Irish-themed Films…
These are movies made in and/or about Ireland or featuring Irish characters or figures or are otherwise of possible interest to people interested in Ireland…
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The Actors
Adam & Paul
Ag Trasnú an Atlantaigh Dhuibh (Crossing the Black Atlantic)
Agin’ the Wall (short)
Agnes Browne
Ahakista
Aithrí (Penance)
Alarm
All God’s Children (short)
Angela’s Ashes
The Angelus (short)
Any Last Words (short)
April 9th (short)
Ardeevan (short)
L’Argomento! (short)
As na Ráillí (Off the Rails) (short)
Bachelor Boy (short)
Ballymanus
Ballywalter
The Banshees of Inisherin
Bardo (short)
Belfast
Beloved Enemy
Below the Window (short)
The Birthday (short)
Black ’47
Black Ice
Blessed Fruit (short)
The Book That Wrote Itself
Borstal Boy
The Boxer
The Boy from Mercury
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Breakfast on Pluto
Brian Friel
Broken: A Lockdown Story (short)
Brooklyn
The Brylcreem Boys
A Bump Along the Way
Buskers (short)
“But I Let It Pass…” (short)
The Butcher Boy
The Butterfly Collector (short)
Caca Milis (short)
An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)
The Callback Queen
Calvary
The Case of Majella McGinty (short)
Catch Yourself On (short)
Celtic Maidens (short)
Chaos
Cherrybomb
Chicken (short)
Circle of Friends
Clare Sa Spier (short)
Cleaner (short)
Na Cloigne
The Closer You Get
The Colour Between (short)
Comm-Raid on The Potemkin (short)
The Commitments
Con
Conspiracy of Silence
Conversations with My Dead Father (short)
Conveyance (short)
Coolockland (short)
Country
Cowboys and Angels
Cré na Cille
The Crooked Mile
The Crucible (short)
Da
Dan Dan, Dad & Me
Dance to Remember (short)
Dancing at Lughnasa
Darby O’Gill and the Little People
Dark Lies the Island
Darkroom
A Date for Mad Mary
The Dead
Dillusc (short)
The Disappearance of Finbar
Disco Pigs
Do Armed Robbers Have Love Affairs (short)
Doing Really Well (short)
Don’t Go Where I Can’t Find You (short)
Dream Kitchen (short)
Dreaming the Quiet Man
Drifting (short)
The Drummer and the Keeper
Earthbound
Eat the Peach
Elsewhere (short)
An Encounter (short)
Essie’s Last Stand (short)
Evelyn
Extra Ordinary
Fadó, Fadó (short)
The Faeries of Blackheath Woods (short)
Fall Into Half-Angel (short)
Family
Far and Away
The Farmer’s Wife (short)
Féileachán (Driving Lesson) (short)
The Field
The Fifth Province
Fifty Percent Grey (short)
A Film with Me in It
Finbar Lebowitz (short)
The Flag
Flick
Flora and Son
Fluent Dysphasia (short)
Flush (short)
4x4 (short)
Fortune’s Wheel
Frankie (short)
Frankie Starlight
Freedom Highway: Songs of Resistance and Liberation
Full Circle (short)
Garage
The General
Gentleman Prizefighter
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Give Up Yer Aul Sins (short)
Gold in the Streets
Goldfish Memory
Good Vibrations
The Guard
Guiltrip
H3
Half Full, Half Empty (short)
The Halo Effect
Handfasting (short)
Handsome Devil
The Hardy Bucks Movie
Harvest (short)
Headrush
Headwrecker (short)
Hear My Song
Hedy (short)
Hideaways
Hill 16
His & Hers
Hit & Run (short)
Home Is the Hero
The Honeymooners
How About You
How Harry Became a Tree
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate
Hunger
I Could Read the Sky
I Found a Place (short)
I Went Down
I, Dolours
If I Should Fall from Grace: The Shane MacGowan Story
If These Walls Could Speak (short)
In America
In Bruges
In Loco Parentis (School Life)
In Loving Memory (short)
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
Intermission
Into the West
Irish Destiny
An Irish Goodbye (short)
The Irish Pub
Irish Wish
The Iron Man (short)
Is Olc an Ghaoth (Death in the Time of Covid) (short)
