Hidden Agenda (1990), A Sense of Loss (1972), Odd Man Out (1947), Mickybo and Me (2004), Some Mother's Son (1996), The Boxer (1997), Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), Closing the Ring (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Belfast, Northern Ireland movies.
Storyline: In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif), struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan (Brian Cox), a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
Plot Keywords: activist, detective, terrorist, lawyer, government official, partner, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence.
Plot Keywords: catholic, protestant, filmmaker, activist, cleric, emotional, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The leader of an Irish separatist group's, been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a robbery which would give his group the money needed to continue its activities. But the robbery fails, and Johnny's wounded. Immediately a man hunt's launched, and both the police - and Kathleen go in search of Johnny, but for different reasons.—Eduardo Casais <eduardo.casais@research.nokia.com>
Plot Keywords: fugitive, daughter, mother, soldier, dark, gritty, belfast, northern ireland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the play of the same name, this movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.—John Snelling
Plot Keywords: boy, mother, father, usher, friend, charming, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Plot Keywords: teacher, irishman, woman, prisoner, friend, mother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer, fighting and opening a boxing club training aspiring boxers. Maggie has since married Danny's best friend, who is also imprisoned for his I.R.A. activities. Although he has not denounced the I.R.A. or denigrated his I.R.A. colleagues, Danny has decided to live a life free of political violence. His boxing club is nonsectarian, open to both Catholics and Protestants. This move irks some of his old I.R.A. colleagues since they feel working with the Protestants will not resolve their David versus Goliath struggle. Danny's old I.R.A. colleagues, especially their unofficial leader Harry, resort to traditional tactics of violence to stop Danny. Maggie's father, Joe, also an I.R.A. activist, ...
Plot Keywords: boxer, ex-girlfriend, terrorist, irishman, brooding, solemn, belfast, northern ireland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on Martin McGartland's shocking real life story. Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process.
Plot Keywords: young man, drifter, spy, terrorist, thrilling, gripping, belfast, northern ireland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three intertwined stories of lost and unspoken love and the resulting secrets are presented. In one, which begins in 1941 Branagan, Michigan, twenty-one year old Ethel Ann socializes primarily with three male friends, who are all in love with her. She only loves one, Teddy Gordon, their mutual love known within the group. Her parents would never approve of Teddy, the poor country boy, who is building a house for her eventually to be able to show her parents that he is worth something in his love for her. Their relationship is interrupted by the U.S. entry into the war, into which all three men are going into battle. Before their departure, the three men enter into a pact unbeknownst to Ethel Ann. In two, which also takes place in Branagan, but in 1991, World War II U.S. Army Air Forces veteran, septuagenarian Chuck Harris, after an illness, has just passed away. Those that knew him always considered him the reliable one. His death leaves a void in his family, as there has always been a distance between his wife and their daughter, Ethel Ann and Marie, respectively. Marie is perturbed that her mother doesn't seem to be mourning Chuck's death. Another of the mourners is Chuck and Ethel Ann's longtime friend, Jack Etty, also a World War II U.S. Army Air Forces veteran. Although Jack has never said so to them, Jack's son, Peter, and Marie believe that Jack has also had a thing for Ethel Ann. The longer the time passes, the closer Marie comes to abandoning her mother, their relationship which may change if only Ethel Ann and Jack would open up about their feelings holistically. And in three, which also takes place in 1991, an innocent young man named Jimmy Riley, a military buff who lives with his grandmother in Belfast, has joined eccentric old Mr. Quinlan to dig on Black Mountain on the outskirts of the city, the side of the hill known as a World War II fighter plane crash site. Although Jimmy and Mr. Quinlan have dug up bits and pieces of the plane, Jimmy ultimately discovers an engraved ring. Partly on Mr. Quinlan's urging, Jimmy is determined to return the ring to who he believes is its rightful owner. Their digging, however, gets them inadvertently involved in the on-going Northern Ireland conflict, the hill which both sides use for some of their clandestine activities.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: airman, older woman, daughter, young man, dying person, best friend, mushy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Tom Hall (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save "Buster" the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941.
Plot Keywords: misfit, boy, elephant, widow, confident, crafty, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 to be recruited and fight for the cause and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young woman, young man, neighbor, brother, resistance fighter, mother, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Colm is a Catholic, and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast, Northern Ireland in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead, they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper, to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls - always in neighborhoods that are dangerous for one or the other partner. Then they find out they may lose their exclusive wig distributorship to competitors. Through a series of comic twists, the pair are given large orders for wigs by both sides of the Protestant and Catholic conflict. Should they compromise their principles in order to keep their business? Will it destroy their friendship? Could one of their wigs in the hands of the I.R.A. actually put one or both of them in jail, or even get them killed?—Miles Fowler
Plot Keywords: barber, friend, love interest, businessperson, convict, quirky, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1972, the politically naïve Bernie McPhelimy (Dame Julie Walters) is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot and killed by the I.R.A., and her neighbors are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear and confusion, she dares to stand up and condemn the killings. Criticizing both factions equally, her public call for a ceasefire is interpreted by many as an attack against the I.R.A., and as her fledgling peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.—Dave F
Plot Keywords: housewife, best friend, neighbor, family member, child, fascinating, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: I.R.A. member Terry (Sir John Mills) modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London. When his co-conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt (Sir Dirk Bogarde) escapes back to Ireland. Terry follows and the local group have to decide what to do about him and about their imprisoned colleagues being shipped to Belfast.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: ira agent, brother, irishman, police officer, friend, intense, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire is one of the IRA's deadliest assassins. 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 nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
Plot Keywords: police officer, irishman, visitor, young man, zealot, impostor, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When his favorite football club, Belfast United, recruits a Brazilian soccer sensation, high-schooler Danny Mitchell (William Ash) decides that to become a master of fancy footwork on the field he must learn Latin dance. Mitchell secretly enrolls at a dance studio, where he struggles to improve his coordination. As the semester wears on, Mitchell discovers a passion he never knew existed -- for both the mambo and for his prudish partner, Lucy McLoughlin (Keri Russell).
Plot Keywords: soccer player, dancer, best friend, bully, dance instructor, melodramatic, amusing ...
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