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1. Philomena (2013)
PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham
Votes: 103,780 | Gross: $37.71M
2. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,759 | Gross: $14.74M
3. Victoria & Abdul (2017)
PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard
Votes: 38,228 | Gross: $22.25M
4. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson
Votes: 24,520 | Gross: $0.83M
5. Catastrophe (2015–2019)
TV-MA | 601 min | Comedy
American man Rob gets Irish woman Sharon pregnant when they hook up for a week while he is on a business trip in London.
Stars: Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, Mark Bonnar, Ashley Jensen
Votes: 23,684
6. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.
Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington
Votes: 18,256
7. Intermission (2003)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence.
Director: John Crowley | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson
Votes: 16,588 | Gross: $0.90M
8. Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
When the kinetic Rory moves into his room in the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, his effect on the home is immediate. Most telling is his friendship with Michael, a young man with cerebral palsy and nearly unintelligible speech. Somehow, Rory understands Michael, and encourages him to experience life outside the confines of home.
Director: Damien O'Donnell | Stars: James McAvoy, Steven Robertson, Romola Garai, Alan King
Votes: 16,023 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Silent Witness (1996– )
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.
Stars: Emilia Fox, David Caves, William Gaminara, Tom Ward
Votes: 12,711
10. Circle of Friends (1995)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance
Three women, who've been friends since childhood, meet at university in Dublin in 1957. Student and boyfriend life begins.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Geraldine O'Rawe, Saffron Burrows
Votes: 9,234 | Gross: $23.40M
11. Wake Wood (2009)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Director: David Keating | Stars: Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall, Ella Connolly
Votes: 8,817
12. Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
TV-MA | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With the help of DS John Bacchus, Inspector George Gently spends his days bringing to justice members of the criminal underworld who are unfortunate enough to have the intrepid investigator assigned to their cases.
Stars: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Simon Hubbard, Lisa McGrillis
Votes: 8,519
13. The Field (1990)
PG-13 | 107 min | Drama, Thriller
When a field (which has been farmed by the McCabe family for generations) goes up for auction, the patriarch of the McCabe family will stop at nothing to prevent a rich American from buying it.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty
Votes: 6,765 | Gross: $1.41M
14. Moone Boy (2012–2015)
TV-14 | 23 min | Comedy
Martin Moone is a young boy who relies on the help of his imaginary friend Sean to deal with the quandaries of life in a wacky small-town Irish family circa 1990.
Stars: Chris O'Dowd, David Rawle, Deirdre O'Kane, Peter McDonald
Votes: 6,633
15.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Snapper
(1993)
R | 91 min | Drama
20 year old Irish girl Sharon Curly lives at home with her large family. But notoriety in her neighbourhood suddenly arrives when, after a night out on the town, she becomes pregnant and refuses to divulge the identity of the baby's father.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Eanna MacLiam
Votes: 6,126 | Gross: $3.32M
16. Good Vibrations (2012)
Not Rated | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene.
Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Stars: Cathal Maguire, Peter Kelly, Charlie Berkeley, Jack Carberry
Votes: 5,593
17. Scarlett (1994)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In this long-awaited sequel to Gone With the Wind, Scarlett's flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah, Charleston, England, and Ireland, where she discovers her family's roots.
Stars: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Annabeth Gish, Julie Harris
Votes: 3,394
18. An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth... See full summary »
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong
Votes: 3,023 | Gross: $0.26M
19. Hideaways (2011)
88 min | Fantasy, Thriller
James Furlong, motherless, discovered an extraordinary gift by accident which caused the death of his father and his grandmother.
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Rachel Hurd-Wood, Harry Treadaway, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Susan Lynch
Votes: 2,856
20. Ballykissangel (1996–2001)
TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Drama
An English priest is transferred to a small Irish village.
Stars: Frankie McCafferty, Joe Savino, Deirdre Donnelly, Gary Whelan
Votes: 1,956
21. An Everlasting Piece (2000)
R | 103 min | Comedy
Colm is a Catholic, and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast, Northern Ireland in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead, they became business partners. After ... See full summary »
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Barry McEvoy, Brían F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel, Pauline McLynn
Votes: 1,743 | Gross: $0.08M
22. Joyride (II) (2022)
94 min | Comedy, Drama
A headstrong solicitor's plan to offload her new born baby to her sister, is derailed when a vulnerable but opinionated teenager steals their taxi.
