List of films set in Ireland

Feature Films

Numbers

• 32A
• '''71

  A

• The Abduction Club
• About Adam
• Accelerator
• The Actors
• Adam & Paul
• Agnes Browne
• Ailsa
• Alarm
• Albert Nobbs
• Alive and Kicking
• Among the Irish Fisher Folk
• An Bronntanas
• And No One Could Save Her
• Angel - also called Danny Boy
• Angela's Ashes
• Anne Devlin
• Another Shore
• Anton
• Arracht
• Arrah-na-Pogue
• Ascendancy
• Attracta

  B

• Bad Day For The Cut
• The Ballroom of Romance
• Barry Lyndon
• Battle of the Bone
• A Belfast Story
• Beloved Enemy
• Between the Canals
• Bipedality
• Black 47
• The Black Sheep
• The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance
• Bloody Sunday
• Bloom
• Bogwoman
• Borstal Boy
• Boxed
• The Boxer
• Boy Eats Girl
• The Boy from Mercury
• The Boys from County Clare - also called The Boys and Girl from County Clare and The Great Ceili War
• Breakfast on Pluto
• Broken Law
• Brooklyn
• Broth of a Boy
• The Brylcreem Boys - set in Ireland, filmed on the Isle of Man
• The Butcher Boy

  C

• Cal
• Calvary
• The Canal
• Captain Boycott
• Captain Lightfoot
• Cardboard Gangsters
• Casey's Millions
• Catholics - also Called Conflict, A Fable of the Future and The Visitor
• Chasing Leprechauns
• Cherrybomb
• Circle of Friends
• Clash of the Ash
• Closing the Ring
• The Colleen Bawn
• The Commitments
• The Country Girls
• The Courier
• Cowboys & Angels
• The Craic
• Cré na Cille
• A Christmas Star
• Cruiskeen Lawn
• Cry of the Innocent
• The Crying Game
• The Cured

  D

• Da
• Dancing at Lughnasa
• Darby O'Gill and the Little People
• A Date for Mad Mary
• Daughter of Darkness
• The Dawn - also called Dawn Over Ireland
• The Dawning
• The Dead
• Dead Along the Way
• Dead Bodies
• Dead Man's Evidence
• Dead Meat
• Dear Sarah
• December Bride
• The Delinquent Season
• Dementia 13
• The Devil's Doorway
• The Dig
• The Disappearance of Finbar
• Disco Pigs
• Divorcing Jack
• Dorothy Mills
• Doughboys in Ireland
• Draíocht
• Dublin Oldschool
• Durango

  E

• Eamon
• The Early Bird
• The Eclipse
• Elephant
• The Eliminator
• Eliot & Me
• '
• Ellie
• Ek Tha Tiger
• Enchantment
• Er kann's nicht lassen
• The Eternal
• Evelyn
• '
• An Everlasting Piece

  F

• Faeries
• The Fantasist
• Far and Away
• Fatal Deviation
• The Field
• Fifty Dead Men Walking
• The Fighting O'Flynn
• A Fighting Man
• The Fighting Prince of Donegal
• A Film with Me in It
• Finian's Rainbow
• Five Minutes of Heaven
• Flick
• Flight of the Doves
• Float Like a Butterfly
• Fools of Fortune
• The Foreigner
• Four Days in July
• The Fox of Glenarvon
• The Foxes of Harrow
• Frank
• Frankie Starlight
• Freeze Frame
• From the Dark
• The Front Line
• A Further Gesture - also called The Break

  G

• Garage
• The General
• General John Regan
• General John Regan
• The Gentle Gunman
• Ghostwood
• A Girl from Mogadishu
• Girl with Green Eyes
• Giro City
• Glassland
• Gold
• Goldfish Memory
• Good Vibrations
• Gorgo
• Grabbers
• The Guarantee
• The Guard
• Guests of the Nation
• Guns in the Heather - also called The Secret of Boyne Castle and Spy-Busters

  H

• H3
• The Hallow - originally titled The Woods
• Handsome Devil
• Hangman's House
• Halo Effect
• Happy Ever After
• Happy Ever Afters
• The Hardy Bucks Movie
• Haywire
• He
• Headrush
• Hear My Song
• Helen
• Hennessy
• Hidden Agenda
• Hideaways
• High Boot Benny
• The High Command
• High Spirits
• The Hole in the Ground
• Holy Cross
• Holy Water also called Hard Times
• Home Is the Hero
• Honeymoon for One
• How About You
• How Harry Became a Tree
• How to Be Happy
• How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
• Hunger
• Hungry Hill

