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Films from the country "irlande", sorted by revenue
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The Hallow (2015)
, 1h37Directed by Corin Hardy
Origin Irlande
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Actors Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton, Stuart Graham, Michael Smiley
When he ignores the warnings of locals, a British conservationist and his family encounter demonic creatures in an Irish forest.
Noble (2014)
, 1h40Directed by Stephen Bradley
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Sarah Greene, Brendan Coyle, Mark Huberman, Ruth Negga, Liam Cunningham, Pauline McLynn
The film is set in Vietnam in 1989, fourteen years after the end of the war. Christina Noble flies into Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), a country "that she wouldn't be able to show you on a map". With a few dollars, her own hard-won courage, she is about embark on a life calling. The film explores her tough upbringing in Dublin and her early adult life in the UK. It is the inspirational true story of a woman who believes that it only takes one person to make a difference.
Stella Days (2012)
, 1h44Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama
Actors Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Amy Huberman, Trystan Gravelle, Tom Hickey, Hugh O'Conor
Dans les années 1950, Borrisokane , village reculé dans le Comté de Tipperary en Irlande, voit sa vie changer avec le retour sur ses terres du père Daniel Barry (Martin Sheen) après vingt ans passés aux États-Unis. Passionné par le cinéma, ce dernier souhaite ouvrir une salle de projection dans le village : le « Stella ». Commence alors un conflit entre l'église conservatrice et novatrice.
Roadkill (2011)
, 1h30Directed by Johannes Roberts
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Actors Kacey Barnfield, Stephen Rea, Oliver James, Eliza Hope Bennett, Diarmuid Noyes, Ned Dennehy
Kate (Kacey Barnfield) is traveling around Ireland in an R.V. with her ex-boyfriend Ryan (Oliver James), brother Joel (Colin Maher) and friends Hailey (Eliza Bennett), Chuck (Diarmuid Noyes), Tommy (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith) and Anita (Róisín Murphy). After driving into the countryside, the group stop off at a small shop, where they encounter Luca (Ned Dennehy) who attempts to scam them from buying a medallion, and warns them it is dangerous before Chuck steals the medallion and the group attempt to make a quick get-away. However, as they drive away in their R.V. they hit an old woman, who puts a curse on the group, telling them the mythical bird the roc will take vengeance on them, before dying. The group quickly drive away in their R.V. but hit a patch of thick fog and become lost, as fears of the curse heighten. Stopping the R.V. they encounter a young boy in the road. Anita leaves the R.V. to talk to the boy, but he runs away before the roc grabs Anita and drags her into the air. Her body is dropped in front of the R.V., with half of her face mauled off before the roc returns and flies away with her.
Wake Wood (2011)
, 1h30Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Timothy Spall, Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Brian Gleeson, Briain Gleeson, Dan Gordon
Little Alice Daley is mauled to death by a German Shepherd dog in the yard of her father Patrick's veterinary practice. After her death, Patrick and his wife Louise, a pharmacist, move to a rural village called Wakewood, where they struggle to cope with the loss of their only child (Louise cannot have any more children). The couple's car mysteriously breaks down one evening in the middle of nowhere and they go to the nearby house of Patrick's veterinary colleague, Arthur, to seek help. There Louise witnesses Arthur leading a strange and bloody pagan ritual but refuses to say anything to Patrick. It becomes apparent that something strange is happening in town and that Arthur knows that Louise saw the ritual.
Triage (2009)
, 1h39Directed by Danis Tanović
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors Colin Farrell, Paz Vega, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Christopher Lee, Kelly Reilly, Branko Đurić
Set in 1988, Mark Walsh (Colin Farrell) is a photojournalist who has earned a reputation for working in some of the most unforgiving locations on Earth. When his editor Amy (Juliet Stevenson) asks him to cover Saddam Hussein's campaign against the Kurds, Mark takes the assignment and thinks little of it. His wife Elena (Paz Vega) is considerably more concerned. Mark and his friend and fellow photographer David (Jamie Sives) head off to the war full of confidence. Mark takes photographs of brutally injured soldiers and of a doctor who shoots them dead to spare their suffering. Later on, Mark is seen mildly injured in what he claims to be an accident in the river and he then comes home alone after being separated from David. Elena notices that he is like a different person, gaunt and unable to relax.
One Hundred Mornings (2009)
, 1h23Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Ciarán McMenamin, Alex Reid, Paul Ronan
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As resources run low and external threats increase, they forge an uneasy alliance with their self-sufficient hippie neighbour. With no news from the outside world they can’t know how long they must endure living in such close quarters, and with such limited supplies.
Red Mist (2008)
, 1h22Directed by Paddy Breathnach
Origin Irlande
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Arielle Kebbel, Andrew Lee Poots, Sarah Carter, Stephen Dillane, Katie McGrath, Alex Wyndham
Four medical students while partying one night, spike the drink of an unknowing loner, the hospital janitor, Kenneth, nicknamed "Freakdog". It turns out Freakdog has epilepsy and while partying an epileptic seizure causes him to fall and hit his head. Complicating things, the alcohol spiked with drugs that one of the medical students had swiped from the hospital meant he lost enough oxygen to his brain after the seizure and fall, to result in deep coma.
