List of Irish films
This is chronology of films produced in Ireland:
1910s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | A Lad from Old Ireland | Sidney Olcott | Sidney Olcott and Gene Gauntier | Drama | |
| 1911 | The Colleen Bawn | Sidney Olcott | Gene Gauntier and J. P. McGowan | costume drama | An Australian version of the original play was also produced in 1911, by Gaston Mervale |
| Rory O'More | Sidney Olcott | Jack J. Clark and Gene Gauntier | rebel drama | ||
| 1914 | For Ireland's Sake | Sidney Olcott | Gene Gauntier, Jack J. Clark and Sidney Olcott | rebel drama | |
| Ireland a Nation | Walter MacNamara | Barry O'Brien, P J Bourke, Fred O'Donovan, Barney Magee | rebel drama | ||
| 1915 | Regeneration | Raoul Walsh | Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, Carl Harbaugh, James A. Marcus | Irish immigrant drama | Often cited as one of the first full length gangster films |
| 1916 | O'Neil of the Glen | Fred O'Donovan | J. M. Kerrigan, Brian Magowan, Nora Clancy | romance | |
| 1917 | When Love Came To Gavin Burke | Fred O'Donovan | Fred O'Donovan, Nora Clancy, Oonah Halpin, Brian Magowan, Valentine Roberts | melodrama | |
| 1918 | Knocknagow | Fred O'Donovan | Brian Magowan, Fred O'Donovan, Arthur Shields, Brenda Burke, Kathleen Murphy, Cyril Cusack | melodrama |
1920s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Willy Reilly and his Colleen Bawn | John McDonagh | Brian Magowan, George Nesbit, Jim Plant | historical drama | Second major film of the Film Company of Ireland |
| In the Days of St Patrick | Norman Whitten | Ira Ellen, Vernon Whitten, Gilbert Green, Alice Cardinall, Dermot McCarthy | historical drama | ||
| 1922 | Cruiskeen Lawn | John McDonagh | Tom Moran | ||
| Casey's Millions | John McDonagh | Barrett MacDonnell, Chris Sylvester, Jimmy O'Dea | Comedy | ||
| 1925 | Blarney | Marcel De Sano | Ralph Graves, Paulette Duval, Renée Adorée | Comedy | |
| 1926 | Irish Destiny | George Dewhurst | Brian Magowan, Paddy Dunne Cullinan | War | Love story set in the Irish War of Independence; includes footage of actual fighting |
1930s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | The Luck of the Irish | Donovan Pedelty | Richard Hayward, Niall MacGinnis, Kay Walsh | ||
| Irish and Proud of It | Donovan Pedelty | Richard Hayward, Dinah Sheridan and Liam Gaffney | musical comedy | ||
| 1937 | Kathleen Mavourneen | Norman Lee | Sally O'Neil, Tom Burke, Jack Daly and Sara Allgood | Musical drama | also known as Kathleen |
| Rose of Tralee | Oswald Mitchell | Binkie Stuart, Kathleen O'Regan and Fred Conyngham | Musical | ||
| 1938 | The Dawn | Thomas Cooper | Brian O'Sullivan | war | historical film about the Irish War of Independence |
| Men of Ireland | Richard Bird | Brian O'Sullivan | Drama | ||
1940s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | My Hands Are Clay | Lionel Tomlinson | Bernardette Leahy | Drama | |
| 1949 | You Can't Fool an Irishman | Alfred Travers | Tommy Duggan | comedy |
1950s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | The Hills of Ireland | Harry Dugan | Pat O'Brien (narrator) | documentary travelogue | |
| Return to Glennascaul | Hilton Edwards | Orson Welles | horror/ short | also known as Orson Welles' Ghost Story | |
| 1952 | The Quiet Man | John Ford | John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara and Barry Fitzgerald | comedy | |
| 1953 | Fintona, A Study of Housing Discrimination | documentary short | Irish Government-sponsored film alleging anti-Catholic housing discrimination in Fintona, Co.Tyrone. The first 3 minutes of this film is voiceover with no moving images. | ||
| 1957 | Pretty Polly | Tony Inglis | Noel Purcell | short | |
| Professor Tim | Henry Cass | Bill Foley | |||
| The Rising of the Moon | John Ford | Tyrone Power (narrator), Cyril Cusack, Noel Purcell and Denis O'Dea | comedy/ drama | Three vignettes based on short stories illustrating rural Irish life: The Majesty of the Law, A Minute's Wait and 1921 | |
| 1959 | Home Is the Hero | Fielder Cook | Walter Macken | drama romance | Entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival |
| Mise Éire | George Morrison | Liam Budhlaeir (narrator) | Documentary | Chronicles the 1916 Easter Rising. It was the first feature length Irish language film. | |
| Shake Hands with the Devil | Michael Anderson | James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter and Glynis Johns | historical drama | Portrays the Irish War of Independence | |
| Broth of a Boy | George Pollock | Barry Fitzgerald, June Thorburn, Eddie Golden and Godfrey Quigley | comedy | ||
