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Favourite films Ireland and the rest of Europe
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items Ireland is a nation of dreamers, poets and storytellers, and along with that luminous Atlantic light, this results in some truly memorable movies. Here are some of them.
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Films made in Ireland
Films made in the UK and other countries.
Films made in Ireland
Movies and films made in Ireland and/or with Irish actors, directors, producers, crew …
This one had me reaching for the tissues. Based on the short story ‘Foster’ by Claire Keegan, and mostly in the Irish language, it's about a little girl being raised by parents with several children, she's shy and withdrawn because she feels invisibl...
The Quiet Girl (2022)
This is a favourite of mine, I enjoy the period dramas. ‘The Abduction Club’ is based on real events, and set in 18th-century Ireland, then under English occupation. The club in the title is made up of young men, mostly second sons of rich landowners...
The Abduction Club (2002)
The art college in Limerick features in this film, made entirely in Limerick city, and I was a student there while they were actually making it. ‘Twas quite exciting, if a little inconvenient as I kept forgetting and had to run outside the building a...
Cowboys & Angels (2003)
By a strange twist of fate, Daniel Murphy (played by Dutch actor Michiel Huisman) ends up being responsible for a corpse being repatriated to Ireland - only Daniel is visitng his family in Clonakilty, on the south coast, and the deceased is from Rath...
The Last Right (2019)
The Young Offenders is set in Cork City as well as County Cork, in case you're wondering. It's about Conor, who lives with his Mam, and his best friend Jock, who lives with an abusive and alcoholic father. Jock's thing is stealing bicycles, and he is...
The Young Offenders (2016)
Films made in the UK and other countries.
Unfortunately this absolute gem of a film is leaving Netflix Ireland soon. Or it might not. The story is based on a novel of the same name, and simple: a very skeptical government-employed fishing expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a British rep...
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
Europe is changing, Communism has run its course, but Alexander in Berlin has to protect his mother from this reality. In doing so, he learns how to produce TV shows, track down Soviet groceries, and negotiate with communism generally, and learns the...
Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
A woman from the country Georgia travels with a young man to Istanbul in search of her transgender niece who had been hounded out of the town years before. They meet transgender lawyer and activist Evrim who tries to help them, but who has her own is...
Crossing review – search for estranged trans niece becomes emotional ...