Ireland

The Secret of Kells

The Secret of Kells

The Secret of Kells
IMDb: 7.6
75 min

Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother…

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Genre: Best 2009
Five Minutes of Heaven

Five Minutes of Heaven

Five Minutes of Heaven
IMDb: 6.6
89 min

The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen’s brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Mister Lonely

Mister Lonely

Mister Lonely
IMDb: 6.5
112 min

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Daisy Chain

The Daisy Chain

The Daisy Chain
IMDb: 5.1
89 min

A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter’s death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to become involved in…

A Film with Me in It

A Film with Me in It

A Film with Me in It
IMDb: 6.7
89 min

A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn’t deliberately cause…

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The Flight Before Christmas

The Flight Before Christmas

The Flight Before Christmas
IMDb: 6.1
80 min

A young reindeer who suffers from vertigo learns to overcome his fear, takes flying lessons from a clumsy flying squirrel and heads to the North pole to save a troubled…

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Dorothy Mills

Dorothy Mills

Dorothy Mills
IMDb: 6.0
102 min

When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime….

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The Escapist

The Escapist

The Escapist
IMDb: 6.7
102 min

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it’s…

The Accidental Husband

The Accidental Husband

The Accidental Husband
IMDb: 5.6
90 min

When radio love guru Dr Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan’s fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other…

How About You…

How About You…

How About You…
IMDb: 6.8
100 min

The story of Ellie, a young woman left in charge of the residential home run by her older sister, over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Garage

Garage

Garage
IMDb: 7.1
85 min

A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
And When Did You Last See Your Father?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?
IMDb: 6.8
92 min

The story of a son’s conflicting memories of his dying father.

Shrooms

Shrooms

Shrooms
IMDb: 4.7
84 min

A group of American teens comes Ireland to visit an Irish school friend who takes them on a camping trip in search of the local, fabled magic mushrooms. When the…

Genre: Horror
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
IMDb: 7.6
123 min

As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people’s lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly…

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey
IMDb: 7.2
93 min

A young woman’s penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.

Once

Once

Once
IMDb: 7.8
85 min

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news…

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The Tiger’s Tail

The Tiger’s Tail

The Tiger’s Tail
IMDb: 5.8
107 min

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

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The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
IMDb: 7.5
124 min

In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O’Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend’s farm, British Black and…

Lassie

Lassie

Lassie
IMDb: 6.7
100 min

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on a journey home.

Match Point

Match Point

Match Point
IMDb: 7.6
124 min

Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two…

Genre: Best Sport
Isolation

Isolation

Isolation
IMDb: 5.6
95 min

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

Asylum

Asylum

Asylum
IMDb: 6.1
99 min

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband’s inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Breakfast On Pluto

Breakfast On Pluto

Breakfast On Pluto
IMDb: 7.2
128 min

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Boy Eats Girl

Boy Eats Girl

Boy Eats Girl
IMDb: 5.0
80 min

A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more…

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
IMDb: 6.0
108 min

Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he’s a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor…

Rory O’Shea Was Here

Rory O’Shea Was Here

Rory O’Shea Was Here
IMDb: 7.8
104 min

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the…

King Arthur

King Arthur

King Arthur
IMDb: 6.3
126 min

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the ’Sarmatian hypothesis’ which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and…

Around The World In 80 Days

Around The World In 80 Days

Around The World In 80 Days
IMDb: 5.9
120 min

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.

Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted
IMDb: 6.3
96 min

Ella lives in a magical world in which each child, at the moment of their birth, is given a virtuous ”gift” from a fairy godmother. Ella’s so-called gift, however, is…

In America

In America

In America
IMDb: 7.7
105 min

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Headrush

Headrush

Headrush
IMDb: 5.9
N/A

Headrush is a crime comedy about two disillusioned youths, struggling through a haze of cannabis, who hope to solve all their problems by smuggling a consignement of drugs for a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin

Veronica Guerin
IMDb: 6.9
98 min

In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and…

Evelyn

Evelyn

Evelyn
IMDb: 7.0
92 min

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care…

Genre: Drama
Reign of Fire

Reign of Fire

Reign of Fire
IMDb: 6.2
101 min

In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest…

Bridget Jones Diary

Bridget Jones Diary

Bridget Jones Diary
IMDb: 6.7
97 min

A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.

