24 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland During The 1920s
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The Lost City of Z
England ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ง๐ด Bolivia ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sA man's reach should exceed his grasp... or what's a heaven for? โ A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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The Lodgers
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920s1920, rural Ireland. Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must be in bed by midnight; they may not permit an outsider past the threshold; and if one attempts to escape, the life of the other is placed in jeopardy. When troubled war veteran Sean returns to the nearby village, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious Rachel, who in turn begins to break the rules set out by The Lodgers. The consequences pull Rachel into a deadly confrontation with her brother - and with the curse that haunts them.
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A Nightingale Falling
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sWhen love is at war. โ Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920โs, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a crucial time in their extradionary and tragic lives.
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sWar has cost them their innocence... Freedom will cost them their blood. โ In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
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Puckoon
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sKnowing where to draw the line โ Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
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How Harry Became a Tree
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sSet in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty โ the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most of the businesses in the area, but is also the local matchmaker. When Harry's son Gus (Cillian Murphy) โ upon whom Harry regularly heaps abuse (mostly mental and verbal) โ falls for the lovely Eileen, George helps get the two together. During this time, Harry quietly mobilizes his dastardly plans.
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The Last September
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sIn 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece enjoys romantic frolics with a soldier and a hidden guerrilla fighter. All of the principals are thrown into turmoil when one more guest arrives with considerable wit and unwanted advice.
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Michael Collins
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920s The 1910sIreland, 1916. His Dreams Inspired Hope. His Words Ignited Passion. His Courage Forged A Nation's Destiny. โ Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
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Widows' Peak
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sScandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
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Words Upon the Window Pane
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sIn 1928 Dublin, during sรฉances concerning Jonathan Swift, the spirits of his former lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerge to resume their ancient quarrel.
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The Treaty
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920s The 1910sIt threatened the British Empire, and left the Irish with only each other to fight. โ How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
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The Dawning
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sA young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) while he hides in a beach hut. He talks the naive Nancy into delivering a message to Dublin. There she meets Joe Mulhare (Mark O'Regan) and befriends the recipient of the message. Only when she witnesses the shooting deaths of 12 British officers does she realize the content of the lethal message. After the shootings, Nancy rushes to try and warn Cassius about the military police who are closing in on him. Trevor Howard is the old army officer and grandfather in his last screen role, with Jean Simmons as Aunt Mary. Watch for Hugh Grant as Harry, the stuffed shirt on whom Nancy has a huge crush.
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Shake Hands with the Devil
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sA story of love and hate...and the sudden sound of guns! โ In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
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The Spirit of St. Louis
New York Missouri Texas ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ซ๐ท France The 1920sOne of the Great Adventures of Our Time! โ Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
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The Rising of the Moon
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sActually filmed in the Emerald Isle! โ Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about an little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece is called "1921" and is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape. Tyrone Power introduces each story.
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The Quiet Man
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sAction... Excitement... Romance... Fill the Screen! โ An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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My Life for Ireland
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920s The 1900sA Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
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The High Command
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland Africa - General The 1920sA general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
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Beloved Enemy
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sLOVE KEEPS A DATE WITH DESTINY IN THIS THRILLING STORY OF A WOMAN WHO BETRAYED THE MAN SHE LOVED! โ In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
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The Dawn
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sThe fight must go on. โ Set in 1920 Ireland when the Black & Tans were brought in from Britain to help supress revolution in Ireland. It was the first full length sound movie made in Ireland and tells the saga of an IRA flying column in Kerry and the local Malone family suspected of betraying their country. It was made in and around Killarney by Tom Cooper, the owner of the local cinema who also directs and stars as the head of the local IRA.
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The Informer
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sGypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
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The Key
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1920sA British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.
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Juno and the Paycock
๐ฎ๐ช 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
๐ฎ๐ช 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.