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1. 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: 1,093,921 | Gross: $75.60M
2. The Tudors (2007–2010)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance
Epic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world.
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy, James Frain
Votes: 81,467
3. Robin Hood (2010)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In twelfth-century England, Robin Longstride and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow
Votes: 283,848 | Gross: $105.27M
4. 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: 187,588 | Gross: $25.01M
5. War Horse (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 165,928 | Gross: $79.88M
6. Father Ted (1995–1998)
TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy
Three misfit priests and their housekeeper live on Craggy Island, not the peaceful and quiet part of Ireland that it seems to be.
Stars: Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Frank Kelly, Pauline McLynn
Votes: 43,953
7. Bergerac (1981–1991)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Recovering alcoholic and divorced father of a young daughter, DS Jim Bergerac is a true maverick who prefers doing things his own way, and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations the way his boss would like.
Stars: John Nettles, Terence Alexander, Sean Arnold, Mela White
Votes: 2,246
8. The Constant Gardener (2005)
R | 129 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A widower's transcontinental quest to find answers about his wife's death leads him to explosive secrets.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Hubert Koundé
Votes: 148,834 | Gross: $33.58M
9. 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: 33,841 | Gross: $11.09M
10. Angela's Ashes (1999)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens
Votes: 23,318 | Gross: $13.04M
11. Blood Creek (2009)
R | 90 min | Horror
A man and his brother on a mission of revenge become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Henry Cavill, Dominic Purcell, Emma Booth, Michael Fassbender
Votes: 12,966
12. 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: 22,385 | Gross: $5.80M
13. Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Gerard McSorley, Catherine McCormack
Votes: 4,046 | Gross: $2.29M
14. Veronica Guerin (2003)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 21,933 | Gross: $1.57M
15. On the Edge (2001)
R | 85 min | Drama
Jonathan, like many teenagers, is used to concealing the pain of growing up behind a witty sense of humor. One day, fate brings Jonathan into contact with a group of teenagers who are attempting to cope with their own teen angst.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Tricia Vessey, Martin Carney, Paul Hickey
Votes: 4,837
16. Bloody Sunday (2002)
R | 111 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea
Votes: 25,787 | Gross: $0.77M
17. 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: 3,030 | Gross: $0.26M
18. Taffin (1988)
R | 96 min | Action, Thriller
An Irish tough-guy debt collector is asked by his local community to help rid the town of developers bent on building a chemical plant on the outskirts of town. The developers are ruthless ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Megahy | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child
Votes: 2,122 | Gross: $0.16M
19. Felicia's Journey (1999)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman leaves Ireland to find her boyfriend in England, and while there is helped by a man hiding unsettling secrets.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Arsinée Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy, Sheila Reid
Votes: 8,417 | Gross: $0.82M
20. 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: 11,488 | Gross: $1.82M
21. S.O.S. Titanic (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 194 min | Drama, History
On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Director: William Hale | Stars: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews, David Battley
Votes: 1,509
22. Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime
Brilliant, flamboyant master criminal Michael Lynch is more interested in his image and his posterity than the actual profit from his ill-gotten gains.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane
Votes: 14,392
23. Some Mother's Son (1996)
R | 112 min | Drama, History
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Director: Terry George | Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara
Votes: 2,997 | Gross: $0.61M
24. 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: 16,049 | Gross: $0.02M
25. 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: 178
26. Agnes Browne (1999)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The unexpected death of her husband sends a woman and her seven children, ages 2-14, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis in 1967 Dublin. She is forced to borrow money from a ... See full summary »
Director: Anjelica Huston | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Marion O'Dwyer, Niall O'Shea, Ciaran Owens
Votes: 2,235 | Gross: $0.14M
27. Dead Bodies (2003)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
The return of a vengeful ex-girlfriend sets into motion a series of gruesome events for a hapless Irish bachelor in director Robert Quinn's grim black comedy.
Director: Robert Quinn | Stars: Andrew Scott, Katy Davis, Eamonn Owens, Darren Healy
Votes: 1,090
28. Widows' Peak (1994)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In 1934, an English widow moves to Widows' Peak, Ireland. She befriends other widows and the son of one. Hostility escalates between her and an Irish spinster.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Joan Plowright, Mia Farrow, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar
Votes: 1,883 | Gross: $6.24M
29. The Serpent's Kiss (1997)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In England, during the 17th-century, a Dutch garden architect (Ewan McGregor, "Moulin Rouge!") is drawn into a web of passion and treachery after being hired by a wealthy merchant.
Director: Philippe Rousselot | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Greta Scacchi, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard E. Grant
Votes: 1,832
30. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992–1994)
TV-Y7 | 26 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Condensed animated adaptations of plays by William Shakespeare.