It Came from Connemara
It’ll Always Be 11:16 (short)
Ivor the Insomniac (short)
The J Wanderer: On the Road in America
Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (short)
James Joyce: The Trials of Ulysses
Joyride
Jump
Just a Little Bit of Love: A Tribute to Des Smyth (short)
Killing Bono
Killing the Afternoon (short)
King of the Travellers
Kings
Kisses
Kneecap
Korea
Krapp’s Last Tape
Lady Betty (short)
Land of Winter (short)
Langrishe, Go Down
Last Mango in Dublin (short)
The Last September
The Last Time (short)
Laws of Attraction
A Leap of Faith
Leap Year
Letter (short)
Libre: A Celebration of the Queer Body (short)
Life in the Fast Lane (short)
Life’s a Breeze
Limbo (short)
Lón sa Spéir (Men at Lunch)
Longdon
Lost & Found
Lotus (short)
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (Dublin-born painter)
Lover’s Leap (short)
Loving Ava (short)
LSD ‘73 (short)
Luke
Made in Dublin
The Making of a Prodigy (short)
Man About Dog
The Martini Shot
The Matchmaker
Maze (short)
The McCourts of Limerick
Meeting Che Guevara and the Man from Maybury Hill (short)
Memento Mori (short)
Michael Collins
Middletown
The Mighty Celt
The Miracle Club
Miss D (short)
Mister John
Moondance
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie
My Friend Joe
Mystics
An Náisiún (The Nation 1923)
Naked in Cuba (short)
Natural Grace
Neon Meets Argon (short)
The Nephew
Nettle Bush (short)
New Boy (short)
Night People
Night Train
Nightlink (short)
Ninety Seconds (short)
No Man’s Land
Noble
The Nook (short)
Nora
North Circular
Nothing Compares
Nothing to Declare (short)
The O’Briens
Older Than Ireland
Olive (short)
On the Edge
On the Nose
Once
One Million Dubliners
Oscar Wilde: Spendthrift of Genius
Out of Innocence
Outcasts by Choice
P.S. I Love You
The Parting (short)
The Passion (short)
Pavee Lackeen
Peter O’Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Phantom (short)
Philomena
Photos to Send: People to Go Back To
Pilgrim Hill
Pilgrimage
Pitch ‘n’ Putt (short)
The Playboy of the Western World
Poitín
Pork (short)
Positive Discrimination
Post Love (short)
Pride and Joy
Psy-Warriors
Puffball
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
The Quare Fellow
The Quiet Man
Racism (short)
The Rafters
The Randomer
Rat
Remote Strutting (short)
Return to Glennascaul (short)
Rocky Road to Dublin
The Runway
Ruthless (short)
Saltwater
Satellites and Meteorites
The Sea
The Secret of Roan Inish
Sensation
The Seven Ages of Noël Browne
Shadow Dancer
Shine (short)
Ship of Fools (short)
Short Order
Signal (short)
Silence
Silent Grace
Sineater (short)
Sing Street
Six Semesters
Six Shooter (short)
Small Engine Repair
Small Things Like These
Snap
A Soldier’s Song (short)
Some Mother’s Son
Songs for Amy
Sparkle (short)
Spears
Spin the Bottle
Spirit Level (short)
The Stag (The Bachelor Weekend)
Standby
Stay
Storm (short)
Stutterer (short)
Sucking Diesel (short)
Summer of the Flying Saucer
The Sun, the Moon and the Stars
Sunburn
Sunset Heights
Super-8 (short)
Supervized
Sweety Barrett (The Tale of Sweety Barrett)
Tara Road
Teenage Kicks: The Undertones
That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore (short)
That They May Face the Rising Sun
Therapy (short)
They Can’t Know About Me (short)
This Is My Father
This Is the Sea
This Is Why (short)
This Must Be the Place
Three Brothers
Timbuktu
Titanic Town
To Russia with Love
Tommy Tiernan: Crooked Man
Tonight Is Cancelled – Irish production featuring an Irish character in Kosovo
Trojan Eddie
Tubberware (short)
2 by 4
Unfortunate Events That Made Us Fortunate (short)
Up the Country (short)
The Van
Vanilla (short)
Veronica Guerin
Vox Humana (notes for a small opera)
W.C.