  I

• I See a Dark Stranger
• I Was Happy Here
• I Went Down
• The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
• Images
• In Fear
• In the Days of St Patrick
• In the Name of the Father
• The Informer
• The Informer
• The Informant
• The Innocent Lie
• The Inside
• Inside I'm Dancing
• Intermission
• Into the West
• Ireland a Nation
• Irish and Proud of It
• Irish Destiny
• Irish for Luck
• Irish Hearts
• The Irish Honeymoon
• The Irish in America
• Irish Jam
• Island of Terror
• Isolation

  J

• Jacqueline
• Jimmy's Hall
• Johnny Was
• Jump
• Juno and the Paycock
• Joyce in June

  K

• Kathleen Mavourneen
• The Key
• Killing Bono
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• Kings
• King of the Travellers
• Kisses
• Kissing Candice
• Knocknagow
• Korea

  L

• The Lads
• Lamb
• Langrishe, Go Down
• The Last Leprechaun
• The Last of the High Kings - also called Summer Fling
• The Last September
• The Last Unicorn
• Laws of Attraction
• Leap Year
• Leapin' Leprechauns!
• Legend of the Bog - also called Assault of Darkness
• Leprechaun 2
• Life's a Breeze
• Light Years Away
• Lily of Killarney
• Lily of Killarney
• Little Nellie Kelly
• Little White Lie
• The Lobster
• The Lodgers
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
• The Long Good Friday
• The Lost City of Z
• Love and Rage
• A Love Divided
• Love, Rosie
• The Luck of the Irish
• The Luck of the Irish
• The Luck of the Irish

  M

• The Mackintosh Man
• Mad About Mambo
• The Magdalene Sisters
• Man About Dog
• Man of Aran
• Man Dancin
• A Man of No Importance
• Mammal
• The Matchmaker
• Maeve
• Mapmaker
• The March Hare
• Maze
• The Medallion
• Men of Ireland
• Metal Heart
• The Mighty Celt
• '
• Moondance
• The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
• Mountains O'Mourne
• Michael Collins
• Michael Inside
• Mickybo and Me
• The Miracle
• Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie
• My Brother's War
• My Friend Joe
• My Hands Are Clay
• My Irish Molly
• My Left Foot
• My Life for Ireland
• My Name Is Emily''

  N

• Nails
• Naked Massacre
• The Naked Truth
• The Nephew
• Night Boat to Dublin
• Night People
• Night Train
• A Nightingale Falling
• No Resting Place
• Noble
• Nora
• Nothing Personal
• Nothing Personal
• November Afternoon

  O

• Odd Man Out
• Oh, Mr. Porter!
• Omagh
• On a Paving Stone Mounted
• On the Edge
• On the Nose
• One Hundred Mornings
• Once
• Ondine
• Only Human
• Only the Wind
• Ordinary Decent Criminal
• The Oracle
• Ourselves Alone
• The Outsider

  P

• Paddy the Next Best Thing
• Paddy the Next Best Thing
• Parked
• Parnell
• Patrick's Day
• Patriot Games
• Patriots
• Pavee Lackeen
• Pay the Ghost
• Peacefire
• Peg o' My Heart
• Perrier's Bounty
• Pete's Meteor
• Philomena
• The Pier
• Pilgrimage
• Pixie
• The Playboy of the Western World
• The Playboys
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Plague Town
• The Plough and the Stars
• Poitín
• Professor Tim
• P.S. I Love You
• A Prayer for the Dying
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
• Puckoon
• Puffball
• The Purple Taxi
• Pursuit

  Q

• Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
• The Quare Fellow
• A Quiet Day in Belfast
• The Quiet Man

  R

• Rat
• Rawhead Rex
• Red Roses and Petrol
• Reefer and the Model
• Reflections
• Resurrection Man
• Rialto
• The Rising of the Moon
• Rooney
• Rose of Tralee
• Rosie
• Round Ireland with a Fridge
• Run & Jump
• Ryan's Daughter

  S

• Saints and Sinners
• Saltwater
• Sanctuary
• Scream of the Banshee
• The Sea
• Sea Fever
• Secret of the Cave
• The Secret of Kells
• The Secret of Roan Inish
• Secret People
• The Secret Scripture
• Sensation
• The Seventh Stream
• Shadow Dancer
• The Shadow of a Gunman
• The Shadow of a Gunman
• Shake Hands with the Devil
• Shamus
• Shergar
• A Shine of Rainbows
• Shrooms
• The Siege of Sidney Street
• Silence
• Silent Grace
• Sing Street
• Sinners
• The Snapper
• Some Mother's Son
• Song for a Raggy Boy
• Song of the Sea
• Soulsmith
• Spectre
• Speed Dating
• '
• Spin The Bottle
• The Spirit of St. Louis
• Spring Meeting
• '
• The Stag
• Standby
• Stan and Ollie
• '
• '
• Stella Days
• The Strangers Came
• Strength and Honour
• Studs
• Summer of the Flying Saucer
• Sunday
• Sweety Barrett

