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- My Left Foot (1990) - 100% Made famous by Daniel Day-Lewis's method acting madness, My Left Foot is the story of Christy Brown, who fought back afrom cerebral palsy to forge a career in art and writing.
- The Young Offenders (2016) - 100% (BBC Three / The Young Offenders) Now a highly successful TV series on RTE, The Young Offenders started life on the big screen, with a crime comedy inspired by a real-life tale of cocaine heist gone awry.
- Cardboard Gangsters (2017) - 100% Rising star John Connors writes and stars in this gritty gangster drama which was made on a shoestring budget but earned rave reviews and Irish Film and Television Academy Awards.
- Darby O'Gill And The Little People (1959) - 100% This classic Irish family favourite focuses on a wily old codger and his battle of wits with the king of the leprechauns, while attempting to find a suitable husband for his daughter.
- Waking Ned (Rotten Tomatoes Score 84%) Out of the many Irish films in this guide, Waking Ned is my absolute favourite. This is fast-packed comedy directed by Kirk Jones that tackles the popular theme of what happens when someone in the village wins the lottery.
- The Field (Rotten Tomatoes Score 43%) You’ll see the Field top many guides to the best Irish movies, and for good reason. Directed by Jim Sheridan, The Field follows the story of “Bull” McCabe (Richard Harris) who finds out that the land he has tended for 30 years is to be auctioned off.
- The Van (Rotten Tomatoes Score 38%) This drama/ comedy starring Donal O’Kelly as “Bimbo” Reeves gives a lighthearted insight into the world of food trucks.
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Rotten Tomatoes Score 90%) Topping high in the popularity score, The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a war drama set in the early 1920s against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence.
- The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) – dark and important. Directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty, and starring Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney and Liam Cunningham, The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a very important film on Irish history and the very real events that took place during the War of Independence from 1919 to 1921 and the Irish Civil War from 1922 to 1923.
- In the Name of the Father (1993) – a harrowing tale. In the Name of the Father is a 1993 biographical crime drama that tells the real and grim true story of the Guildford Four, when four people were falsely accused of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings that killed four off-duty British soldiers and one civilian.
- The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) – one of the latest Irish films. Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell team up once more with Martin McDonagh once more to bring us The Banshees of Inisherin.
- An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl) (2022) – an Irish language film. An Cailín Ciúin is hands-down one of the best Irish movies of all time, despite only being released in 2022.
The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland. Director Neil Jordan Stars Stephen Rea Fiona Shaw Eamonn Owens. 8. Hunger. 2008 1h 36m Not Rated. 7.5 (74K) Rate. 82 Metascore. Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
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Mar 17, 2023 · The film won the Palme d’Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and, at the time of its release, became the highest-grossing Irish-made independent movie in history. More from A.V. Club
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Mar 17, 2024 · 3 The Dead. James Joyce, Perhaps Ireland's greatest writer, is also one of the most unadaptable, and The Dead remains the only great film based on his work. Drawing from a short story in Dubliners ...
