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1.
The Manions of America (1981)
Episode:
Part I
(1981)
90 min | Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Kathleen Beller, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Forrest, Peter Gilmore
Votes: 18
2.
The Manions of America (1981)
Episode:
Part III
(1981)
Drama
Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Kathleen Beller, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Forrest, Peter Gilmore
Votes: 14
3. Fragments of Isabella (1989)
Told in a series of recollections, the film takes the form of a one woman narrative that tells the story of Isabella and her family suffering in Auschwitz, her survival, marriage and life in America after World War 2 .
Director: Ronan O'Leary | Star: Gabrielle Reidy
Votes: 7
4. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
G | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Votes: 37,045 | Gross: $28.35M
5. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
Instead of coming in from the Cold War, British agent Alec Leamas chooses to face another mission.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 18,758
6. The Dresser (1983)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Votes: 5,671 | Gross: $5.31M
7. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Sport
A young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen
Votes: 9,350
8.
Scarlett (1994)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1994)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Scarlett keeps her daughter's birth a secret from Rhett to spite him, thinking that if Cat grows up not knowing her father she will, unlike Bonnie, not love him. The day that Rhett finally ... See full summary »
Director: John Erman | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Sean Bean, Brian Bedford
Votes: 75
9. Ryan's Daughter (1970)
R | 200 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Christopher Jones
Votes: 10,649 | Gross: $30.85M
10. Hello Stranger (1992)
Over lunch at the Four Seasons Hotel, an acquaintance tells the protagonist about his troubles.
Director: Ronan O'Leary | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Tim McDonnell, O.Z. Whitehead, Jan Widger
Votes: 7
11.
Scarlett (1994)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1994)
PG-13 | Drama, Romance
Scarlett travels to Charleston to visit Rhett's family and tries to corner him by winning his mother's affection. She convinces Rhett to take her for a sail on the harbor, where their boat ... See full summary »
Director: John Erman | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Barbara Barrie, Sean Bean
Votes: 76
12. 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: 6,741 | Gross: $1.41M
13.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
The Arrangement
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
When Greer Stevens suggests to Sheila Northcott that each woman kills the other's husband, Sheila does not take her seriously until her own spouse is killed by Greer, who then tries to ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Carolyn Seymour, Sarah Douglas, Michael Medwin
Votes: 53
14. Educating Rita (1983)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman
Votes: 14,879 | Gross: $14.65M
15. The Dead (1987)
PG | 83 min | Drama
Gabriel Conroy and wife Gretta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Donal McCann, Helena Carroll, Cathleen Delany
Votes: 8,853 | Gross: $4.37M
16. The Mark (1961)
Approved | 127 min | Drama
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Rod Steiger, Brenda de Banzie
Votes: 987
17.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
Signal Stop
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
The Saint is on a train where he meets Janie Lennox. She tells him that she has just seen somebody being killed in an empty building the train passed by. The police can find no evidence of ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Ciaran Madden, Frederick Jaeger, Ian Cullen
Votes: 44
18.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
The Armageddon Alternative
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
A deranged scientist, rejected for a top government post, gets his revenge by setting off explosions all over London. He threatens the biggest explosion of all unless sculptress Lynn ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, George Cole, Anouska Hempel, Donald Houston
Votes: 41
19.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
The Debt Collectors
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
The Saint rescues Jerri Hansen when her horse bolts in Hyde Park. She does not think it was accidental and tells the Saint that her sister has disappeared and she believes that she has been... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Anton Rodgers, Mary Tamm, Diane Keen
Votes: 40
20.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
Tower Bridge Is Falling Down
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
When Charlie Stewart is found crushed to death on one of his demolition sites his daughter Jenny seeks the Saint's help. She is convinced that her father was killed by his business partner ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, John Woodvine, Alfie Bass, Fiona Curzon
Votes: 44
21.
Scarlett (1994)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1994)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Romance
Atlanta, Georgia, 1873. Scarlett O'Hara Butler is attending the funeral of Melanie Wilkes, her late sister-in-law and rival for Ashley Wilkes' affection, at which her estranged husband, ... See full summary »
Director: John Erman | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Barbara Barrie, Stephen Collins
Votes: 85
22. Out of Africa (1985)
PG | 161 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen
Votes: 86,020 | Gross: $87.10M
23. 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: 33,654 | Gross: $11.09M
24. The Butcher Boy (1997)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle
Votes: 11,438 | Gross: $1.82M
25. The Manions of America (1981)
290 min | Drama
Epic miniseries about a proud Irish farmer who migrates to America, tired of English repression and the Great Famine. He works hard and even meets the Englishwoman he once loved. The couple reunites. Then the American Civil War breaks out.
Stars: Kathleen Beller, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Forrest, Peter Gilmore
Votes: 263
26. Philadelphia, Here I Come! (1974)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).
Director: John Quested | Stars: Donal McCann, Des Cave, Siobhan McKenna, Eamon Kelly
Votes: 115
27.