  T

• Taffin
• Tara Road
• A Terrible Beauty - also called The Night Fighters
• This Is My Father
• This Is The Sea
• This Other Eden
• Titanic Town
• Three Wise Women
• Three Wishes for Jamie
• The Tiger's Tail
• Treasure Island
• The Treaty
• Tristan & Isolde
• Trojan Eddie
• Trouble with Sex

  U

• Ulysses
• Untamed

  V

• The Van
• Veronica Guerin
• A Very Unlucky Leprechaun
• The Vicar of Bray
• The Violent Enemy

  W

• Waiting for Dublin
• Wake Wood
• Waking Ned - also called Waking Ned Devine; filmed on the Isle of Man
• War of the Buttons
• A War of Children
• Watermelon
• W.C.
• Wee Lady Betty
• What If - also called The F Word
• What Richard Did
• When Brendan Met Trudy
• When the Sky Falls
• White Pony
• Whole Lotta Sole
• Widows' Peak
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• Wild About Harry
• Willy Reilly and his Colleen Bawn
• Winter's End
• Words Upon the Window Pane

  Y

• The Yank
• You Can't Fool an Irishman
• Yesterday's Children
• You, Me & Marley
• Young Cassidy
• The Young Offenders

  Z

• Zoetrope
• Zonad
• Zoo

  Short Films

• All for Old Ireland
• An Ranger
• Bold Emmett Ireland's Martyr
• The Boogeyman
• The Colleen Bawn
• Come Back to Erin
• Conway, the Kerry Dancer
• The Crush
• Dance Lexie Dance
• The Eye of the Government
• Far From Erin's Isle
• The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
• For Ireland's Sake
• His Mother
• History of Cinema
• Hostage
• The Hungry Grass
• I Dreamt I Woke Up
• Ireland, the Oppressed
• The Kerry Gow
• The Lad from Old Ireland
• The Lady Peggy's Escape
• The Long Way Home
• The Mayor From Ireland
• O'Neil of the Glen
• The O'Neill
• Oidhche Sheanchais
• Paying the Rent
• Pretty Polly
• Return to Glennascaul
• Riders to the Sea
• Rory O'More
• Setanta - The Boy cú chulainn
• The Shaughraun
• The Vagabonds
• When Love Came To Gavin Burke
• The Wives of Jamestown
• You Remember Ellen
• Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom

  Documentary Films set in Ireland

Numbers

• 1798 and After - Documentary with 5 episodes and produced by Channel 4
• The 34th
• 50,000 Secret Journeys

  A

• Above the Law - Documentary episode by RTÉ Investigation Unit and produced by RTÉ
• Achieving Freedom
• The Age of De Valera - Documentary with 4 episodes
• An Conradh 1921 - Produced by TG4
• An Deichniúr Dearmadta - Produced by TG4
• Atlantean - Documentary with 4 episodes
• Atlantic

  B

• Ballymun Lullaby
• The Ballymurphy Massacre
• The Ballymurphy Precedent
• Battle of the Bogside
• Behind the Mask
• Being AP
• '
• Beneath a Dublin Sky
• Bertie - Documentary with 4 episodes
• '
• Blind Vision
• Blood Fruit
• Blood of the Irish - Documentary with 2 episodes
• '
• The Boys of St Columb's
• '
• Born and Reared
• - Documentary episode by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ
• A Bright Brand New Day
• Broken Song

  C

• Cardinal Secrets - Documentary episode by Prime Time and produced by RTÉ
• Children at Work
• Children in Crossfire
• Children of the Revolution Produced by RTÉ
• Citizen Lane
• A City Dreaming
• '
• Collusion - Documentary episode by Panorama and produced by the BBC
• Cradle of Genius
• ' - Documentary episode by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ
• - Documentary episode for The Conquerors by History Channel
• Cromwell in Ireland
• The Crest
• Curious Journey - Banned until 1980
• Customs - Documentary with 6 episodes

