Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "ira"

1. The Departed (2006)

R | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

Votes: 1,423,011 | Gross: $132.38M

2. Ronin (1998)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 195,238 | Gross: $41.62M

3. The Long Good Friday (1980)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan

Votes: 25,633

4. The Jackal (1997)

R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora

Votes: 124,207 | Gross: $54.93M

5. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama

In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson

Votes: 24,555 | Gross: $0.83M

6. Free Fire (2016)

R | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.

Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy

Votes: 50,736 | Gross: $1.80M

7. 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: 73,571 | Gross: $0.15M

8. '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: 60,186 | Gross: $1.27M

9. 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: 71,679 | Gross: $42.87M

10. Rose's War (2023)

98 min | Thriller

Based on the life of Rose Dugdale, a former debutante who rebelled against her wealthy upbringing, becoming a volunteer in the militant Irish republican organization, the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Directors: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy | Stars: Imogen Poots, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Lewis Brophy, Jack Meade

Votes: 190

11. Veronica Guerin (2003)

R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 21,898 | Gross: $1.57M

12. 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: 1,524

13. 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

14. The Spectacular (2021– )

50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Miniseries about a succession of IRA attacks that really took place in the late 1980s in Limburg, Germany. Team leader Jeanine Maes (Hadewych Minis) opens the hunt for the ruthless Fiona Hughes (Aoibhínn McGinnity).

Stars: Hadewych Minis, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Michel Sluysmans, Kerr Logan

Votes: 650

15. 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

16. Mr. Nice (2010)

121 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime

The life story of Howard Marks, an elite British drug smuggler.

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis, Luis Tosar

Votes: 7,930

17. Born for Hell (1976)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A disturbed American war veteran arrives in Belfast during the Northern Ireland conflicts, and proceeds to terrorize a household of female nursing students.

Directors: Denis Héroux, Géza von Radványi | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, Christine Boisson, Myriam Boyer

Votes: 999

18. The Secret Army (2024)

89 min | Documentary

Darragh MacIntyre reveals the strange story of the lost documentary that unmasked the IRA. Right at the bloodiest point of the conflict, IRA bombers were filmed unmasked, and most of its underground leadership appeared on camera.

Star: Darragh MacIntyre

Votes: 60

19. Ticker (2001)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After a San Francisco detective's partner is murdered by Northern Irish terrorists, the officer joins the bomb squad in order to bring them to justice.

Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Jaime Pressly

Votes: 7,738

20. 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: 11,610

21. 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

22. The Sniper's Daughter

89 min | Mystery | Post-production

A troubled teenager stranded in an Irish village after her father is arrested for a 17-year-old murder tied to the IRA. Compelled by her father's secrecy, she teams with a delinquent cousin to discover more about their family secrets.

Director: Oorlagh George | Stars: Owen McDonnell, Ellie Bamber, Karen Hassan, Michael Shea

23. The Runway (2010)

TV-14 | 101 min | Comedy

The citizens of Ireland's County Cork come to the aid of a South American pilot who has crash landed in their town.

Director: Ian Power | Stars: Demián Bichir, Kerry Condon, James Cosmo, Jamie Kierans

Votes: 707

24. Mother of the Bride (1993 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 94 min | Drama

Margret Hix deals with an upcoming wedding of her daughter, another daughter's romance with a motorcycle enthusiast and a surprise appearance by her deadbeat ex-husband.

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Rue McClanahan, Kristy McNichol, Paul Dooley, Anne Bobby

Votes: 266

25. 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

26. Riot (1996)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An heiress is kidnapped during the chaos of a riot.

Director: Joseph Merhi | Stars: Gary Daniels, Sugar Ray Leonard, Paige Rowland, Charles Napier

Votes: 570

27. 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

28. Borstal Boy (2000)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance

Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.

Director: Peter Sheridan | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney

Votes: 2,571 | Gross: $0.09M

29. Off Piste (2016)

91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

An ex-military recluse, living in the mountains of France to escape a traumatic past, is hunted down by those whose lives he has destroyed.

