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

1. Derry Girls (2018–2022)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland.

Stars: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Kathy Kiera Clarke

Votes: 59,398

2. Blue Lights (2023– )

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.

Stars: Nathan Braniff, Sian Brooke, Katherine Devlin, Martin McCann

Votes: 12,565

3. The Fall (I) (2013–2016)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A seemingly cold but very passionate policewoman goes head to head with a seemingly passionate father who is in fact a cold serial killer in this procedural out of Belfast. The only thing they share is their common complexity.

Stars: Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan, John Lynch, Aisling Franciosi

Votes: 120,141

4. Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A prince of the mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth. Hellboy and his team must fight to stop him from locating the all-powerful Golden Army.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, John Alexander

Votes: 286,588 | Gross: $75.75M

5. Hope Street (2020– )

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama

The arrival of DC Leila Hussain sets tongues wagging - what brings this big city girl to a sleepy Northern Irish seaside town?

Stars: Kerri Quinn, Des McAleer, Ciarán McMenamin, Niall Wright

Votes: 2,462

6. Belfast (2021)

PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.

Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitríona Balfe, Jamie Dornan

Votes: 92,990

7. The Foreigner (I) (2017)

R | 113 min | Action, Thriller

A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.

Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Katie Leung, Jackie Chan, Rufus Jones, Mark Tandy

Votes: 123,597 | Gross: $34.39M

8. In the Name of the Father (1993)

R | 133 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An Irish man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie, Philip King

Votes: 187,577 | Gross: $25.01M

9. The Crying Game (1992)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson

Votes: 60,165 | Gross: $62.55M

10. 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: 71,802 | Gross: $42.87M

11. 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: 73,666 | Gross: $0.15M

12. Michael Collins (1996)

R | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts, Ian Hart

Votes: 33,836 | Gross: $11.09M

13. Duck, You Sucker! (1971)

PG | 138 min | Drama, War, Western

A low-life bandit and an I.R.A. explosives expert rebel against the government and become heroes of the Mexican Revolution.

Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli, Maria Monti

Votes: 37,639 | Gross: $0.70M

14. The Secret (2016)

TV-MA | 45 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

The true-crime story of a respectable dentist and pillar of the community who became a killer in partnership with a Sunday school teacher.

Stars: James Nesbitt, Genevieve O'Reilly, Patrick O'Kane, Nina Woods

Votes: 3,713

15. Dead Shot (2023)

92 min | Action, Thriller

A retired Irish paramilitary witnesses the fatal shooting of his pregnant wife by an SAS officer. After outwitting the SAS, now wounded, and presumed dead, he escapes, taking his revenge to the dark and paranoid streets of 1970's London.

Directors: Charles Guard, Thomas Guard | Stars: Aml Ameen, Colin Morgan, Máiréad Tyers, Brian McCann

Votes: 2,633

16. Bloodlands (2021–2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Northern Irish police officer DCI Tom Brannick investigates crimes while trying to hide a dark secret from his past.

Stars: James Nesbitt, Lorcan Cranitch, Charlene McKenna, Lola Petticrew

Votes: 7,153

17. The Boxer (1997)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Young Danny Flynn is released from prison 14 years after "taking the rap" for the IRA and tries to rebuild his life in his old Belfast neighborhood.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Daragh Donnelly, Frank Coughlan

Votes: 22,385 | Gross: $5.80M

18. Odd Man Out (1947)

Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick

Votes: 11,450

19. Harry's Game (1982)

180 min | Thriller

A British agent infiltrates the IRA to find an assassin. His wife is unhappy with his work. He befriends an Irish woman while searching for the killer.

Stars: Ray Lonnen, Benjamin Whitrow, Nicholas Day, Geoffrey Chater

Votes: 489

20. Bloody Sunday (2002)

R | 111 min | Drama, History, War

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Director: Paul Greengrass | Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Allan Gildea

Votes: 25,786 | Gross: $0.77M

21. The Last Right (2019)

106 min | Comedy, Drama

A fateful exchange on a flight has consequences for Daniel Murphy. He's left in charge of a corpse of someone he never knew. He is persuaded to take on the challenge of getting a coffin from his family home in Clonakilty to Rathlin Island.

Director: Aoife Crehan | Stars: Michiel Huisman, Niamh Algar, Samuel Bottomley, Michael McElhatton

Votes: 1,822

22. Cherrybomb (2009)

Not Rated | 76 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Three teenagers go on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars that quickly spins beyond their control.

Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Stars: Rupert Grint, Robert Sheehan, James Nesbitt, Niamh Quinn

Votes: 7,546

23. Hidden Agenda (1990)

R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch

Votes: 4,630 | Gross: $1.03M

24. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

Approved | 135 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson

Votes: 8,630

25. Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (2023)

Documentary, History, War

Twenty-five years on from a peace agreement being reached, Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland shares intimate, unheard testimonies from all sides of the conflict.

