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1. Exposure (1978)
48 min | Drama
Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel with a French girl photographer.
Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: Catherine Schell, T.P. McKenna, Bosco Hogan, Niall O'Brien
Votes: 7
2. Natural World (1983– )
60 min | Documentary
Strand of documentaries on wildlife and the environment.
Stars: David Attenborough, Barry Paine, John Shrapnel, Andrew Sachs
Votes: 774
3. The Catalpa Rescue (2007)
55 min | Documentary, Drama
The Catalpa Rescue is the extraordinary story of the daring rescue of six Irish rebels from a notoriously brutal penal colony in Fremantle, West Australia in 1876.
Director: Lisa Harney | Stars: Phelim Drew, Ronan Leahy, Ian Bliss, Jack Campbell
Votes: 33
5. The Woman Who Married Clark Gable (1985)
29 min | Short, Drama
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Brenda Fricker, Peter Caffrey, Eamon Kelly
Votes: 23
6. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,745 | Gross: $14.74M
7. Bye Bye Inkhead (2002)
Short
Director: Adrienne Michel-Long | Stars: Christina Askeland, Paudge Behan, Kathy Downes, Jacqui Dubois
Votes: 9
8. Attracta (1983)
55 min | Drama
An aging school teacher remembers times gone by and thinks about her own past.
Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: Wendy Hiller, Kate Thompson, Joe McPartland, John Kavanagh
Votes: 15
9. 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: 6,765 | Gross: $1.41M
10. Kisses (2008)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Director: Lance Daly | Stars: Kelly O'Neill, Shane Curry, Paul Roe, Roy Dempsey
Votes: 1,961 | Gross: $0.08M
11. 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: 33,741 | Gross: $11.09M
12. A Child's Voice (1978)
30 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A popular radio personality writes and broadcasts ghost stories over the air. He receives a strange call warning him not to finish his latest story, which is about a child who dies assisting in a magician's show.
Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: T.P. McKenna, R.D. Smith, Stephen Brennan, June Tobin
Votes: 62
13. The Nephew (1998)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A little island off Ireland. A small town. An old conflict. Fresh wind.
Director: Eugene Brady | Stars: Niall Toibin, Sinéad Cusack, Luke Griffin, Phelim Drew
Votes: 1,476
14. Broken Harvest (1994)
97 min | Drama
After his mother's death, an Irish-born New Yorker remembers stories from the past in Ireland. These are the stories of the rivalry between two men who not only vied for the love of the ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice O'Callaghan | Stars: Colin Lane, Marian Quinn, Niall O'Brien, Darren McHugh
Votes: 63
15. 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: 975
16. The Disappearance of Finbar (1996)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery
Finbar is an Irish youth who, late one night, leapt from a freeway overpass and was never heard from again. When he suddenly reappears three years later, his family and friend Danny attempt to rebuilt their shattered lives.
Director: Sue Clayton | Stars: Luke Griffin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Sean Lawlor, Chris Meehan
Votes: 652
17. Night Train (I) (1998)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Trains, romance, a mysterious past. Michael Poole (Sir John Hurt) is an ex-conman, whose cons have finally caught up with him. Unaware of his past, Alice (Brenda Blethyn) joins him in a dramatic escape on the Orient Express.
Director: John Lynch | Stars: John Hurt, Brenda Blethyn, Pauline Flanagan, Rynagh O'Grady
Votes: 413
18. House of Cards (1993)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama
A widow tries to find out why her daughter's strange behavior, a reaction to her father's death, is progressively worsening.
Director: Michael Lessac | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones, Asha Menina, Shiloh Strong
Votes: 2,947 | Gross: $0.32M
19. 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: 306 | Gross: $0.22M
20. Short Order (2005)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Adventure
A little bit of life, love, and wisdom come together over one night in the culinary underbelly, where life is a buffet and everything is "Short Order".
