List of Irish films
This is chronology of films produced in Ireland:
1910s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1910 | A Lad from Old Ireland | Sidney Olcott | Sidney Olcott and Gene Gauntier | Drama | |
1911 | The Colleen Bawn | Sidney Olcott and Gene Gauntier | Sidney Olcott | Drama | |
Rory O'More | Sidney Olcott | Jack J. Clark and Gene Gauntier | Rebel drama | ||
1914 | For Ireland's Sake | Sidney Olcott | Gene Gauntier, Jack J. Clark and Sidney Olcott | Rebel drama | |
Ireland a Nation | Walter MacNamara | Barry O'Brien, P J Bourke, Fred O'Donovan, Barney Magee | Rebel drama | Expanded version produced in 1920. | |
1915 | Regeneration | Raoul Walsh | Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, Carl Harbaugh, James A. Marcus | Irish immigrant drama | Often cited as one of the first full length gangster films |
1916 | O'Neil of the Glen | Fred O'Donovan | J. M. Kerrigan, Brian Magowan, Nora Clancy | Romance | |
1917 | When Love Came To Gavin Burke | Fred O'Donovan | Fred O'Donovan, Nora Clancy, Oonah Halpin, Brian Magowan, Valentine Roberts | Melodrama | |
1918 | Knocknagow | Fred O'Donovan | Brian Magowan, Fred O'Donovan, Arthur Shields, Brenda Burke, Kathleen Murphy, Cyril Cusack | Melodrama |
1920s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1920 | Willy Reilly and his Colleen Bawn | John MacDonagh | Brian Magowan, Frances Alexander, John MacDonagh | historical drama | Second and final major film of the Film Company of Ireland |
In the Days of St Patrick | Norman Whitten | Ira Ellen, Vernon Whitten, Gilbert Green, Alice Cardinall, Dermot McCarthy | historical drama | ||
1922 | Cruiskeen Lawn | John McDonagh | Tom Moran | Producer: Norman Whitten | |
Casey's Millions | John McDonagh | Barrett MacDonnell, Chris Sylvester, Jimmy O'Dea | Comedy | Producer: Norman Whitten | |
1925 | Blarney | Marcel De Sano | Ralph Graves, Paulette Duval, Renée Adorée | Comedy | |
1926 | Irish Destiny | George Dewhurst | Brian Magowan, Paddy Dunne Cullinan | War | Love story set in the Irish War of Independence; includes footage of actual fighting |
1930s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1934 | Man of Aran | Robert Flaherty | Colman "Tiger" King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane | Documentary | |
1934 | Ireland: 'The Emerald Isle' | Ruth FitzPatrick | James A. FitzPatrick (narrator) | Short Documentary/Travelogue | |
1935 | Guests of the Nation | Denis Johnston | Barry Fitzgerald, Cyril Cusack, Shelah Richards | Drama | |
Oidhche Sheanchais | Robert J. Flaherty | Seáinín Tom Ó Dioráin | Storytelling | First Irish language sync sound film Lost until 2012 | |
1936 | The Luck of the Irish | Donovan Pedelty | Richard Hayward, Niall MacGinnis, Kay Walsh | Drama | |
Irish and Proud of It | Donovan Pedelty | Richard Hayward, Dinah Sheridan and Liam Gaffney | Musical comedy | ||
1937 | Kathleen Mavourneen | Norman Lee | Sally O'Neil, Tom Burke, Jack Daly and Sara Allgood | Musical drama | also known as Kathleen |
Rose of Tralee | Oswald Mitchell | Binkie Stuart, Kathleen O'Regan and Fred Conyngham | Musical | ||
1938 | The Dawn | Thomas Cooper | Brian O'Sullivan | War drama | |
Men of Ireland | Richard Bird | Brian O'Sullivan | Drama |
1940s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1948 | My Hands Are Clay | Lionel Tomlinson | Bernardette Leahy | Drama | |
1949 | You Can't Fool an Irishman | Alfred Travers | Tommy Duggan | comedy |
1950s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1951 | The Hills of Ireland | Harry Dugan | Pat O'Brien (narrator) | documentary travelogue | |
Return to Glennascaul | Hilton Edwards | Orson Welles | horror/ short | also known as Orson Welles' Ghost Story | |
1952 | The Quiet Man | John Ford | John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald | comedy | |
1953 | Fintona, A Study of Housing Discrimination | documentary short | Irish Government-sponsored film alleging anti-Catholic housing discrimination in Fintona, Co.Tyrone. The first 3 minutes of this film is voiceover with no moving images. | ||
1957 | Pretty Polly | Tony Inglis | Noel Purcell | short | |
Professor Tim | Henry Cass | Bill Foley | |||
The Rising of the Moon | John Ford | Tyrone Power (narrator), Cyril Cusack, Noel Purcell and Denis O'Dea | comedy/ drama | Three vignettes based on short stories illustrating rural Irish life: The Majesty of the Law, A Minute's Wait and 1921 | |
1959 | Home Is the Hero | Fielder Cook | Walter Macken | drama romance | Entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival |
