Irish catholic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant irish catholic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, dramatic, intense, interesting and feel good films and TV shows about / with irish catholic, dialogue, mentor, storytelling, family relations, irish american, death, redemption, brutality and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Ireland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as irish catholic: The Brothers McMullen (1995), Caddyshack (1980), Billy the Kid (2022), State of Grace (1990), One Man's Hero (1999), It's All Relative (2003), The Family McMullen (2025), Bad Sisters (2022), Black Irish (2007), Angela's Ashes (1999).
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in ...
Style:
sexy, political, bleak, bloody, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rebellion, civil war, ira, politics, independence, resistance, rebel, war, injustice, abuse, occupation, debate ...
Time:
1920s, year 2006, 20th century, post world war one, 2000s ...
Place:
ireland, england, northern ireland, dublin ireland, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced ...
Style:
independent film, talky, realistic, touching, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
true love, love, irish catholic, friendship, temptation, guilt, marriage, loss of father, abusive father, bad father, high school, bromance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, ireland, long island, usa, boston ...
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist ...
Style:
funny, slapstick, parody, light, intense ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, adult
Plot:
golf, country club, female nudity, nude girl, teenage girl, nudity, public nudity, swimming pool, pregnant teenager, bare breasts, peeping tom, passionate kiss ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
nebraska, usa, seattle, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, romantic drama, bilingual
Plot:
american history, gunfighter, gunslinger, female nudity, outlaw gang, fast draw, lifestyle, criminal, cowboy, criminal gang, gang, bandit ...
Time:
victorian era, 1870s, 19th century
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister ...
Style:
neo noir, intense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, mafia, organized crime, st. patrick's day, undercover, irish gangster, homecoming, friendship, working undercover, irish mob, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War, Western
Country: Mexico, Spain, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a group of mostly Irish and other immigrants of the Catholic faith who deserted to Mexico after encountering religious and ...
Style:
epic, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
military, soldier, immigrant, army, heroes, foe turned friend, culture clash, society, tragic hero, propaganda, medieval, anger ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, year 1999
Place:
mexico, latin america, ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
It's All Relative is an ABC sitcom about a man who dates the adoptive daughter of a gay couple, which forces their very different families to learn to coexist.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sitcom, light, realistic ...
Plot:
gay parent, male male relationship, gay, family relations, nothing goes right, class differences, protestant, culture clash, eccentric family, disorder, family problems, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, harvard university
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
30 years after the events of The Brothers McMullen, romantic entanglements plague a now fiftysomething Barry McMullen and his twentysomething kids, as well as his brother Patrick and widowed sister-in-law Molly, who are also facing similar ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic comedy, romantic
Plot:
family drama, siblings, relationships, bittersweet, midlife crisis, intimate, brotherhood, slice of life, parenting, healing, reconciliation, loyalty ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, UK, Ireland
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for each other. When their brother-in-law winds up dead, his life insurers launch an investigation to prove malicious intent—and set their sights on the sisters, all of whom had ample reason to ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, witty, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, lesbian, family relations, parents, sister, narcissism, investigation, death, husband, murder of husband ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In South Boston, where Irish roots run deep and Catholic tradition reigns, two brothers face similar hardships but lead far different lives. While older brother Terry descends into drugs and crime, 16-year-old Cole vies to make the state baseball ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
baseball, teenage boy, coming of age, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, family relations, confession, youth, family life, parents and children, teenage life, hospital ...
Place:
boston, usa, ireland
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
grim, tense, depressing, talky, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, drug addiction, redemption, actor, family life, alcohol abuse, human nature, actor's life, lifestyle, morphine, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1912, year 1962, 60s ...
Place:
connecticut, ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No it's a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life -- a flood. Sixteen years later she sets ...
Style:
sentimental, technicolor, funny, retro, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
titanic, broadway, disaster, dancing, dance, skinny dipping, coal mine, triumph, progress, coal, coal mining, mining ...
Time:
victorian era, 60s, 1910s, 90s
Place:
colorado, america, europe, usa, denver colorado ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style:
clever, suspenseful, period piece, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, prohibition era, mentor, shootout, smuggling, prohibition, police, tax evasion, gunfight ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
chicago, america, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on Martin McGartland's real life story as a informant for the British Police to spy on the IRA. Taking place from 1987-1991, Martin (Jim Sturgess) works his way up the ranks of the IRA, while keeping his informant with the police Fergis ...
Style:
sexy, factual, brutal, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ira, brutality, weapons, crime gone awry, storytelling, terrorism, secret agent, snitch, danger, state affairs, undercover, spy ...
Time:
80s, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, canada, northern ireland, europe, scotland ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Right out of high school, Sean Finnerty got his girlfriend Claudia pregnant. Now she’s his wife, and at just 32, he’s somehow found himself with 14-year-old daughter Lily, two little boys, and a constant struggle between his need to be ...
Style:
sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
everyday life, stupidity, family values, dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, eccentric family, disorder, youth, nothing goes right, society, teenage life ...
Time:
y2k, 2000s, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.
Style:
surreal, sitcom, semi serious, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
priest, clergy, friendship, catholic priest, bishop, against the odds, family relations, conservative, eccentric family, family life, small town, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, fictional island, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mermaid, small town, sea, mysterious stranger, daughter, longing, fisherman, self discovery, character study, secrets, solitude ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
ireland, europe, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
childhood, judaism, friendship between boys, afterlife, friendship, coming of age, boy, youth, catholicism, mentor, rabbi, religion ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 1930s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, relationships, wedding, taxi driver, unlikely couple, dangerous attraction, love of one's life, sibling relationship, love affair, siblings relations, husband wife relationship, taxi ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, ...
Style:
factual, tense, serious, suspenseful, period piece ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nazi, world war two, catholic, vatican, soldier, fighting the system, military, uninhibited rivalry, clergy, politics, hopes, survival ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, germany, california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, stylized, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, preschool
Plot:
dog, dating, single father, teacher, canine, thanksgiving, father daughter relationship, divorce, sister sister relationship, online dating, pets, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style:
tense, rough, bloody, epic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, gang, vengeance, gangster, organized crime, street gang, violence, betrayal, racism, courage, violent, gang war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, 50s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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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
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, political, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, murder, terrorist, assassin, friendship, police investigation, tragic event, vengeance, betrayal, revenge, devil ...
Time:
90s, year 1972, 70s, year 1992
Place:
northern ireland, ireland, new york, bronx new york city, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
Style:
teen, realistic, talky, harsh, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, youth, prank, boy, friendship, friend, adaptation, dark humor, juvenile delinquency, friends, high school life ...
Time:
70s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially poor state.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, motivational, uplifting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
boxing, underdog, human spirit, great depression, boxer, biopic, athlete's life, roman empire, poverty, fight scenes, depression, protective male ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2006, 1920s ...
Place:
netherlands, usa, new jersey, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old ...
Style:
romantic drama, political, realistic, bleak, artsy ...
Plot:
boxing, love, boxer, fighter, prison, politics, terrorism, redemption, martial arts, conflict, struggle, trouble ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, london, poland
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sheep farm in Ireland to fight for justice in Boston.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, gunfight, assassin, murder, violence, violent, justice, organized crime, betrayal, friendship, priest ...
Time:
year 2009, 1950s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
boston, ireland, massachusetts, usa, new york
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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 ...
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