270 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland
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Trouble with Sex
🇮🇪 IrelandA sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer with a smart apartment overlooking the Liffey, but dissatisfied in her relationship with a doctor (Declan Conlon). Conor (Aidan Gillen) is lonely and unattached, dutifully running the traditional Dublin pub owned by his hard drinking father (Eamon Morrissey). Late one night, Michelle bursts into the bar and orders a triple vodka. The consequences are explored and developed with an honesty and credibility as these disparate characters tentatively draw closer to each other. They become lovers. There is a strong sexual attraction. But there are complications along the way and the path to love can be rocky. Something's got to give. And what's the trouble with sex? You'll see...
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King Arthur
Wales England 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇹 Italy The Middle Ages The 5th CenturyRule Your Fate. — The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and that the Roman-British military commander, Lucius Artorius Castus is the historical person behind the legend.
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Laws of Attraction
New York 🇮🇪 IrelandLove always has the last word. — Amidst a sea of litigation, two New York City divorce lawyers find love.
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Adam & Paul
🇮🇪 Ireland...and you thought you were having a bad day... — Adam and Paul are two young junkies living in Dublin and perpetually on the lookout for their next fix. During their search, they encounter various unsavoury characters and make some futile attempts at petty theft. As their day progresses, Adam and Paul get into a good share of trouble as they do whatever they can to score heroin, eventually running afoul of an imposing thug -- who only drags them into more shady activities.
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Inside I'm Dancing
🇮🇪 IrelandMichael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
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Bloom
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1900sAll of life in one extraordinary day — Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
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The Boys from County Clare
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1960sIn Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a music festival.
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Veronica Guerin
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1990sWhy would anyone want to kill Veronica Guerin? — In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
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Goldfish Memory
🇮🇪 IrelandA small group of friends experience relationships which grow and stumble, involving everything from straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships. The speed with which these relationships last leads to the Goldfish memory effect, the belief that a Goldfish only has a 3 second memory is a metaphor for the transient nature of the characters relationships.
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Intermission
🇮🇪 IrelandLife is what happens in between. — A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
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The Actors
🇮🇪 IrelandDuring the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.
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Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain
🇮🇪 IrelandEvil roams the woods of Ireland... — Two American tourists on a romantic camping trip are brutally murdered. A few days later, during the ancient festival of Samhain, a group of American university students moves into a beautiful cottage, surrounded by a lush forest and a majestic lake They are here to learn about the rituals of the ancient Druids and other Celtic legends. But in the remains of an abandoned copper mine, lives the ancestors of an incestuous clan of cannibals. Stalked by a hulking, disfigured mutant, the students and their chaperone are in for the most harrowing time of their young lives. And keeping their heads on their necks will become their main concern...
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Song for a Raggy Boy
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1930sFour walls. One faith. No identity. — William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.
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My Name Is Yu Ming
🇮🇪 IrelandYu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when he gets there. A 2003 short film.
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Red Roses and Petrol
🇮🇪 IrelandA dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.
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The Magdalene Sisters
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1960sIn a place that defied belief their only hope was each other. — Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
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Evelyn
🇮🇪 IrelandThe Story of a Father’s Love That Changed a Nation. — Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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The Abduction Club
🇮🇪 Ireland The 18th CenturyA group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.
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Puckoon
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sKnowing where to draw the line — 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
🇮🇪 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 – 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) – upon whom Harry regularly heaps abuse (mostly mental and verbal) – falls for the lovely Eileen, George helps get the two together. During this time, Harry quietly mobilizes his dastardly plans.
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About Adam
🇮🇪 IrelandHe came. He saw. He conquered. One sister at a time. — A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.
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Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1900sBeatiful, seductive and totally deadly. — 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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On the Edge
🇮🇪 IrelandA joyride through sex, love, and other activities — On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
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On the Nose
🇮🇪 IrelandBrendan is a janitor at a university who has a fondness for gambling, especially betting on horse races. However, he doesn't have much skill at it, and poorly considered bets have drained the bank account he'd set aside for his daughter's education. Brendan's wife has made Brendan promise to give up gambling, but when their daughter announces she's just been accepted to Trinity College in Ireland, Brendan has to come up with the tuition money, and fast. While doing his sweeping at work, Brendan makes a remarkable discovery - the preserved head of an aboriginal tribesman who, under proper conditions, can pick the winners in horse races.
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Ordinary Decent Criminal
🇮🇪 IrelandNo Bank He Didn't Rob, No Heart He Didn't Steal. — Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
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