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People who added this item 334  Average listal rating (158 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating 7.1 
1. Angela's Ashes (1999)
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 the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick.
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People who added this item 327  Average listal rating (182 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating
2. Michael Collins (1996)
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.
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People who added this item 42  Average listal rating (18 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating 7.1 
3. Mickybo and Me (2004)
The film 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..
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People who added this item 278  Average listal rating (162 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.7 
4. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum for 'fallen women'.
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People who added this item 17  Average listal rating (12 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 6.2 
5. Agnes Browne (1999)
The unexpected death of her husband sends a woman and her seven children, ages 2-14, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis in 1967 Dublin.
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People who added this item 73  Average listal rating (32 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.2 
6. Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
Based on the true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.
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People who added this item 377  Average listal rating (205 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.5 
7. The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.
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People who added this item 143  Average listal rating (85 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.7 
8. Bloody Sunday (2002)
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
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People who added this item 28  Average listal rating (11 ratings) 7.8  IMDB Rating
9. Some Mother's Son (1996)
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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People who added this item 49  Average listal rating (31 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.2 
10. The General (1998)
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the IRA, the UVF and members of his own team.

People who added this item 98  Average listal rating (56 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 6.3 
11. Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders..
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People who added this item 559  Average listal rating (303 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.6 
12. Hunger (2008)
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike.. and the last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands.
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People who added this item 78  Average listal rating (42 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating 6.8 
13. Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Based on Martin McGartland's real life story. Martin is a young lad from west Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British Police to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler and saving lives in the process.
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People who added this item 145  Average listal rating (86 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 7.1 
14. Kill the Irishman (2011)
The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.
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People who added this item 6  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 6.3 
15. Titanic Town (1998)
A Belfast housewife takes up the peace cause which causes her family trouble with IRA sympathizers.
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People who added this item 36  Average listal rating (21 ratings) 6.8  IMDB Rating 6.8 
16. The Van (1996)
Upon being fired from his job at the bakery, Bimbo and his best mate go into business for themselves and purchase a chipper (a fish and chips van); but will the pressures of financial success sour their friendship forever?
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People who added this item 587  Average listal rating (355 ratings) 5.9  IMDB Rating 5.9 
17. The Devil's Own (1997)
A police officer uncovers the real identity of his houseguest, an IRA terrorist in hiding.
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People who added this item 600  Average listal rating (352 ratings) 7.7  IMDB Rating 8.1 
18. In the Name of the Father (1993)
A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn't do imprisons his father as well; a British lawyer helps fight for their freedom.

People who added this item 590  Average listal rating (380 ratings) 6.1  IMDB Rating 6.3 
19. Far and Away (1992)
A young man (Tom Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Nicole Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893..
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People who added this item 82  Average listal rating (44 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 6.7 
20. Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
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.
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People who added this item 21  Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.7  IMDB Rating 6.5 
21. White Irish Drinkers (2010)
Brooklyn, 1975: two brothers looking for a way out of their working-class neighborhood make a pact to rob a local theater on the night of a Rolling Stones concert.

People who added this item 7  Average listal rating (2 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating 6.3 
22. Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005)
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
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People who added this item 54  Average listal rating (36 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 6.9 
23. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
In the enchanted Emerald Isle, Darby O'Gill spins tall tales of leprechauns and banshees. Unfortunately, when he actually captures the leprechaun king and discovers their hidden gold, no one will believe him!
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People who added this item 524  Average listal rating (313 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 7.3 
24. The Crying Game (1992)
A British soldier is kidnapped by IRA terrorists. He befriends one of his captors, who is drawn into the soldier's world.
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People who added this item 7  Average listal rating (6 ratings) 4.8  IMDB Rating
25. Wild About Harry (2000)
Northern Irish TV chef Harry has a history of playing around, being drunk and fighting with his wife. Events on the eve of his divorce hearing force him to face the truth about the man he has become, and realize that he has the chance to begin again.
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People who added this item 68  Average listal rating (37 ratings) 6.5  IMDB Rating 6.9 
26. Evelyn (2002)
Desmond Doyle must battle The Catholic Church and the Irish courts when they decide to put his children into Church-run orphanages after his wife abandons the family & he struggles financially..

