The Shadow of Violence (2019), Maze (2017), My Name Is Emily (2015), In the Name of the Father (1993), Barry Lyndon (1975), Mattress Men (2016), The Adventuress (1946), Once (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ireland movies.
Storyline: Documentary-style drama showing the events that led up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.
Plot Keywords: activist, major, colonel, innocent man, soldier, protester, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.
Plot Keywords: brother, doctor, soldier, hostage, prisoner of war, emotional, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners.—D.Giddings <darren.giddings@newcastle.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: stationmaster, loser, sidekick, gunrunner, goon, amusing, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's Not Yet Dark tells the ground breaking story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a talented young Irish film maker with ALS (MND), as he embarks on directing his first feature film through the use of his eyes and eye gaze technology.
Plot Keywords: documentarian, young man, director, narrator, moving, heartwarming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ireland, early-1950s. Eilis Lacey is a young woman working in a grocery shop. She has greater ambitions and moves to Brooklyn, New York, leaving her mother and sister, Rose, behind. She is terribly homesick but eventually settles down, finding a job, studying to be a bookkeeper and meeting a nice young Italian man, Tony. Things are going well but then she learns that Rose has died, and decides to return to Ireland, temporarily. She and Tony hastily get married and then she sets off back to Ireland, alone. Life is about to get complicated...
Plot Keywords: irishwoman, mother, immigrant, italian, friend, family member, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dublin, 1920. Gypo Nolan, strong but none too bright, has been ousted from the rebel organization and is starving. When he finds that his equally destitute sweetheart Katie has been reduced to prostitution, he succumbs to temptation and betrays his former comrade Frankie to the British authorities for a 20 pound reward. In the course of one gloomy, foggy night, guilt and retribution inexorably close in...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: drunk, soldier, terrorist, prostitute, bleak, disheartening, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For 5 years, Stephen McCoy attempted to document nocturnal street life in the subterranean parts of downtown Boston; People he calls 'Nightcrawlers'. Now... He's become one.
Plot Keywords: hotel worker, hotel guest, murderer, murder victim, colleague, creepy, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. But while no one in the village would dare bid against him, an American with deep pockets decides that he needs the field to build a highway. The Bull and his son decide to convince the American to give up bidding on the field, but things go horribly wrong.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: farmer, son, american, priest, idiot, somber, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy (Sarah Miles) goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her father's pub and Rosy was tending bar for the first time since her marriage to the village schoolmaster. Then one stormy night some Irish revolutionaries expecting a shipment of guns arrive at Ryan's pub. Is it Rosy who betrays them to the British? Will Shaugnessy take Father Collin's advice? Is the pivotal role that of the village idiot who is mute?—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>
Plot Keywords: teacher, wife, british soldier, bar owner, villager, melodramatic, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Father James is a small-town priest in Ireland whose Sunday confessionals suddenly include a threat to kill him in a week's time as a matter of principle. Deeply troubled and conflicted about how to respond, Father James tries to go on with his calling through that week. However, that proves impossible as he is confronted with a troubling variety of spiritual challenges from both his estranged daughter and his own parishioners. In those dispiriting struggles, Father James' life begins to fall apart as time runs out towards a confrontation that seems to crystallize his values and what he wants his life to be.
Plot Keywords: father, pastor, emotional, engaging, ireland, death threat, confession ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Music videos and archived footage supplement recent interviews in this documentary of ex-Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. We follow his life from the early days in Ireland and England, through his formation of - and later dismissal from - The Pogues, to his new band The Popes. Shane's family, friends, and former bandmates comment on the music, the rumors, and the alcohol.—sienel
Plot Keywords: singer-songwriter, band member, friend, family member, somber, profound, ireland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Plot Keywords: guard, fbi agent, amusing, thrilling, ireland, village, murder case ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lives connect in a lost and found office in an Irish train station.
Plot Keywords: office worker, bride-to-be, bar owner, irishman, community member, beggar, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The lucky winner of the national lottery is Ned Devine, so taken by his good fortune that he now can't be waked, because he died from the shock of it! News of the win spread quickly in the scenic little Irish village of Tully More, but not the secret news of Ned's demise. With lottery officials closing in to confirm the prize claimed by the deceased Devine, Ned's closest friends scheme to keep the prize money close to home, in memory of Ned of course! But as the plot twists humorously, they learn it is hard is to keep such a secret in a small town.
Plot Keywords: lottery winner, best friend, wife, villager, farmer, quirky, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
Plot Keywords: fisherman, farmer, wife, son, bleak, striking, ireland ...
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