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1.
Charlie (2015)
Episode:
GUBU 1982
(2015)
Biography, Drama, History
In 1982, Charles J Haughey seizes his opportunity to regain power and to lead Ireland onto the stage of world politics but domestic complications conspire to bring him down.
Director: Kenneth Glenaan | Stars: Aidan Gillen, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Lucy Cohu, Peter Gowen
Votes: 9
2. Family (1994– )
118 min | Drama
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's ... See full summary »
Stars: Sean McGinley, Ger Ryan, Neilí Conroy, Barry Ward
Votes: 198
3. Braveheart (1995)
R | 178 min | Biography, Drama, War
Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
Votes: 1,091,010 | Gross: $75.60M
4. Hi-Lo Joe (2017)
94 min | Drama, Thriller
Everyone loves Joe Ridley, except Joe. Dark, crushing depression envelops him and a childhood trauma haunts him. Elly loves him but he is pushing her away. Can he save himself before he loses everything?
Director: James Kermack | Stars: Gethin Anthony, Jannik Archer, Tom Bateman, Liza Callinicos
Votes: 86
5.
Ballykissangel (1996–2001)
Episode:
Fallen Angel
(1996)
TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Drama
Ballykissangel gets their very own radio show, with a mystery host that Ambrose is determined to find. In the meantime, Father Clifford takes driving lessons with Asumpta in order to prepare for his upcoming test.
Director: Paul Harrison | Stars: Stephen Tompkinson, Dervla Kirwan, Tony Doyle, Niall Toibin
Votes: 61
6. The Tudors (2007–2010)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
A dramatic series about the reign and marriages of King Henry VIII.
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy, James Frain
Votes: 81,163
7. In the Name of the Father (1993)
R | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King
Votes: 187,049 | Gross: $25.01M
8. Pitch 'n' Putt with Beckett 'n' Joyce (2001)
3 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Donald Clarke | Stars: Martin Murphy, Arthur Riordan, Lucy Cray-Miller
Votes: 39
9.
The Tudors (2007–2010)
Episode:
The Death of Wolsey
(2007)
TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, History, Romance
Now cardinal Wolsey lives in misery as penniless archbishop of and in York, barred from court, hoping in vain Anne Boleyn who broke his hold on the king will reward his efforts as she once ... See full summary »
Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sam Neill, Callum Blue, Henry Cavill
Votes: 871
10. Play for Today (1970–1984)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker
Votes: 392
11. Shine on Harvey Moon (1982–1995)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Upon being demobbed, RAF serviceman Harvey Moon returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen.
Stars: Elizabeth Spriggs, Maggie Steed, Linda Robson, Lee Whitlock
Votes: 207
12.
The Governor (1995–1996)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1995)
Crime, Drama
Anthony and his cellmates go to trial for their part in the hanging incident. Helen is called as a witness and must lock horns with Anthony's formidable lawyer.
Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Janet McTeer, Derek Martin, Ron Donachie, Paul Kynman
Votes: 14
13.
Single-Handed (2007–2010)
Episode:
Home: Part 2
(2007)
TV-14 | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Jack learns that the victim was called Sylvana and that she was pregnant. Tommy was going to arrange an abortion in England for her. Tommy, in fact, has had previous experience of helping ... See full summary »
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Owen McDonnell, Ian McElhinney, Liam Carney, Laura Murphy
Votes: 117
14.
Clean Break (2015– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2015)
TV-PG | 22 min | Drama
The wall of silence around the kidnapping breaks down, Frank unmasks the enemies plotting against him, and Jenny uncovers evidence that places her in danger (http://www.rte.ie).
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Dermot Murphy, Phelim Drew, Fionna Hewitt-Twamley, Sean Byrne
Votes: 15
15. 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: 1,954
16. 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
17. Charlie (2015)
Biography, Drama, History
The political and personal life of Irish politician Charles Haughey during his tenure as Taoiseach of Ireland (1979-1981, 1982, 1987-1992).
