62 Films & TV Shows Set In Northern Ireland
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Here Before
Northern IrelandWhen a new family moves in next door, their young daughter, Megan, quickly captivates Laura, stirring up painful memories of her own daughter who died several years previously. Before long, Laura’s memories turn to obsession as Megan’s unsettling behaviour begins to convince her of something supernatural. As Laura’s determination to get to the bottom of it becomes all consuming, her family begins to fracture and the line between the extraordinary and the real becomes ever more obscured in this haunting story about a mother’s love.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland The 1960sOur memories make us. — Follows a boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.
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A Bump Along the Way
Northern IrelandWhen a fun-loving, middle-aged single mom accidentally gets pregnant, her prim teenage daughter is scandalized. But mother and daughter slowly reverse roles as the pregnancy progresses.
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Derry Girls: Series 2
Northern Ireland The 1990sAmidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five high school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Northern Ireland England 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 2010sSome Missions Are Not A Choice — When an IMF mission ends badly, the world is faced with dire consequences. As Ethan Hunt takes it upon himself to fulfill his original briefing, the CIA begin to question his loyalty and his motives. The IMF team find themselves in a race against time, hunted by assassins while trying to prevent a global catastrophe.
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Zoo
Northern Ireland The 1940sThe true story of a larger than life friendship — Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
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Derry Girls: Series 1
Northern Ireland The 1990sAmidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five high school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.
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The Foreigner
Northern Ireland EnglandNever push a good man too far — Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentless search to find the terrorists leads to a cat-and-mouse conflict with a British government official whose own past may hold the clues to the identities of the elusive killers.
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The Journey
Northern Ireland The 2000sFirebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are forced to take a short journey together in which they will take the biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
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Maze
Northern Ireland The 1980sInspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
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I Am Belfast
Northern IrelandBelfast, it's a city that is changing, changing because the people are leaving? But one came back, a 10,000 year old woman who claims that she is the city itself.
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A Christmas Star
Illinois Northern IrelandThis Christmas prepare to believe in miracles — Born under the Christmas Star, Noelle believes she has the gift to perform miracles, so when conniving developer McKerrod threatens her peaceful life she and her friends determine to use this gift to thwart his plans and save their village.
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'71
Northern Ireland The 1970sA young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
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Starred Up
Northern IrelandWe're all different on the inside. — 19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.
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A Belfast Story
Northern IrelandSomebody has to buy the Last Round — A BELFAST STORY explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without winners, just victims. A new era brings new risks. There is peace, but that can also be deadly.
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Shadow Dancer
Northern Ireland England The 1970s The 1990sSet in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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Jump
Northern IrelandThis New Year is going off with a bang! — The lives of four twenty-somethings collide one fateful New Year's Eve in this twisty, blackly comic crime thriller set amidst the ancient walls of Derry, Northern Ireland, in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue. Johnny, a small-time crook, and Marie, a dissatisfied shop assistant, are both looking for a fresh start. Greta is on the verge of taking her own life and Pearse has a bounty on his head for asking difficult questions about his missing brother Eddie Kelly. As the clock ticks down to midnight and the night's events expertly fall into place, Jump weaves an existential portrait of the characters' lives as their hopes, fears and secrets are revealed
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Good Vibrations
🇮🇪 Ireland Northern Ireland The 1970sAre teenage dreams so hard to beat? — The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label sprung, representing bands such as The Undertones, Rudi and The Outcasts.
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Wake Wood
Northern IrelandBeware Those You Love the Most — The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
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Whole Lotta Sole
Northern IrelandSmall time robbery. Big time mess. — In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colourful characters, including a man who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
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Five Minutes of Heaven
Northern Ireland The 1970s The 2000sTo face the future, they must face the past. — The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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Cherrybomb
Northern IrelandTwo guys. One girl. Game on. — Cherry Bomb follows teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle as they embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can't get off the wild ride they've set in motion.
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Hunger
Northern Ireland The 1980sAn odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest. — The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
New York Northern Ireland The 2000s The 1950sBelieve it or not... He's the Good Guy. — Hellboy must stop an elven prince from locating an ancient force that can destroy humanity: the all-powerful Golden Army.
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
Northern Ireland The 1980s The 1990sWhen you cross the line there's no going back. — It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces officer 'Fergus', McGartland gains unparalleled insight into the organisation's dealings, providing his British handler with priceless, life-saving information. Based on a true story.
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