270 Films & TV Shows Set In Ireland
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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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Barry Lyndon
England ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 18th CenturyAt long last Redmond Barry became a gentlemanโand that was his tragedy. โ An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
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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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Ghost in the Noonday Sun
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 17th CenturyA pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
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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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And No One Could Save Her
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandThe life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contacts the airline and discovers he was not on the plane. Further investigation reveals that her husband is not who she thought he was. Her search ultimately takes her all the way to Ireland, where her sanity and, of course, her story come into question.
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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandIn Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...
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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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Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandHappiness is a Quackser Fortune! โ In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.
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Guns in the Heather
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandAn American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'
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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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Island of Terror
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandHow could they stop the devouring death...that lived by sucking on living human bones! โ A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 16th CenturyA brash young rebel inspires a fight for freedom! โ Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.
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I Was Happy Here
England ๐ฎ๐ช IrelandHe held her heart... but love is now โ Cass followed the bright lights to London and was quickly disillusioned. She met and married Doctor Langdon, but soon realised she wanted to return to her home by the sea, and to her first love, Colin.
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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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Girl with Green Eyes
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandCatholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
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Dementia 13
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandAre you afraid of death by drowning? Have you ever attempted suicide? Have you ever thought of committing murder? โ When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder.
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Dead Man's Evidence
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandWhen a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.
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The Playboy of the Western World
๐ฎ๐ช IrelandA quiet little village, and especially a pretty young woman, falls under the spell of a charming, somewhat roguish stranger who suddenly appears one day.
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Gorgo
England ๐ฎ๐ช IrelandLike nothing you've ever seen before! โ When an undersea volcano sends tremors throughout the Atlantic, aquatic creatures come out of hiding. Merchant seamen Joe Ryan and partner Sam Slade harness the most unusual of the lot, a massive beast that looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The enterprising sailors deliver their quarry to a British circus, but it turns out that the animal is a newborn. And, when his much larger mother arrives in London to rescue her son, the city feels her wrath.
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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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