Mise Éire | George Morrison | Liam Budhlaeir (narrator) | Documentary | Chronicles Irish history from 1890s-1918, including the 1916 Easter Rising. It was the first feature length Irish language film. | |
Shake Hands with the Devil | Michael Anderson | James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter and Glynis Johns | historical drama | Portrays the Irish War of Independence | |
Broth of a Boy | George Pollock | Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Eddie Golden and Godfrey Quigley | comedy | ||
This Other Eden | Muriel Box | Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips, Niall MacGinnis and Geoffrey Golden | Comedy-drama | ||
Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Robert Stevenson | Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea | children's |
1960s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1961 | Saoirse? | George Morrison | Liam Budhlaeir (narrator) | Documentary | The follow-up to Mise Éire (1959) |
1963 | Dementia 13 | Francis Ford Coppola | William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee | Horror-thriller | also known as The Haunted and the Hunted. Produced by Roger Corman |
1967 | Rocky Road to Dublin | Peter Lennon | Seán Ó Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien, John Huston and Father Michael Cleary | Documentary | Shown at Cannes festival, shunned in Ireland |
Ulysses | Joseph Strick | Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roëves, T. P. McKenna | Drama | Adaptation of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses | |
1969 | Sinful Davey | John Huston | John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Fionnula Flanagan and Anjelica Huston | Drama, Comedy |
1970s
1980s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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1981 | Excalibur | John Boorman | Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson | Drama | |
1982 | The Ballroom of Romance | Pat O'Connor | Brenda Fricker, John Kavanagh, Cyril Cusack, Bríd Brennan, Mick Lally and Joe Pilkington | Drama | |
1983 | Attracta | Kieran Hickey | Wendy Hiller, Kate Thompson, John Kavanagh and Joe McPartland | drama | |
1984 | The Country Girls | Desmond Davis | Sam Neill, Niall Tóibín | Based on the 1960 Edna O'Brien novel of the same name, which was banned in Ireland. | |
Anne Devlin | Pat Murphy | Brid Brennan and Bosco Hogan | drama | Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival | |
Cal | Pat O'Connor | Helen Mirren, John Lynch | Drama | Helen Mirren won the award for best actress at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival | |
1985 | Lamb | Colin Gregg | Liam Neeson, Hugh O'Connor Ian Bannen | drama | |
1986 | Rawhead Rex | George Pavlou | David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Niall Toibin, Cora Venus Lunny and Donal McCann | Horror | Screenplay by Clive Barker |
1987 | The Dead | John Huston | Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann | Drama | The last film that Huston directed, released posthumously. Adapted from the short story "The Dead" by James Joyce |
1988 | Taffin | Francis Megahy | Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally and Alison Doody | Thriller | |
Da | Matt Clark | Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes and William Hickey | Comedy-drama | Written by Irish playwright and journalist Hugh Leonard, adapted from his play Da. | |
High Spirits | Neil Jordan | Daryl Hannah, Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Tilly, Peter Gallagher, Liam Neeson and Martin Ferrero | Fantasy comedy | Irish-British-American co-production | |
Reefer and the Model | Joe Comerford | Ian McElhinney, Carol Scanlan, Sean Lawlor and Ray McBride | Drama | Nominated in three categories at the European Film Awards | |
The Land Before Time | Don Bluth | Gabriel Damon, Candace Hutson, Judith Barsi and Will Ryan | Animated adventure drama | ||
1989 | All Dogs Go to Heaven | Don Bluth | Loni Anderson, Judith Barsi, Dom DeLuise, Melba Moore, Charles Nelson Reilly, Burt Reynolds and Vic Tayback | Animated musical fantasy comedy-drama | |
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown | Jim Sheridan | Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally and Fiona Shaw | biography-drama | Day-Lewis won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Fricker won for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. The film was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture in the 62nd Academy Awards |
1990s
2000s
2010s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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2010 | The Boogeyman | Gerard Lough | Simon Fogarty, Michael Parle | Horror | Based on a story by Stephen King |
