Anglo irish relations movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant anglo irish relations movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, political and rough films and TV shows about / with anglo irish relations, ira, irish republican army, terrorism, murder, irish, trouble, deadly, graphic violence and politics plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in UK, Ireland, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anglo irish relations: A Quiet Day in Belfast (1974), Hennessy (1975), The Glory Boys (1984), No Surrender (1985), A Prayer for the Dying (1987), The Dawning (1988), Fools of Fortune (1990), Hidden Agenda (1990), The Crying Game (1992), Patriot Games (1992).

List of anglo irish relations movies

A Quiet Day in Belfast (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
Plot: ira, anglo irish relations, irish republican army, bomb, dead children, terrorism, protestant, mistaken identity, catholic, religion, kidnapping, sniper ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, belfast
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 6.1
 699
Hennessy (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in the Seventies, Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England.
Style: political, exciting, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ira, irish republican army, revenge, anglo irish relations, terrorism, manhunt, repression, political corruption, royal family, political intrigue, political unrest, rebellion ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, london, europe, england, belfast
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 6.0
 172
The Glory Boys (1984)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
TV show
Story: Two ideologically-disparate terrorists (one from the PLO, one from the IRA) meet up in London to assassinate a visiting Israeli nuclear scientist. An alcoholic ex-government agent (Anthony Perkins) is brought out of retirement to track them down.
Plot: irish republican army, ira, anglo irish relations, israeli, palestinian, torture, terrorist, boarding house, british intelligence, assassination attempt, car accident, scientist ...
Place: london, france
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 7.1
 358
No Surrender (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Michael Angelis stars in a comedy about double booking a Catholic and Protestant night in a Liverpool nightclub.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, cult film
Plot: protestant, anglo irish relations, christmas, alcohol abuse, catholic, satire, buddies, golden years, elderly, terrorism, dangerous animal, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, northern england, england, britain
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A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Jack Higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt-ridden IRA bomber forced into "one last job"
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: gangsters, terrorism, on the run, redemption, haunted by the past, going straight, clergy, one last job, ex soldier, crime boss, irish republican army, anglo irish relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, london, europe
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 6.1
 393
The Dawning (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) ...
Style: captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: irish republican army, political unrest, coming of age, society, state affairs, mysterious character, youth, dangerous attraction, teenage boy, ira, friendship, independence ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: ireland, europe
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Fools of Fortune (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: ira, anglo irish relations, murder, estate, couples, revolution, family relations, political unrest, alcohol abuse, family life, fall in love, vengeance ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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Hidden Agenda (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in ...
Style: controversial, political, thought provoking, tense, serious ...
Plot: politics, terrorism, conspiracy, corruption, lawyer, blackmail, irish republican army, torture, courtroom drama, suspense, killer, anglo irish relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
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The Crying Game (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Irish Republican Army member Fergus (Stephen Rea) forms an unexpected bond with Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar). ...
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: transsexual, terrorism, tragic love, kidnapping, sexuality, haunted by the past, transvestite, interracial romance, hostage, irish republican army, gender, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, england, europe
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 6.8
 115K
Patriot Games (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, political, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, spy, assassination, terrorist, cia, revenge, ira, suspense, violence, hitman, espionage, irish republican army ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, london, washington d.c., new england, scotland yard ...
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father ...
Style: political, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Plot: prison, lawyer, terrorism, terrorist, father son relationship, court, courtroom, justice, irish republican army, politics, legal, bomb ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, london, canada ...
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 6.2
 32K
Blown Away (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Blown Away tells the story of Jimmy Dove who works for the Boston bomb squad. Shortly after Dove leaves the force his partner is killed by a bomb that Dove thinks might have been made by someone he knows.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, suspense, psychopath, brutality, anarchist, stalking, investigation, criminal's revenge, government agency, race against time, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, usa, massachusetts, belfast
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This Is the Sea (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan (leader in militant underground and pal of Malachy's brother Padhar), who wants Malachy ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, ira, anglo irish relations, irish republican army, snitch, family problems, religions or cults, militant, family relations, society, love and romance, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland, northern ireland
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 4.8
 217
Midnight Man (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. President. But the spy isn't in long before he realizes that ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soldier, undercover, spy, irish republican army, anglo irish relations, ira, terrorism, assassination attempt, british monarchy, militant, hitman, government agency ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, england
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Nothing Personal (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, bleak, rough
Plot: ira, irish republican army, anglo irish relations, society, fighting the system, terrorism, dedicated lawyer, heroes, military, state affairs, life is a bitch, rebellion ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
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Run Chrissie Run! (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The action moves along quickly, jumping over holes in the script, in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie when she is sought by Riley, a lover ...