Stars: Aidan Gillen, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Lucy Cohu, Risteard Cooper
Votes: 183
18. 81 (1996)
28 min | Short
Comedy drama about a French T.V. crew that arrives in Belfast in 1981 to cover the hunger strike of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands..
Director: Stephen Burke | Stars: Philippe Missischi, Robert Hickey, Paula McFetridge, Lalor Roddy
Votes: 16
19.
Single-Handed (2007–2010)
Episode:
Natural Justice
(2007)
TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Freshly transferred to his hometown from Dublin, Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll probes the carbon monoxide poisoning of a young immigrant woman. The investigation threatens to expose dirty ... See full summary »
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Stuart Graham, Ian McElhinney, Owen McDonnell, Joe Hanley
Votes: 71
20. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson
Votes: 413
21. On Home Ground (2001– )
Drama, Sport
TV series about a GAA club in a fictional Irish small town. The team is hoping to finally win the country championship, a title which has eluded them so far.
Stars: Amy Huberman, Rory Keenan, Sean McGinley, Daragh O'Malley
Votes: 22
22.
Single-Handed (2007–2010)
Episode:
Home: Part 1
(2007)
TV-14 | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
No sooner has Garda officer Jack Driscoll returned from Dublin to replace retiring copper dad Gerry in rural Connemara than he has to investigate the death of a young Balkan barmaid, who ... See full summary »
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Owen McDonnell, Ian McElhinney, Liam Carney, Laura Murphy
Votes: 139
23. The Governor (1995–1996)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Helen Hewitt is put in charge of a maximum security prison that had been nearly destroyed by a riot. She is set in cleaning up the place.
Stars: Janet McTeer, Derek Martin, David J. Nicholls, Christine Moore
Votes: 174
24. 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: 33,745 | Gross: $11.09M
25. Home for Christmas (2002 TV Movie)
55 min | Drama
Mona Quirke, as usual, is having her adult children for Christmas. The youngest arrives with an unexpected guest and nothing will ever be the same again in the Quirke household.
Director: Charlie McCarthy | Stars: Isabella Devine, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dearbhla Molloy, Martin Murphy
Votes: 23
26.
The Governor (1995–1996)
Episode:
Episode #2.3
(1996)
Crime, Drama
Helen is reinstated as governor of Barfield, and she tries to comfort the prison psychologist, Annette following her ordeal. Snoopy's sentence is extended, although he doesn't remember what... See full summary »
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Janet McTeer, Derek Martin, David J. Nicholls, Frank Harper
Votes: 10
27. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
60 min | Drama
BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird
Votes: 137
28. Dance with a Stranger (1985)
R | 96 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Matthew Carroll
Votes: 2,972 | Gross: $2.17M
29. Before I Sleep (1997)
29 min | Short
"Before I Sleep" is one man's odyssey through Dublin city. It is a crowded hectic film, unmistakably Dublin, yet with one constant character - John Harte, a recently umemployed middle class man in a state of quiet anxiety.
Director: Paul Mercier | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Vinnie McCabe, Paul Nolan, Alan King
Votes: 15
30. Frankie Starlight (1995)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance, War
A writer with dwarfism shares the story of his unconventional, though not altogether bad, upbringing as his mother struggled to raise him in the mid-20th century with help from a surrogate father.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Matt Dillon, Anne Parillaud, Gabriel Byrne, Corban Walker
Votes: 929 | Gross: $0.08M
31. When Brendan Met Trudy (2000)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
A teacher meets a woman who turns out to be a thief and they introduce each other to new things.
Director: Kieron J. Walsh | Stars: Peter McDonald, Flora Montgomery, Marie Mullen, Pauline McLynn
Votes: 1,333 | Gross: $0.13M
32. Remember (1993 TV Movie)
174 min | Drama
Nicky Wells, a TV journalist who is renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the worlds most dangerous spots, is haunted by the disappearance of her fiancé.
