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1. The Boys in the Boat (2023)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
A 1930s-set story centered on the University of Washington's rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Director: George Clooney | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Callum Turner, Peter Guinness, Sam Strike
Votes: 16,617
2. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen
Votes: 688,518 | Gross: $532.18M
3. Leap Year (2010)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Romance
Anna Brady plans to travel to Dublin, Ireland to propose to her boyfriend Jeremy on February 29, leap day, because, according to Irish tradition, a man who receives a marriage proposal on a leap day must accept it.
Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow
Votes: 110,860 | Gross: $25.92M
4. City of Ember (2008)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.
Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Toby Jones, Bill Murray, David Ryall
Votes: 69,825 | Gross: $7.87M
5. Hamlet (1996)
PG-13 | 242 min | Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet
Votes: 40,115 | Gross: $4.71M
6. The Last Rifleman (2023)
95 min | Drama
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
Director: Terry Loane | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Clémence Poésy, John Amos, Jürgen Prochnow
Votes: 1,547
7. Michael Collins (1996)
R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Ian Hart
Votes: 33,832 | Gross: $11.09M
8. The Boxer (1997)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly, Frank Coughlan
Votes: 22,378 | Gross: $5.80M
9. A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates, Sammi Davis
Votes: 5,729 | Gross: $1.43M
10. Closing the Ring (2007)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
A young man searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a U.S. World War II bomber gunner who crashed in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 1, 1944.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Dylan Roberts, Gene Dinovi
Votes: 4,875
11. Triage (2009)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, War
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Colin Farrell, Jamie Sives, Paz Vega, Kelly Reilly
Votes: 10,696
12. The Journey (III) (2016)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the 2006 Northern Ireland peace talks, Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) are forced to travel by car together.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Freddie Highmore
Votes: 2,069
13. Hidden Agenda (1990)
R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch
Votes: 4,628 | Gross: $1.03M
14. A Shine of Rainbows (2009)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Family
A lonely orphan's life is transformed by an extraordinary woman who teaches him to conquer grief and discover the magic in nature and himself.
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, John Bell, Jack Gleeson
Votes: 2,454
15. Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when his mother is murdered.
Director: Chris Baugh | Stars: Nigel O'Neill, Susan Lynch, Józef Pawlowski, Stuart Graham
Votes: 8,740
16. Sacrifice (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
After digging up a bizarrely mutilated corpse on her land, physician Tora Hamilton uncovers a lethal connection to ancient pagan rituals.
Director: Peter A. Dowling | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves, Ian McElhinney, Joanne Crawford
Votes: 4,834
17. Small Faces (1995)
R | 108 min | Drama
Glaswegian teenager Lex is torn between the artistic life of middle brother Alan and the thuggish world of elder brother Bobby.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Iain Robertson, Joe McFadden, Steven Duffy, Laura Fraser
Votes: 1,641
18. Lamb (1985)
110 min | Drama
An Irish reform school priest questions his calling as a young, epileptic runaway arrives. Each recognizes the other as kindred spirits and escape together. As police close in and money dwindles, the desperate priest makes bad decisions.
Director: Colin Gregg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Harry Towb, Hugh O'Conor, Frances Tomelty
Votes: 678
19. Zoo (I) (2017)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Family, History
Young Tom Hall (Art Parkinson) and his misfit friends fight to save "Buster" the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941.
Director: Colin McIvor | Stars: Toby Jones, Penelope Wilton, Ian McElhinney, Amy Huberman
Votes: 1,431
20. Borstal Boy (2000)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Director: Peter Sheridan | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 2,575 | Gross: $0.09M
21. The Playboys (1992)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and ... See full summary »
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Milo O'Shea
Votes: 1,326 | Gross: $4.91M
22. A Love Divided (1999)
Unrated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The true story of a Catholic man and his Protestant wife, and the events resulting in the Co. Wexford, Ireland community when the wife decides she doesn't appreciate being forced to send ... See full summary »
Director: Syd Macartney | Stars: Peter Caffrey, Brendan Conroy, Orla Brady, Liam Cunningham
Votes: 367
23. Lost Lives (2019)
93 min | Documentary
Inspired by the book of the same name, it records the circumstances of every man, woman and child who died in a conflict - the Northern Irish 'Troubles.' A reminder that war is hell.
Directors: Dermot Lavery, Michael Hewitt | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Brid Brennan, Roma Downey, Adrian Dunbar
Votes: 92
24. A Patch of Fog (2015)
92 min | Thriller
A security guard catches a famous writer/television host shoplifting and blackmails him into becoming friends.
Director: Michael Lennox | Stars: Stephen Graham, Conleth Hill, Lara Pulver, Arsher Ali
Votes: 1,675
25. Angel (1982)
R | 92 min | Drama, Music
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a non-verbal deaf girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers' leader. So begins his quest to avenge them.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Veronica Quilligan, Stephen Rea, Alan Devlin, Peter Caffrey
Votes: 978
26. Divorcing Jack (1998)
Not Rated | 110 min | Thriller, Comedy
Black romantic comedy set around the troubled "peace process" and its effect on a cynical Belfast hack.