Style: road movie
Plot: anglo irish relations, biker, irish republican army, hostage, manhunt, lovers, punk rocker, suitcase of money, woman in danger, gunfight, bullying, running ...
Place: australia, south australia
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 6.4
 448
Titanic Town (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: irish republican army, anglo irish relations, family relations, politics, school, ira, injustice, power relations, campaign, tragic hero, terrorism, legal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland
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Divorcing Jack (1998)
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column. On the eve of the country's first election as an independent state, Dan Starkey's life is about to change after he finds the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful, witty
Plot: nun, ira, irish republican army, death, anglo irish relations, murder, political corruption, cynic, disorder, dark humor, couple relations, fugitives ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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 7.2
 2K
Omagh (2004)
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: serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, bomb, rebellion, fighting the system, injustice, redemption, uncover truth, human spirit, legal, society, false accusation ...
Time: year 1998
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
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I.R.A. King of Nothing (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A disgruntled I.R.A. member (Chapa) becomes Ireland's biggest threat to the peace process
Plot: anglo irish relations, terrorism, irish republican army, death of protagonist, british, robbery, militant, ira, irish, gunfight, sex, flashback ...
Place: ireland
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 4.9
 189
Trapped (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: ira, terrorism, police detective, moral dilemma, on the run, injustice, law enforcement, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, rebelliousness ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: ireland, europe, belfast, paris france, dublin ireland
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 7.5
 71K
Hunger (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Style: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, dark ...
Plot: prison, ira, suicide, rebellion, idealism, irish republican army, police brutality, suffering, protest, prison life, prisoner, prison escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
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, rough, emotional, intense, serious ...
Plot: redemption, reconciliation, murder, memory, haunted by the past, secrets, life is a bitch, acceptance, terrorism, gangsters, ira, vengeance ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, year 1975, 21st century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, europe, australia
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 7.2
 58K
'71 (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
Style: serious, suspenseful, political, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, terrorism, war, ira, soldier, irish republican army, military, suspense, british, violence, brutality, wartime ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: ireland, england, northern ireland, belfast, london
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 6.8
 12K
Black '47 (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, exciting, intense
Plot: poverty, deserter, british colonialism, starvation, manhunt, revenge, hunger, firing squad, oppression, injustice, brutality, death ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: ireland
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 4.9
 69
8ish (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Story: Sean likes to keep things simple. Living the life of a gangster has been every inch of what he's about. As long as Sean stays 10 steps ahead of the IRA, he doesn't have to worry about his dark past catching up with him either. Up till now ...
Plot: irish republican army, anglo irish relations, ira, british, organized crime, gangsters
Place: ireland, london
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 7.1
 4K
Rebellion (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Ireland
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: Rebellion is a five part serial drama about the birth of modern Ireland. The story is told from the perspectives of a group of fictional characters who live through the political events of the 1916 Easter Rising.
Style: political
Plot: world war one, irish history, rebellion, ira, anglo irish relations, world war two, resistance, british empire
Time: 1910s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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 6.7
 2K
The Journey (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, tense
Plot: ira, politician, british politics, car accident, surveillance, prime minister, chauffeur, secret service, suspense, irish republican army, anglo irish relations, road trip ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, year 1973, year 1987, year 1972 ...
Place: northern ireland, ireland, scotland, edinburgh scotland, glasgow scotland ...
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 5.9
 3K
Maze (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, complex
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ira, prison, terrorist, assassination attempt, male objectification, society, murder, suspense, anglo irish relations, confined, husband wife relationship, troubled marriage ...
Time: year 1983
Place: northern ireland, ireland, belfast
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 8.5
 46K
Derry Girls (2018)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the early 1990s, this sitcom features the personal exploits of a 16 year old girl, her family and friends during the Troubles.
Style: light, captivating, atmospheric, entertaining, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, catholic, friendship, protestant, lesbian, coming of age, school, lgbt, high school, catholic school, youth, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: northern ireland, ireland
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