The IRA and the 'Troubles'
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1. Hunger (2008)
Not Rated | 96 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw
Votes: 73,572 | Gross: $0.15M
2. H3 (2001)
88 min | Drama
A moving insight into the 1981 Irish hunger strike in the Maze prison near Belfast.
Director: Les Blair | Stars: Brendan Mackey, Dean Lennox Kelly, Aidan Campbell, Tony Devlin
Votes: 149
3. Art of Conflict (2012)
73 min | Documentary, History, News
The murals of Northern Ireland are an expression of the region's violent Troubles. 'The Art of Conflict' examines these murals through their painters and the people who live there, ... See full summary »
Director: Valeri Vaughn | Stars: Gerry Adams, Danny Devenny, David Ervine, Mark Ervine
Votes: 267
4. Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
R | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca, Mark Ryder
Votes: 13,256 | Gross: $0.01M
5. Bloody Sunday (2002)
R | 111 min | Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea
Votes: 25,763 | Gross: $0.77M
6. Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Approved | 111 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1920s Ireland, I.R.A. members are being led by the war mongering Dr. Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), as they fight oppressive British forces.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns
Votes: 1,523
7. Some Mother's Son (1996)
R | 112 min | Drama, History
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Director: Terry George | Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara
Votes: 2,991 | Gross: $0.61M
8. Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus.
Director: Kari Skogland | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jim Sturgess, Kevin Zegers, Natalie Press
Votes: 11,609
9. Battle of the Bogside (2004)
60 min | Documentary
Feature documentary on the 3-days of riots in Derry, Northern Ireland that led to the deployment of British Troops into Derry in August 1969.
Director: Vinny Cunningham | Stars: Kenneth Bloomfield, James Callaghan, Gregory Campbell, Bernadette Devlin
Votes: 15
10. The Enigma of Frank Ryan (2012)
Drama
The life of Frank Ryan (1902- 1944) who was an Irish radical, International Brigade volunteer in Spain, and Nazi collaborator in Berlin.
Director: Desmond Bell | Stars: Barry Barnes, Charles Bousquet, Ricky Crawford, Dara Devaney
Votes: 7
11. The Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing (1990 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Drama
In 1974, a pair of pub bombings rocked Birmingham, England. The terrorist attacks killed dozens of innocent civilians, and wounded many more. But another tragedy took place in their ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Beckham | Stars: Martin Shaw, John Hurt, Roger Allam, John Kavanagh
Votes: 102
12. Resurrection Man (1998)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Evans | Stars: David Williamson, Stuart Townsend, Brenda Fricker, George Shane
Votes: 831
13. Hush-a-Bye Baby (1990)
72 min | Romance
A pregnant Irish girl tries to contact her boyfriend in British prison but her letters are not allowed through to him because she writes in Irish.
Director: Margo Harkin | Stars: Emer McCourt, Michael Liebmann, Cathy Casey, Julie Marie Reynolds
Votes: 120
14. Silent Grace (2001)
87 min | Drama
Based on true events, this is the story of a young girl who is caught joyriding and ends up sharing a prison cell with a political prisoner: a high ranking IRA woman.
Director: Maeve Murphy | Stars: Orla Brady, Cathleen Bradley, Cara Seymour, Dawn Bradfield
Votes: 75
15. The Visit (I) (1992)
Director: Orla Walsh | Stars: Marcus Alastair, Hugo Andrews, Mary Beck, Ruth Bothwell
17. Mother Ireland (1998)
52 min | Documentary
A look at Irish politics. Mother Ireland was a dialogue between republican and feminist politics. Two years of detailed research led to a stimulating and fascinating documentary.
Director: Anne Crilly | Stars: Bernadette Devlin, Mairead Farrell, Nell McCafferty
Votes: 26
18. Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary (2006 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
On January 30, 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland, the British army fired on a peaceful civil rights demonstration killing thirteen people.
Director: Margo Harkin
Votes: 20
19. The Hunger Strike (2006 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Of all the volatile periods in Northern Ireland's recent history the Hunger Strikes is one of the most impassioned and dramatic. It was a key event in the relationship between the British ... See full summary »
Director: Margo Harkin | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Bik McFarlane, Richard O'Rawe, Bernard Ingham
Votes: 9
20. Shoot to Kill (1990 TV Movie)
222 min | Drama
Dramatised outline of the events leading up to the Stalker Inquiry in the 1980s in Northern Ireland, concerning the killing of suspected terrorists by members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Vass Anderson, Rod Arthur, Ray Ashcroft, Susan Baker
Votes: 29
21. Beloved Enemy (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1921, Irish rebels launch an uprising with the aim of creating an Irish republic, independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. One of the rebellion's leaders and a ... See full summary »
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 385
22. Dawn Over Ireland (1936)
89 min | Drama, History
Set during the Fenian uprising of 1866, this Irish melodrama presents the saga of a family wrongfully accused of betraying their country. The film spans three generations to the end of the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Thomas Cooper | Stars: Thomas Cooper, Brian O'Sullivan, Eileen Davis, Herbert Martin
Votes: 55
23. No Surrender (1985)
R | 100 min | Comedy
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Director: Peter Smith | Stars: Michael Angelis, Avis Bunnage, James Ellis, Tom Georgeson
Votes: 379
24. Nothing Personal (1995)
R | 86 min | Drama
A raw depiction of the Belfast, Northern Ireland "troubles" as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, this movie focuses on the tribulations of Kenny (James Frain), ... See full summary »
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan | Stars: Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon
Votes: 530
25. Captain Boycott (1947)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, History
In 1880 Ireland, poor farmers rebel against the abuses of their British landlords.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Alastair Sim
Votes: 430
26. Odd Man Out (1947)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick
Votes: 11,423
27. Hungry Hill (1947)
92 min | Drama
Story of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Dermot Walsh
Votes: 595
28. The Gentle Gunman (1952)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars
Votes: 475
29. I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard
Votes: 1,761
30. Who Murdered Maxine? (2013 TV Movie)
Documentary, Crime
Director: Anthony Bartram | Stars: Brian Hambleton, Julie Hambleton, David Harewood, Paddy Hill
31. This Is the Sea (1997)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by Rohan, who wants Malachy to be recruited and fight for the cause, and by Hazel's brother Jef, who spies on her meetings.
