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The Wind That Shakes the Barley(2006)

NR
| 2h 7min | Drama, War
3.7/5 (with 317 votes)

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 Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.

Directed by Ken Loach - With Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Roger Allam, Seán McGinley, ...
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The Quiet Man(1952)

NR
| 2h 9min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 210 votes)

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Victor McLaglen, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick, ...
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Song of the Sea(2014)

PG
| 1h 33min | Kids & Family, Animation, Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 606 votes)

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.

Directed by Tomm Moore
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The Nightingale(2018)

R
| 2h 16min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 222 votes)

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Directed by Jennifer Kent - With Aisling Franciosi, Baykali Ganambarr, Sam Claflin, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, ...

Black '47(2018)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama, Western
3.3/5 (with 128 votes)

In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.

Directed by Lance Daly - With Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, James Frecheville, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan
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The Guard(2011)

R
| 1h 36min | Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 501 votes)

When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.

Directed by John Michael McDonagh - With Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Fionnula Flanagan, Dominique McElligott, ...
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The Quiet Girl(2022)

1h 34min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 132 votes)

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Directed by Colm Bairéad - With Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Michael Patric

Man of Aran(1934)

NR
| 1h 16min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a pure uncorrupted peasant existence centred around the struggle between man and his hostile but magnificent surroundings. A blend of documentary and fictional narrative, the film captures the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands.

Directed by Robert J. Flaherty

Kneecap(2024)

1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Music
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

There are 80,000 native Irish speakers in Ireland. 6,000 live in the North of Ireland. Three of them became a rap group called Kneecap. This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.

Directed by Rich Peppiatt - With Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, DJ Próvaí, Michael Fassbender, Simone Kirby, Josie Walker, ...

Arracht(2021)

1h 30min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Ireland, 1845 on the eve of The Great Hunger. Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, a father, a husband, takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier in the Napoleonic wars arrives just ahead of 'the blight,' a disease that eventually wipes out the country's potato crop, contributing to the death and displacement of millions. As the crops rot in the fields, Colmán, his brother and Patsy travel to the English Landlord's house to request a stay on rent increases that Colmán predicts will destroy his community. His request falls deaf ears and Patsy's subsequent actions set Colmán on a path that will take him to the edge of survival, and sanity. It is only upon encountering an abandoned young girl that Colmán's resolve is lifted. Just in time for the darkness of his past to pay another visit.

Directed by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin

Róise & Frank(2022)

1h 30min | Drama, Kids & Family, Comedy
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Grief stricken Róise lost her husband, Frank, two years ago. Her son, Alan, worries about her but the arrival of a mysterious dog seems to bring happiness to her life once more. Róise soon comes to believe that the dog is, in fact, Frank reincarnated. He has come back to be with her again… and to coach the local sports team….

Poitín(1978)

1h 5min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A moonshiner in the west of Ireland tries to avoid the Gardaí.

Directed by Bob Quinn - With Cyril Cusack, Mick Lally, Niall Tóibín, Donal McCann, Tom Sailí Ó Flaithearta, Macdara Ó Fátharta, ...
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Aithrí(2018)

1h 40min | Action, History
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Father Eion O'Donnell is unambiguous about the need to use violence to force Britain out of Ireland. He influences a young impressionable boy, Antaine to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty years later Antaine arrives in Derry as an experienced gunman. This appearance throws Eoin back to the cause of his breakdown in 1916. Eoin's influence on young Antaine echoes in Antaine's dark influence on an Altar boy, Feidhlim.

Directed by Tommy Collins
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Kings(2007)

1h 28min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks of a lost youth in Ireland with the harsh realities of modern life. For some the thirty years has been hard, working in building sites across Britain. Slowly the truth about Jackie's death become clear and the friends discover they need each other more than ever.

Directed by Tommy Collins - With Colm Meaney

A Night of Storytelling(1935)

11min | Documentary, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A well known storyteller, Tomas O' Diorain tells tales of the sea around a fire in an old Irish cottage. His storytelling is juxtaposed with images of the sea. This film, thought lost was rediscovered by Houghton Library curators during a cataloging update in 2013.

Directed by Robert J. Flaherty

Bainne(2019)

18min | Horror

An Irish ghost story set during The Great Famine of 1845-1852. It is inspired by ancient Irish mythology and traditional Japanese legends, as recorded by the Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn at the end of the 19th century.

Finky(2019)

1h 35min | Drama, Fantasy

A young musician with a tragic past is crippled in a car accident and given a chance at redemption when he is recruited by a violent, avant-garde circus.

Directed by Dathaí Keane

Song of Granite(2017)

1h 44min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

The life story of traditional Irish folk singer Joe Heaney, who is estimated to have recorded in excess of 500 traditional Irish sean nós ('old style') songs. Heaney moved from Ireland to the UK, and then on to New York City, where he settled shortly after performing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

Directed by Pat Collins - With Macdara Ó Fátharta, Leni Parker, Alain Goulem
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Men at Lunch(2013)

1h 5min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen taking their lunch while perched on a girder high above New York City.

Directed by Seán Ó Cualáin - With Fionnula Flanagan, Babe Ruth

My Name Is Yu Ming(2003)

13min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Yu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when he gets there. A 2003 short film.

Directed by Daniel O'Hara - With Frank Kelly, Jenny O'Hara

Cáca Milis(2001)

18min | Drama

A chance encounter on a train between a young woman and a blind man.

With Brendan Gleeson

H3(2001)

1h 28min | Drama
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

'H3' is a universal story of endurance and courage set inside Europe's most secure prison, the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Here, in H3 - the bleakest of all the H-blocks - a group of young republican prisoners hold out for what they believe in, refusing to be labeled as criminals or co-operate with prison authorities. However, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is determined that these Republican prisoners will be treated like all the other common criminals in British jails, ending a special regime which allowed the inmates political status to organise life inside the jail along POW lines. The republican prisoners immediately start a 'no-wash' protest, refusing to wear prison-issue clothes or perform work duties, a protest which results in their being locked in their cells for hours on end without exercise, recreation, reading materials and with only blankets to wear for heat...

Directed by Les Blair - With Bobby Sands

Cré na Cille(2007)

1h 34min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Caitríona is dead and eagerly awaiting the death of her sister, Nell, so that the war between them in life can continue.

Directed by Robert Quinn

Innisfree(1990)

1h 50min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Documentary tribute to "The Quiet Man" by John Ford. A special tribute that, away from traditional documentary, traces the outline of a cinematographic work of other person and offers a portrait of a society that fascinates the director.

Directed by José Luis Guerin

Doineann(2021)

1h 35min | Drama, Mystery

When Tomás returns to his remote island holiday home he discovers his reclusive wife and child have vanished. With nowhere to turn and a storm approaching, he is forced to place his trust in the small community's lone retired police officer, Labhaoise, to investigate. As the search takes an unexpected turn, some uncomfortable truths are revealed. Meanwhile the storm looms ever closer.

Dambé: The Mali Project(2023)

1h 33min | Documentary

Irish musicians Liam O'Maonlaí and Paddy Keenan embark on a musical adventure to Mali; The Heart of Africa. Culminating in a unique performance at the world's most remote musical festival; The 'Festival au Desert'.

With Liam Ó Maonlaí

Foscadh(2021)

1h 33min | Drama

When his over-protective parents pass away, friendless recluse John Cunliffe discovers their land to be extremely valuable, and he is forced to navigate the choppy waters of trust, vengeance and romance for the first time.

Directed by Shane Walsh - With Dónall Ó Héalai

Children at Work(1973)

10min | Documentary

Children at Work is a 1973 Irish short documentary film produced by Louis Marcus. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

Directed by Louis Marcus
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