Botched (2007)
, 1h35Origin Irlande
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes La provence
Actors Stephen Dorff, Jaime Murray, Sean Pertwee, Jamie Foreman, Hugh O'Conor, Bronagh Gallagher
Richie Donovan (Stephen Dorff) works as a professional thief for Groznyi (Sean Pertwee), a wealthy businessman, to pay off his debt for being smuggled into the U.S. as a child. He pulls off an initially successful diamond heist, but it is botched when he is involved in two separate car accidents. He is given one last chance to pay off his debt by going to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross, locked in a safe in a Moscow penthouse apartment. Richie and his Russian accomplices, brothers Peter (Jamie Foreman) and Yuri (Russell Smith), recover the cross; but their elevator becomes stuck on the uncompleted 13th floor. Believing the police have stopped the elevator, the thieves take their fellow passengers hostage to negotiate an escape. They agree to send one hostage down; but, when the elevator doors open on the ground floor, the hostage has mysteriously been beheaded.
The Mighty Celt (2005)
, 1h22Directed by Peter Chelsom, Pearse Elliott
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama
Actors Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle, Ken Stott, Seán McGinley, John Travers, Richard Dormer
Goldfish Memory (2003)
, 1h25Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Fiona Glascott, Stuart Graham, Flora Montgomery, Sean Campion, Keith McErlean
The movie is set around a small group of characters experiencing relationships which build and crumble before the viewers eyes. The title of the film refers to the belief, expressed by several of characters, that the goldfish retains a memory of something for only three seconds. Tom, one of the principal characters in the film, draws comparisons between this and the human tendency to jump from one relationship to the next, "forgetting" the pain that any previous one might have caused. The film shows complexities involved in straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual relationships. Writer/director Liz Gill says the film was influenced by the work of directors Robert Altman and Richard Linklater, particularly Linklater's film Slacker.
Disco Pigs (2001)
, 1h33Directed by Kirsten Sheridan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brían F. O'Byrne, Geraldine O'Rawe, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Marie Mullen
The film revolves around the intense relationship of the two teenage protagonists, Darren (Cillian Murphy) and Sinéad (Elaine Cassidy), nicknamed "Pig" and "Runt". Pig and Runt were born at the same hospital at nearly the same time and grow up right next door to each other. This brings about a very close relationship between the two that borders on telepathic. They live in their own world and barely communicate with the world around them. However, up until their seventeenth year, their relationship remains one of friendship, albeit a very intense unhealthy one.
Rat (2001)
, 1h28Directed by Steve Barron
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Imelda Staunton, Pete Postlethwaite, Frank Kelly, Ed Byrne, Geoffrey Palmer, Kerry Condon
After his usual night of drinking at the local pub, Hubert Flynn (Pete Postlethwaite) returns home and transforms into a rat. Hubert's family each have different views on him now that he became a rodent. His wife Conchita (Imelda Staunton) thinks that this change is supposed to be a lesson to Hubert and that the reason he transformed is his own fault. Their son Pius (Andrew Lovern), destined for a religious life, feels that because his father is now an animal, his family should kill him. Their daughter Marietta (Kerry Condon) feels that the rat is still her father and that they should treat him with love and respect.
Prince Valiant (1997)
, 1h31Directed by Anthony Hickox
Origin Irlande
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Stephen Moyer, Katherine Heigl, Thomas Kretschmann, Edward Fox, Udo Kier, Joanna Lumley
The story is based on the myth of King Arthur. A young, inexperienced squire Valiant, masquerading as Sir Gawain, is sent to accompany the Welsh princess Lady Ilene, a guest at Camelot, on her way back home. Little he knows that, meanwhile, the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay has convinced the Viking warlord Sligon, ruler of the kingdom of Thule, to steal the magical sword Excalibur during a joust tournament. Valiant and the princess become part of the struggle of "he who holds the sword rules the world" which leads them both to love and Valiant to his princely destiny, as it turns out he is the rightful heir to the throne of Thule. The usurper is eventually killed by his brother Thagnar, who also captures Ilene. In a final confrontation, the villains are killed and Valiant rescues the princess and recovers Excalibur.
Angel (1982)
, 1h30Directed by Stephen Rea, Neil Jordan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Stephen Rea, Peter Caffrey, Donal McCann, Ian McElhinney, Derek Lord, Ray McAnally
Danny (played by Rea), a saxophonist with a travelling band, witnesses the gangland murder of the band's manager (involved in extortion payoffs) and that of a deaf and mute girl witness at a dancehall in South Armagh. Danny tries to hunt down the murderers and in doing so his relationship with Deirdre, the singer in his band, falls apart and he becomes a murderer himself.