Stars: Alec McCowen, Michael Kitchen, Suzanne Burden, Gerald James
Votes: 362
31. Kidnapped (1995 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When Scottish young gentleman David Balfour's father dies, he leaves school to collect his inheritance from uncle Ebenezer, who in turn sells the boy as a future slave to a pirate ship. ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Armand Assante, Patrick Malahide, Michael Kitchen, Brian Blessed
Votes: 520
32. The Hanging Gale (1995)
Drama, History
The four brothers of the Phelan family battle to save their farm and their family from the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine in 1846, and from an English land agent who takes a dislike to them.
Stars: Joe McGann, Mark McGann, Paul McGann, Stephen McGann
Votes: 198
33. Moondance (1994)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
30ish Patrick and teenage Dominic are two brothers living alone in a remote farmhouse in the Southwest of Ireland, while their mother is away traveling. When their aunt comes visiting, with... See full summary »
Director: Dagmar Hirtz | Stars: Rúaidhrí Conroy, Ian Shaw, Julia Brendler, Marianne Faithfull
Votes: 293
34. 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
35. The Savage Eye (2009– )
26 min | Comedy
The show is a satirical and often surreal examination of subjects close to the hearts of the Irish people. It takes the form of a fake anthropological documentary as if made by British ... See full summary »
Stars: David McSavage, John Colleary, Patrick McDonnell, Swarupu
Votes: 241
36. Damage (2007 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Set in affluent, contemporary, south-side Dublin, the Cahills appear to have the world at their feet. Dad Aidan, is a successful property tycoon, his wife Michelle, a successful estate ... See full summary »
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Natalie Press, David Michael Scott, Olivia Williams, Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Votes: 73
37. Vicious Circle (1999 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Drama
Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery.
Director: David Blair | Stars: Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, Andrew Connolly, John Kavanagh
Votes: 130
38. The Irish R.M. (1983–1985)
TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, History
When sent to Ireland as magistrate, Major Yeates discovers the justice system must bend to suit local needs, where not everything is as it seems.
Stars: Peter Bowles, Bryan Murray, Anna Manahan, Brendan Conroy
Votes: 274
39. Omagh (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama
An examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Director: Pete Travis | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker, Stuart Graham
Votes: 1,720
40. The Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing (1990 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Drama
In 1974, a pair of pub bombings rocked Birmingham, England. The terrorist attacks killed dozens of innocent civilians, and wounded many more. But another tragedy took place in their ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Beckham | Stars: Martin Shaw, John Hurt, Roger Allam, John Kavanagh
Votes: 102
41. Patrick's Day (2014)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Family, Romance
When a young man with mental health issues becomes intimate with a suicidal flight attendant, his obsessive mother enlists a dysfunctional cop to separate them.
Director: Terry McMahon | Stars: Kerry Fox, Moe Dunford, Philip Jackson, Catherine Walker
Votes: 440
42. Nothing Personal (1995)
R | 86 min | Drama
A raw depiction of the Belfast, Northern Ireland "troubles" as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, this movie focuses on the tribulations of Kenny (James Frain), ... See full summary »
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon
Votes: 530
43. Lift (I) (2016)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
Sean's vicious attack leaves a man unconscious and him stranded in an elevator with five others. In the confines of the lift, love has a chance of blossoming - violence has a chance of ... See full summary »
Director: Conor Armstrong Sanfey | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Fiach Kunz, Hannah Crowley, Kealan Ryan
Votes: 72
44. Penance (II) (2018)
84 min | Action, Romance
Father Eoin O'Donnell is unambiguous about the need to use violence to force Britain out of Ireland. He influences a young impressionable boy, Antainem to fight in the 1916 Rising. Fifty ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Collins | Stars: Peter Coonan, Terry Byrne, Barry McGovern, Padhraig Parkinson
Votes: 237
45. Middletown (2006)
88 min | Drama
An overzealous priest returns to his home town and ends up battling against his brother for the heart of the locals.
Director: Brian Kirk | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Daniel Mays, Eva Birthistle, Gerard McSorley
Votes: 358
46. Act of Betrayal (1988)
240 min | Drama, Thriller
An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.
Stars: Elliott Gould, Lisa Harrow, Patrick Bergin, Krister Greer
Votes: 89
47. Anton (2008)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970s Ireland is a radically different place from the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Cantwell | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Anthony Fox, Laura Way, Andy Smith
Votes: 210
48. The Halo Effect (2004)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy
Fatso is the kind-hearted owner of a rather bad take-away place in Dublin. His employees are a bunch of incompetent people, whom he keeps on mostly to help them survive. Also, he has a ... See full summary »
Director: Lance Daly | Stars: Stephen Rea, Grattan Smith, Kerry Condon, Simon Delaney
Votes: 238
49. 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
50. Fergus's Wedding (2002)
25 min | Comedy
Fergus and Penny are planning their wedding. While mother and the local priest are helping with the preparations for a traditional good Irish wedding, the young couple are never averse to having a quickie with whoever is available.
Stars: Michael McElhatton, Julia Ford, Peter McDonald, Deirdre O'Kane
Votes: 31