Sensation | Tom Hall | Domhnall Gleeson, Patrick Ryan, Luanne Gordon | Comedy | ||
Parked | Darragh Byrne | Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan | Drama | ||
2011 | The Guard | John Michael McDonagh | Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong | Comedy | |
The Pier | Gerard Hurley | Gerard Hurley, Karl Johnson | Drama | [4] | |
Closure of Catharsis | Rouzbeh Rashidi | James Devereux (actor) | Experimental film | ||
2012 | Grabbers | Jon Wright | Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey | Sci-fi | |
Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson | Drama | Spy drama set in Belfast during the Troubles. Premièred at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival | |
What Richard Did | Lenny Abrahamson | Jack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Lars Mikkelsen, Lorraine Pilkington | Drama | Film of the year 2012 | |
When Ali Came to Ireland | Ross Whitaker | Muhammad Ali, Alvin Lewis, Cathal O'Shannon | Documentary | Describes Muhammad Ali's first visit to Ireland in July 1972, and his fight there against Al Lewis. | |
Eliot & Me | Fintan Connolly | Ella Connolly, Renée Weldon, David Wilmot and Gerard Mannix Flynn | Family | ||
King of the Travellers | Mark O'Conner | Michael Collins, John Connors, Peter Coonan and Carla McGlynn | |||
Byzantium | Neil Jordan | Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Arterton, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller | Thriller Drama | ||
2013 | A Belfast Story | Nathan Todd | Colm Meaney, Malcolm Sinclair & Tommy O'Neill | Crime, Drama | |
The Hardy Bucks Movie | Mike Cockayne | Martin Malony, Owen Colgan, Chris Tordoff, Peter Cassidy & Tom Kilgallon | Comedy | ||
How to Be Happy | Michael Rob Costine, Mark Gaster | Brian Gleeson, Gemma-Leah Devereux | Comedy | ||
What If | Michael Dowse | Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Adam Driver, Megan Park, Mackenzie Davis, Rafe Spall | Comedy | ||
The Irish Pub | Alex Fegan | Paul Gartlan, Liam Ahern & Ray Blackwell | Documentary | ||
The Stag | John Butler | Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald & Brian Gleeson | Comedy | ||
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay | Alan Gilsenan | Maria Doyle Kennedy & Leryn Franco | Documentary, Biography | ||
2014 | From the Dark | Conor McMahon | Niamh Algar, Stephen Cromwell, Ged Murray | Horror | |
Calvary | John Michael McDonagh | Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, Isaach de Bankolé, M. Emmet Walsh, Marie-Josée Croze, Domhnall Gleeson | Drama | ||
Frank | Lenny Abrahamson | Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy, Michael Fassbender, Carla Azar, François Civil | Comedy | ||
The Gift | Tom Collins | Michelle Beamish, Ciarán Charles, John Finn | Drama, Thriller | ||
The Guarantee | Ian Power | David Murray, Gary Lydon, Orla Fitzgerald, Morgan C. Jones, Peter Coonan | Drama | Film about the Irish banking crisis. | |
Standby | Ronan Burke Rob Burke | Jessica Paré, Brian Gleeson | Romantic Comedy | Former lovers reunite after a bad breakup and gradually realize that they're more compatible than ever before. | |
2015 | My Name is Emily | ||||
Brooklyn | John Crowley | Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters | Drama | ||
The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz | Comedy, Drama | ||
Night People | Gerard Lough | Michael Parle, Jack Dean Shepherd, Claire Blennerhassett | Horror / Science Fiction | ||
Room | Lenny Abrahamson | Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, William H. Macy | Drama | ||
2016 | A Dark Song | Liam Gavin[5] | Steve Oram, Catherine Walker | Horror | |
The Siege of Jadotville | Richie Smyth | Jamie Dornan, Mark Strong, Mikael Persbrandt and Jason O'Mara | |||
Dead Along the Way | Maurice O'Connell | Niall Murphy, Ciaran Bermingham | Comedy | ||
Ellie | Dean Mullen | Drama | [6] | ||
Handsome Devil | John Butler | ||||
I Am Not a Serial Killer | Billy O'Brien | Laura Fraser, Max Records, Christopher Lloyd | Thriller | Based on the American novel of the same name | |
Sing Street | John Carney | Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Jack Reynor, Aidan Gillen | Musical comedy-drama | ||
The Young Offenders | Peter Foott | Alex Murphy, Chris Walley | Comedy | ||
The Journey | Nick Hamm | Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Toby Stephens | Drama | ||
Mammal | Rebecca Daly | Rachel Griffiths, Michael McElhatton, Barry Keoghan, Danika McGuigan, Johnny Ward, Joanne Crawford | Drama | ||
2017 | Michael Inside | Frank Berry | Dafhyd Flynn, Moe Dunford | Drama | |
Cardboard Gangsters | Mark O'Connor | John Connors | Drama | ||
Bad Day For The Cut | Chris Baugh | Nigel O'Neill, Susan Lynch, Józef Pawlowski, Stuart Graham | Crime, Drama, Thriller | ||
Kissing Candice | Aoife McArdle | Ann Skelly | Drama | ||
The Lodgers | Brian O'Malley | Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner | Horror | ||
The Cured | David Freyne | Elliot Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor | Horror | ||
Soulsmith | Kevin Henry | Matthew O'Brien, Miriam Devitt, Brian Fortune | Drama | ||
The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Yorgos Lanthimos | Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan | Psychological thriller | ||
2018 | Float Like a Butterfly | Carmel Winters | Hazel Doupe | Drama | |
Rosie | Paddy Breathnach | Sarah Greene | Drama | ||
The Devil's Doorway | Aislinn Clarke | Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen | Horror | ||
The Dig | Andy Tohill and Ryan Tohill | Moe Dunford | Thriller | ||
The Delinquent Season | Mark O'Rowe | Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle | Drama | ||
Dublin Oldschool | Dave Tynan | Emmet Kirwan, Ian Lloyd Anderson | Drama | ||
The Favourite | Yorgos Lanthimos | Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz | Comedy, Drama | ||
Black '47 | Lance Daly | Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Moe Dunford, Barry Keoghan, Sarah Greene | Period Drama | ||
Papi Chulo | John Butler | Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patino, Elena Campbell-Martinez, Wendi McLendon-Covey | Comedy, Drama | ||
2019 | The Hole in the Ground | Lee Cronin | Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, James Quinn Markey | Horror | |
Extra Ordinary | Mike Ahern and Enda Loughman | Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte, Claudia O'Doherty | Comedy, Horror | ||
Vivarium | Lorcan Finnegan | Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg | Science Fiction, Thriller | ||
Arracht | Tomás Ó Súilleabháin | Dónall Ó Héalaí, Saise Ní Chuinn | Historical Drama | ||
Rialto | Peter Mackie Burns | Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney | Drama | ||
Sea Fever | Neasa Hardiman | Hermione Corfield, Dougray Scott, Connie Nielsen | Science Fiction, Horror | ||
Calm with Horses | Nick Rowland | Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy | Crime Drama |
2020s
Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
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2021 | Deadly Cuts | Rachel Carey | Angeline Ball, Ericka Roe, Shauna Higgins, Lauren Larkin, Victoria Smurfit, Aidan McArdle, Thommas Kane Byrne | Comedy | |
2021 | You Are Not My Mother | Kate Dolan | Hazel Doupe, Carolyn Bracken, Irene Craigie, Paul Reid | Psychological Horror | |
2021 | The Green Sea | Randall Plunkett | Fantasy | ||
2021 | My Little Pony: A New Generation | Robert Cullen, José L. Ucha | Vanessa Hudgens, Kimiko Glenn, James Marsden, Sofia Carson, Liza Koshy, Ken Jeong, Elizabeth Perkins, Jane Krakowski, Phil LaMarr, Michael McKean | Adventure Comedy | Co-produced with the US and Canada |
2022 | The Quiet Girl | Colm Bairéad | Drama | ||
2022 | Spears | Gerard Lough | Aidan O'Sullivan, Bobby Calloway, Nigel Brennan | Mystery / thriller | |
2022 | Wendell & Wild | Henry Selick | Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Angela Bassett, Lyric Ross, Ving Rhames, James Hong | stop motion-animated horror comedy |
See also
- Cinema of Ireland
- Category:Films shot in Ireland
- Category:Irish-language films
- Cinema of Northern Ireland
- List of films set in Ireland
- List of films set in Northern Ireland
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References
- ^ "Sweety Barrett (1998) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
- ^ "Winners - Truro 2001". celticmediafestival.co.uk. Celtic Media Festival. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- ^ "Celtic Film and Television Festival, Truro". iftn.ie. Irish Film & Television Network. 6 April 2001. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
- ^ "The Pier". 4 July 2011. Archived from the original on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2018 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ Brady, Tara (5 April 2017). "A Dark Song review: a nifty, novel Irish horror". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 21 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "Ellie (2016)". IMDb. Archived from the original on 29 April 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
External links
- Irish film at the Internet Movie Database