Scarlett (1994)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1994)
PG-13 | Drama, Romance
Scarlett connects with the O'Hara family in Savannah where she learns that her grandfather has offered Scarlett his inheritance if she remains with him in Savannah until his death and ... See full summary »
Director: John Erman | Stars: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Sean Bean, Brian Bedford
Votes: 67
28. Evelyn (2002)
PG | 94 min | Drama
Desmond's wife leaves him and their 3 kids after Christmas 1953. As he's unemployed in Dublin, the authorities place the kids in orphanages; when he finds a job, he tries to get his kids back.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, Sophie Vavasseur
Votes: 7,107 | Gross: $1.48M
29. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Approved | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being led by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns
Votes: 1,509
30. David Copperfield (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Drama
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Michael Richards, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Andrews
Votes: 1,173
31. The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance
A middle-aged spinster falls in love with a fellow resident of her boardinghouse, who mistakenly believes she has the money to help him start a new business.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean
Votes: 1,216 | Gross: $0.52M
32. The Loved One (1965)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy
Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, Rod Steiger
Votes: 3,941
33. Yesterday's Children (2000 TV Movie)
93 min | Drama
After having strange dreams, Jenny Cole discovers that in her last incarnation she was Mary Sutton, an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s. Suspicious, Jenny goes to Ireland to investigate her past life.
Director: Marcus Cole | Stars: Jane Seymour, Clancy Brown, Kyle Howard, Denis Conway
Votes: 974
34.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
Yesterday's Hero
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
Several years earlier the Saint was on a secret mission with three other men, Gates, Cleaver and Diskett. Gates was captured and it was assumed that he was killed. However, he now returns ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Ian Hendry, Annette Andre, Matthew Ryan
Votes: 49
35. The Quare Fellow (1962)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly
Votes: 398
36. Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near-fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance, and which attracts a couple of other unsavory confused characters.
Director: Stuart Cooper | Stars: John Hurt, John McEnery, David Warner, Rosalind Ayres
Votes: 275
37. Heaven's Gate (1980)
R | 219 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston
Votes: 17,067 | Gross: $3.48M
38. Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Crime
This series chronicles the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Gayle Hunnicutt, Stratford Johns, Derren Nesbitt
Votes: 572
39. A Quiet Day in Belfast (1974)
88 min | Drama
A brutally realistic drama dealing with the conflict between northern Irish "patriots" and British soldiers.
Director: Milad Bessada | Stars: Barry Foster, Margot Kidder, Sean McCann, Leo Leyden
Votes: 77
40. Far and Away (1992)
PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young Irish couple flee to the States, but subsequently struggle to obtain land and prosper freely.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky
Votes: 68,112 | Gross: $58.88M
41. Cal (1984)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller, Romance
A young man fraught with guilt longs to defect from the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is drawn to the widow of a slain Protestant policeman but must hide his secret that he was involved in her husband's murder and evade the authorities.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh
Votes: 1,624
42. Hannibal Brooks (1969)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Oliver Reed, John Alderton, Michael J. Pollard, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 1,736
43. Horowitz in Dublin (1974)
PG | 90 min | Crime
American detective goes to Ireland, for a visit to his late wife's relatives and helps the local police in a case of murder and money forgery.
Director: William Kronick | Stars: Harvey Lembeck, Sinéad Cusack, Al Lettieri, Cesare Danova
Votes: 31
44.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
The Nightmare Man
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
In Paris the Saint meets a distraught woman who says that she has had a vivid dream in which her husband, the new Italian ambassador to Britain, is killed whilst travelling in an open coach... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Joss Ackland, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Moira Redmond
Votes: 45
45.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
The Obono Affair
(1979)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
The Saint is reluctant to act as bodyguard to the ruthless African president Obono. However he agrees to help the president's daughter Mora to discover who has kidnapped her little brother.... See full summary »
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Jack Hedley, Thomas Baptiste, Muriel Odunton
Votes: 36
46. Da (1988)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Director: Matt Clark | Stars: Barnard Hughes, Martin Sheen, William Hickey, Karl Hayden
Votes: 512 | Gross: $0.60M
47. Made (1972)
R | 101 min | Drama
The story of the relationship between a young single mother and an insecure rock star.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Carol White, Roy Harper, John Castle, Margery Mason
Votes: 171
48.
Return of the Saint (1978–1979)
Episode:
One Black September
(1978)
TV-PG | 49 min | Adventure, Crime
The Saint teams up with Israeli Captain Leila Sabin, a counter-terrorist officer, to track down Abdul Hakim. He is a member of the Black September terrorist group who has defected and is in... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Prunella Gee, Emily Bolton, Garrick Hagon
Votes: 44
49. Tom Jones (1963)
Not Rated | 129 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel Kempson
Votes: 14,209 | Gross: $37.60M
50. Scarlett (1994)
PG-13 | 360 min | Drama, Romance
In the long-awaited sequel to Gone With the Wind, Scarlett's flight from the scrutiny of Atlanta society takes her on a journey to Savannah and Charleston, to England, and to Ireland, where she discovers her family's roots.
Stars: Joanne Whalley, Timothy Dalton, Annabeth Gish, Julie Harris
Votes: 3,380