Director: Anthony Byrne | Stars: Emma de Caunes, Rade Serbedzija, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Jack Dee
Votes: 371
21. 48 Angels (2007)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama
Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets... See full summary »
Director: Marion Comer | Stars: Shane Brolly, John Travers, Ciaran Flynn, Darragh Kelly
Votes: 397
22. At the Cinema Palace: Liam O'Leary (1983)
53 min | Documentary
A look at the work of Irish film historian, Liam O'Leary.
Director: Donald Taylor Black | Stars: Liam O'Leary, Lindsay Anderson, Kevin Brownlow, Cyril Cusack
23. Murphy's America (1978– )
60 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
The series follows presenter Mike Murphy as he visits six US states: Montana, Tennessee, New York, Nevada, California and Florida.
Star: Mike Murphy
24. From Ballybeg to Broadway (1993 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
Observational documentary about the first production of Brian Friel's play, "Wonderful Tennessee", the follow-up to his hugely successful, Tony-Award-winning, "Dancing at Lunhnasa".
Director: Donald Taylor Black | Stars: Robert Black, Catherine Byrne, Ingrid Craigie, Brian Friel
25. Skin in the Game (2012)
74 min | Documentary
A feature length documentary looking at the recession/crash in Ireland through a number of artists who are using it as subject matter for their work: emigration, ghost estates, and the legacy of politicians and bankers.
Director: Donald Taylor Black | Stars: Samuel Bishop, Muirne Bloomer, David Bolger, Frank Buckley
26. Mary Kelly sa Bhearna Bhaoil (2008 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Brian Gray | Star: Mary Kelly
27. David Farrell: Elusive Moments (2008)
65 min | Documentary
Documentary about the Dublin-born photographer, David Farrell.
Director: Donald Taylor Black | Star: David Farrell
28. Jonathan Swift (1967)
Short
Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: Alan Badel, Cyril Cusack, Patrick Magee, Siobhan McKenna
29. Remembering Jimmy O'Dea (1985 TV Movie)
Documentary
A documentary film, which looks back at the life and times of variety artiste and actor, Jimmy O'Dea (1899-1965), using music of the period and original sound recordings, rare photographs ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Taylor Black | Stars: Joe Dowling, Ursula Doyle, John Jordan, Eamon Morrissey
30. Faithful Departed (1968)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Traces James Joyce's childhood and adolescence, his meeting with Nora Barnacle on June 10th, 1904, and the highways and byways which Leopold Bloom wandered through on June 16th, 1904.
Director: Kieran Hickey | Star: Jack MacGowran
32. Return to Paradise: The Belfast Celtic Story (1989 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
UTV documentary on Belfast's great old soccer team - Belfast Celtic.
Director: Donald Taylor Black
34. Oliver St John Gogarty: Silence Would Never Do (1987 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary
A documentary that traces the life of Irish poet, writer, surgeon, Senator and wit, Oliver St J Gogarty (1878-1957), a colourful but enigmatic character of the Irish literary renaissance.
Director: Donald Taylor Black | Stars: Liam Cosgrave, Oliver D. Gogarty, Brendan Kennelly, Pat Laffan
35. Criminal Conversation (1980)
61 min | Drama
Two middle-class Dublin couples get together for a Christmas Eve party which degenerates into a kind of Irish "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"? Alcohol causes smug exteriors to slip and reveals unpleasant truths.
Director: Kieran Hickey | Stars: Emmet Bergin, Deirdre Donnelly, Peter Caffrey, Leslie Lalor
37.
Murphy's America (1978– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1978)
Documentary, Reality-TV
Star: Mike Murphy
38.
Murphy's America (1978– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(1978)
Documentary, Reality-TV
Star: Mike Murphy
39.
Murphy's America (1978– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1978)
Documentary, Reality-TV
Star: Mike Murphy
40.
Murphy's America (1978– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(1978)
Documentary, Reality-TV
Star: Mike Murphy
41.
Murphy's America (1978– )
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(1978)
Documentary, Reality-TV
Star: Mike Murphy