  D

• Dangerous Liaisons - Documentary episode by Spotlight and produced by the BBC
• The Day mountbatten Died - BBC Documentary
• Death on the Rock - Documentary episode by This Week and produced by Thames Television
• '
• ' - Documentary with 6 episodes
• The Disappeared
• Discovery
• A Doctor's Sword
• Dreaming the Quiet Man
• The Dublin-Monaghan Bombings 1974 - Documentary episode by First Tuesday and produced by Yorkshire Television
• Dying for a Drink - Documentary episode by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ

  E

• - Documentary episode by Reputations and produced by BBC
• The Emerald Diamond

  F

• ' - Documentary episode by Hidden History and produced by RTÉ
• ' - Documentary episode by Hidden History and produced by RTÉ
• Famine to Freedom - Produced by Discovery Channel
• Fintona, A Study of Housing Discrimination
• The Forgotten Irish - Produced by TV3 Ireland
• The Franciscan Friars of Killarney
• Frederick Douglass and the White Negro
• Freefall - - Documentary with 2 episodes and produced by RTÉ
• - Produced by TG4

  G

• '
• '
• The Ghost of Roger Casement
• The Great Famine - BBC Documentary
• Growing Up Gay - Documentary with 2 episodes

  H

• Hands - Documentary series with 37 episodes
• Hang Up Your Brightest Colours - Banned by Independent Broadcasting Authority until 1993
• Harry Clarke – Darkness in Light
• Haughey - Documentary with 4 episodes
• The Hills of Ireland
• His & Hers
• Home Rule - Documentary with 5 episodes and produced by BBC Northern Ireland
• How We Blew the Boom - Produced by RTÉ
• Hume - Produced by BBC Northern Ireland

  I

• I Am Belfast
• I Dreamt I Woke Up
• If Lynch Had Invaded - RTÉ produced documentary
• Illegal Moneylending - Documentary episode by 7 Days and produced by RTÉ, documentary lead to a tribunal of inquiry
• In Search of the Pope's Children - Documentary with 3 episodes
• In Sunshine or in Shadow
• '
• ' - Multi-award-winning documentary by Robert Kee
• Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora
• Ireland's Greatest
• Ireland's Pickpockets
• The Irish in America - Produced by History Channel
• The Irish Pub

  J

• ' - Produced by Discovery Channel
• ' - Produced by The Biography Channel
• Jimmy's Winnin' Matches
• Joshua Greer’s Amazing Irish Adventure

  K

• The Killings at Coolacrease - Documentary episode by Hidden History and produced by RTÉ
• Knuckle

  L

• Lethal Force - Documentary episode by Panorama and produced by the BBC
• A Little Bit TV - Documentary with 8 episodes
• The Longest Decade - Produced by Ulster Television
• Lost Lives - Produced by BBC Northern Ireland
• A Lost Son - Produced by RTÉ

  M

• The Madness From Within - Documentary produced by RTÉ and later found to contain a number of distortions on facts from the Irish Civil War
• The Making of 'The Quiet Man
• Mary McAleese and the Man Who Saved Europe
• Massacre at Ballymurphy - Documentary episode by Dispatches and produced by Channel 4
• Mattress Men
• The Maze
• Men at Lunch
• Micko
• Mise Éire
• Mission to Prey - Documentary episode by Prime Time Investigates and produced by RTÉ - later found to have made multiple false allegations
• More Than a Sacrifice
• A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot
• Mother Ireland''
• ' - Produced by RTÉ

  N

• Na Chéad Fight Clubs - Produced by TG4
• Ná Lig Sinn i nDearmad - Documentary episode by Léargas and produced by RTÉ
• No Béarla - Documentary with 4 episodes
• Obama: the Road to Moneygall
• No Stone Unturned

  O

• - Produced by TG4
• The O'Kalems Visit Killarney
• Oisín
• Old Scores
• Older Than Ireland
• One Million Dubliners
• Open Port - Documentary episode by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ

  P

• ' - Documentary episode by True Lives and produced by RTÉ
• ' - Documentary episode by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ
• ' - Produced by RTÉ
• ' - Produced by RTÉ
• The Patriot Game - Produced by TG4
• The Peacemaker
• The Pipe
• Players of the Faithful
• The Pressure Cooker

  Q

• The Queen of Ireland

  R

• Reeling in the Years - 48 episodes of archival footage on news events from the 1962 to 2010
• The Reluctant Taoiseach - Produced by RTÉ
• ' - Documentary episode by ReMastered and produced by Netflix
• Revolutions
• ' - Produced by RTÉ
• The Road to Nowhere - Documentary episode by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ
• Rocky Road to Dublin
• Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness
• Roll Up Your Sleeves
• Rough Rider