Director: David Caffrey | Stars: David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Adam Black, Simon Magill
Votes: 2,176
27. The Ulysses Project (2022)
Drama
A modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 85 actors. The film maintains the rhythm of the novel's stream of consciousness with intimate, minutely nuanced provocative performances.
Directors: Trevor Murphy, Laoisa Sexton | Stars: Susan Ateh, Sebastian Beacon, Patrick Bergin, Steve Blount
28. This Is the Sea (1997)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan, who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause, and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
Director: Mary McGuckian | Stars: Samantha Morton, Ross McDade, Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 386
29. Fools of Fortune (1990)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance
A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Iain Glen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Sean T. McClory, Frankie McCafferty
Votes: 257 | Gross: $0.08M
30. Cellar Door (2018)
90 min | Drama, Mystery
The story follows Aidie, a fighter inside and out, as she searches for her son while in the grip of the Church.
Director: Viko Nikci | Stars: Karen Hassan, Catherine Walker, Una Carroll, Jack Michael Cloke
Votes: 69
31. Untitled 70mm Halyna Hutchins project
Drama | Announced
Director: Dennis Hauck | Stars: Desmond Eastwood, Ian McElhinney, Gráinne Good, Jonathan Delaney Tynan
32. Anne Devlin (1984)
121 min | Drama
The story of Anne Devlin, who was caught up in the revolt of the Irish under Robert Emmett in 1803, told exclusively from the woman's point of view.
Director: Pat Murphy | Stars: Brid Brennan, Bosco Hogan, Des McAleer, Gillian Hackett
Votes: 29
33. Mapmaker (2001)
100 min | Thriller
An imaginative thriller about a mapmaker who uncovers the body of an alleged informer while mapping a border beauty spot in Ireland. As local tensions are stirred by the discovery, the ... See full summary »
Director: Johnny Gogan | Stars: Brían F. O'Byrne, Susan Lynch, Brendan Coyle, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 98
34. Reefer and the Model (1988)
93 min
Reefer, a former IRA man in Galway; his friends Spider and Badger; and the pregnant Teresa "the Model", who abandoned a life of drugs and prostitution, become involved armed robbery of a post office and are pursued by the Gardaí.
Director: Joe Comerford | Stars: Ian McElhinney, Carol Moore, Sean Lawlor, Ray McBride
Votes: 51
35. The Truth Commissioner (2016)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A drama about a truth commissioner appointed to chair a South African style truth commission in Northern Ireland.
Director: Declan Recks | Stars: Roger Allam, Barry Ward, Conleth Hill, Madeleine Mantock
Votes: 188
36. The Boy from Mercury (1996)
87 min | Drama, Family
Harry is an eight-year-old boy growing up in Ireland with his dis-spirited widowed mother May and older brother Paul. He is bullied in school, and his only real friend is his dog Max. His ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Duffy | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Tom Courtenay, Hugh O'Conor, James Hickey
Votes: 109
37. Acceptable Levels (1983)
100 min | Drama
A British TV crew interviewing a Catholic Belfast family gets some controversial footage, which headquarters destroys.
Director: John Davies | Stars: Kay Adshead, Frances Barber, Michael Bruce, Peter Dean
Votes: 32
38. The Front Line (2006)
93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery
Director: David Gleeson | Stars: Eriq Ebouaney, Gerard McSorley, James Frain, Fatou N'Diaye
Votes: 1,003
39. The End of the World Man (1986)
PG | 86 min | Family
When some Belfast children find out that city planners intend to "develop" a wooded area called the Glen that the girls use as a retreat from the pressures of city life, they decide to fight back - but in their own way.
Director: Bill Miskelly | Stars: John Hewitt, Leanne O'Malley, Claire Weir, Ian Morrison
Votes: 28
40. Swansong: Story of Occi Byrne (2009)
90 min | Drama
Austin moves back to Ireland with his mother after she fails to procure an abortion in the UK and gives birth to him there.
Director: Conor McDermottroe | Stars: Martin McCann, Jodie Whittaker, Kellie Hughes, Sandra O'Malley
Votes: 90
41. Cup Cake (2010)
TV-PG | 86 min | Comedy
A 23 year old man, who lives in a world of his own, surrounded by robots and gadgets, is forced into reality. He discovers the importance of keeping a promise to his family, whilst realizing the importance of following his heart.
Director: Colin McIvor | Stars: Adam Best, Michelle Fairley, Clive Russell, Paddy Jenkins
Votes: 57
42. To Be Frank Carson (2017)
59 min | Documentary
Frank Carson was one of Britain and Ireland's most loved comedians. Dan Gordon explores the story of the Belfast funny man as he prepares to stage a one-man show on the comic's life.
Director: Brian Henry Martin | Stars: Frank Carson, Dan Gordon, Ian McElhinney, Mathew McElhinney
Votes: 10
43. Make It New John (2010)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Duncan Campbell | Stars: Liz May Brice, Stuart Graham, Frankie McCafferty, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 10