Director: John Herzfeld | Stars: Donna Mills, Stephen Collins, Derek de Lint, Ian Richardson
Votes: 86
33. Clean Break (2015– )
Not Rated | Drama
When a kidnapping goes awry, the backlash that occurs leaves a drastic and catastrophic effect on an entire town.
Stars: Aidan McArdle, Damien Molony, Adam Fergus, Simone Kirby
Votes: 236
34. Goodie-Two-Shoes (1984)
35 min | Short, Romance
A teacher volunteers a group of misfit students to take a new dance class including a goodie-two-shoes and his bully. Awkwardness, friendship, competition, and romance follows.
Director: Ian Emes | Stars: Michael Waterman, Ann-Marie Gwatkin, Suzanna Hamilton, Steve Sweeney
Votes: 26
35. 13 (I) (2010)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Director: Géla Babluani | Stars: Sam Riley, Alice Barrett, Gaby Hoffmann, Jason Statham
Votes: 43,906
36. Nora (2000)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama
Dublin, 1904, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste.
Director: Pat Murphy | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Susan Lynch, Andrew Scott, Vinnie McCabe
Votes: 1,844 | Gross: $0.01M
37. September (1996 TV Movie)
Unrated | 171 min | Drama
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets ... Crippled war ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Edward Fox, Michael York, Mariel Hemingway
Votes: 204
38. 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
39. After Midnight (1990)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
An alcoholic night watchman in a Dublin hotel redeems himself with the help of a new assistant.
Director: Shani Grewal | Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Hayley Mills, Ian Dury, Dhirendra
Votes: 41
40. A Serial Killer's Revenge (2011)
98 min | Drama
1978. A mother, father and their 3 year old son are murdered. The killer their 12 year old son William. 2008. William is released with a new identity and wants to die. Ryan needs the story. A story of courage, sacrifice and love.
Director: Simon Tate | Stars: Aj Nicol, Christopher Hatherall, Lucy Studd, Craig Rogers
Votes: 134
42. Round and Round (1984– )
TV-PG | 180 min | Comedy
High-concept relationship sitcom with each episode charting a different key year in the life of Maureen Stevens, over a 14-year time span.
Stars: Bernadette Shortt, Eileen Kennally, Dave King, James Lister
43. The Gingerbread Men (2012)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A dark comedy, set in Dublin, Ireland. It follows two final year Trinity College students, Charlie (womanizer) and Ken (virgin), over the course of 2 life-changing months. After Ken enlists... See full summary »
Director: Dáire McNab | Stars: Elliot Moriarty, Kenneth Conway, Gillian Walsh, Louise Cargin
44. A Song for Europe (1991 TV Movie)
61 min | Music
Directors: Anne Enright, Charlie McCarthy | Stars: Michelle Houlden, Joe Taylor, Martin Murphy, John Keogh
46. Good at Art (1983 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama
Director: Horace Ové | Stars: Tanveer Ghani, Linda Slater, Salmaan Peerzada, Claire Lewis
47.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
A Mother Like Him
(1982)
53 min | Comedy, Drama
A family of five orphaned children are going to be split up into different homes. What will happen if the eldest is officially made their foster parent?
Director: Baz Taylor | Stars: Perry Fenwick, David John, Martin Murphy, Steve Sweeney
48.
Shine on Harvey Moon (1982–1995)
Episode:
Pick Yourself Up, Dust Yourself Down And...
(1984)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
With Lou in a sanatorium Maggie starts to train in nursing. Harvey gets a letter from Harriet to say she is engaged to another man but Rita quickly recovers from her ordeal with the ... See full summary »
Director: Baz Taylor | Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Elizabeth Spriggs, Maggie Steed, Linda Robson
49.
BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
Episode:
The Workshop
(1982)
Drama
Director: Nicholas Kent | Stars: Lynn Farleigh, Lee Montague, Sandy Ratcliff, Paul Freeman
50.
Round and Round (1984– )
Episode:
First Love
(1984)
TV-PG | Comedy
Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: Bernadette Shortt, Eileen Kennally, Dave King, Joan Hickson