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Irish-themed Films... These are movies made in and/or about Ireland or featuring Irish characters or figures or are otherwise of possible interest to people interested in Ireland... About AdamAccelerator The Actors Agin’ the Wall (short) Agnes Browne Ahakista Alarm All God’s Children (short) Angela’s Ashes The Angelus (short) Ardeevan (short) As na Ráillí (Off the Rails) (short) Bachelor Boy (short) Beloved Enemy The Birthday (short) Blessed Fruit (short) The Book That Wrote Itself Borstal Boy The Boxer The Boy from Mercury The Boys & Girl from County Clare Breakfast on Pluto Brian Friel The Brylcreem Boys Buskers (short) “But I Let It Pass...” (short) The Butcher Boy The Butterfly Collector (short) Caca Milis (short) The Case of Majella McGinty (short) Catch Yourself On (short) Celtic Maidens (short) Chaos Cherrybomb Chicken (short) Clare Sa Spier (short) The Closer You Get Comm-Raid on The Potemkin (short) Conspiracy of Silence Coolockland (short) Country Cowboys and Angels Cré na Cille The Crooked Mile Dan Dan, Dad & Me Dancing at Lughnasa Darby O’Gill and the Little People Darkroom The Dead Dillusc (short) The Disappearance of Finbar Disco Pigs Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs (short) Doing Really Well (short) Dream Kitchen (short) Elsewhere (short) Essie’s Last Stand (short) Evelyn The Faeries of Blackheath Woods (short) Fall Into Half-Angel (short) Family The Farmer’s Wife (short) Féileachán (Driving Lesson) (short) The Fifth Province Fifty Percent Grey (short) A Film with Me in It Finbar Lebowitz (short) Flick Fluent Dysphasia (short) Flush (short) Frankie (short) Frankie Starlight Freedom Highway: Songs of Resistance and Liberation Full Circle (short) Gangs of New York (Irish in America) Garage The General Give Up Yer Aul Sins (short) Gold in the Streets Goldfish Memory Guiltrip H3 Half Full, Half Empty (short) The Halo Effect Headrush Headwrecker (short) Hill 16 Hit & Run (short) Home Is the Hero The Honeymooners How About You How Harry Became a Tree How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate Hunger I Could Read the Sky I Went Down If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story If These Walls Could Speak (short) In America In Bruges In Loving Memory (short) Intermission Into the West It’ll Always Be 11:16 (short) Ivor the Insomniac (short) The J Wanderer: On the Road in America James Joyce: The Trials of Ulysses Johnny Was – Irish characters in Brixton Just a Little Bit of Love: A Tribute to Des Smyth (short) Killing the Afternoon (short) Kings Kisses Korea Krapp’s Last Tape Last Mango in Dublin (short) The Last September The Last Time (short) Laws of Attraction A Leap of Faith Life in the Fast Lane (short) Limbo (short) Lotus (short) Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (Dublin-born painter) Lover’s Leap (short) LSD ‘73 (short) Luke The Making of a Prodigy (short) Man About Dog The Matchmaker Maze (short) The McCourts of Limerick Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill (short) Michael Collins Middletown The Mighty Celt Moondance The Most Fertile Man in Ireland My Friend Joe Mystics Naked in Cuba (short) The Nephew New Boy (short) Night Train No Man’s Land The Nook (short) Nora Olive (short) On the Edge On the Nose Once One Man’s Hero (Irish characters) Oscar Wilde: Spendthrift of Genius Pavee Lackeen Phantom (short) Photos to Send: People to Go Back To Pitch ‘n’ Putt (short) Poitín Pride and Joy The Proposition (Irish outlaws in Australia) Psy-Warriors Puffball The Quiet Man Racism (short) Rat Saltwater Satellites and Meteorites The Secret of Roan Inish Ship of Fools (short) Short Order Silent Grace Six Shooter (short) Small Engine Repair A Soldier’s Song (short) Some Mother’s Son Spin the Bottle Storm (short) Summer of the Flying Saucer The Sun, the Moon and the Stars Sunburn Sunset Heights Super-8 (short) Sweety Barrett (The Tale of Sweety Barrett) Teenage Kicks: The Undertones Therapy (short) This Is My Father This Is the Sea Three Brothers Timbuktu Titanic Town To