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Man of Aran
🇮🇪 IrelandA documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a pure uncorrupted peasant existence centred around the struggle between man and his hostile but magnificent surroundings. A blend of documentary and fictional narrative, the film captures the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands.
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The Key
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sA British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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Lily of Killarney
🇮🇪 IrelandSet in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.
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Paddy the Next Best Thing
🇮🇪 IrelandThis one has Janet Gaynor as Walter Connolly's spunky Irish daughter, whose older sister (nicely played by Margaret Lindsay) is about to marry Baxter for his money and thus retire Connolly's debts, though she loves Harvey Stephens, who is in fact infinitely more appealing than Warner Baxter.
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Juno and the Paycock
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sDuring the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
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The Informer
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sA man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
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Hangman's House
🇮🇪 IrelandForced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien (Hobart Bosworth), to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien (June Collyer) gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot (Larry Kent). After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader (Victor McLaglen) returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
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Irish Destiny
🇮🇪 IrelandAn IRA man races to Dublin to warn his colleagues of a forthcoming raid, but he is captured by British forces.
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Wee Lady Betty
🇮🇪 IrelandWee Lady Betty rules the O'Reilly castle with a stern hand and a big heart until she learns that Roger, the O'Reilly heir, is coming to take possession of his estate. Unable to provide for her aged father, Betty conceives of a scheme. Feigning to leave the castle, she returns after dark with her father and installs him in the haunted chamber.
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The Innocent Lie
🇮🇪 IrelandNora O'Brien leaves Ireland to visit her brother in America. On the trip she suffers a concussion, and soon is mistaken for another Irish girl named Nora who is on her way to visit her aunt in the US, Mrs. Watson, who has not seen her niece in many years. Nora, still somewhat dazed from her injury, is taken to the Watsons' home, and when Mrs. Watson's son Jack returns from college, he falls in love with her but cannot express it to her because he believes she is his cousin. Complications ensue.
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All for Old Ireland
🇮🇪 IrelandEileen Donaghue loves Myles Murphy, a match which is approved by Mrs Donaghue. Colonel Reid of the British Army employs an informer, Fagin, who has designs on Eileen, but Myles gives him a beating for his presumption. As a result, Fagin tells Reid that Myles is plotting against the Crown.
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Ireland, a Nation
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1800s The 18th CenturyThe story of Ireland and her fight for Home Rule, as seen through the experiences of Father Tom Murphy, a patriot with a price on his head, and the famous Irish leader Robert Emmet.
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For Ireland's Sake
🇮🇪 Ireland The 18th CenturySet in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
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Come Back to Erin
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His Mother
🇮🇪 IrelandAn Irish mother uses her life savings to pay for her son, a talented musician, to study in America.
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You Remember Ellen
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1910sSummer 1911, Sidney Olcott cross again the Atlantic to shoot films in Ireland for Kalem company. With a stage company, he settled in Beaufort near Killarney. Among the films: You Remember Ellen, an adaptation of a famous poem written by Thomas Moore.
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Rory O'More
🇮🇪 Ireland The 17th CenturyBased on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures shot by Olcott and his company on their second trip to the Emerald Isle.
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The Colleen Bawn
🇮🇪 IrelandA young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he marries his rich cousin.
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Araby
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1890sBased on the story "Araby" in the collection "Dubliners" by James Joyce.
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