82 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland During The 20th Century
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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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Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1900sBeatiful, seductive and totally deadly. โ Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.
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Nora
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1900sShe gave a voice to his words and fire to his passion. โ In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?
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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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Angela's Ashes
New York ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1940s The 1930sBased on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.
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Agnes Browne
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sWhen Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself. โ Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with adversity after the unexpected death of her husband.
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Durango
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1930sIn 1939 Ireland, a young man decides to lead a forty mile cattle drive rather than selling his cattle to an unscrupulous local buyer.
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Dancing at Lughnasa
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1930sFive sisters embrace the spirit of a people. โ Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
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The General
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1980s The 1990sThe extraordinary true story of the rise and fall of the gangster, Martin Cahill. โ In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality and meticulous planning, Cahill netted over ยฃ40 million. He was untouchable - until a bullet from an IRA hitman ended it all.
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How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1990s The 2000sThe film the Department of Education doesn't want you to see! โ "How to cheat the Leaving Certificate?" : a question posed by thousands of students every year in Ireland. A group of pupils set up an elaborate master-plan to beat the system and top the points race.
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The Devil's Own
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland New York Northern Ireland The 1990s The 1970sThey come from different worlds. They fight for different causes. Now, two men from opposite sides of the law are about to go to war. โ Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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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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The Van
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1990sA comedy About Friends, Family and Fish. โ In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
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The Last of the High Kings
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1970sWhen school ends... and life begins. โ It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family.
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The Brylcreem Boys
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1940sIn 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for the duration of the war. What the Irish failed to tell was that they would intern everybody in the same camp. It is here that Canadian pilot Miles Keogh and German pilot Rudolph Von Stegenbeck meet after a fight in which both their planes were downed.
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The Boy from Mercury
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sSet in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
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Frankie Starlight
Texas ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1940sSometimes the brightest star is the one that shines within. โ The quirky story of a young boy's adventures growing up with his stunningly beautiful mother and the two very different men who love her.
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The Secret of Roan Inish
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1940sBetween land and sea there is a place where myths are real. โ 10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate..
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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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A Man of No Importance
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sAn extraordinary tale of an ordinary hero โ Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
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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 Snapper
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1990sShe's got a little secret and a lot of explaining to do. โ Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
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The Forbidden Quest
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ฆ๐ถ Antarctica The 1930s1931: in Ireland, a film maker hears of an aged ship's carpenter who knows the fate of the Hollandia, a Norse ship that set sail in 1905 and vanished. The old salt has canisters of film to prove his tale. We see the footage as he narrates. They sail south in June, 1905, with scores of Siberian huskies aboard, meeting no living soul, the crew ignorant of the trip's purpose, until they reach Antarctica. A mysterious Italian paces the deck; a polar bear appears, and the Italian, possessed, hunts it down. That night, the boatswain explains to the crew how an Arctic bear could be at the South Pole and why the Hollandia has come. Visitors arrive, and the Gothic tale plays out.
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The Playboys
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1950sA young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
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