Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Barbara Adair

1. 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: 119,902

2. 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: 58,794

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: 22,538

4. 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: 21,120 | Gross: $0.02M

5. 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: 19,542

6. 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: 15,460

7. 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: 9,345

8. 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: 5,994

9. 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: 5,557

10. 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: 5,502

11. 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: 2,862

12. 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: 2,590

13. 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

14. 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: 2,175

15. The Fall (2013–2016)
Episode: Silence and Suffering (2016)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson has arrested Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) - but will he survive the gunshot wounds? Will he ever face justice? Spector is rushed to Belfast General ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Cubitt | Stars: Jamie Dornan, Gillian Anderson, Michael Ford-FitzGerald, Vanessa Emme

Votes: 1,901

16. Derry Girls (2018–2022)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2018)

TV-MA | 25 min | Comedy

It's the early 90s, the first day of school and a terrible start for 16-year-old Erin as she wakes up to find her cousin Orla reading her diary; Granda Joe announces there's a bomb on the bridge.

Director: Michael Lennox | Stars: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Nicola Coughlan, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

Votes: 1,778

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: 1,588

18. 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: 1,374

19. 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: 745

20. 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

21. 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

22. Jack Taylor (2010)
Episode: Headstone (2010)

Not Rated | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Jack Taylor is asked to locate a former enemy who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom.

Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Iain Glen, Siobhán O'Kelly, Jack Monaghan, Christopher Fulford

Votes: 501

23. 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

24. Ripper Street (2012–2016)
Episode: The Strangers' Home (2016)

TV-MA | 131 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Reid must return to Whitechapel to covertly re-investigate a case apparently solved by Drake and Jackson, while Susan receives devastating news.

Director: Kieron Hawkes | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring

Votes: 337

25. 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

26. Primeval (2007–2011)
Episode: The Brave Bride (2011)

TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a pack of hyaenodon come through an anomaly at a stately home Connor and Abby are reunited with Jenny Lewis, now an ordinary citizen about to get married. Meanwhile Becker and Jess go after Ethan.

Director: Robert Quinn | Stars: Ciarán McMenamin, Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Ben Miller

Votes: 271

27. 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

28. 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: 247

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: 233 | Gross: $0.13M

30. Quirke (2013–2014)
Episode: Elegy for April (2014)

TV-MA | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Phoebe is worried that she has not seen her friend April Latimer for some weeks and persuades Quirke, still coming to terms with Sarah's death, to help find her. April's brother Oscar, a ... See full summary »

Director: Jim O'Hanlon | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Denis Conway, Aisling Franciosi, Colin Morgan

Votes: 121

31. 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: 104

32. Screenplay (1986–1993)

Drama

An anthology drama series.

Stars: John Kavanagh, Tony Doyle, Michael Liebmann, Benjamin Whitrow

Votes: 95

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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: 58

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. Bridget & Eamon (2016–2019)
Episode: The Video Shop (2017)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Eamon has got a VHS Video Recorder and the whole town want to rent it off him but trying to satisfy the demand for films, himself and Bridget accidentally star in their own blue movie.

Director: Jason Butler | Stars: Jennifer Zamparelli, Bernard O'Shea, Norma Sheahan, Eleanor Tiernan

Votes: 16

41. 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

42. 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

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. 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

45. 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

46. Chancer (2017)

24 min | Short, Drama

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Director: Patrick Maxwell | Stars: Barbara Adair, Savanna Burney Keatings, Richard Clements, Maggie Cronin

47. Oscar and Isabelle (2008)

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Director: Flora Skivington | Stars: Barbara Adair, Gordon Fulton

48. 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

49. 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

50. 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