Genre: Christmas
Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates
IMDb: 7.6
131 min

Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the…

The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama
IMDb: 6.1
109 min

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections…

The Closer You Get

The Closer You Get

The Closer You Get
IMDb: 6.3
93 min

Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Gangster No. 1

Gangster No. 1

Gangster No. 1
IMDb: 6.8
103 min

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined…

Love & Rage

Love & Rage

Love & Rage
IMDb: 5.2
100 min

Agnes MacDonnell, a strong and self-confident Englishwoman, owns a large estate on an island off the west coast of Ireland. When she begins a passionate but dangerous affair with her…

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Ordinary Decent Criminal
IMDb: 6.4
93 min

Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He’s also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down…

Angela’s Ashes

Angela’s Ashes

Angela’s Ashes
IMDb: 7.3
145 min

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…

Genre: Drama
Human Traffic

Human Traffic

Human Traffic
IMDb: 7.1
99 min

All that exists now is clubs, drugs, pubs and parties. I’ve got 48 hours off from the world, man I’m gonna blow steam out of my head like a screaming…

Croupier

Croupier

Croupier
IMDb: 7.1
94 min

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and…

The General

The General

The General
IMDb: 7.3
124 min

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…

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
The Boxer

The Boxer

The Boxer
IMDb: 7.0
114 min

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…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker
IMDb: 6.5
97 min

Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant

Prince Valiant
IMDb: 5.1
91 min

An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to secure the…

Mrs Brown

Mrs Brown

Mrs Brown
IMDb: 7.2
105 min

Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband, disappearing from public. Her servant Brown, who adores her, through caress and admiration brings her back to life, but…

Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Michael Collins
IMDb: 7.2
132 min

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.

The Van

The Van

The Van
IMDb: 6.7
100 min

Set in ”Barrytown”, a fictitious working-class quarter of Dublin. ”Bimbo” Reeves gets laid off from his job. With his redundancy, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Space Truckers

Space Truckers

Space Truckers
IMDb: 5.4
95 min

John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth without questions being asked. During the flight the cargo…

Cremaster 4

Cremaster 4

Cremaster 4
IMDb: 6.0
42 min

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project’s biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system’s onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division. The logo for this…

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Genre: Fantasy
Thumbelina

Thumbelina

Thumbelina
IMDb: 6.4
87 min

The tiny girl meets a fairy prince who saves her from the creatures of the woods.

In The Name Of The Father

In The Name Of The Father

In The Name Of The Father
IMDb: 8.1
133 min

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…

The Crying Game

The Crying Game

The Crying Game
IMDb: 7.2
112 min

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…

The Playboys

The Playboys

The Playboys
IMDb: 6.3
117 min

A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She…

The Commitments

The Commitments

The Commitments
IMDb: 7.6
118 min

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…

Rock-A-Doodle

Rock-A-Doodle

Rock-A-Doodle
IMDb: 6.1
77 min

Chanticleer is a foolhardy farm rooster who believes his crows can actually make the sun come up and shine. When the sun rises one morning without Chanticleer’s crow, he leaves…

All Dogs Go to Heaven

All Dogs Go to Heaven

All Dogs Go to Heaven
IMDb: 6.8
89 min

When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he…

My Left Foot

My Left Foot

My Left Foot
IMDb: 7.9
103 min

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…

High Spirits

High Spirits

High Spirits
IMDb: 5.8
99 min

When Peter Plunkett’s Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the ’Yanks’ by having his staff pretend to…

The Land Before Time

The Land Before Time

The Land Before Time
IMDb: 7.4
69 min

An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the…

The Dead

The Dead

The Dead
IMDb: 7.3
83 min

An all-Irish cast (including Donal McCann, Rachael Dowling and Colm Meaney) lends authenticity and gravitas to director John Huston’s final film, an elegiac take on a short story by James…

Genre: Drama
Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter

Ryan’s Daughter
IMDb: 7.4
206 min

An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Gorgo

Gorgo

Gorgo
IMDb: 5.7
78 min

When an undersea volcano sends tremors throughout the Atlantic, aquatic creatures come out of hiding. Merchant seamen Joe Ryan and partner Sam Slade harness the most unusual of the lot,…