Irish or Irish themed movies?

[Maeve]

What are your favorites? Or even, how many can we come up with, good, bad or indifferent...

The Quiet Man
My Left Foot
In the Name of the Father
Angela's Ashes
Agnes Browne
Waking Ned Devine
Secret of Roan Inish
Darby O'Gill and the Little People

[two gun sid]

1. The Molly Maguires.

One of my favorites.

[dbt]

2. The Commitments for sure! (Long live Wilson O'Pickett!)

Far And Away
Circle of Friends (? Minnie Driver stars as Bernadette)

[Maeve]

4. If you list "the Commitments" don't forget the other two

"The Snapper" and "The Van", the rest of the trilogy with Colm Meany as the da.

[dbt]

5. OW! Thank you, ma'am! OW! May I have another?

OW! I worship the turf you walk on, ma'am. OW!

:evilgrin:

[Warpy]

27. The whole Barrytown trilogy is on VHS

dunno about DVD. "The Snapper" was especially wonderful. "The Van" had its moments.

"Everlasting Piece" is another must see if you like Irish film. The bit with bringing the drunk in out of the rain was one of the funniest things I've ever seen, and I certainly saw more than one family member in it.

[Scurrilous]

3. I loved....

...Ryan's Daughter. Then again, I'm a sucker for David Lean films.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

6. Hidden Agenda and

Michael Collins...

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. Boondock Saints...

it takes place in Boston but the main characters are Irish...and I love that movie!

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

8. What about John Ford's, "The Informer"

starring Victor McLaglen.

[dflprincess]

9. Shake Hands With the Devil

It's a James Cagney movie, I haven't seen it in years. Cagney plays a doctor who is also a commander in the IRA in the 1920's.

[catchnrelease]

10. The Field

Pretty depressing, but good still.
Bloody Sunday
The Playboys


Faves---how to choose...
The Quiet Man may be my all timer even tho' they crammed in every Irish stereotype there is!!!!
Waking Ned
Roan Inish
The Snapper (Is The Van available in the US?)

I suppose the Irish RM doesn't really count as a movie, but I like to watch the series several at a time so it seems like one. Some of the supporting cast are super.

[DemBones DemBones]

11. When Brendan Met Trudy --

When Brendan Met Trudy

«  Opens March 9th in Theaters

A new film written by
Roddy Doyle
(The Commitments,
The Snapper, The Van)

I have no idea if this is a new film, since no year is given. It's at this site

http://www.irishfilm.net

They have their database subdivided into categories, which is convenient.


Movies I've seen that haven't been mentioned here are "Nora" with Ewan McGregor as James Joyce, "Da" with Martin Sheen and "Dancing at Lughnasa" with Meryl Streep. And back in the seventies there was Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" with Ryan O'Neal and Marisa Berenson. Saw it again on television not long ago.

[JohnKleeb]

12. Bloody Sunday and Boondock Saints are among my faves

[CBHagman]

13. Cheating here, but...

I really enjoyed The Brothers McMullan. I swear I either dated, went to school with, or was related to every character in that movie.

And as long as I'm cheating, I'll mention The Gangs of New York, which I saw primarly because my own Irish relatives arrived on the East Coast at the time depicted by the movie.

[JohnKleeb]

14. I loved Gangs of New York

[CBHagman]

15. Yeah, that was quite an experience.

I saw it by myself when it first came out. They're showing it as part of a Martin Scorsese festival at American Film Institute Silver Theatre (in Silver Spring, MD) next week, and I'm debating going back. There's something about the big screen...

[JohnKleeb]

16. Oh I hear that theatre is great, I love Marty's work

Yeah I saw it in theatres too, loved it much. It helped me like DeCaprio more actually who I had hated since Titanic.

[CBHagman]

17. LOL, Kleeb! Tell us how you really feel.

As far as I'm concerned, Daniel Day Lewis is THE MAN. His performance as Bill the Butcher was one of the most insanely fascinating things I've ever seen on film.

And I liked the fact that they managed to work both Finbar Furey and Maura O'Connell into on-screen singing parts.

[JohnKleeb]

19. I was developing my interest in girls when Titanic came out

It didnt endear me to him. Yes, Lewis kicked ass. I actually dont mind hte movie Titanic, its touching at times. Furey was the guy who sung that New York Girls song right, I liked that song.

[postulater]

18. How about Run of the Country

I just love Victoria Smurfit.

[DaveinMD]

20. Some Mother's Son

about the hunger strikes

[RogueTrooper]

21. The Field

absolutly suberb film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099566/

[Maeve]

22. A sort of odd one--The Crying Game

On a tangent, perhaps, but it involves the IRA (interestingly, the "terrorists" are careful to take out what they see as legitimate targets while the army shoots/bombs indiscriminately, killing their own man as he was about to escape)
Just watched it for the first time--I see why it was an Oscar nominee/winner.

[CBHagman]

24. Wonderful movie, and interesting from a moral perspective.

I don't think the movie is particularly kind to the IRA, but there is a sort of justice in the film. Anyone who's seen the film probably can guess what I mean, and those of you who haven't seen it ought to take a chance on it. It's refreshingly original and heart-stopping at certain points.

[dflprincess]

23. Evelyn

I just saw it last week. It's apparently a true story about a father who has to fight to keep custody of his children after his wife deserts the family. The kids are taken away and sent to orphanges. The only scene I found hard to believe was in the courtroom when the daughter testified about having been slapped around by a nun. The courtroom - presumably filled with Catholics as this happened in the Republic - acted shocked to hear that a nun could be mean.

[catchnrelease]

25. Oh yes!

I'd forgotten Evelyn, thought it was very good. I recall Pierce Brosnan in an interview saying it was a project he really had wanted to do, and I'm pretty sure his production company made it. His character was a polar opposite of slick Mr Bond.

Another film that wasn't set in Ireland, but about an Irish family was In America. Kleenex alert issued for that one.......:cry:

[DaveinMD]

26. I liked that movie too

saw it when it came out.

[BuddhaGirl]

28. The Magdalene Sisters

I just watched it last weekend...I wouldn't call it a favorite but it was very compelling.

Apparently the last of these laundries, which were more like prisons and run by the Sisters of Mercy (mercy, yeah right!) closed in 1996. Unbelieveable.

I felt the film was really well done and I definitely recommend it, but be warned it it rather disturbing.

[CBHagman]

29. The Washington Post religion section...

...had a rather poignant account of an elderly Irishwoman who had lived in one of those facilities. It appears she was literally forgotten by relatives, and they had to be contacted to provide a home for her after a decades-long stay in one of those places.

The good news is that her daughter, whose conception was the very reason for her being sent away, sought her out years after being adopted by an American family, and the two women were reunited.