Song of the Sea (2014)

Brooklyn (2015)

Summary: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Release Date: November 25, 2015

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: John Crowley

Writers: Nick Hornby

, Colm Tóibín

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 38,322,743

International: $ 24,079,412

The Field (1990)

Summary: 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.

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Jim Sheridan

Writers: Jim Sheridan

, John B. Keane

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Granada Television, Noel Pearson, Sovereign Pictures

Distributor: Artisan Home Entertainment, Pioneer

Country: Ireland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,494,399

Hunger (2008)

Summary: Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

Release Date: October 31, 2008

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: Enda Walsh

, Steve McQueen

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Film4, Channel Four Film, Northern Ireland Screen, Blast! Films, Sound & Vision Broadcasting Funding Scheme

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 154,084

International: $ 3,031,029

The Quare Fellow (1962)

Summary: In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.

Release Date: June 20, 1963

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Arthur Dreifuss

Writers: Brendan Behan

, Arthur Dreifuss

, Jacqueline Sundstrom

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Liger Films

Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Rising of the Moon (1957)

Summary: Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories.

Release Date: August 10, 1957

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: John Ford

Writers: Frank O'Connor

, Michael J. McHugh

, Lady Augusta Gregory

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Four Provinces Films

Country: Ireland

Language: English

Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)

Summary: A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.

Release Date: December 11, 2020

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: John Patrick Shanley

Writer: John Patrick Shanley

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Amasia Entertainment, Aperture Media Partners, Likely Story, Likely Story, Mar-Key Pictures, Port Pictures, Sea Around Us, WRAP Fund

Distributor: Bleecker Street Media

Countries: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 213,440

International: $ 1,303,827

Marley & Me (2008)

Summary: A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.

Release Date: December 25, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: David Frankel

Writers: Scott Frank

, Don Roos

, John Grogan

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Fox 2000 Pictures, New Regency Productions, Sunswept Entertainment

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Home Box Office (HBO), BYUtv

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 143,153,751

International: $ 112,589,342

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Summary: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Release Date: December 18, 1975

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick

, William Makepeace Thackeray

Runtime: 3 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Peregrine, Hawk Films, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Gorgo (1961)

Summary: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus, inciting the wrath of the creature's much-larger mother.

Release Date: March 29, 1961

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Eugène Lourié

Writers: Robert L. Richards

, Daniel James

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: King Brothers Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Alpha Video Distributors, VCI Home Video, VCI Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Image Entertainment, United Video, Video Dimensions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Leprechaun 2 (1994)

Summary: On his one thousandth birthday, an evil leprechaun selects the descendant of one of his slaves to have as his bride, leaving it up to the girl's boyfriend to save her.

Release Date: April 08, 1994

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Rodman Flender

Writers: Mark Jones

, Turi Meyer

, Alfredo Septién

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Planet Productions, Planet Productions

Distributor: Trimark Pictures, Front Row Entertainment, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Sirius Publishing, Tubi TV, Vidmark Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,260,622

The Boxer (1997)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: January 09, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance, Sport

Director: Jim Sheridan

Writers: Jim Sheridan

, Terry George

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures, Hell's Kitchen Films, Hell's Kitchen International, Hell's Kitchen International

Distributor: TGG Direct, Shout Select, Universal Studios Home Video

Countries: Ireland, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,980,578

International: $ 10,554,000

The Champ (1979)

Summary: Billy Flynn is an ex-champion boxer who was KO'd by booze and gambling. When the wealthy, estranged mother of his young son begins trying to lure the boy away from him, Flynn must return to the ring to provide for his child.

Release Date: April 04, 1979

Genres: Drama, Sport

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Writers: Frances Marion

, Walter Newman

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Hialeah Park Studios, Hialeah Park Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists, CBS, MGM Home Entertainment, Disney Channel, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 30,441,738

Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton (2020)

Summary: Follows an Irish immigrant dreaming with becoming a millionaire but ending up championing a family message.

Release Date: October 09, 2020

Genre: Documentary

Director: Jonathan Cipiti

Writers: Matthew Donlan

, Megan Harrington

Runtime: 1 h 11 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Family Theater Productions, ODB Films, Windrider Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 72,347

Lamb (1985)

Summary: An Irish reform school priest questions his calling as a young, epileptic runaway arrives. Each recognizes the other as kindred spirits and escape together. As police close in and money dwindles, the desperate priest makes bad dec...

Release Date: October 10, 1986

Genre: Drama

Director: Colin Gregg

Writer: Bernard MacLaverty

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Production: Flickers Productions, Limehouse Productions, Channel Four Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,076

The Van (1996)

Summary: Set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.

Release Date: May 16, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Stephen Frears

Writer: Roddy Doyle

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Beacon Communications, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Deadly Films, Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 712,095

Shrooms (2007)

Summary: A group of friends are stalked and murdered whilst looking for psilocybin mushrooms in the Irish woods.

Release Date: November 23, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Director: Paddy Breathnach

Writer: Pearse Elliott

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Capitol Films, Ingenious Film Partners, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Nordisk Film, Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission, Nepenthe Film, Treasure Entertainment, Potboiler Productions

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures, Magnolia Home Entertainment

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, Denmark

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,863

International: $ 4,995,697

Jimmy's Hall (2014)

Summary: During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his de...

Release Date: May 30, 2014

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Ken Loach

Writers: Paul Laverty

, Donal O'Kelly

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, Film4, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, Ciné+, Le Pacte, Les Films du Fleuve, Longride, France Télévisions, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, BFI's Film Found, The Government of Ireland

Distributor: KVH Media Group, Sony Pictures Classics, Wild Bunch

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,911,962

Domestic: $ 560,592

International: $ 4,264,592

American Women (2000)

Summary: Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opport...

Release Date: September 08, 2000

Genre: Comedy

Director: Aileen Ritchie

Writers: Herbie Wave

, William Ivory

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Redwave Films

Distributor: 20th Television

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 164,927

International: $ 9,084