Russia with Love Tonight Is Cancelled – Irish production featuring an Irish character in Kosovo Trojan Eddie Tubberware (short) 2 by 4 Up the Country (short) The Van Veronica Guerin Vox Humana (notes for a small opera) Waking Ned Devine War of the Buttons Waterloo Dentures (short) Waveriders Way Past (short) When Brendan Met Trudy The Wind That Shakes the Barley Winter’s End Words Upon the Window Pane You and Me Tide (short) Zonad Zulu 9 (short) These movies that are not really about Ireland or the Irish but which include characters that are Irish, or at least ethnically Irish... American Wedding (American Pie: The Wedding) (Irish-American characters)Angels & Demons (Ewan McGregor as a Northern Ireland-born Camerlengo) August Rush (Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an Irish rocker in the US, directed by Kirsten Sheridan) Back to the Future Part III (Marty meets his great-grandparents, Seamus and Maggie McFly) Bedrooms and Hallways (Irish character) Bend It Like Beckham (Jonathan Rhys Meyers coaches ladies soccer) Black Narcissus (Irish character) Claire Dolan (Irish-Americans) Daredevil (Colin Farrell as an Irish super-villain) The Departed (Irish-American cops and mobsters in south Boston) The Devil’s Own Doubt (various Irish-Americans, including a handyman who claims to be from Mullingar) The Fog of War (documentary on a prominent Irish-American) Ghost Town – among the numerous phantoms: Irish Eddie Good Will Hunting (Irish-Americans) Gosford Park (includes an Irish maid) The Groomsmen (Irish-Americans) The Hallelujah Trail (Irish teamsters in the Old West) Last Chance Harvey (Bronagh Gallagher as Oonagh and Pascal Scott as Paddy the postman) Liam (Irish in England) Machuca (an Irish priest in Chile) The Magnificent Seven (Charles Bronson as a half-Irish/half-Mexican hired gun) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (crew includes an Irish surgeon/naturalist) Match Point (Ambitious young Irishman in London) Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood reads Yeats and speaks Gaelic) Moon (Dominique McElligott as Sam Rockwell’s Irish wife) On Broadway Once Upon a Time in the West (hapless Irish family on the American frontier) Open Range (Michael Gambon as ruthless Irish land baron) Paris Was a Woman (includes Irish writers) The Producers (features two of the most stereotyped Irish cops ever, plus one of the title characters has a name borrowed from James Joyce) Return to Me (Irish[/Italian]-Americans) Ronin (includes Irish characters) The Royal Tenenbaums (Irish[/Jewish]-Americans) Shallow Hal (includes one sort-of Irish character) She’s the One (Irish-Americans) The Simpsons Movie (Lisa gets an Irish boyfriend) Snatch (includes Irish characters) Tears of the Sun (Irish nuns) Titanic (includes Irish characters) Velvet Goldmine (cameo by Oscar Wilde) Wilde (Dublin-born writer) Withnail & I (includes a memorable encounter in a republican pub) You Kill Me (Irish-American gangsters, led by Dennis Farina, and Irish-American mourners at a wake figure prominently) These movies are not specifically set in Ireland, but substantial filming was done on the Emerald Isle... Alfred the GreatBotched – filmed mostly in Wickow, with various Irish actors playing Russians Braveheart Peaches – Irish production Saving Private Ryan Wilderness Here are some movies that don’t have anything particularly to do with Ireland but which feature Irish talent... About a Boy – Victoria SmurfitAngel Baby – John Lynch Atonement – Saoirse Ronan Avatar – Peter Dillon as shuttle crew chief Batman Begins – Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy Before and After – Liam Neeson The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio) – Kenneth Branagh, Chris O’Dowd Boy A – directed by John Crowley Brideshead Revisited – Michael Gambon A Bright Shining Lie – directed by Terry George Bright Young Things – Peter O’Toole Calendar Girls – Ciarán Hinds Canone inverso – making love – Gabriel Byrne Celebrity – Kenneth Branagh Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – David Kelly Chocolat – Hugh O’Conor A Christmas Carol (Scrooge) – directed by Brian Desmond Hurst The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Liam Neeson City of Ember – Saoirse Ronan Cry, The Beloved Country – Richard Harris Dante’s Peak – Pierce Brosnan The Dark Knight – Cillian Murphy, briefly Dead Man – Gabriel Byrne Die Another Day – Pierce Brosnan E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara make a brief cameo in a film clip of The Quiet Man, prompting young Henry Thomas to kiss the already-beautiful Erika Eleniak The End of the Affair – Stephen Rea, directed by Neil Jordan The End of Violence – Gabriel Byrne Enemy of the State – Gabriel Byrne Gladiator – Richard Harris Goldeneye – Pierce Brosnan Goodbye Mr. Chips – Peter O’Toole Grand Theft Parsons – directed by David Caffrey Hamlet [1996] – Kenneth Branagh Hamlet [2000] – Karl Geary Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Richard Harris, Kenneth Branagh, Fiona Shaw, Devon Murray Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Devon Murray Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Michael Gambon, Evanna Lynch, Devon Murray Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Evanna Lynch, Devon Murray Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) – Richard Harris, Fiona Shaw, Devon Murray Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Michael Gambon, Fiona Shaw, Devon Murray The Haunting – Liam Neeson A Home at the End of the World – Colin Farrell How to Steal a Million – Peter O’Toole An Ideal Husband (adapted from Oscar Wilde’s play) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Colin Farrell Imagine This (short) – directed by John Callaghan Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell – Peter O’Toole Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten – inevitable interview with Bono Kingdom of Heaven – Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man – U2 pay tribute and perform with Montreal’s troubadour The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Michael Gambon The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – songs by Enya The Loss of Sexual Innocence – Jonathan Rhys Meyers Love Actually – Liam Neeson Mamma Mia! – Pierce Brosnan Marie Antoinette – Jamie Dornan as a seductive count Margot at the Wedding – Ciarán Hinds Mars Attacks! – Pierce Brosnan McLintock! – Maureen O’Hara A Mighty Heart – Irish co-production Milk (short) – Brenda Fricker Millions – James Nesbitt Minority Report – Colin Farrell Mission: Impossible 2 – Brendan Gleeson Moll Flanders – John Lynch My Favorite Year – Peter O’Toole My Kingdom – Richard Harris Nine – Irish resident and citizen Daniel Day-Lewis Notes on a Scandal – Andrew Simpson On a Clear Day – Sean McGinley The Others – Fionnula Flanagan and Elaine Cassidy The Parent Trap – Maureen O’Hara Ratatouille – Peter O’Toole Red Eye – Cillian Murphy The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Chavez: Inside the Coup) – directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain S.W.A.T. – Colin Farrell Seraphim Falls – Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson! Shanghai Knights – Aidan Gillen Sixty Six – Stephen Rea as an asthma specialist and Sean McGinley as band leader from Cork Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow – Michael Gambon Spider – Gabriel Byrne The Spiderwick Chronicles – Sarah Bolger Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – Liam Neeson Stormbreaker (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker) – Sarah Bolger Straight to Hell – Shane MacGowan and other Pogues The Sum of All Fears – Ciarán Hinds The Tailor of Panama – Pierce Brosnan, Brendan Gleeson (Irish co-production) The Thomas Crown Affair – Pierce Brosnan The Time Machine – Samantha and Omero Mumba Titus – Jonathan Rhys Meyers Tomorrow Never Dies – Pierce Brosnan Transamerica – Fionnula Flanagan Troy – Brendan Gleeson, Peter O’Toole The World Is Not Enough – Pierce Brosnan 28 Days Later – Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson Venus – Peter O’Toole The Village – Brendan Gleeson |