Director: Emer Reynolds | Stars: Olivia Colman, Charlie Reid, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Elaine Kennedy
Votes: 1,631
23. American Women (2000)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and ... See full summary »
Director: Aileen Ritchie | Stars: Ian Hart, Sean McGinley, Niamh Cusack, Ruth McCabe
Votes: 1,531 | Gross: $0.22M
24. The Tiger's Tail (2006)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 1,466
25. Single-Handed (2007–2010)
TV-14 | 841 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jack Driscoll moves back to the town on the west coast of Ireland where he was born. He takes over his retired father's Garda post, and solves different cases.
Stars: Owen McDonnell, David Herlihy, Ruth McCabe, Brian Gleeson
Votes: 1,456
26. Run & Jump (2013)
Unrated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
An American doctor travels to Ireland to study the Casey family after 38-year-old Conor suffers a stroke which changes his personality, leaving dynamo wife and mother Vanetia to run the show.
Director: Steph Green | Stars: Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Will Forte, Ciara Gallagher
Votes: 1,326 | Gross: $0.01M
27. The Street (2006–2009)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
Series of one-off dramas, each focusing on a different house within the same street.
Stars: Timothy Spall, Ger Ryan, Lee Ingleby, Christine Bottomley
Votes: 1,319
28. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (2006 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Ten years past the inexplicable technological collapse of 2209, in a renewedly rallying future world, twenty-year-old Zoë must set out for a journey to help a friend expose an ultimate conspiracy that may be connected with the recurring visions she have been seeing lately.
Director: Ragnar Tørnquist | Stars: Ellie Conrad-Leigh, Sarah Hamilton, Gavin O'Connor, Ralph Byers
Votes: 1,225
29. Takin' Over the Asylum (1994)
TV-14 | 50 min | Drama
A salesman starts to run a hospital radio station inside a facility for people with mental heath needs.
Stars: Ken Stott, Katy Murphy, David Tennant, Ruth McCabe
Votes: 1,174
30. The Shore (2011)
Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The story of Joe and Paddy, whose childhood friendship is shattered by the troubles in Northern Ireland. Twenty five years later they are reunited.
Director: Terry George | Stars: Anthony Brophy, Conleth Hill, Packy Lee, Aidan McAteer
Votes: 1,069
31. Talk of Angels (1998)
PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
A young Irishwoman becomes governess to 3 daughters of a rich family in Spain in 1936, just before the civil war. The mom likes Franco - the dad doesn't. She becomes family. She befriends 5 Irishwomen.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Polly Walker, Vincent Perez, Franco Nero, Frances McDormand
Votes: 897 | Gross: $0.02M
32. The Miracle (1991)
R | 97 min | Drama
The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe ... See full summary »
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Beverly D'Angelo, Donal McCann, Niall Byrne, Lorraine Pilkington
Votes: 787 | Gross: $0.84M
33. Aisha (I) (2022)
94 min | Drama
While caught for years in Ireland's immigration system Aisha Osagie develops a close friendship with former prisoner Conor Healy. This friendship soon looks to be short lived as Aisha's future in Ireland comes under threat.
Director: Frank Berry | Stars: Letitia Wright, Josh O'Connor, Lorcan Cranitch, Denis Conway
Votes: 763
34. Life of Crime (2013)
TV-MA | 132 min | Crime, Drama
A rookie cop is obsessed with tracking down the killer of a 15-year-old girl, who she hunts over the course of 28 years.
Stars: Hayley Atwell, Richard Coyle, Julian Lewis Jones, Amanda Drew
Votes: 761
35. Lucan (2013)
63 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A two-part drama about infamous aristocrat John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974 after being accused of murdering his children's nanny.
Stars: Rory Kinnear, Catherine McCormack, Christopher Eccleston, Alistair Petrie
Votes: 759
36. Fair City (1989– )
25 min | Drama
The day-to-day dramas of the community who live and work in the fictional north Dublin suburb of Carrigstown.
Stars: Mick Nolan, Philip Michael, Rodrigo Ternevoy, Alexander Lester
Votes: 673
37. Wild About Harry (2000)
91 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
A sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
Director: Declan Lowney | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Amanda Donohoe, James Nesbitt, Adrian Dunbar
Votes: 553
38. The Clinic (I) (2003–2009)
Not Rated | 60 min | Drama
Drama centering around the work and private lives of the doctors, medical professionals and staff attached to a busy Dublin clinic.
