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- DirectorNeil JordanStarsStephen ReaJaye DavidsonForest WhitakerA British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.
- DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisBrenda FrickerAlison WhelanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert MitchumTrevor HowardJohn MillsSet in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsJames CagneyDon MurrayDana WynterIn 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being led by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsRyan O'NealMarisa BerensonPatrick MageeAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
- DirectorPat O'ConnorStarsBrenda FrickerJohn KavanaghMick LallyA lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsRobert ArkinsMichael AherneAngeline BallJimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsStephen ReaFiona ShawEamonn OwensThe antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
- DirectorGerard StembridgeStarsAndrew ConnollyJasmine RussellPeter HanlyArmy corporal Liam and his wife live on a housing estate at the edge of a small Irish town. Late one night Liam arrives home drunk, and the bitter arguments that develop between them result in a series of flashbacks from which life-changing secrets emerge.
- DirectorPaddy BreathnachStarsBrendan GleesonPeter McDonaldAntoine ByrneIrish action comedy. An ex-con is forced into taking on a new task by a ruthless crime-boss, but finds he is hindered by the partner he has been teamed up with. However, he soon realizes they must work together if they are to survive.
- DirectorPaddy BreathnachStarsAllen LeechTom MurphyCiaran NolanThree losers leave town owing $50k to a bookie. They go on a journey involving drinking, gambling on greyhounds, and hiring prostitutes, leading them into further debt and misadventures.
- DirectorLenny AbrahamsonStarsTom MurphyMark O'HalloranGavin Dowdall2 heroin addicts negotiate their way through Dublin's city centre, encountering friends and family as they search for their next fix.
- Six-part documentary series looking at Northern Ireland from the perspective of recent Irish history.
- DirectorLes BlairStarsBrendan MackeyDean Lennox KellyAidan CampbellA moving insight into the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison near Belfast.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsMichael FassbenderLiam CunninghamStuart GrahamIrish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsJames NesbittTim Pigott-SmithNicholas FarrellA dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsCillian MurphyPádraic DelaneyLiam CunninghamAgainst the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
- DirectorStephen FingletonStarsMartin McCannMia GothOlwen FouéréIn a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
- DirectorChris BaughStarsNigel O'NeillSusan LynchJózef PawlowskiA middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when his mother is murdered.
- DirectorAlan ShapiroStarsCary ElwesAlicia SilverstoneJennifer RubinA journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl, who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances.
- DirectorMargaret CorkeryStarsRobert DonnellyAmy KirwanDarren HealyA family holiday brings to a head the destructive love triangle between Eamon, a little boy with behavioral problems, his selfish mother Grace and his sexually frustrated father Daniel.
- DirectorGreta GerwigStarsSaoirse RonanLaurie MetcalfTracy LettsA fiercely independent teenager tries to make her own way in the world while wanting to get out of her hometown of Sacramento, California and to get away from her complicated mother and recently-unemployed father.
- DirectorMartin McDonaghStarsBrendan GleesonRúaidhrí ConroyDavid WilmotA black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball....