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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 Adam
Accelerator
The Actors
Agin’ the Wall (short)
Agnes Browne
Ahakista
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
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
Chicken (short)
Clare Sa Spier (short)
The Closer You Get
Comm-Raid on The Potemkin (short)
Conspiracy of Silence
Coolockland (short)
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 Devil’s Own
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)
The Fifth Province
Fifty Percent Grey (short)
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 Harry Became a Tree
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
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)
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
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
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)
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
Waking Ned Devine
War of the Buttons
Waterloo Dentures (short)
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)
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)
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 Fog of War (documentary on a prominent Irish-American)
Good Will Hunting (Irish-Americans)
Gosford Park (includes an Irish maid)
The Groomsmen (Irish-Americans)
The Hallelujah Trail (Irish teamsters in the Old West)
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)
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...
Botched – 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 Smurfit
Angel Baby – John Lynch
Batman Begins – Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy
Before and After – Liam Neeson
Boy A – directed by John Crowley
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
Cry, The Beloved Country – Richard Harris
Dante’s Peak – Pierce Brosnan
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
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 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
An Ideal Husband (adapted from Oscar Wilde’s play)
Imagine This (short) – directed by John Callaghan
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
Marie Antoinette – Jamie Dornan as a seductive count
Mars Attacks! – Pierce Brosnan
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 Kingdom – Richard Harris
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
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