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1. Derry Girls (2018–2022)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland.
Stars: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Kathy Kiera Clarke
Votes: 59,211
2. The Fall (I) (2013–2016)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serial killer in this procedural out of Belfast. The only thing they share is their common complexity.
Stars: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch, Aisling Franciosi
Votes: 120,053
3. Ripper Street (2012–2016)
TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The streets of Whitechapel are the haunt of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and his team of officers, who aim to maintain law and order in a place once terrorized by Jack the Ripper.
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring, Jerome Flynn
Votes: 22,559
4. Primeval (2007–2011)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.
Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Ben Miller, Juliet Aubrey
Votes: 15,475
5. 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: 534
6. Cracks (I) (2009)
R | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A look at the lives and relationships among girls at an elite boarding school.
Director: Jordan Scott | Stars: Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, Imogen Poots
Votes: 21,131 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Pixie (2020)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
Director: Barnaby Thompson | Stars: Olivia Cooke, Fra Fee, Rory Fleck Byrne, Pat Shortt
Votes: 5,512
8. Jack Taylor (2010)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Irish ex-cop Jack Taylor solves crimes as a maverick private investigator. Based on Ken Bruen's crime-drama books.
Stars: Iain Glen, Nora-Jane Noone, Killian Scott, Paraic Breathnach
Votes: 2,595
9. Screen Two (1985–1998)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama
In 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.
Stars: Jude North, Roger Brierley, Geoffrey Chater, Norman Jones
Votes: 248
10. 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
11. The Killing Gene (2007)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.
Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Ashley Walters, Tom Hardy
Votes: 9,352
12. Grabbers (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive.
Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Killian Coyle, Stuart Graham, Michael Hough, Richard Coyle
Votes: 19,553
13. Detainment (2018)
12 | 30 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts and records from the James Bulger case, which shocked the world in 1993.
Director: Vincent Lambe | Stars: Ely Solan, Leon Hughes, Caleb Mason, Will O'Connell
Votes: 5,560
14. Quirke (2013–2014)
TV-MA | 266 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.
Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Brian Gleeson, Nick Dunning, Aisling Franciosi
Votes: 1,378
15. Bridget & Eamon (2016–2019)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Bridget and Eamon are the typical unhappily married 80s Irish couple. They live somewhere in the Midlands with their indeterminate number of children.
Stars: Jennifer Zamparelli, Bernard O'Shea, Colum McDonnell, Edwin Sammon
Votes: 746
16. Killinaskully (2003–2008)
25 min | Comedy
Following the various lives of the towns residents of the rural town of Kilnaskully and the hilarious adventures they go on.
Stars: Pat Shortt, Jack Walsh, Pascal Scott, Joe Rooney
Votes: 261
17. Small Island (2009)
TV-MA | 180 min | Drama
A gentle Jamaican woman reunited with her husband in post-World War II London encounters both racism and homesickness as she adjusts to her new life.
Stars: Naomie Harris, Hugh Quarshie, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo
Votes: 1,590
18. Dorothy Mills (2008)
R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A psychiatrist is assigned to work on the case of a disturbed young girl.
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Carice van Houten, Jenn Murray, David Wilmot, Ger Ryan
Votes: 5,997
19. Screenplay (1986–1993)
Drama
An anthology drama series.
Stars: John Kavanagh, Tony Doyle, Michael Liebmann, Benjamin Whitrow
Votes: 96
20. 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: 2,863
21. Mickybo and Me (2004)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Director: Terry Loane | Stars: John Joesph Mcneill, Niall Wright, Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 2,449
22. Theatre Night (1985–1990)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.
Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lang, Natalie Ogle, Dinsdale Landen
Votes: 59
23. Amongst Women (1998)
60 min | Drama
In 1950s Ireland, the Moran daughters find it difficult to separate from their despot father and live their own lives.
Stars: Tony Doyle, Ger Ryan, Susan Lynch, Geraldine O'Rawe
Votes: 105
24. 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
25. Pablo (2017–2020)
Animation, Comedy, Family
An autistic boy called Pablo draws animal friends to help him get through the challenges of daily life.
Stars: William Burns, Scott Mulligan, Michael White, Sumita Majumdar
Votes: 58
26. Eat the Peach (1986)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy
Two young Irish men are watching an old Elvis Presley movie in which a carnival cyclist performs an act called the Wall of Death. Transfixed, they decide to put together their own "Wall of Death."
Director: Peter Ormrod | Stars: Stephen Brennan, Eamon Morrissey, Catherine Byrne, Niall Toibin
Votes: 305 | Gross: $0.22M
27. 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: 474
28. The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (2012– )
45 min | Drama
A young man struggles to protect his family and friends from the schemes of his sinister uncle.
Stars: Andrew Simpson, Jonathan Harden, Adrian Dunbar, Linda Bassett
Votes: 65
29. Lost & Found (II) (2017)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Seven interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station.
Director: Liam O Mochain | Stars: Liam O Mochain, Norma Sheahan, Brendan Conroy, Aoibhin Garrihy
Votes: 234 | Gross: $0.13M
30. First Sight (1987– )
60 min | Drama
Anthology series of six plays by writers new to television.