Director: Glen Kirby | Stars: Nathan Bevan-Stewart, Lily Caines, Antony Meadley, Neil Attridge

Votes: 877

30. 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

31. The Violent Enemy (1967)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Irish terrorist breaks out of prison, and heads back to Ireland intending to blow up an electronics factory

Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Tom Bell, Susan Hampshire, Ed Begley, Noel Purcell

Votes: 116

32. Fools of Fortune (1990)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Iain Glen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Sean T. McClory, Frankie McCafferty

Votes: 257 | Gross: $0.08M

33. Shergar (1999)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

When a young stable boy runs away from reform school, he befriends another fugitive, champion racehorse Shergar, kidnapped by the Irish Republican Army for ransom but now on the loose. Can the lad elude the abductors and rescue the horse?

Director: Dennis C. Lewiston | Stars: Alan Barker, Billy Boyle, Stephen Brennan, Gary Cady

Votes: 510

34. Prime Time (1977)

R | 75 min | Comedy

Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless programs and commercials have been ... See full summary »

Director: Bradley R. Swirnoff | Stars: Paul Ainsley, Wil Albert, Royce D. Applegate, Meridith Baer

Votes: 417

35. 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

36. When the Sky Falls (2000)

R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Irish crime-investigating reporter Sinead Hamilton invades the Irish underworld and attempts to expose the illegitimate activities that she has found. Hampered by the system, a police ... See full summary »

Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally

Votes: 782

37. 48 Angels (2007)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama

Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets... See full summary »

Director: Marion Comer | Stars: Shane Brolly, John Travers, Ciaran Flynn, Darragh Kelly

Votes: 399

38. Run Chrissie Run! (1984)

PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The action moves along quickly in this made-for-television drama about Eve, an ex-terrorist from Germany who is forced to escape to Australia with her teenage daughter Chrissie when she is ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Langman | Stars: Carmen Duncan, Michael Aitkens, Shane Briant, Red Symons

Votes: 96

39. Midnight Man (1997 TV Movie)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him to go undercover with a gang of terrorists and prevent them from killing the U.S. ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Rob Lowe, Kenneth Cranham, Deborah Moore, Hannes Jaenicke

Votes: 236

40. Act of Union (2021)

85 min | Documentary

Act of Union is a documentary film on the conflicting narratives of the Northern Ireland 'troubles,' consisting of newly filmed interviews, cut alongside archive footage.

Director: Neil Clerkin | Stars: Gerry Adams, Doug Beattie, Jimmy Binns, Anne Cadwallader

Votes: 14

41. Anton (2008)

95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970s Ireland is a radically different place from the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil ... See full summary »

Director: Graham Cantwell | Stars: Gerard McSorley, Anthony Fox, Laura Way, Andy Smith

Votes: 211

42. Hangman's House (1928)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

"Citizen" Hogan, an exile Irish patriot, risks his life by returning to Ireland and helping a young couple.

Director: John Ford | Stars: June Collyer, Larry Kent, Victor McLaglen, Earle Foxe

Votes: 557

43. 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

44. Ballyseedy (1997 TV Movie)

94 min | History

Dramatised retelling of the Ballyseedy massacre of 1923, during the Irish Civil War, when nine IRA prisoners died after they were bound together and forced to walk into a mine field.

Director: Frank Hand | Stars: Justin Aylmer, Fran Brennan, Barry Cassin, John Fraher

Votes: 7

45. 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

46. Vicious Circle (1999 TV Movie)

105 min | Crime, Drama

Criminal Martin Cahill gets in trouble when a major robbery succeeds. He aims for more trouble when he tries to do a large art robbery.

Director: David Blair | Stars: Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley, Andrew Connolly, John Kavanagh

Votes: 130

47. The Troubles (1981– )

Documentary

Six-part documentary series looking at Northern Ireland from the perspective of recent Irish history.

Votes: 10

48. I.R.A.: King of Nothing (2006)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Drama

A disgruntled I.R.A. member (Chapa) becomes Ireland's biggest threat to the peace process.

Director: Damian Chapa | Stars: Damian Chapa, Cian McCormack, Joe Estevez, Rachel Hunter

Votes: 206

49. Mein Leben für Irland (1941)

90 min | Drama

"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.

Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Anna Dammann, René Deltgen, Paul Wegener, Werner Hinz

Votes: 79

50. Black Pool (2019)

85 min | Thriller

A gripping thriller about a revenge-fueled, cat-and-mouse game of imprisonment and interrogation between two Irish immigrants whose mysterious shared past sets them on a collision course with violence.

Director: Dustin Morrow | Stars: Tom Walton, Amber Stonebraker, Todd Van Voris, Kailey Rhodes

Votes: 26