Director: Mary McGuckian | Stars: Samantha Morton, Ross McDade, Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 386
32. In the Name of the Father (1993)
R | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King
Votes: 187,176 | Gross: $25.01M
33. Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016)
105 min | Documentary, Biography, History
In the spring of 1981 Irish Republican Bobby Sands' 66-day hunger strike brought the attention of the world to his cause. Drawing on an Irish Republican tradition of martyrdom, Sands' ... See full summary »
Directors: Brendan Byrne, Brendan J. Byrne | Stars: Gerry Adams, Michael Alison, Humphrey Atkins, Aram Bakshian
Votes: 669
34. The Truth Commissioner (2016)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A drama about a truth commissioner appointed to chair a South African style truth commission in Northern Ireland.
Director: Declan Recks | Stars: Roger Allam, Barry Ward, Conleth Hill, Madeleine Mantock
Votes: 188
35. Shadow Dancer (2012)
R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen
Votes: 13,028 | Gross: $0.10M
36. '71 (2014)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In 1971, a young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.
Director: Yann Demange | Stars: Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris, Paul Popplewell
Votes: 60,183 | Gross: $1.27M
37. Ascendancy (1983)
92 min | Drama
Connie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, and chooses to ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Julie Covington, Ian Charleson, John Phillips, Susan Engel
Votes: 75
38. The Devil's Own (1997)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police officer uncovers the real identity of his house-guest, an I.R.A. terrorist in hiding.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades
Votes: 71,672 | Gross: $42.87M
39. No Stone Unturned (I) (2017)
PG | 111 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at the unsolved 1994 Loughinisland massacre, where six Irishmen were murdered, presumably by a Unionist paramilitary group, while watching the World Cup at the local pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland.
Director: Alex Gibney
Votes: 764
40. The Funeral Murders (2018 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
A look back at the tragic series of events that took place during two funerals in Belfast in March 1988.
Director: Vanessa Engle
Votes: 58
41. Patriots (1996)
Not Rated | 83 min | Thriller
A true story of an American woman caught up in the struggle for Irish independence.
Director: Frank Kerr | Stars: Linda Amendola, Mark Newell, Aidan Parkinson, Dermott Petty
Votes: 108
42. The Disappeared (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
An investigation into the victims killed and secretly buried by the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Director: Alison Millar | Stars: Gerry Adams, Bill Clinton, Seamus Heaney, Darragh MacIntyre
Votes: 92
43. The Journey (III) (2016)
PG-13 | 94 min | Biography, Drama, History
During the 2006 Northern Ireland peace talks, Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) are forced to travel by car together.
Director: Nick Hamm | Stars: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt, Freddie Highmore
Votes: 2,066
44. A Belfast Story (2013)
99 min | Crime, Drama
In a city left torn by war, when a series of murders awaken dormant memories, many fear the worst. Colm Meaney ("Hell On Wheels", "Layer Cake", "Con Air") and Malcolm Sinclair ("Casino ... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Todd | Stars: Colm Meaney, Malcolm Sinclair, Tommy O'Neill, Paddy Rocks
Votes: 554
45. Maze (2017)
Not Rated | 92 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Director: Stephen Burke | Stars: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, Martin McCann, Eileen Walsh
Votes: 3,548 | Gross: $0.02M
46. The Boxer (1997)
R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly, Frank Coughlan
Votes: 22,330 | Gross: $5.80M
47. The Ballymurphy Massacre (2012)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Between the 9th and 11th of August 1971 eleven people were killed by the British Army's Parachute regiment. All eleven were unarmed civilians. One of the dead was a parish priest another ... See full summary »
Director: Sean Reynolds | Stars: Janet Donnelly, Alice Harper, Patsy Mullan, John Teggart
Votes: 8
48. ReMastered: The Miami Showband Massacre (2019 TV Movie)
71 min | Documentary, Crime, Music
In 1974, while on the way home from a gig, the apolitical rock group, The Miami Showband, fell into the crosshairs of a Protestant unionist paramilitary group that planted explosives on their bus when it was stopped at a fake checkpoint.
Director: Stuart Sender | Stars: Stephen Travers, Bertie Ahern, Alan Brecknell, Anne Cadwallader
Votes: 1,595
49. I, Dolours (2018)
82 min | Documentary
Documentary about Dolours Price, one of very few women who rose to the top of the IRA and who was involved in bombings during the Troubles in the 1970s.
Director: Maurice Sweeney | Stars: Lorna Larkin, Lauren Beale, Gail Brady, Frank Cannon
Votes: 315
50. Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History (2019)
Documentary
Tells the story of the spiral of Northern Ireland into violence in the late 1960s, the attempts of the British Government to get control of the situation, the growth of the provisional IRA,... See full summary »
Stars: Darragh MacIntyre, Jennifer O'Leary, Des Long, Mandy McAuley
Votes: 208
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