  S

• School Life
• Seaview
• Searching for Shergar
• See You at the Pillar
• Seven Ages - Documentary with seven episodes
• Sex & Sensibility - Documentary with 4 episodes
• Sex in a Cold Climate
• The Shame of the Catholic Church - Documentary episode by This World and produced by BBC
• Shamrock and Swastika
• Skin in the Game
• - Documentary with seven episodes & behind the scenes episode
• The Spy in the IRA - Documentary episode by Panorama and produced by BBC
• A State Apart - Documentary with 5 episodes and produced by BBC Northern Ireland
• States of Fear
• The Story of Ireland Documentary with 5 episodes
• Study Ireland - Documentary with 8 episodes and produced by BBC Northern Ireland

  T

• Taoiseach - Documentary with 4 episodes and Produced by TV3 Ireland
• A Terrible Beauty... - Produced by RTÉ
• Theobald Wolfe Tone - Documentary by Kenneth Griffith completed but not published.
• Til the Tenth Generation
• To Kill the Cabinet

  U

• The Ulster Covenant - Produced by BBC Northern Ireland
• Ulster Unearthed - Documentary with 5 episodes and produced by UTV for Channel 4
• Unbreakable
• Unquiet Graves

  W

• The Wall
• Waveriders
• Whatever You Say, Say Nothing - Co-produced by ZDF & 3sat in English language
• When Ali Came to Ireland
• When Charlie Met Kitty - Documentary episode by Scannal and produced by RTÉ & TG4
• When Ireland Staved - Documentary with 4 episodes by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ
• Who Bombed Birmingham?

  Y

• Yeats Country
• - Documentary produced by Channel 4
• Yes I Can - Documentary with 4 episodes
• Young Offender - Documentary episode by Radharc and produced by the RTÉ

  Television mini-series set in Ireland

• Acceptable Risk
• Act of Betrayal
• Against the Wind - Irish and Australian settings
• An Crisis
• Amber
• Amongst Women
• The Bombmaker
• Captains & Kings
• Caught in a Free State
• Charlie
• Civvies
• Confessional
• Dan & Becs
• Deception
• Dublin Murders
• Eureka Street
• Falling for a Dancer
• Fallout
• Family
• Father & Son
• Finding Joy
• Foreign Exchange
• The Hanging Gale
• Harry's Game
• Insurrection
• Kings in Grass Castles
• Legend
• Love is the Drug
• The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
• Mia, Liebe meines Lebens
• Murder in Eden
• Painted Lady
• Parnell and the Englishwoman
• Paths to Freedom
• Paula
• Proof
• Prosperity
• Pure Mule
• Quirke
• Random Passage
• Rebel Heart
• Rebellion
• Resistance
• Scarlett - sequel to Gone with the Wind
• Shoot to Kill
• Stardust
• The Secret
• Strumpet City
• Taken Down
• The Virtues
• Whistleblower
• Wild Decembers
• The Year of the French

  List of films shot in Ireland

• Henry V
• Moby Dick - filmed in Youghal, County Cork
• The siege of Sidney Street
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold - Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie scenes were filmed at Smithfield, Dublin
• The Blue Max - set in WWI France
• The Italian Job - jail scenes filmed in Kilmainham Jail; funeral scene at Cruagh Cemetery, near Rockbrook in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains
• Sinful Davey
• Sitting target - Kilmainham Jail
• The Mackintosh Man - includes scenes shot at Roundstone, County Galway
• Zardoz
• The last remake of beau geste
• The First Great Train Robbery
• McVicar - Mountjoy Prison
• Excalibur - entire movie shot in Ireland, including a scene at Powerscourt Waterfall
• Educating Rita - set in Liverpool; university scenes shot in Dublin's Trinity College
• The Princess Bride - the Cliffs of Insanity scenes filmed at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare
• Braveheart - set in Scotland but almost entirely filmed in Ireland; Trim Castle used as Carlisle
• Moll Flanders
• Saving Private Ryan - beach scenes filmed on Curracloe beach, County Wexford
• David Copperfield
• Reign of Fire - entire movie, includes scenes shot at Wicklow Gap and Poolbeg Generating Station
• Ella Enchanted
• King Arthur
• Freeze Frame
• Sachein - Tamil film; a song was shot in Ireland
• The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse - almost entirely filmed in Northern Ireland
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - filmed at the Cliffs of Moher
• Ek Tha Tiger - Bollywood movie; a song was shot in Dublin's Trinity College
• ' - Skellig Michael County Kerry
• A Dark Song - Horror Film set mostly in Wales but shot in Ireland
• '
• - Cliffs of Moher Death star wreckage scenes