List of films set in Ireland

Below is a list of films set in Ireland, together with some films filmed there but set elsewhere.

See also List of films set in Northern Ireland.

A-D

• 32A
• About Adam
• The Actors
• Adam and Paul
• After 2029
• Agnes Browne
• Alarm
• American Women
• Angela's Ashes
• Another Shore
• Anton

• Barry Lyndon
• Between The Canals
• Bloom
• Borstal Boy
• Boy Eats Girl
• Breakfast on Pluto
• The Butcher Boy

• Captain Boycott
• Captain Lightfoot
• Circle of Friends
• The Commitments
• Cowboys & Angels
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Cry of the Innocent

• Dancing at Lughnasa
• Danny Boy
• Darby O'Gill and the Little People
• Dead Bodies
• Dead Meat
• Disco Pigs
• Divorcing Jack
• Drinking Crude

E-H

• Evelyn (2003)
• Flight of the Doves (1971)
• Far and Away (1992)
• Fatal Inheritance (1993)
• The Field (1990)
• Finian's Rainbow (1968)
• Fools of Fortune (1990)
• Freeze Frame
• Further Gesture
• Garage (Film)
• The General
• Ghostwood
• Giro City (1982)
• Goldfish Memory
• The Guard (2011 Film)
• Halo Effect
• Headrush
• Helen
• High Spirits (1988)
• How To Cheat In The Leaving Certificate

I-L

• The Informer (1935)
• Intermission (2003)
• In the Name of the Father
• Into the West
• Inside I'm Dancing
• Kisses
• Korea
• Laws of Attraction
• Leap Year (2010 film)
• Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
• Love and Rage (1998)

M-P

• The Magdalene Sisters
• Mad About Mambo
• Man About Dog
• Man of Aran
• The Matchmaker (1997)
• The Mackintosh Man
• The Medallion
• Michael Collins
• Mickybo and Me (2004)
• My Friend Joe (1995)
• My Left Foot
• The Nephew
• Nora (2000)
• Odd Man Out (1947)
• On the Edge
• Once
• Ondine (2010)
• Pete's Meteor
• The Playboys
• P.S. I Love You

Q-T

• The Dawn (1938)
• The Quiet Man
• Red Roses and Petrol
• Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)
• Ryan's Daughter
• Saltwater (2000)
• Secret of the Cave (2006)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
• Shrooms (2007)
• The Snapper
• Some Mother's Son (1996)
• Song for a Raggy Boy
• Speed Dating
• Spin The Bottle
• Steamin' and Dreamin': The Grandmaster Cash Story (2009)
• Studs
• Summer Fling
• Summer of the Flying Saucer
• Taffin
• Tara Road
• This Is My Father
• This Is The Sea
• The Trouble With Sex
• Tristan & Isolde (2006)
• Trojan Eddie
• Twiteens (2011)
• Tyrone (2006)

U-Z

• The Van
• Veronica Guerin (2003)

• Waking Ned Devine (filmed on the Isle of Man)
• War of the Buttons
• Watermelon
• W.C.
• Winter's End.
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
• When Brendan Met Trudy
• Zombie Homicide

List of films shot in Ireland

This list covers films shot, or partly shot, in Ireland, but which are not set there

• The Blue Max (1966) (set in WWI France)
• Braveheart (1995; set in Scotland but almost entirely filmed in Ireland)
• David Copperfield (2000)
• Educating Rita (1983), set in Liverpool
• Excalibur (1981)
• Freeze Frame (2004)
• Henry V (1944)
• The Italian Job (1969; jail scenes filmed in Kilmainham Jail)
• King Arthur (2004)
• The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005; almost entirely filmed in Ireland)
• Moby Dick (1956)
• Moll Flanders (1996)
• Reign of Fire (2002)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998; beach scenes filmed on Curracloe beach, County Wexford)

Television Mini-Series Set in Ireland

• Amongst Women (1998)
• Against the Wind (1978) (Irish and Australian settings)
• Captains & Kings (1976) (story of Irish Immigrant family)
• Falling for a Dancer (1998)
• Scarlett (1994) (continuation of Gone with the Wind)
• Kings in Grass Castles (1998)

See also

• Cinema of Ireland
• List of movies based on location