Waiting for Magic Hour (short)
Waking Ned Devine
War of the Buttons
Waterloo Dentures (short)
Waveriders
Way Past (short)
What Richard Did
When All Is Ruin Once Again
When Brendan Met Trudy
Where It All Began (short)
Where the Old Man Lives (short)
Wild Mountain Thyme
The Wilde Sisters (short)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Winter’s End
Words Upon the Window Pane
The Yank
You and Me Tide (short)
You Are Not My Mother
The Young Offenders
Young People of Ireland (short)
Zonad
Zulu 9 (short)
These movies that are not really about Ireland or the Irish but which include characters (or real people) who are Irish, or at least ethnically Irish…
À propos de Joan (About Joan)After (short film featuring Irish-Americans)
All Good Children
All of Us Strangers (Andrew Scott has an Irish granny and snogs Paul Mescal)
American Wedding (American Pie: The Wedding) (Irish-American characters)
Angels & Demons (Ewan McGregor as a Northern Ireland-born Camerlengo)
Antoinette dans les Cévennes (My Donkey, My Lover & I) (features an allegedly Irish donkey named Patrick)
April Flowers (an Irish bartender at Kelly’s in Queens, New York)
August Rush (Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an Irish rocker in the US, directed by Kirsten Sheridan)
Back to the Future Part III (Marty meets his great-grandparents, Seamus and Maggie McFly)
Bedrooms and Hallways (Irish character)
Bend It Like Beckham (Jonathan Rhys Meyers coaches ladies soccer)
The Big Sleep (convoluted mystery involves missing IRA veteran Sean Regan)
Black Narcissus (Irish character)
The Blind Side (based on the true story of the family of Irish-American Sean Tuohy)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Paul Prenter of Belfast leads Freddie Mercury astray)
Bridesmaids (Chris O’Dowd as a cop with a definite non-Wisconsin accent)
Bridge of Spies (story of Irish-American James B. Donovan, whose daughter is played by Irish actor Eve Hewson)
Burke and Hare (two Irish serial killers in 19th century Edinburgh)
C’era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West) (hapless Irish family on the American frontier)
Claire Dolan (Irish-Americans)
Daredevil (Colin Farrell as an Irish super-villain)
The Departed (Irish-American cops and mobsters in south Boston)
The Devil’s Own
Doubt (various Irish-Americans, including a handyman who claims to be from Mullingar)
Downton Abbey (Allen Leech as the unlikely Irish chauffeur-turned-son-in-law)
Downton Abbey: A New Era (Allen Leech)
The Fog of War (documentary on a prominent Irish-American)
Gangs of New York (Irish in America)
Ghost Town – among the numerous phantoms: Irish Eddie
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Daryl McCormack in the title role)
Good Will Hunting (Irish-Americans)
Goodfellas – Henry Hill has an Irish father
Gosford Park (includes an Irish maid)
The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John Murry (Ireland-based American singer/songwriter)
Greed (Shirley Henderson as Steve Coogan’s Irish-born mother)
The Groomsmen (Irish-Americans)
Gulliver’s Travels – inspired by Jonathan Swift
The Hallelujah Trail (Irish teamsters in the Old West)
Hampstead (Brendan Gleeson as a Dubliner squatting in London)
A Hard Day’s Night (Dublin-born Wilford Brambell as Paul’s “very clean” Irish grandfather)
Heaven’s Gate – Richard Masur as an Irish station master named Cully
In a World… – Jason O’Mara as a randy hotel guest with a desired speaking accent
Inside Llewyn Davis – an Irish folk group sport some lovely jumpers
The Irishman – self-explanatory
Johnny Was – Irish characters in Brixton
Last Chance Harvey (Bronagh Gallagher as Oonagh and Pascal Scott as Paddy the postman)
Liam (Irish in England)
A Long Way from Home – Brenda Fricker as an expat in the south of France
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Machuca (an Irish priest in Chile)
The Magnificent Seven (Charles Bronson as a half-Irish/half-Mexican hired gun)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (crew includes an Irish surgeon/naturalist)
Match Point (Ambitious young Irishman in London)
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood reads Yeats and speaks Gaelic)
Moon (Dominique McElligott as Sam Rockwell’s Irish wife)
The Music Man – Pert Kelton essaying one of the dodgiest but entertaining stage Irish accents on film
