82 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland During The 20th Century
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The Commitments
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1980sThey had nothing to lose, they risked it all. โ Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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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 Field
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1930sIt Owns Him...It Possesses Him...And It Could Even Destroy Him โ "Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a public auction, McCabe knows that he must own it. While no local dare bid against him, a wealthy American decides he requires the field to build a highway. "Bull" and his son decide they must try to convince the American to let go of his ambition and return home, but the consequences of their plot prove sinister.
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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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The Dead
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1900sA vast, merry, and uncommon tale of love. โ After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
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Clash of the Ash
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1980sPhil Kelly (played by William Heffernan) is the anti-hero; a restless teenager imbued with natural hurling ability and a strong aversion to studying. The location is not fictitious but instead itโs the very real Fermoy in County Cork which is a welcome touch. Like much of 1980s smalltown Ireland itโs a claustrophobic place that drives people away but inexplicably retains a strange sort of hold on them. The latter is exemplified by Gina Moxleyโs character, the tempestuous Mary Hartnett who has returned after a stint in London. The other members of their gang are languid Martin (Vincent Murphy), uptight Willy, and mousey Rosie who carries a torch for Phil.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1900sBosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty and politics. However his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.
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The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1900sA rich count invites a theatre troupe to his home on an isolated island... but soon people start getting murdered. Has the family curse struck again?
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The MacKintosh Man
England ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ฒ๐น Malta The 1940sOnly MacKintosh can save them now - and MacKintosh is dead! โ A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Ryan's Daughter
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1910sA story of love...set against the violence of rebellion โ An Irish lass is branded a traitor when she falls for a British soldier.
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Rocky Road to Dublin
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sRocky Road to Dublin is a 1968 documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, โwhat do you do with your revolution once youโve got it?โ It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making.
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Ulysses
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1900sDublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
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See You at the Pillar
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sA short film about Dublin City using a mixture of contemporary footage, folk music and quotations from past residents, Shaw, Wilde and Behan etc. Narrated in a "conversation" by Anthony Quayle and Norman Rodway.
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Young Cassidy
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1910sHe's a brawling, sprawling giant - on the make for fame and fortune and then some! โ In Dublin circa 1911, John Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist, whose ambitions are restricted by the demands of looking after his family, journeys through the social injustices of Dublin life, involving himself with the rowdy tramway-men strike, dawdling with prostitute Daisy Battles (Julie Christie), and seeking a better life. He falls in love with bookshop assistant Nora (Dame Maggie Smith) who encourages him toward a life of writing. Finding success at the Abbey Theatre, his unorthodox views estrange him from family, friends, and his own past.
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The Big Gamble
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sAcross 30,000 miles to the fabled Ivory Coast! โ Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.
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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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Secret People
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1930sLOOK OUT FOR THIS MAN! HE LIVES! AND LOVES! AND MURDERS! โ This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
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I See a Dark Stranger
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ซ๐ท France The 1940sThe woman hunt is on... For the girl with the little black book. โ Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.
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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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My Irish Molly
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1930sBinkie Stuart, a child star whose career briefly flourished before the outbreak of war in 1939, takes the titular role in this heart-warming musical charting the adventures of a little orphan girl in the difficult days of pre-war Ireland. Starring alongside Hollywood siren Maureen O Hara in an early role, Britain's answer to Shirley Temple plays a spirited young girl left in the clutches of a cruel guardian aunt.
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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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