Ireland movies

All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Reynolds, Burt | DeLuise, Dom | Barsi, Judith | Moore, Melba | Gilley, Daryl | Devine, Candy | Reilly, Charles Nelson | Tayback, Vic | Fuller, Rob | Carey, Earleen | Manahan, Anna | Pegram, Nigel | Anderson, Loni | Page, Ken | Quigley, Godfrey
Directors: Bluth, Don
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When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what’s waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.

Bloody Sunday (2002)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Nesbitt, James | Gildea, Allan | Crossan, Gerard | Moulds, Mary | McCallion, Carmel | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Farrell, Nicholas | Villiers, Christopher | Hewitt, James | Duddy, Declan | Frazer, Edel | Lohan, Lindsay | Edwards, Mike | Hammond, Gerry | Stammers, Jason
Directors: Greengrass, Paul
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Documentary-style drama showing the events that lead up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.

Evelyn (2002)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Vavasseur, Sophie | Beagan, Niall | McDonagh, Hugh | Brosnan, Pierce | Devlin, Mairead | Kelly, Frank | Mullan, Claire | Lucchesi, Alvaro | Keogh, Garrett | O'Suilleabhain, Daithi | Irvine, Andrea | Quinn, Marian | Ardiff, Karen | Margulies, Julianna | Hogan, Bosco
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

Boy Eats Girl (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Mumba, Samantha | Leon, David | Kinlan, Laurence | Murphy, Tadhg | James, Sara | Huberman, Mark | Reid, Paul
Directors: Bradley, Stephen
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A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.

Asylum (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Romance | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Richardson, Natasha | Bonneville, Hugh | Lewis, Gus | McKellen, Ian | Ackland, Joss | Ventham, Wanda | Thurston, Sara | Taylor, Alwyne | Aitken, Maria | Douglas, Hazel | Keaveney, Anna | Csokas, Marton | Willox, Robert | Parfitt, Judy | Harris, Sean
Directors: Mackenzie, David
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A psychiatrist’s wife encounters one of her husband’s charges, an inmate at a maximum security asylum in the outskirts of London. Her curious attraction to this man, who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife, grows stronger as he’s placed on the job to restore the asylum’s conservatory, mere steps from her home.

Matador, The (2005)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Ireland | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Kinnear, Greg | Miller, Arlin | Davis, Hope | Hall, Philip Baker | Scott, Adam | Baker, Dylan | Alvarez, Ramon | Horwitz, Carolyn | Robles, Jorge | Sáenz, Hanny | Goldsmith, Gabriela | Lobo, Claudia | Alvarado, Bernice | Dávila, Adriana
Directors: Shepard, Richard
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A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hitman triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both forever.

Count of Monte Cristo, The (2002)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Caviezel, James | Pearce, Guy | Harris, Richard | Frain, James | Dominczyk, Dagmara | Wincott, Michael | Guzmán, Luis | Adamson, Christopher | Blanc, JB | Carleton, Guy | Norton, Alex | Cassin, Barry | Cavill, Henry | Corrigan, Briana | Costello, Brendan
Directors: Reynolds, Kevin
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‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is a remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name. Dantes, a sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes’ girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d’If for 13 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him. With the help of another prisoner, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge.

Laws of Attraction (2004)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Moore, Julianne | Sheen, Michael | Posey, Parker | Fisher, Frances | Dunn, Nora | Nurnberg, Heather Ann | Myers, Johnny | Doyle, Mike | Houston, Allan | Ryan, Annie | Marzello, Vincent | James, Sara | Discepolo, John | Pergament, Annika
Directors: Howitt, Peter
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This is the story of two New York divorce attorneys (Moore, Brosnan) who are often competing against each other, but end up in a relationship nonetheless. When they get married, can they avoid the same issues at home that lead people to provide them business at work? One of the central cases in the story is the heavily-publicized divorce of a rock star (Sheen) from his wife (Posey)…

Tailor of Panama, The (2001)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Rush, Geoffrey | Gleeson, Brendan | Curtis, Jamie Lee | McCormack, Catherine |
Directors: Boorman, John
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK
Actors: Cleese, John | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Bates, Kathy | Chan, Jackie | Coogan, Steve | Fyfe, Robert | Broadbent, Jim | McNeice, Ian | Ryall, David | Hammond, Roger | Godley, Adam | Mok, Karen | Cooper, Howard | Hinchcliffe, Daniel | Teufel, Wolfram | Strauss, Tom | West, Kit | Bremner, Ewen
Directors: Coraci, Frank
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This version of the classic novel set in 1872 focuses on Passepartout (Chan), a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg (Coogan), who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemens’ club that he can make it around the world in a mere 80 days, using a variety of means of transportation, like boats, trains, balloons, elephants, etc. Along the way, Passepartout uses his amazing martial arts abilities to defend Fogg from the many dangers they face.. One major threat to their adventure is a detective that’s following them. Why? Just as Fogg and Passeportout left London, a major bank was robbed, with Fogg suspected of using the “around the world” trip as an excuse to escape.. Their path from London and back includes stops in Paris, Turkey, India, China and USA…