If I Should Fall From Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story (2001), Mickybo and Me (2004), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), Evelyn (2018), I Went Down (1997), The Rising of the Moon (1957), Intermission (2003), My Wild Irish Rose (1947) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Irish Culture movies.
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: music documentary, biography, musician's life, creative process, music history, independent film, rock music ...
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: children, friendship, coming of age, adventure, 1970s, innocence, summer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Darby O'Gill seems to be as full of blarney as any old codger in Ireland, but the stories of leprechauns he tells at the pub are true. In fact, he and the tiny King Brian, ruler of The Little People, are friendly adversaries, continually out-foxing each other. Darby needs a bit of magical help from the wily King when Lord Fitzpatrick replaces him as caretaker with the handsome, strapping young Michael from Dublin. Michael falls in love with Darby's beautiful daughter Katie, which is all right with Darby, but the lad has a rival in a local ruffian, the son of a devious widow who wants her boy to be the caretaker. King Brian's supernatural assistance is necessary to make everything come out all right, but the sneaky leprechaun won't play matchmaker without a fight. Finally, real trouble comes in the form of the Banshee, and Darby will need all his quick wits to save his daughter from the wicked spirit.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, comedy, folklore, disney, musical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following his Oscar winning The White Helmets, Orlando von Einsiedel turns his camera on his own family as they attempt to cope with a devastating loss. When his brother, newly diagnosed as schizophrenic and suffering from intense depression, took his own life at 22, Orlando and his other two siblings buried the trauma, rarely talking about it. Over a decade later, the remaining family set out on a hiking tour, visiting landscapes Evelyn liked to walk, to reflect on his life and death. The result is an intensely personal and moving take on the emotional impact of suicide within a family and a powerful account of the benefits of creating safe spaces for emotional communication. Shot in a subjective style and against the stunning backdrop of the British countryside, Evelyn is an emotionally raw film that documents the difficult, yet rewarding, attempt to navigate the rocky highlands of collective trauma.—Ana David
Plot Keywords: drama, family, biography, true story, ireland, legal, father-son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. It's a tougher assignment than it seems: Git's a novice, Bunny's prone to rash acts, Frank doesn't want to be found (and once he's found, he has no money), and maybe Tom's planning to murder Frank, which puts Git in a moral dilemma. Then, there's the long-ago disappearance of Sonny Mulligan. What's a decent and stand-up lad to do?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, gangster, road movie, violence, action, thriller ...
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: adventure, drama, historical, independent film, black and white, folklore, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Intermission is an urban love story about people adrift and their convoluted journeys in the search for some kind of love. When the desperately insecure and emotionally inarticulate John breaks up with Deirdre to 'give her a little test' his plan backfires leaving her broken-hearted and him alone and miserable. Through chance and coincidence, their break-up triggers a roller coaster ride of interweaving escapades in the lives of everyone around them. Intermission presents a slice of life, the passage between breaking up and making up, exploring how our lives intersect, and the power we all possess to affect the lives of those around us.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, black comedy, multi-narrative, urban life, violence, underclass ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love Rose Donovan and stage star Lillian Russell, who wants to make him a star.—Daniel Bubbeo
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, romance, classic hollywood, song and dance film, historical, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the streets of Dublin.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, indie film, heartwarming, humor, family bond, life struggles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The family consists of Pat, the cop, Mike the fireman, Danny the boxing promoter and Ma. Pat wants Danny to get a real job, because most of his fighters end up in Polookaville and Pat wants to marry Lucille. This means that he will leave the family and Danny needs a income to help support Ma. But Danny believes he has the fighter named Carbarn who will bring him fortune and is going with that. But Lucille meets Danny on the road one day and it means trouble for the family as she does not love Pat, but loves Danny.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, brotherhood, new york, boxing, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the summer after he finishes high school, Frankie Griffin (Jared Leto) nervously awaits the results of his college entrance examinations, positive he's failed, while he struggles to get through a long season full of challenges. Over the summer months, he deals with his mother's (Catherine O'Hara) and father's (Gabriel Byrne) high expectations, admires two teenage girls from afar, plans the perfect party, and fights off unwanted attention from an American tourist (Christina Ricci).
Plot Keywords: coming of age, comedy, growing up, family, friendship, rebellion, summer vacation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death.
Plot Keywords: boxing, drama, sports, family, father-son relationship, underdog, fighting ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A traditional music competition rekindles a rivalry between two estranged brothers (Colm Meaney, Bernard Hill) from Ireland.
Plot Keywords: music, ireland, brotherhood, competition, family, rural life, cultural conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While managing a run down abattoir, young Muslim Raghdan Aziz stumbles through cultural chaos and generational conflicts, dealing with enraged fathers, stoned buddies and an alleged ex-lover of his girlfriend.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, cultural conflict, youth, coming of age, humor, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Unemployed pals (Colm Meaney, Donal O'Kelly) experience success and strained relations after turning an abandoned van into a fast-food stand for sporting events.
Plot Keywords: comedy, independent film, working class, friendship, entrepreneurship, street life, humor ...
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