Films from Ireland
In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, Telescope presents a selection of our favorite films from Ireland.
The Guard
The FBI is about to discover that things work a little differently around here...
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- Ireland • 2011
- Director John Michael McDonagh
- Cast Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, Katarina Čas, David Wilmot
- Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
Hunger
The true story of Bobby Sands, a courageous IRA political prisoner who led hunger strikes in the Maze prison in 1981.
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- Ireland, United Kingdom • 2008
- Director Steve McQueen
- Cast Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Helena Bereen, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Plex Channel
Once
Two aspiring musicians collaborate, finding love along the way.
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- Ireland • 2007
- Director John Carney
- Cast Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick, Alaistair Foley, Geoff Minogue
- Genre Drama, Music, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Two brothers in the IRA are at odds as they engage in guerrilla warfare against British forces in the 1920s.
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- Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany • 2006
- Director Ken Loach
- Cast Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , IFC Films Unlimited Apple TV Channel, Microsoft Store, Plex, Plex Channel
The Magdalene Sisters
Four women are forcibly sent to a sadistic Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their "sinful" behavior.
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- Ireland, United Kingdom • 2002
- Director Peter Mullan
- Cast Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Geraldine McEwan, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Hoopla
In the Name of the Father
A small-time thief from Belfast is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that killed several people.
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- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States • 1993
- Director Jim Sheridan
- Cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Beatie Edney
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
The Commitments
A group of working-class Dubliners form a soul band, inspired by the sound of African American musicians of the '60s.
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- Ireland, United Kingdom, United States • 1991
- Director Alan Parker
- Cast Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Music
- Available on No streaming locations found.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
The true story of an Irishman born with cerebral palsy who learns to use his left foot to paint and write.
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- Ireland, United Kingdom • 1989
- Director Jim Sheridan
- Cast Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam
- Genre Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, MGM Plus, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand