Irish Movies
by joebehcet | created - 29 Dec 2022 | updated - 08 Jan 2023 | PublicIrish Themed Movies
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1. Dublin Nightmare (1958)
62 min | Thriller
Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
Director: John Pomeroy | Stars: Pat O'Sullivan, John McCarthy, Richard Leech, Harry Hutchinson
Votes: 105
2. Night Boat to Dublin (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Thriller, War
The allies plan to rescue a Swedish atomic scientist from under the noses of the Nazis.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow
Votes: 404
3. The Quare Fellow (1962)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
In Ireland, a newly hired prison guard has to deal with the realities of prison work and to face the grim issue of death-row executions.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Syms, Walter Macken, Dermot Kelly
Votes: 405
4. Wings of the Morning (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Music, Romance
First Technicolor movie shot in the British Isles, features Gypsies, horse racing, singing and romance.
Directors: Harold D. Schuster, Glenn Tryon | Stars: Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome
Votes: 367
5. Irish and Proud of It (1938)
78 min | Comedy, Romance
Donogh O'Connor is an Irish singer making good in London who, at a banquet, expresses the desire to return to the little village, Ballyvoraine, where he was born. Two of his friends, owning... See full summary »
Director: Donovan Pedelty | Stars: Richard Hayward, Dinah Sheridan, Gwenllian Gill, George Pembroke
Votes: 34
6. Young Cassidy (1965)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama
The misadventures of a young idealist man in Dublin, Ireland in the early twentieth century.
Directors: Jack Cardiff, John Ford | Stars: Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave
Votes: 1,325
7. The Rising of the Moon (1957)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Tyrone Power, Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Jack MacGowran
Votes: 1,145
8. Jacqueline (1956)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
Captivating drama of a lovable little Irish girl and how she helps her tippler father find work.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Gregson, Kathleen Ryan, Jacqueline Ryan, Noel Purcell
Votes: 181
9. She Didn't Say No (1958)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
Bridget Monaghan, a dressmaker and mother of six illegitimate children, tries to maintain her current lifestyle while the fathers of her six children try to run her out of their small Irish... See full summary »
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Eileen Herlie, Perlita Neilson, Wilfred Downing, Anne Dickins
Votes: 58
10. The Night Fighters (1960)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermot O'Neill finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Anne Heywood, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 370
11. The Informer (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama
In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame
Votes: 7,181 | Gross: $2.07M
12. Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, Kathleen Ryan
Votes: 891
13. Othello (1951)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier
Votes: 9,456
14. This Other Eden (1959)
80 min | Drama, Comedy
A small town plans to erect a monument in memory of an IRA rebel killed during the 1920's. The son of the English Colonel who killed the rebel objects to this.
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips, Niall MacGinnis, Geoffrey Golden
Votes: 42
15. The Shadow of a Gunman (1972 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Donal Davoren is a poet but the folks in his tenement building think he's an IRA gunman laying low. Donal is content to let them think so, Minnie Powell. Donal and his flatmate Seamus end ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Frank Converse, Brendan Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, William Glover
Votes: 24
16. The Quiet Man (1952)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond
Votes: 42,417 | Gross: $10.55M
17. No Resting Place (1951)
80 min | Crime, Drama
Alex Kyle is an Irish Traveller. Whilst out poaching he is disturbed by the local gamekeeper. In an attempt to escape he hurls a rock at the man and kills him. One veteran Garda Officer, Mannigan, is determined he will not escape justice.
Director: Paul Rotha | Stars: Michael Gough, Eithne Dunne, Noel Purcell, Brian O'Higgins
Votes: 27
18. The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars
Votes: 475
19. Rooney (1958)
88 min | Comedy
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: John Gregson, Muriel Pavlow, Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn
Votes: 160
20. Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
G | 93 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Jimmy O'Dea
Votes: 9,373
21. Flight of the Doves (1971)
G | 105 min | Drama, Family
While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Dorothy McGuire, Stanley Holloway
Votes: 605
22. Saints and Sinners (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Kieron Moore, Christine Norden, Sheila Manahan, Michael Dolan
Votes: 58
23. Talk of a Million (1951)
73 min | Comedy
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Jack Warner, Barbara Mullen, Joan Kenny, Elizabeth Erskine
Votes: 36
24. Broth of a Boy (1959)
77 min | Comedy
A British TV producer is traveling in Ireland when he comes across a village where they are planning a birthday party for the oldest man in the world. He decides he wants to make a film ... See full summary »
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Eddie Golden, Godfrey Quigley
Votes: 32
25. Home Is the Hero (1959)
83 min | Drama, Romance
A man returns to his Irish town after being in jail for five years for murder. His friends try to help him fit in again, but he refuses and secludes himself from the world. Only a pretty girl and his crippled son can still reach him.
Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Walter Macken, Eileen Crowe, Arthur Kennedy, Joan O'Hara
Votes: 12
26. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Approved | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being led by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns
Votes: 1,525
27. Johnny Nobody (1961)
TV-PG | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A small Irish town: atheist writer shot by a man claiming amnesia. Miracle or murder? Local priest discovers it's a plot: revenge killing. Gets to trial too late - the jury have acquitted. JN gloats - to be struck dead in the courtroom.
Director: Nigel Patrick | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, William Bendix, Aldo Ray
Votes: 326
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