English-language Irish films

The Professor and the Madman

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal...

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The Snapper

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.

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Breakfast on Pluto

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 7.2

In the 1970s, a foundling lass, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance of her gender identity, and her long-lost mother.

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Detainment

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler.

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Garage

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his...

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Michael Collins

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

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Human Traffic

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Five twenty-something friends spend a drug-fueled weekend in Cardiff, Wales.

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The Lobster

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.1

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into anima...

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A Shine of Rainbows

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.1

An orphaned boy named Tomás is adopted by Maire O’Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluc...

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