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 not only owns the local pub and most ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, dark comedy ...
Plot:
scarecrow, feud, social relations, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, village life, revenge, husband wife relationship, wedding night, abusive father, lactation, unfaithfulness ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, obsession, haunted by the past, murder, hit and run, loss of daughter, tragedy, vengeance, redemption, car accident, tragic event, justice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, nebraska, los angeles, glendale california, california
Similarity:
26%
412
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, on the run, self discovery, human spirit, danger, hopes, life is a bitch, child illness, friendship, religion, fight, terrorist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
25%
729
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
boys' school, epilepsy, youth, school, man boy relationship, surrogate father, teacher student relationship, murder by drowning, neurology, epileptic seizure, schoolboy, priest ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
ireland, england, dublin ireland, london, europe ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A solitary middle-aged bachelor and a naive Irish teenager transform one another's lives to arrive at a place of recognition, redemption and wisdom in Atom Egoyan's adaptation of William Trevor's celebrated 1994 novel. Seventeen and ...
Style:
sexy, disturbing, erotic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, food, murder, insanity, loneliness, violence, outdoor sex, supermarket, hunting, politics, countryside, extreme ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, birmingham alabama, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, older woman younger man, jungle, obsessive quest, crimes of passion, danger, dysfunctional family, culture clash, greed, age-gap relationship, social relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2002, 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
malaysia, asia
Similarity:
23%
14K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An older, reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means ...
Style:
suspense, touching, tense, serious, psychological horror ...
Plot:
revenge, twists and turns, violence, vigilante, justice, dog, redemption, murder, small town, greed, pets, tragedy ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style:
intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
organized crime, betrayal, gangster, hitman, vengeance, violence, love triangle, murder, couple relations, haunted by the past, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, year 1983, year 1980
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.
Style:
touching, political, thought provoking, captivating, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apartheid, racism, interracial relations, self discovery, politics, racial tension, priest, third world, racial discrimination, afrikaans, narration, psychology ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1946, 19th century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style:
political, bleak, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, terrorist, prison violence, lawyer, british, working class, women, betrayal, politics, ira, struggle, prison life ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Style:
psychological, realistic, melancholic, bleak, humorous ...
Plot:
small town, friendship, society, solitude, misfit, social relations, pornographic video, loneliness, angst, friends, coming of age, small town life ...
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the Irish Midlands of 1859 an English nurse, Lib Wright, goes to a tiny village to observe what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, that a girl has survived without food for months. Tourists flock to see 11-year-old Anna ...
Style:
dramatic, costume drama, period piece, psychological, harsh ...
Plot:
anorexia, catholic, starvation, brother sister incest, nurse, renaissance, murder, tourist, survival, young girl, young woman, love ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
ireland, london, australia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
journalism, strong female character, gangster, justice, corruption, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin, uncover truth, media, tragic hero ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam, california ...
Similarity:
21%
Movie in collections
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, grief, death, family relations, buddies, youth, parents and children, society, village, accidental death, coming of age, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
murder, aging, family relations, homecoming, parents and children, clinic, family life, estrangement, resentment, family problems, siblings relations, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
africa, europe, czechoslovakia, versailles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, intense ...
Plot:
children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, single father, courtroom drama, 007 ...
Time:
50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby (Christian Bale) runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers (John Hurt), who spends his time traveling and giving burials to ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
beach, escape, nature, brain damage, ladybug, seaside, pagan, politics, children, mental illness, murder, pets ...
Time:
90s
Place:
cornwall, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Style:
sexy, suspense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
illegal immigrant, fog, rescue, immigrant, chase, down on your luck, society, ship, accidental death, murder, storm, boat ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1998, 21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
20%
Movie in collections
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, bomb, fighting the system, injustice, uncover truth, legal, redemption, human spirit, society, danger, false accusation ...
Time:
year 1998
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, political, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
war criminal, politics, world war two, investigation, murder, justice, nazi, espionage, on the run, law enforcement, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 90s
Place:
france, vichy, europe, paris france, provence ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
gangster, gang war, revenge, waitress, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, criminal heroes, danger, couples, woman in danger, murder, gang ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
brighton, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, harsh, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
violence, vengeance, violent, brutality, revenge, family relations, character study, sibling relationship, family bonds, family feud, siblings relations, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa, arkansas, southern usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
terrorism, ira, struggle, conflict, 007, spy, anglo irish relations, freedom, trouble, dishonesty, introspection, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
Similarity:
20%
10K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style:
harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, curse, juvenile delinquency, murder, homelessness, tragedy, lifestyle, danger, parents and children, single father, violence, boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, escape, small town, interracial relations, mistaken identity, gay subtext, violent content, religions or cults, disorder, criminal heroes, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south africa, canada, europe, africa, belgium ...
Similarity:
20%
Related movie lists