Stars: Dominic Mafham, Gary Lydon, Amy Huberman, Leigh Arnold
Votes: 530
39.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
The Cage
(2013)
TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Foyle's investigation into the death of a nameless Russian leads to a mysterious military facility and the discovery that the victim was a spy with dangerous connections to British intelligence.
Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Laura Way, Simon Coury, Norma Sheahan, Radoslaw Kaim
Votes: 508
40. Stella Days (2011)
TV-14 | 100 min | Drama
A small town cinema in rural Ireland becomes the setting for a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, Rome and Hollywood and a man and his conscience.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Trystan Gravelle, Marcella Plunkett
Votes: 473
41. Titanic Town (1998)
100 min | Drama
A Belfast, Northern Ireland housewife takes up the peace cause, which causes her family trouble with I.R.A. sympathizers.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Nuala O'Neill, James Loughran
Votes: 459 | Gross: $0.06M
42.
Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode:
Gently Evil
(2010)
TV-MA | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman's body is found, and the investigation leads Gently and Bacchus to suspect the victim's estranged husband is responsible for the killing.
Director: Daniel O'Hara | Stars: Dave Johns, Vin Welch, Lee Ingleby, Christopher Connel
Votes: 456
43. The Blackwater Lightship (2004 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama
A man in the final stages of A.I.D.S. is cared for by his sister, mother, and grandmother.
Director: John Erman | Stars: Dianne Wiest, Gina McKee, Keith McErlean, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 391
44.
Silent Witness (1996– )
Episode:
Buried Lies: Part 1
(1996)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Forensic pathologist Dr. Sam Ryan returns to Cambridge to take up a teaching assignment and to work for the police as required. In her first case, she has to deal with the death of a six ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Hook | Stars: Lesley Dunlop, Jelena Budimir, Carl Hillsden, Sophie Manning
Votes: 389
45. The Man Who Crossed Hitler (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, History
In November 1930, brown-shirted storm troopers of Hitler's SA break into the Communist Eden Palace club, killing several members. Jewish lawyer Hans Litten prosecutes them and, at the ... See full summary »
Director: Justin Hardy | Stars: Ed Stoppard, Ian Hart, Bill Paterson, Sarah Smart
Votes: 361
46.
Silent Witness (1996– )
Episode:
Buried Lies: Part 2
(1996)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With the exhumation of a child that had died from abuse some years earlier, Sam is able to demonstrate that there are similarities between the deaths of the two children. There is also only... See full summary »
Director: Harry Hook | Stars: John McGlynn, Amanda Burton, Clare Higgins, Tim McEvoy
Votes: 313
47.
Catastrophe (2015–2019)
Episode:
Episode #3.6
(2017)
TV-MA | 24 min | Comedy
Rob and Sharon are in Ireland to say goodbye to Sharon's dad and Mia comes to pay her version of respects. Also, Rob still hasn't managed to talk about his collapse.
Director: Ben Taylor | Stars: Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, Carrie Fisher, Ashley Jensen
Votes: 310
48.
Silent Witness (1996– )
Episode:
Long Days, Short Nights: Part 1
(1996)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Mark James' decomposing body is found in an abandoned building, there is every indication that he was part of some occult ritual. An upside down cross was carved on his chest, his ... See full summary »
Director: Mike Barker | Stars: Emily Mortimer, Dominic Mafham, Hannah Cresswell, William Armstrong
Votes: 309
49. Hostages (1992 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Drama
This is the story of Peggy Say and her battle to free the hostages in Beirut. Witness the cruel abduction of innocent citizens thrown into the dark, insect infested cells and abandoned by their homelands.
Director: David Wheatley | Stars: Kathy Bates, Colin Firth, Ciarán Hinds, Natasha Richardson
Votes: 294
50.
Catastrophe (2015–2019)
Episode:
Episode #3.5
(2017)
TV-MA | 24 min | Comedy
Sharon and Fergal go home to visit their father who is unwell. Rob returns to work, making friends with a young colleague who recently started. Rob and Sharon reluctantly agree to hire their old babysitter.
Director: Ben Taylor | Stars: Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, Mark Bonnar, Jonathan Forbes
Votes: 290