| This Other Eden | Muriel Box | Audrey Dalton, Leslie Phillips, Niall MacGinnis and Geoffrey Golden | Comedy-drama | ||
| Darby O'Gill and the Little People | Robert Stevenson | Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery and Jimmy O'Dea | children's |
1960s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | Dementia 13 | Francis Ford Coppola | William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee | Horror-thriller | also known as The Haunted and the Hunted. Produced by Roger Corman |
| 1967 | Rocky Road to Dublin | Peter Lennon | Seán Ó Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien, John Huston and Father Michael Cleary | Documentary | Shown at Cannes festival, shunned in Ireland |
| Ulysses | Joseph Strick | Barbara Jefford, Milo O'Shea, Maurice Roëves, T. P. McKenna | Drama | Adaptation of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses | |
| 1969 | Sinful Davey | John Huston | John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport, Fionnula Flanagan and Anjelica Huston | Drama, Comedy |
1970s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx | Waris Hussein | Gene Wilder, Margot Kidder | Comedy | |
| Ryan's Daughter | David Lean | Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills and Sarah Miles | Drama | ||
| 1971 | Flight of the Doves | Ralph Nelson | Ron Moody, Jack Wild, Dana | Children's | Based on a novel by Walter Macken |
| 1972 | Images | Robert Altman | Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais and Cathryn Harrison | Psychological Thriller | |
| 1974 | Zardoz | John Boorman | Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling and Sara Kestelman | Science Fiction | |
| 1975 | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee and Leonard Rossiter | Drama | |
| 1977 | Poitín | Bob Quinn | Cyril Cusack, Donal McCann and Niall Toibin | Drama | |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joseph Strick | Bosco Hogan, T. P. McKenna, John Gielgud, Rosaleen Linehan, Maureen Potter, Niall Buggy, Bryan Murray, | Drama | Adaptation of the novel by James Joyce |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Parked | Darragh Byrne | Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan | Drama | |
| One Hundred Mornings | Conor Horgan | Ciarán McMenamin | Drama | Post-apocalyptic | |
| 2011 | The Guard | John Michael McDonagh | Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong | Comedy | |
| 2012 | Grabbers | Jon Wright | Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey | Sci-fi | |
| Shadow Dancer | James Marsh | Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson | Drama | Spy drama set in Belfast during the Troubles. Premièred at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival | |
| What Richard Did | Lenny Abrahamson | Jack Reynor, Roisin Murphy, Lars Mikkelsen, Lorraine Pilkington | Drama | Film of the year 2012 | |
| When Ali Came to Ireland | Ross Whitaker | Muhammad Ali, Alvin Lewis, Cathal O'Shannon | Documentary | Describes Muhammad Ali's first visit to Ireland in July 1972, and his fight there against Al Lewis. | |
| Eliot & Me | Fintan Connolly | Ella Connolly, Renée Weldon, David Wilmot and Gerard Mannix Flynn | Family | ||
| King of the Travellers | Mark O'Conner | Michael Collins, John Connors, Peter Coonan and Carla McGlynn | |||
| 2013 | The Hardy Bucks Movie | Mike Cockayne | Martin Malony, Owen Colgan, Chris Tordoff, Peter Cassidy & Tom Kilgallon | Comedy | |
| The Stag | John Butler | Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald & Brian Gleeson | Comedy | ||
| A Belfast Story | Nathan Todd | Colm Meaney, Malcolm Sinclair & Tommy O'Neill | Crime, Drama | ||
| The Irish Pub | Alex Fegan | Paul Gartlan, Liam Ahern & Ray Blackwell | Documentary | ||
| 2014 | From the Dark | Conor McMahon | Niamh Algar, Stephen Cromwell, Ged Murray | Horror | |
| The Gift | Tom Collins | Michelle Beamish, Ciarán Charles, John Finn | Drama, Thriller | ||
| The Guarantee | Ian Power | David Murray, Gary Lydon, Orla Fitzgerald, Morgan C. Jones, Peter Coonan | Drama | Film about the Irish banking crisis. | |
| 2015 | My Name is Emily | ||||
| 2015 | Night People | Gerard Lough | Michael Parle, Jack Dean Shepherd, Claire Blennerhassett | Horror / Science Fiction | |
| 2016 | I Am Not a Serial Killer | Billy O'Brien | Laura Fraser, Max Records, Christopher Lloyd | Thriller | Based on the American novel of the same name |
See also
- Cinema of Ireland
- Category:Films shot in Ireland
- Cinema of Northern Ireland
- List of films set in Ireland
- List of films set in Northern Ireland
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