My Dinner with Hervé – Jamie Dornan plays an Irish journalist
A Night to Remember (story of an Irish-built ship which includes a number of Irish characters)
On Broadway
One Man’s Hero (Irish characters)
Open Range (Michael Gambon as ruthless Irish land baron)
Paris Was a Woman (includes Irish writers)
The Producers (features two of the most stereotyped Irish cops ever, plus one of the title characters has a name borrowed from James Joyce)
The Proposition (Irish outlaws in Australia)
Reds (Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson as Irish-American writers Louis Bryant and Eugene O’Neill)
Return to Me (Irish[/Italian]-Americans)
Ronin (includes Irish characters)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Irish[/Jewish]-Americans)
Shallow Hal (includes one sort-of Irish character)
She’s the One (Irish-Americans)
The Simpsons Movie (Lisa gets an Irish boyfriend)
Snatch (includes Irish characters)
Stan & Ollie (Laurel and Hardy end their career on triumph in Dublin)
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (Belfast documentarian Mark Cousins on a road trip with the titular producer)
Tears of the Sun (Irish nuns)
They Shall Not Grow Old – Irish soldiers included in Peter Jackson’s amazing World War I documentary
Three Summers – First and second-generation Irish-Australians
Titanic (includes Irish characters)
Tom Jones (Leeds-born George A. Cooper as Rosalind Knight’s hot-headed Irish husband; also self-made Irishman Micheál MacLiammóir as the narrator)
Velvet Goldmine (cameo by Oscar Wilde)
What We Find on the Road (Katherine Laheen)
Wilde (Dublin-born writer)
Withnail & I (includes a memorable encounter in a republican pub)
You Kill Me (Irish-American gangsters, led by Dennis Farina, and Irish-American mourners at a wake figure prominently)
These movies are not specifically set in Ireland, but substantial filming was done on the Emerald Isle…
Alfred the GreatBotched – filmed mostly in Wickow, with various Irish actors playing Russians
Braveheart
Excalibur – filmed in Wicklow, Kerry and Tipperary; early roles for Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson
How to Fake a War
The Lobster – mostly filmed at Parknasilla Hotel in Sneeme, County Kerry
Love & Friendship – Irish co-production
Peaches – Irish production
The Reluctant Revolutionary – Irish co-production
Saving Private Ryan
Wilderness
Here are some movies that don’t have anything particularly to do with Ireland but which feature Irish talent…
About Time – Domhnall GleesonAftersun – Paul Mescal
All Is True – directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh
Anna Karenina – Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot
Arthur – Geraldine Fitzgerald
About a Boy – Victoria Smurfit
Angel Baby – John Lynch
Atomic Hope – directed by Frankie Fenton
Atonement – Saoirse Ronan
Avatar – Peter Dillon as shuttle crew chief
Avengers: Endgame – Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Thanos’s henchman Ebony Maw and Kerry Condon as the voice of Tony Stark’s computer assistant Friday
Avengers: Infinity War – Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Thanos’s henchman Ebony Maw and Kerry Condon as the voice of Tony Stark’s computer assistant Friday
Barbie – Galway’s Nicola Coughlan as (a) Barbie
Batman Begins – Liam Neeson, Cillian Murphy
Before and After – Liam Neeson
Begin Again – written and directed by John Carney
Being Julia – Michael Gambon
Benjamin – Colin Morgan in the title role
The Boat That Rocked (Pirate Radio) – Kenneth Branagh, Chris O’Dowd
Booksmart – directed by dual US/Irish citizen Olivia Wilde
Boy A – directed by John Crowley
Brazil – Derrick O’Connor as Bob Hoskins’s partner Dowser
The Bride of Frankenstein – Una O’Connor as the Frankenstein family’s hysterical servant
Brideshead Revisited – Michael Gambon
A Bright Shining Lie – directed by Terry George
Bright Young Things – Peter O’Toole
Calendar Girls – Ciarán Hinds
Camelot – Richard Harris as King Arthur
Canone inverso – making love – Gabriel Byrne
Captain America: Civil War – Tipperary’s Kerry Condon as the voice inside Iron Man’s suit
Celebrity – Kenneth Branagh
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – David Kelly
The Children Act – Eileen Walsh and Des McAleer (plus words of William Butler Yeats put to music)
