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5.2

♡ 10

27%

Action

Drama

History

War

Garret Daly Director

Michael Hough as Dermot

Blathnaid Ryan as Jeannie Devlin

Mark Tankersley as Rev. Johnston

Derek O'Sullivan as Soldier 1

Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920s, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a crucial time in their extraordinary and tragic lives.

Fifty Dead Men Walking

2008

6.8

♡ 13

83%

Kari Skogland Director

Nick Dunning as Doctor

Ben Kingsley as Fergus

Rose McGowan as Grace

Anthony Brophy as Johnathan

It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces officer 'Fergus', McGartland gains unparalleled insight into the organisation's dealings, providing his British handler with priceless, life-saving information. Based on a true story.

The Patriot Game

1979

7.6

96%

Action

Documentary

History

the troubles (north ireland, 1966-98)

Arthur MacCaig Director

Winnie Marshall as Self - Narrator

Recounts Ireland's history from British colonization to the territory's division in 1922, then from 1968 details a decade of events through images and eyewitness accounts of killings and such massacres as the infamous "Bloody Sunday" as the IRA argues their cause.

'71

2014

7.2

♡ 80

96%

Yann Demange Director

Charlie Murphy as Brigid

Killian Scott as Quinn

Barry Keoghan as Sean Bannon

Paul Anderson as Sergeant Leslie Lewis

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959

7.0

♡ 3

75%

ireland

irish

irish history

Michael Anderson Director

John Le Mesurier as British General

Walter Gotell as Sergeant 'Black &Tans'

Godfrey Quigley as Soldier

Richard Harris as Terence O'Brien

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

The Gentle Gunman

1952

6.4

♡ 3

noir

terrorism

Basil Dearden Director

Liam Redmond as Connolly

James Kenney as Johnny Fagan

Dirk Bogarde as Matt Sullivan

John Mills as Terence Sullivan

The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.

Elephant

1989

7.1

♡ 11

northern ireland

Alan Clarke Director

Trevor Moore as

B.J. Hogg as

Craig Stepp as

Tim Loane as

A chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Shooting the Darkness

2019

7.4

♡ 1

Documentary

Tom Burke Director

Queen Elizabeth II as Self

Theresa May as Self

Gerry Adams as Self

Paul Faith as Self - Photographer for Pacemaker

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.

A Prayer for the Dying

1987

6.3

♡ 10

50%

Mike Hodges Director

Karl Johnson as Fitzgerald

Liam Neeson as Liam Docherty

Ian McElhinney as Lodger

Mickey Rourke as Martin Fallon

Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

The Informer

1935

7.3

♡ 7

89%

love

treason

John Ford Director

Ward Bond as Man

Frank Hagney as Policeman

Anne O'Neal as Singer

J.M. Kerrigan as Terry

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?

Odd Man Out

1947

7.6

♡ 10

100%

noir

Carol Reed Director

Kathleen Ryan as Kathleen Sullivan

Robert Newton as Lukey

Geoffrey Keen as Soldier

Arthur Hambling as Tom

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Rose's War

2023

5.6

♡ 14

based on true story

heist

Joe Lawlor Director

Andrea Irvine as Lady Beit

Flynn Gray as Patrick

Imogen Poots as Rose

Simon Coury as Rose's Father

Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House, Wicklow, in which nineteen masterpieces were stolen in an effort to support the IRA’s armed struggle. The film plays out over the course of the days following the raid, when Rose is in hiding in a remote cottage.

The Troubles: A Dublin Story

2022

5.9

♡ 3

based on true story

belfast, north ireland

Crime

Drama

moral conflict

republicanism

Luke Hanlon Director

Wayne Byrne as Declan

Luke Hanlon as John Byrne

Gerry Cannon as Jonathon Crosby TV news reporter

Calum Jess as Young Sean

Two young Dublin brothers must navigate loyalty, honour and the dangerous world of republicanism as they fuel the Northern war machine - by any means necessary.

Cal

1984

6.5

♡ 4

92%

79%

based on novel or book

belfast, north ireland

Drama

guilt

ireland

Romance

Pat O'Connor Director

John Lynch as Cal

Ray McAnally as Cyril Dunlop

Helen Mirren as Marcella

Tom Hickey as Preacher

Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

2023

6.4

♡ 129

83%

belfast, north ireland

bombing

Crime

village

Robert Lorenz Director

Kerry Condon as Doireann McCann

Liam Neeson as Finbar Murphy

Jack Gleeson as Kevin

Ciarán Hinds as Vinny O'Shea

In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.

The General

1998

7.2

♡ 6

83%