Irish / Ireland movies

Auld Sod · Veteran Member

Irish / Ireland movies

CowboyCraic · Guru

Chris,

To that list, you will have to add the newly released Wind That Shakes The Barley, which I hope will be released to DVD soon!

Slan Beo,

Bit

rtm · Member

Wind That Shakes The Barley is available on some ON DEMAND cable services. I rented Sunday, very interesting movie.

Others off the top of my head:

Evelyn
The Van
The Snapper ( i think that is the name)
ther is another one about two kids in wheelchairs who are paralyized which was pretty good.

YaYa · Guru

The Wedding Planner

Also this came up on Fodor's not too long ago. Why not do a search on Fodors. There was a very long list.

I'm with you, I so enjoy anything about Ireland.

Good Luck, Joan(YaYa)

Sidz · Guru

An underrated movie in my book is "Widow's Peak," a 1994 film set in Ireland featuring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, and Natasha Richardson. A heck of a story, and wonderful scenery to boot!

Andi · Senior Member

Off the top of my head:

The Field (grim tale of old Connemara)
The Dead (based on James Joyce story)
The Long Good Friday (with Bob Hoskins, actually takes place in England, but about the IRA)
Bloody Sunday (excellent documentary of Bloody Sunday in '70s Derry)
The Playboys (story of itinerant theatre group with Aidan Quinn)
Angela's Ashes

Auld Sod · Veteran Member

Great ideas!

"Widow's Peak" sounds like it has a great cast and I can't believe I forgot "The Field", "Angela's Ashes" and "The Playboys" (almost anything with Aidan Quinn will be good).

"The Wind...." wasn't even on my radar yet because I though it still was awaiting release on DVD.

"The Dead", wasn't that John Huston's last film? I now remember seeing some of it but it didn't come to mind, thanks.

See, this is why I threw this out there, I knew the fine folks here wouldn't let me down! Keep 'em coming! Now, I just have to find a way to get the OK to increase the "Home Entertainment" budget, lol!

Dude · Guru

"Out of the West"
"The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne"
"Circle of Friends"
"Dancing at Lughnasa"

Somewhere I have an old list from TV Guide published on a long-ago St. Patrick's Day of the top ten Irish movies but bless me if I can find it...

Itallian Chauffeur · Moderator

Here's the link to the FODORS thread that I think YaYa was referring to:

www.fodors.com/forums/threadselect.jsp?fid=2&tid=34516051

If this is it, it was a bit more than a while ago. I started it, back in July of 2004, although somebody 'dredged it back up' last November. I mention this, because any NEWER films won't be listed....

Bob

wojazz3 · Guru

Waking Ned Devine is a fun movie, but it was filmed on the Isle of Man.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a very sad film.

The Matchmaker

Bill

shashie50 · Veteran Member

Hear My Song
A Man of No Importance

shashie50 · Veteran Member

Movies have been made from all of the books in Roddy Doyle's trilogy:
The Commitments
The Snapper
The Van

Dude · Guru

"The Secret of Roan Inish"

oopsy · Senior Member

Magdalene Sisters

Also, here's an online list. I'm not sure how current it is. It includes movies filmed in Ireland (including movies filmed primarily elsewhere but with snippets filmed in Ireland) as well as movies about Irish characters.

http://www.lisashea.com/irish/movies/movies-A.html

Dude · Guru

"The Ballad of Frankie Starlight" has some Irish characters. Some scenes were actually filmed in Kingsville, Texas, where I live, and one old building downtown still has the paint on it where they made it look like an old bar. Not much of a movie, but there's that local color. The scene with a cropduster flying over bare brown fields gave us a laugh.