People who added this item 199  Average listal rating (89 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating 6.8 
27. Veronica Guerin (2003)
Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for The Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996..

People who added this item 158  Average listal rating (107 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.1 
28. Waking Ned (Waking Ned Devine) (1998)
When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money..

People who added this item 29  Average listal rating (14 ratings) 6.9  IMDB Rating 7.1 
29. Kisses (2008)
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

People who added this item 29  Average listal rating (16 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 6.5 
30. Borstal Boy (2000)
Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan, is befriended as a teenager in a British labor camp by a liberal warden..

People who added this item 110  Average listal rating (63 ratings) 6.6  IMDB Rating
31. The Boxer (1997)
19 year old Belfastian Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the IRA. He leaves behind among others his 14 year old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old working class neighborhood to resume his life as a boxer..

People who added this item 503  Average listal rating (252 ratings) 7.3  IMDB Rating 7.2 
32. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
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 his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding..

People who added this item 285  Average listal rating (180 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 7.4 
33. The Commitments (1991)
[I forgot about this film - thanks Nonfictionguy]
The travails of Jimmy Rabbitte to form the "World's Hardest Working Band," The Commitments, and bring soul music to the people of Dublin, Ireland.

People who added this item 160  Average listal rating (67 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 6.5 
34. Disco Pigs (2001)
Pig and Runt - born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by blood. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic.. reaching 17, the inseparable are about to separate, and which one will survive depends on which one can break free..

People who added this item 193  Average listal rating (69 ratings) 7.1  IMDB Rating
35. The Butcher Boy (1997)
[Another Nonfictionguy suggestion ~ thanks again :)]
Neil Jordan's superb adaptation of Pat McCabe's disturbing 1992 novel about a 12-year-old Irish boy's descent into madness..

People who added this item 1228  Average listal rating (797 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.8 
36. The Boondock Saints (1999)
[Thanks to milkman for this suggestion]
Encouraged by the public's praise, two Catholic brothers, Conner and Murphy MacManus bring a bloody brand of vigilante justice against Boston's Russian mafia and crime lord Yakavetta.

People who added this item 324  Average listal rating (189 ratings) 6.2  IMDB Rating 6.3 
37. The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
[Thanks to milkman for this suggestion also]
The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, the duo return to Boston to bring justice to those responsible.

People who added this item 166  Average listal rating (83 ratings) 7.2  IMDB Rating 7.2 
38. State of Grace (1990)
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.

People who added this item 42  Average listal rating (28 ratings) 7.6  IMDB Rating 7.3 
39. The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother washed out to sea in a cradle shaped like a boat; someone in the family believes the boy is being raised by the seals. Then Fiona catches sight of a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish and takes an active role in uncovering The Secret of Roan Inish.

People who added this item 20  Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.2  IMDB Rating 6.7 
40. How About You... (2007)
Ellie is a young woman left in charge of a residential home run by her older sister, over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left to spend the festive period with their families, four residents, known as 'the hardcore' remain. Their behavior is so terrible that the home faces closure as potential new residents are put off by their appalling antics.

People who added this item 12  Average listal rating (8 ratings) 5.5  IMDB Rating 5.6 
41. Rat (2000)
Dublin deliveryman Hubert Flynn feels peaked. Home from the pub, he lies down; while his nagging wife Conchita looks on, he turns into a rat..

People who added this item 47  Average listal rating (23 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 6.5 
42. A Film with Me in It (2008)
A black comedy which tells the story of a down-on-his-luck actor who, through no fault of his own, ends up with a dead dog, a dead brother, a dead girlfriend and a dead landlord in his apartment. Shocked and unable to process what has occurred, he enlists the help of a hapless but hilarious friend. Together they hatch a genius plan to treat their predicament as a film scenario and try to rewrite the day.

