A Sense of Loss (1972), Lost & Found (2017), This Is My Father (1998), The Rising of the Moon (1957), Saints and Sinners (1949), Another Shore (1949) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Irish Life movies.
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: 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: Widowed Kieran Johnson is a lonely, middle-aged, Chicago-based high school history teacher who feels disconnected to his life. He decides to take a trip to his mother's small old hometown of Kilronan, County Galway, Ireland after he discovers an old photograph of her, she who now cannot speak due to a stroke, with a man he has never seen. He suspects this man may be his biological father. On the urging of his sister, Kieran takes his teen-aged nephew Jack on the trip. In Kilronan, Mrs. Kearney, the innkeeper's mother and a bit of a gypsy woman who has lived in the area for the better part of her life, tells Kieran and Jack about life in the town in 1939 when a high-spirited Fiona Flynn, Kieran's mother, started seeing a peat farmer named Kieran O'Day. Kieran O'Day grew up a "poorhouse bastard", and as such he was always shy and considered an outsider amongst the townsfolk. Because of his standing in the community and the differences in their ages (she being only seventeen, he in his thirties), Fiona and Kieran's relationship was looked down upon by those considered the upstanding in town, including Fiona's widowed mother, Mary Flynn, and those associated with the church. Mrs. Kearney slowly tells the entire story of Kieran and Fiona's relationship, the tragedy that prevented their love for not being enough to endure the scrutiny, the stories of the "curses" that befell the Flynn family, and the truth behind the person Kieran Johnson knew as his father.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: college student, son, mother, father, schoolteacher, farmer, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about an little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece is called "1921" and is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape. Tyrone Power introduces each story.—Molly Malloy <mailcall@kiva.net>
Plot Keywords: inspector, friend, englishman, train passenger, nationalist, sergeant, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
Plot Keywords: man, business owner, thief, criminal, patriotic, playful, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Dubliner, Gulliver Sheils, fantasises about escaping his humdrum life and living in Tahiti. Lacking the money for such a venture, he takes to hanging around outside Trinity College in the hope of rescuing a wealthy person from a traffic accident who will reward him for his heroism. He ignores the affections of local beauty Jennifer, yet his patience pays off when befriends a tycoon who offers to take him to the South Seas. As the pair head off, they are themselves involved in a traffic accident, forcing Gulliver to realise his true feelings for Jennifer and stay in Dublin.—Alexander Lum
Plot Keywords: irishman, tycoon, socialite, wealthy man, schemer, boxer, amusing ...
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