Children of the Revolution – directed by Shane O’Sullivan
Chocolat – Hugh O’Conor
A Christmas Carol (Scrooge) – directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Christmas in Connecticut – Belfast-born Una O’Connor as a judgmental Irish maid
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Liam Neeson
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – Liam Neeson
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – Liam Neeson
City of Ember – Saoirse Ronan
Clash of the Titans – Liam Neeson, Liam Cunningham, Martin McCann
CODA – Ferdia Walsh-Peelo
Cromwell – Richard Harris in the title role (plus lots of derogatory references to Catholic Ireland)
Cry, The Beloved Country – Richard Harris
Cuban Fury – Chris O’Dowd
Dante’s Peak – Pierce Brosnan
The Dark Knight – Cillian Murphy, briefly
The Dark Knight Rises – Liam Neeson, briefly
Dead Man – Gabriel Byrne
Dean Spanley – Peter O’Toole
Departure – Finbar Lynch and Niamh Cusack
Die Another Day – Pierce Brosnan
Dune: Part Two – Steve Wall as “Bashar” and Galway’s Tara Breathnach as “Bene Gesserit Sister”
Dunkirk – Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial – John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara make a brief cameo in a film clip of The Quiet Man, prompting young Henry Thomas to kiss the already-beautiful Erika Eleniak
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Susan Lynch
The End of the Affair – Stephen Rea, directed by Neil Jordan
The End of Violence – Gabriel Byrne
Enemy of the State – Gabriel Byrne
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga – Pierce Brosnan as an Icelander and TV/radio presenter Graham Norton as himself
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Michael Gambon
The Farthest
The Favourite – an Irish production
The Flash – Saoirse-Monica Jackson as someone named Patty
Florence Foster Jenkins – John Kavanagh as Arturo Toscanini and Bríd Brennan as Kitty the maid
The French Dispatch – Saoirse Ronan as ‘Junkie/Showgirl #1'
The Ghost (The Ghost Writer) – Pierce Brosnan
Gladiator – Richard Harris
Goldeneye – Pierce Brosnan
Goodbye Christopher Robin – Domhnall Gleeson
Goodbye Mr. Chips – Peter O’Toole
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Saoirse Ronan
The Grand Seduction – Brendan Gleeson in Newfoundland
Grand Theft Parsons – directed by David Caffrey
Gulliver’s Travels – Chris O’Dowd as a slimy miniature general
Hamlet [1996] – Kenneth Branagh
Hamlet [2000] – Karl Geary
Hanna – Saoirse Ronan
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Richard Harris, Kenneth Branagh, Fiona Shaw, Devon Murray
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – Brendan Gleeson, Evanna Lynch, Domhnall Gleeson, Michael Gambon (briefly), Fiona Shaw (very briefly)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – Michael Gambon, Evanna Lynch, Domhnall Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Devon Murray
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Devon Murray
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Michael Gambon, Evanna Lynch, Devon Murray
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Evanna Lynch, Devon Murray
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) – Richard Harris, Fiona Shaw, Devon Murray
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Michael Gambon, Fiona Shaw, Devon Murray
The Haunting – Liam Neeson
A Haunting in Venice – Kenneth Branagh, Jamie Dornan, Jude Hill
The Hippopotamus – Fiona Shaw
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – James Nesbitt and Aidan Turner play dwarves
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – James Nesbitt and Aidan Turner play dwarves one last time
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – James Nesbitt and Aidan Turner still playing dwarves
A Home at the End of the World – Colin Farrell
Horrible Bosses – Colin Farrell
How to Steal a Million – Peter O’Toole
An Ideal Husband (adapted from Oscar Wilde’s play)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Colin Farrell
Imagine This (short) – directed by John Callaghan
In Dreams – directed by Neil Jordan with Stephen Rea as a psychiatrist
Inception – Cillian Murphy
Interview with the Vampire – directed by Neil Jordan with Stephen Rea as the Parisian vampire Santiago
