In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.

Angela's Ashes

1999

English

7.3

♡ 18

52%

socially deprived family

Alan Parker Director

Emily Watson as Angela McCourt

Robert Carlyle as Malachy

Eileen Pollock as Mrs. Finucane

Kerry Condon as Theresa

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

The Molly Maguires

1970

English

6.8

♡ 4

90%

61%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

co-worker relationship

Martin Ritt Director

Richard Harris as Detective James McParlan

Sean Connery as Jack Kehoe

Chuck Hicks as Policeman

Ian Abercrombie as Stock Actor

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas

2012

English

6.3

♡ 7

64%

Edward Burns Director

Tom Guiry as Cyril

Joyce Van Patten as Mrs. McGowan

Connie Britton as Nora

Brian d'Arcy James as Skippy

The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?

World in My Corner

1956

English

6.3

♡ 1

Jesse Hibbs Director

John McIntire as Dave Bernstein

George Lynn as Mallinson's Butler

Jeff Morrow as Robert T. Mallinson

Carl Sklover as Tommy's Second

A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.

The Brink's Job

1978

English

6.5

♡ 14

70%

55%

Action

boston, massachusetts

William Friedkin Director

Peter Boyle as Joe McGinnis

Warren Oates as Specs O'Keefe

Peter Falk as Tony Pino

Allen Garfield as Vinnie Costa

In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...

The MatchMaker

1997

English

6.5

♡ 6

47%

Mark Joffe Director

Ned Dennehy as 1st Aran Singer

Milo O'Shea as Dermot O'Brien

Brian White as Jason

Jay O. Sanders as Senator John McGlory

Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.

The Delicious Little Devil

1919

English

6.2

♡ 4

Robert Z. Leonard Director

Rudolph Valentino as Jimmy Calhoun

John George as Little Man on the Street

Harry L. Rattenberry as Pat McGuire

William H. O'Brien as Waiter

A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. There she falls in love with the son of a rich businessman. The boy's father, believing her to be after the family's money, determines to embarrass her and show his son what she really is.

The Long Gray Line

1955

English

7.2

♡ 6

90%

John Ford Director

Sean McClory as Dinny Maher

Maureen O'Hara as Mary O'Donnell

Ron Nyman as Recruit

Ken Curtis as Specialty

The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.

The Town

2010

English

7.5

♡ 233

92%

85%

Action

ambulance

based on novel or book

boston, massachusetts

Ben Affleck Director

Ben Affleck as Doug MacRay

Jon Hamm as FBI S.A. Adam Frawley

Jeremy Renner as James Coughlin

Blake Lively as Krista Coughlin

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

Bad Boys

1983

English

7.2

♡ 27

89%

Rick Rosenthal Director

Rick Rosenthal as Judge

Sean Penn as Mick O'Brien

Reni Santoni as Ramon Herrera

Clancy Brown as Viking Lofgren

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.

Kill the Irishman

2011

English

7.0

♡ 49

63%

Jonathan Hensleigh Director

Tony Lo Bianco as Jack Licavoli

Linda Cardellini as Joan Madigan

Vincent D'Onofrio as John Nardi

Christopher Walken as Shondor Birns

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.

The Catered Affair

1956

English

7.4

♡ 8

17%

71%

Action

based on play or musical

parent child relationship

Romance

taxi driver

wedding

Richard Brooks Director

Ray Stricklyn as Eddie Hurley

Robert F. Simon as Mr. Joe Halloran

Rod Taylor as Ralph Halloran

Barry Fitzgerald as Uncle Jack Conlon

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945

English

8.0

♡ 18

94%

91%

Action

alcoholism

based on novel or book

Elia Kazan Director

Robert J. Anderson as Augie

William Smith as Boy

Mickey Kuhn as Boy at Christmas Tree Throw

Gloria Talbott as Teen-Age Girl in Classroom

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy's scandalous succession of "husbands"; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie's desire to transfer to a better school...if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.

Gentleman Jim

1942

English

7.5

♡ 1

100%

new orleans, louisiana

Romance

salt lake city, utah

Sport

Raoul Walsh Director

John Roy as Boxing Match Spectator

Errol Flynn as James J. Corbett

Jean Del Val as Renaud

William Hopper as Undetermined Role

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the boxing world.

The Boondock Saints

1999

English

7.6

♡ 86

26%

91%

Action

boston, massachusetts

bratva (russian mafia)

Troy Duffy Director

David Ferry as Detective Dolly

Norman Reedus as Murphy MacManus

Willem Dafoe as Paul Smecker

Dot-Marie Jones as Rosengurtle Baumgartener

Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.

The Fighter

2010

English

7.8

♡ 150

91%

David O. Russell Director

Amy Adams as Charlene Fleming

Christian Bale as Dicky Eklund

Larry Merchant as Fight Announcer

Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward

Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

Cinderella Man

2005

English

8.0

♡ 137

80%

socially deprived family

Ron Howard Director

Isabella Fink as Church Girl

Russell Crowe as Jim Braddock

Renée Zellweger as Mae Braddock

Beau Starr as Sam

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

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