Intermission (2003) | 6.8 | |
The Guard (2011) | 7.3 | |
Miller's Crossing (1990) | 7.7 | |
Adam & Paul (2004) | 7.1 | |
Ronin (1998) | 7.2 |
Irish movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant irish movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy, independent film and touching films and TV shows about / with death, violence, murder, husband wife relationship, bar, profanity, family relations, police, friendship and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in Ireland, UK, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as irish: Ondine (2009), The Boondock Saints (1999), In Bruges (2008), Leap Year (2010), Breakfast on Pluto (2005), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), My Left Foot (1989), State of Grace (1990), Ned Kelly (2003), Kill the Irishman (2011).
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23K
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:
sentimental, touching, fairy tale, sweet, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mermaid, small town, father daughter relationship, self discovery, character study, secrets, family drama, adaptation, redemption, small town life, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
With a God-inspired moral obligation to act against evil, twin brothers Conner and Murphy set out to rid Boston of criminals. However, rather than working within the system, these Irish Americans decide to take swift retribution into their own hands.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, entertaining, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, mafia, revenge, vengeance, violent, shooting, fbi, vigilante, gunfight, morality, hitman, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
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459K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
Style:
neo noir, dark comedy, humorous, atmospheric, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
dark humor, hitman, guilt, haunted by the past, tourist, suicidal, friendship, death, suicide, assassin, dialogue, character study ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, future, medieval times, 21st century
Place:
belgium, bruges, ireland, europe, bolivia ...
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110K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sweet, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, couples, love and romance, road trip, opposites attract, wedding, beautiful scenery, initially antagonists, marriage proposal, love story, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, wales, england ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style:
surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transvestism, transgender, gay slur, gay, transsexual, gender, adoption, coming of age, gender bending, lgbt, priest, ira ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place:
ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nun, convent, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, catholic church, evil nun, religion, sexual harassment, humiliation, catholic ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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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:
touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
Plot:
disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, handicapped, paralysis, medical, painter, art, poet ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
ireland, england, dublin ireland, europe
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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, suspense, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, irish gangster, homecoming, undercover, friendship, gunfight, st. patrick's day, irish mob, profanity ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
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28K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Country: Australia, UK, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, factual, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
folk hero, biopic, injustice, gang, bank robbery, wilderness, resistance, lawlessness, revenge, false accusation, life is a bitch, ambition ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, year 2003, ancient times ...
Place:
australia, oceania, new south wales
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough ...
Style:
tense, brutal, talky, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, mob boss, gang war, irish mob, hitman, gang, corruption, organized crime, assassin, murder, caper ...
Time:
70s, year 2011, 60s, 20th century, year 1977 ...
Place:
usa, ireland, ohio, new york, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
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:
touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience:
toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
Is relevant ?
194K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, car chase, mafia, cia, mercenary, car, undercover, caper, chase, shootout, ira, secret agent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females ...
Style:
cult classic, independent film, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
musician, music, working class, rock and roll, singer, friendship, profanity, rock, bittersweet, blues, rock music, trouble ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, england, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, touching, witty, melancholic ...
Plot:
infidelity, justice, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, eccentricity, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, profanity ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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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:
stylized, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, gunfight, assassin, revenge, murder, justice, betrayal, violence, organized crime, friendship, priest ...
Time:
year 2009, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
boston, ireland, usa, massachusetts, new york
Is relevant ?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality and meticulous planning, Cahill netted over £40 million. He was untouchable - until a bullet from an IRA hitman ended it all.
Style:
black and white, tense, serious, clever, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, gangster, art theft, mastermind, master criminal, brutality, law enforcement, cons and scams, danger, mafia, organized crime, courtroom ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 50s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Is relevant ?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
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, intense, factual ...
Plot:
politics, terrorism, biopic, revolution, civil war, irish history, ira, fighting the system, freedom, british empire, fight, secret service ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place:
ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
Is relevant ?
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:
suspenseful, psychological, sexy, controversial, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
transgender, transsexual, tragic love, terrorism, kidnapping, hostage, sexuality, haunted by the past, transvestite, interracial romance, gender, stockholm syndrome ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
northern ireland, ireland, london, england, europe
Is relevant ?
150K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
starting over, love and romance, immigrant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, female protagonist, immigration, true love, working class, homesickness, coming of age, hopes ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place:
ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
Is relevant ?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to ...
Style:
dark comedy, disturbing, black comedy, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, dysfunctional family, friendship, childhood, murder, coming of age, sexual abuse, bullying, altar boy, insanity, boarding school, transformation ...
Time:
year 1997, 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
Is relevant ?
22K
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:
political, dramatic, realistic, bleak, romantic drama ...
Plot:
boxing, love, boxer, prison, politics, fighter, terrorism, redemption, struggle, trouble, martial arts, conflict ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, europe, london
Is relevant ?
73K
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, depressing ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, ira, suicide, dying, rebellion, idealism, police brutality, resistance, suffering, nudity, male nudity ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 90s, 2000s, year 1981 ...
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, london, europe
Is relevant ?
95K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass ...
Style:
dark comedy, talky, humorous, clever, philosophical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, police investigation, fbi, buddy cop, police corruption, buddy, blackmail, justice, gangster, character study, police, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, peru, europe
Is relevant ?
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 ...
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
farmer, village, fight, human spirit, life is a bitch, hopes, society, storytelling, small town, tragedy, love, guilt ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
ireland, europe
Is relevant ?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This movie follows a day in the life of two Dublin Heroin addicts, Adam and Paul. Adam is the taller and slightly smarter of the two while Paul is his sidekick. Since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hopeless, desperate ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
heroin, life is a bitch, addiction, society, buddies, social misfits, stoner, recovery, mental health, down syndrome, mental illness, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
love story, love and romance, death, terminal illness, couples, loss of spouse, starting over, grief, letter, life philosophy, lost love, family relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
ireland, seattle, europe, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Style:
political, bleak, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
ira, rebellion, civil rights, protest, conflict, politics, terrorism, injustice, civil war, ethnic conflict, political unrest, fighting the system ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1972 ...
Place:
ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Irish immigrant family adjusts to life in the United States, a chance to get over the lost son. They have no money and the apartment is in bad condition.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
childhood, redemption, immigrant, immigration, artist, loss of son, starting over, dying, children, society, acceptance, family problems ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A working-class Irish family rules a city built on loyalty and corruption. The Caffee brothers, Tommy, a rising politician desperate for reelection, and Michael, a hardened criminal returning from seven years on the run and eager to reclaim his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, political ...
Plot:
irish mob, politician, family relations, dysfunctional family, mafia, criminal, profanity, family problems, ambition, political corruption, criminal heroes, politics ...
Place:
usa, ireland, rhode island
Is relevant ?
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, sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, factual ...
Plot:
prison, terrorist, lawyer, father son relationship, courtroom, terrorism, trial, biopic, legal, justice, politics, courtroom drama ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, britain, nepal ...
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