Is This Now – Brigid Shine
Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell – Peter O’Toole
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten – inevitable interview with Bono
Judy – Jessie Buckley
The King’s Speech – Michael Gambon as King George V
Kingdom of Heaven – Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson
Lady Bird – Saoirse Ronan as a Sacramento teen
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man – U2 pay tribute and perform with Montreal’s troubadour
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Michael Gambon
Life During Wartime – Ciarán Hinds
Lincoln – Naturalized Irishman Daniel Day-Lewis’s third Oscar-winning lead role
The Little Stranger – Irish production directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson
Little Women – Saoirse Ronan
A Long Way Down – Pierce Brosnan
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – songs by Enya
The Loss of Sexual Innocence – Jonathan Rhys Meyers
The Lost Daughter – Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal
Love Actually – Liam Neeson
Love Punch – Pierce Brosnan
Loving – Ruth Negga
Made in Italy – Liam Neeson
Mamma Mia! – Pierce Brosnan
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again – Pierce Brosnan
The Man in the Iron Mask – Gabriel Byrne
Man of La Mancha – Peter O’Toole
Marie Antoinette – Jamie Dornan as a seductive count
Margot at the Wedding – Ciarán Hinds
Mars Attacks! – Pierce Brosnan
Mary Queen of Scots – Saoirse Ronan as the titular monarch
McLintock! – Maureen O’Hara
Miami Vice – Colin Farrell as Sonny Crockett and Ciarán Hinds as an FBI agent
A Mighty Heart – Irish co-production
Military Wives – Sharon Horgan
Milk (short) – Brenda Fricker
Millions – James Nesbitt
Mindhorn – amusing cameo by Kenneth Branagh
Minority Report – Colin Farrell
Miracle on 34th Street – Maureen O’Hara
Les Misérables – Colm Wilkinson as a kindly bishop
Mission: Impossible 2 – Brendan Gleeson
Moll Flanders – John Lynch
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones – Robert Sheehan, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Aidan Turner
Mrs. Doubtfire – Pierce Brosnan
My Favorite Year – Peter O’Toole
My Kingdom – Richard Harris
My Week with Marilyn – Kenneth Branagh plays Laurence Olivier
Never Say Never Again – Gavan O’Herlihy as Kim Basinger’s ill-fated brother
Nine – Irish resident and citizen Daniel Day-Lewis
Notes on a Scandal – Andrew Simpson
Off the Rails – a briefly seen Andrea Corr as Judi Dench’s dead daughter
On a Clear Day – Sean McGinley
One Chance – Colm Meaney
The Only Living Boy in New York – Pierce Brosnan
Oppenheimer – Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh
The Others – Fionnula Flanagan and Elaine Cassidy
The Parent Trap – Maureen O’Hara
The Phantom of the Opera – Ciarán Hinds as co-manager of the Paris Opera
Phantom Thread – allegedly final film performance by Wicklow man Daniel Day-Lewis
Poison Pen – Irish production with a largely Irish cast and crew
Poor Things – producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Ireland’s Element Pictures
Pride – Irishman Andrew Scott playing a Welshman and American Ben Schnetzer playing an Irishman
The Rachel Papers – Michael Gambon
Ratatouille – Peter O’Toole
Red Eye – Cillian Murphy
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Chavez: Inside the Coup) – directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain
The Road Within – Robert Sheehan
Robin and Marian – Richard Harris as Richard the Lionheart
Robin Hood – Gerard McSorley as Baron Fitzrobert and Ciaran Flynn as Loop
The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Belfast’s Patricia Quinn as Magenta, a domestic
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – Ian McElhinney as General Dodonna and Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma
Room – Irish co-production directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue
A Royal Night Out – Jack Reynor
S.W.A.T. – Colin Farrell
Saltburn – Barry Keoghan
Saving Mr. Banks – Colin Farrell plays Emma Thompson’s father
Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) – directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
See How They Run – Saoirse Ronan
Seraphim Falls – Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson!