People who added this item 6  Average listal rating (1 ratings) 5  IMDB Rating
43. Summer of the Flying Saucer (2008)
1967: Dan’s dull existence on a farm in the west of Ireland is turned topsy-turvy when aliens land in his back-yard. He must use all his guile to help them pass as humans while at the same time he falls for the alien girl.

People who added this item 18  Average listal rating (11 ratings) 7  IMDB Rating 6.9 
44. Garage (2007)
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.

People who added this item 69  Average listal rating (39 ratings) 6.3  IMDB Rating 6.2 
45. Perrier's Bounty (2009)
Set in contemporary Dublin, Perrier’s Bounty is a fast paced comedy-thriller featuring three unlikely fugitives on the run from gangster supremo, Perrier, who is desperate to retain his pride and cash after the accidental murder of one of his loyal gang. With only 24 hours to escape certain death, the trio must beat the clock, stay awake, and above all, pay Perrier’s bounty.

People who added this item 148  Average listal rating (83 ratings) 7.5  IMDB Rating 7.7 
46. Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home.

People who added this item 45  Average listal rating (23 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating 6.1 
47. Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.

People who added this item 19  Average listal rating (9 ratings) 7.4  IMDB Rating 6.7 
48. This Is My Father (1998)
A middle-aged teacher discovers photos from his mother's past that convinces him that she has not told the truth about his real father. Venturing into Ireland where he believes his real father to be, a past romance slowly unfolds.

People who added this item 25  Average listal rating (10 ratings) 6.4  IMDB Rating
49. The Eclipse (2009)
In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.

People who added this item 24  Average listal rating (4 ratings) 6  IMDB Rating
50. The Last September (1999)
In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate with numerous guests. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice..



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Posted: 3 years, 10 months ago at Aug 4 15:08
http://www.listal.com/movie/the-commitments-1991
Posted: 3 years, 10 months ago at Aug 4 15:08
http://www.listal.com/movie/the-butcher-boy-1997
Posted: 3 years, 10 months ago at Aug 4 15:08
Nope, that's it - cannot fill another accidental posting. So need a delete option!
Posted: 3 years, 10 months ago at Aug 8 23:11
I'm not sure if it fits, but Ps: I Love You talks and shows a little about Ireland and its culture
Posted: 3 years ago at Jun 10 19:46
TOP OF THE EVENING TO YOU--- I LOVE THE TRIALS& TRIBULATIONS- THE LOVE& LAUGHTER-THE DRINKING,DANCING& SINGING, AND EVERYTHING ELSE ABOUT THESE- EIRE PEOPLE THANKS FOR COMPILING THE LIST
Posted: 3 years ago at Jun 10 19:55
lol ~ Thank you!
Posted: 2 years, 1 month ago at May 10 7:33
http://www.listal.com/movie/the-boondock-saints
http://www.listal.com/movie/boondock-saints-ii-all-saints
Posted: 2 years, 1 month ago at May 10 18:56
The Quiet Man, Man of Aran, The Informer, My Left Foot are missing! :O

*votes nonetheless*
Posted: 2 years, 1 month ago at May 10 19:20
.. that's why I've been adding suggestions! Those movies are now on the list.
Posted: 1 year, 6 months ago at Dec 8 7:45
im irish and have seen loads of the films listed, iv always wondered why they never made a big budget film about the famine, it would be epic!! all the horrible things that happened and they'r are plenty of books to reference,maybe one day, this story needs to be told on the big screen
Posted: 1 year, 6 months ago at Dec 8 11:21
Yea I'm half-Irish & I would enjoy seeing more Irish History movies besides those that just concentrate on The Troubles!
Posted: 1 year, 6 months ago at Dec 8 11:55
were a troublesom bunch
Posted: 7 months, 3 weeks ago at Oct 24 19:05
I'm Irish and I think you've done a great job on this list.

@AudreyDobbs--Nobody here actually says "top of the morning/evening" to you. That's just a bullshit stereotype put onto us, usually by Americans.

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