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7.2

♡ 7

87%

based on play or musical

Comedy

Drama

northern ireland

Terry Loane Director

Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy

Ciarán Hinds as Jonjo's Da

Adrian Dunbar as Mickybo's Da

Paul Jennings as Security Guard 2

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, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.

Shooting for Socrates

2014

5.8

♡ 1

29%

1980s

James Erskine Director

John Hannah as Billy Bingham

Bronagh Gallagher as Irene

Conleth Hill as Jackie Fullerton

Ciarán McMenamin as Sammy McIlroy

Set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup, Shooting for Socrates tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football history through the eyes of players, fans and the media. The film also follows the lives of passionate football supporter Arthur and his son Tommy from East Belfast. The lead up to a momentous day in the life of a young boy (his 10th birthday) mirrors the build up to the big day for the Northern Ireland football team as they play the greatest match of their lives.

Young Plato

2021

7.8

100%

Documentary

northern ireland

Declan McGrath Director

Kevin McArevey as Self

Jan-Marie Reel as Self

Mr. McArevey is a visionary headmaster at a Catholic primary school in one of the toughest neighborhoods of Belfast, Northern Ireland. He loves Elvis and teaches his students to connect with their feelings, while taking on the legacies of the “The Troubles.” In this exceptional portrait of a community still healing from trauma, we follow this educator extraordinaire as he uses Ancient Greek wisdom as an antidote for pessimism, violence, and historical despair.

Nightride

2021

5.5

♡ 15

86%

96%

Stephen Fingleton Director

Moe Dunford as Budge

Stephen Rea as Joe

John Travers as Lefty

Aaron McCusker as Ringo

In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.

This Is Not a Movie

2019

7.6

♡ 1

100%

armenian genocide

palestinian-israeli conflict

Biography

Documentary

foreign correspondent

News

state crimes

War

weapons trafficking

Yung Chang Director

Robert Fisk as Self

Amira Hass as Self

Nirmeen Hazineh as Self

Sulieman Khatib as Self

For more than forty years, British journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent conflicts in the world, from Northern Ireland to the Middle East, always with his feet on the ground and a notebook in hand, travelling into landscapes devastated by war, ferreting out the facts and sending reports to the media he works for with the ambition of catching the interest of an audience of millions.

Belfast

2021

7.2

♡ 76

86%

92%

1960s

the troubles (north ireland, 1966-98)

working class

Kenneth Branagh Director

Jude Hill as Buddy

John Sessions as Joseph Tomelty

Caitriona Balfe as Ma

Ciarán Hinds as Pop

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

The Troubles: A Dublin Story

2022

5.9

♡ 3

1970s

based on true story

ira (irish republican army)

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.

Kneecap

2024

Irish

7.6

♡ 29

96%

95%

based on true story

Rich Peppiatt Director

Michael Fassbender as Arló Ó Cairealláin

Simone Kirby as Dolores

Dearbháile McKinney as Female Partner 3

Kerri Quinn as Spin Instructor

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

Cal

1984

6.5

♡ 4

92%

79%

1970s

based on novel or book

ira (irish republican army)

Drama

guilt

ireland

Romance

Thriller

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%