Stars: Phyllis Logan, Dennis Waterman, Joseph Marcell, Maureen Lipman
31. Chancer (2017)
24 min | Short, Drama
Director: Patrick Maxwell | Stars: Barbara Adair, Savanna Burney Keatings, Richard Clements, Maggie Cronin
32. Radiator (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama
Two drug addicts travel across rural Ireland with nothing but their Grandmother's radiator to finance their next hit.
Director: Portia A. Buckley | Stars: Barbara Adair, James Browne, Henry Collie, Claudia Connell
33. Fools No 1 (1996)
8 min | Short, Comedy
In a part of Ireland that no longer exists Fool and her mother are having breakfast. Mother is trying to poison the cat and Fool is feeling slightly uneasy.
Director: Colin McKeown | Star: Barbara Adair
34. Suspense (1960– )
60 min | Drama
Stars: Barry Keegan, Peter Dyneley, Lee Hamilton, Graham Leaman
35. Oscar and Isabelle (2008)
Short
Director: Flora Skivington | Stars: Barbara Adair, Gordon Fulton
37. The Devil (2005)
Short, Drama
Old Granny Greer outwits a miserly son when she strikes a deal to sit with his dying Mother until she expires.
Director: Frankie McCafferty | Stars: John Hewitt, Eleanor Methven, Vincent Higgins, James Ellis
38. Still Life (I) (1999)
15 min | Drama, Short
An elderly woman awakes on a Sunday morning at 7:30, but stays in bed. While in bed she stares around her room and dozes, reminiscing about her past # the loss of her friends, her husband ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Hewitt | Stars: Barbara Adair, Agnes Bernelle, Conor Grimes
39. The Tent (III) (2013)
18 min | Short, Drama
The Tent is a drama inspired by a true story and is set in Ireland and Poland. Eva an 80 year old woman living in Ireland, asks her grandson, Daniel to retrieve a bracelet that she buried ... See full summary »
Director: Liam O Mochain | Stars: Liam O Mochain, Barbara Adair, Mary McEvoy, Jacek Dusznik
40.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
All Things Bright and Beautiful
(1994)
TV-14 | 93 min | Drama
A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic rural Northern Ireland in the 1950's.
Director: Barry Devlin | Stars: Paddy Scully, Ciarán Fitzgerald, Kevin McNally, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 82
41.
First Sight (1987– )
Episode:
The Last of a Dyin' Race
(1987)
Drama
Director: Stephen Butcher | Stars: Doreen Hepburn, Sheila McGibbon, Barbara Adair, J.G. Devlin
42.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Beyond the Pale
(1989)
60 min | Drama
Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. ... See full summary »
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence | Stars: Prunella Scales, Annette Crosbie, Robert Lang, Ronald Hines
43.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Events at Drimaghleen
(1991)
60 min | Drama
The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.
Director: Robert Cooper | Stars: T.P. McKenna, Sophie Ward, Hugh Fraser, Nick Dunning
Votes: 5
44.
The Clinic (2003–2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2003)
Not Rated | Drama
Keelin realizes she has to give up her single lifestyle and move back home to care for her mother.
Director: Declan Recks | Stars: David Wilmot, Dominic Mafham, Aisling O'Sullivan, Norma Sheahan
Votes: 22
45.
The Clinic (2003–2009)
Episode:
Episode #1.7
(2003)
Not Rated | 50 min | Drama
Patrick's constant workload takes its toll on his mental health and he has a breakdown.
Director: Lisa Mulcahy | Stars: David Wilmot, Dominic Mafham, Aisling O'Sullivan, Norma Sheahan
Votes: 20
46.
The Clinic (2003–2009)
Episode:
Episode #2.2
(2004)
Not Rated | 47 min | Drama
Clodagh, the new GP, arrives at work in her car arguing on the phone with her mother when she knocks someone over. Her day goes from bad to worse when she suspects a patient has an ectopic pregnancy.
Director: Declan Recks | Stars: David Wilmot, Dominic Mafham, Aisling O'Sullivan, Norma Sheahan
Votes: 11
47.
The Clinic (2003–2009)
Episode:
Episode #2.4
(2004)
Not Rated | 49 min | Drama
Things are hotting up as affairs start rising to the surface. Paul tells Keelin he knows about her and Ed and begs her not to say anything to Yvonne about his carry on at the stag party. ... See full summary »
Stars: David Wilmot, Dominic Mafham, Aisling O'Sullivan, Norma Sheahan
Votes: 24
48.
The Clinic (2003–2009)
Episode:
Episode #3.2
(2005)
Not Rated | 50 min | Drama
Brendan's inheritance of his Nan's house worth 2.75 million euro has just become official and the team questions Brendan on what he would like to do with this money.
Director: Declan Recks | Stars: Dominic Mafham, Aisling O'Sullivan, Norma Sheahan, Gary Lydon
Votes: 11
49.
Killinaskully (2003–2008)
Episode:
The Stoats
(2007)
Comedy
With a bypass threatening the future of the village and rumours circulating about the arrival of the Olympics, it would take all of Willie Power's cunning to save the day. Willie, however, is too busy trying to become a stoat.
Director: Eugene O'Connor | Stars: Pat Shortt, Peggy Coyne, Barry Cassin, Paraic Breathnach
50.
Pablo (2017–2020)
Episode:
Touchy Feely
(2020)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Director: David McGrath | Stars: Barbara Adair, Rosie Barry, Oliver Burns, William Burns