Shanghai Knights – Aidan Gillen
Shaun of the Dead – Dylan Moran
Den Skaldede Frisør (Love Is All You Need) – Pierce Brosnan as an expat in Denmark and Italy
Sixty Six – Stephen Rea as an asthma specialist and Sean McGinley as band leader from Cork
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow – Michael Gambon
Spectre – Andrew Scott as C
Spider – Gabriel Byrne
The Spiderwick Chronicles – Sarah Bolger
Spielberg – Liam Neeson on Schindler’s List, Daniel Day-Lewis on Lincoln
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – Cyril Cusack as “Control”; filmed at County Wicklow’s Ardmore Studios
St. Vincent – Chris O’Dowd as a teaching priest
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace – Liam Neeson
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens – Domhnall Gleeson (as General Hux) and Skellig Michael (as Luke Skywalker’s retreat)
Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi – Domhnall Gleeson (again as General Hux) and Skellig Michael and southwest Kerry as “the most unfindable place in the galaxy”
Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker – Domhnall Gleeson as General Hux plus an audio clip from Liam Neeson
Stardust – Peter O’Toole, David Kelly
Stormbreaker (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker) – Sarah Bolger
Straight to Hell – Shane MacGowan and other Pogues
The Stunt Man – Peter O’Toole
The Sum of All Fears – Ciarán Hinds
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Jayne Wisener as the ingénue Johanna
The Tailor of Panama – Pierce Brosnan, Brendan Gleeson (Irish co-production)
The Thin Man – Roscommon-born Maureen O’Sullivan
The Thomas Crown Affair – Pierce Brosnan
Thor – directed by Kenneth Branagh
Thor: The Dark World – Chris O’Dowd as Jane Foster’s hapless suitor
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – written and directed by Irish-passport-holder Martin McDonagh and featuring Tipperary’s Kerry Condon as the billboard office secretary
The Time Machine – Samantha and Omero Mumba
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Ciarán Hinds
Titus – Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Tolkien – co-written by David Gleeson
Tomorrow Never Dies – Pierce Brosnan
Transamerica – Fionnula Flanagan
Troy – Brendan Gleeson, Peter O’Toole
True Grit – Domhnall Gleeson, Jarlath Conroy
Watching the Detectives – Cillian Murphy
The World Is Not Enough – Pierce Brosnan
28 Days Later – Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson
Venus – Peter O’Toole
A View to a Kill – Alison Doody as Bond girl Jenny Flex
The Village – Brendan Gleeson
Wah-Wah – Gabriel Byrne
Wicked Little Letters – Jessie Buckley
Wolf – Fionn O’Shea, Lola Petticrew, Eileen Walsh
Women Talking – Jessie Buckley
X+Y (A Beautiful Young Mind) – Martin McCann
X-Men: Days of Future Past – Michael Fassbender
X-Men: First Class – Michael Fassbender