Votes: 945

26. Death and Nightingales (2018)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama

An epic tale of love, betrayal, deception, and revenge set in the Irish countryside in 1885.

Stars: Matthew Rhys, Ann Skelly, Jamie Dornan, Valene Kane

Votes: 2,009

27. Cal (1984)

R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller, Romance

A young man fraught with guilt longs to defect from the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is drawn to the widow of a slain Protestant policeman but must hide his secret that he was involved in her husband's murder and evade the authorities.

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Helen Mirren, John Lynch, Donal McCann, John Kavanagh

Votes: 1,634

28. The Secret Life of Words (2005)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara

Votes: 13,171 | Gross: $0.02M

29. 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: 13,263 | Gross: $0.01M

30. Come Home (2018)

Not Rated | 60 min | Drama

Greg and Marie have been married for nineteen years, when, seemingly out of the blue, Marie walks out on him and her three children - the last taboo of parenting.

Stars: Anthony Boyle, Christopher Eccleston, Paula Malcomson, Kerri Quinn

Votes: 912

31. My Mother and Other Strangers (2016)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance, War

In 1943, the Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.

Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Michael Nevin, Hattie Morahan, Owen McDonnell

Votes: 1,784

32. End of Sentence (2019)

96 min | Adventure, Drama

After being widowed, Frank Fogle reluctantly embarks on a journey to honor his wife's last wish of spreading her ashes in a remote lake in her native Ireland and a promise of taking his ... See full summary »

Director: Elfar Adalsteins | Stars: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger, Andrea Irvine

Votes: 4,566

33. 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: 2,070

34. Shadow Dancer (2012)

R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Set in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen

Votes: 13,032 | Gross: $0.10M

35. Some Mother's Son (1996)

R | 112 min | Drama, History

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.

Director: Terry George | Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara

Votes: 2,996 | Gross: $0.61M

36. Elephant (1989 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 39 min | Crime, Drama

A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.

Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small

Votes: 2,942

37. 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: 3,555 | Gross: $0.02M

38. Wildfire (2020)

85 min | Drama

The story of two sisters who grew up on the fractious Irish border. When one of them, who has been missing, finally returns home, the intense bond with her sister is re-ignited. Together ... See full summary »

Director: Cathy Brady | Stars: Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Kate Dickie, Martin McCann

Votes: 622

39. My Brother's War (1997)

R | 84 min | Action, Thriller

CIA guy and IRA guy reluctantly team up to catch IRA guy's rogue brother.

Director: James Brolin | Stars: Jennie Garth, James Brolin, Patrick Foy, Salvator Xuereb

Votes: 234

40. 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: 1,006

41. Three Families (2021– )

118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dramatisation of three real-life stories of how three families were each affected by Northern Ireland's restrictive abortion law before it was lifted in 2019.

Stars: Sinéad Keenan, Lola Petticrew, Amy James-Kelly, Colin Morgan

Votes: 727

42. Road (I) (2014)

102 min | Documentary, Sport

Following the motorcycle road racing careers, and fate, of the Dunlop family.

Directors: Michael Hewitt, Dermot Lavery | Stars: Liam Neeson, Liam Beckett, Siobhan Carter, Stephen Davison

Votes: 1,510

43. 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: 71

44. Miss Conception (2008)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Romance

Learning that her baby making days are numbered Georgina explores internet sperm donors, night clubbers and funeral-goers in a desperate attempt to beat the biological clock.

Director: Eric Styles | Stars: Heather Graham, Mia Kirshner, Orlando Seale, Tom Ellis

Votes: 2,877 | Gross: $0.00M

45. My Left Nut (2020)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Teenager Mick discovers a swelling on his testicle. He can't tell his Dad about it - he died 7 years ago. His Mum has a million other things on her plate. He can't tell his mates. What can he do about it?

Stars: Nathan Quinn-O'Rawe, Oliver Anthony, Levi O'Sullivan, Jessica Reynolds

Votes: 637

46. The Informant (1997)

R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

A young I.R.A. member is forced to turn informant on his comrades, when he is caught in an assassination attempt on a judge.

Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Anthony Brophy, Cary Elwes, Timothy Dalton, Maria Lennon

Votes: 676

47. The Real Derry: Jamie-Lee O'Donnell (2022)

46 min | Documentary

With warmth, wit and honesty, Derry Girls' star Jamie-Lee O'Donnell reflects on her childhood experiences and discovers what life's like for young people growing up in Derry today.

Stars: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Jamie-Lee O'Donnell, Bronagh Gallagher, Adrian Dunbar

Votes: 66

48. H-Block

Action, Biography, Crime | Announced

H-Block is set against the real story of the breakout from the maximum security Maze Prison in 1983, which saw 38 IRA prisoners escape and only 19 ever recaptured, and 20 guards shot or stabbed, with one dying.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Star: Pierce Brosnan

49. 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: Charlie Kelly, Ellie Bamber, Owen McDonnell, Karen Hassan

50. 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: 317