List of films set in Ireland
This is a list of films set in Ireland.
A-D
- 32A (2007)
- About Adam (2000)
- Accelerator (1999)
- The Actors (2003)
- Adam & Paul (2004)
- Agnes Browne (1999)
- Alarm (2008)
- American Women (2000) (also called The Closer You Get)
- Angel (1982) (also called Danny Boy)
- Angela's Ashes (1999)
- Another Shore (1948)
- Anton (2008)
- The Ballroom of Romance (1982)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Between the Canals (2010)
- Bloom (2003)
- The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
- Borstal Boy (2000)
- Boy Eats Girl (2005)
- The Boys from County Clare (2003) (also called The Boys and Girl from County Clare (U.S.) and The Great Ceili War (U.K.)
- Braveheart (1995) most of this film was shot on location in Ireland in Kildare and Wicklow and other parts of Ireland
- Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
- The Brylcreem Boys (1998) (Set in Ireland, filmed on the Isle of Man)
- The Butcher Boy (1997)
- Cal (1984)
- Captain Boycott (1947)
- Captain Lightfoot (1955)
- Circle of Friends (1995)
- The Commitments (1991)
- Cowboys & Angels (2003)
- Cry of the Innocent (1980)
- The Crying Game (1992)
- Da (1988)
- Dancing at Lughnasa (1990)
- Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
- The Dawn (1938) (also called Dawn Over Ireland)
- Dead Bodies (2003)
- Dead Meat (2004)
- Disco Pigs (2001)
- Divorcing Jack (1998)
- Drinking Crude (1997)
E-H
- Eliot & Me (2012)
- Evelyn (2003)
- Far and Away (1992)
- Fatal Inheritance (1993)
- The Field (1990)
- Finian's Rainbow (1968)
- Flick (2000)
- Flight of the Doves (1971)
- Fools of Fortune (1990)
- Frank (2014)
- Freeze Frame (2004)
- A Further Gesture (1997) (also called The Break)
- Garage (2007)
- The General (1998)
- Ghostwood (2006)
- Giro City (1982)
- Goldfish Memory (2003)
- Grabbers (2012)
- The Guarantee (2014)
- The Guard (2011)
- Halo Effect (2004)
- Happy Ever Afters (2009)
- Headrush (2003)
- Hear My Song (1992)
- Helen (2008)
- High Spirits (1988)
- His & Hers (2009)
- Holy Water (2009)
- Honeymoon for One (2011)
- How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1998)
I-L
- In Bruges (2008)
- In the Name of the Father (1993)
- The Informer (1935)
- Intermission (2003)
- Into the West (1992)
- Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
- The Last of the High Kings (1996) (also called Summer Fling)
- Langrishe, Go Down (1978)
- Laws of Attraction (2004)
- Leap Year (2010)
- Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
- Love and Rage (1998)
- Love, Rosie (2014)
M-P
- The Mackintosh Man (1973)
- Mad About Mambo (2000)
- The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
- Man About Dog (2004)
- Man of Aran (1934)
- The Matchmaker (1997)
- The Medallion (2003)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- Mickybo and Me (2004)
- My Friend Joe (1995)
- My Left Foot (1989)
- The Nephew (1998)
- A Nightingale Falling (2014)
- Nora (2000)
- Odd Man Out (1947)
- On the Edge (2001)
- Once (2006)
- Ondine (2010)
- Parked (2011)
- Pete's Meteor (2002)
- The Playboys (1992)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)
- P.S. I Love You (2007)
- The Purple Taxi (1977)
Q-T
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- Rawhead Rex (1986)
- Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
- Reefer and the Model (1988)
- Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)
- Ryan's Daughter (1970)
- Saltwater (2000)
- Secret of the Cave (2006)
- The Secret of Kells (2009)
- The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
- Shrooms (2007)
- Silence (2012)
- The Snapper (1993)
- Some Mother's Son (1996)
- Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
- Song of the Sea (2014)
- Speed Dating (2007)
- Spin The Bottle (2004)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- Steamin' + Dreamin': The Grandmaster Cash Story (2009)
- Studs (2006)
- Summer of the Flying Saucer (2008)
- Taffin (1988)
- Tara Road (2005)
- This Is My Father (1998)
- This Is The Sea (1997)
- This Is Us (2013)
- The Tiger's Tail (2006)
- Tristan & Isolde (2006)
- Trojan Eddie (1996)
- Trouble with Sex (2005)
- Tyrone (2006)
U-Z
- Ulysses (1967)
- The Van (1996)
- Veronica Guerin (2003)
- Waking Ned (1998) (also called Waking Ned Devine; filmed on the Isle of Man)
- War of the Buttons (1994)
- Watermelon (2003)
- W.C. (2009)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
- Winter's End (2005)
- When Ali Came to Ireland (2012)
- When Brendan Met Trudy (2001)
- Yesterday's Children (2000)
- Young Cassidy (1965)
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; Trim Castle used as Carlisle)
- David Copperfield (2000)
- Educating Rita (1983; set in Liverpool; university scenes shot in Dublin's Trinity College)
- Ek Tha Tiger (2012 Bollywood movie; a song shot in Dublin's Trinity College))
- Ella Enchanted (2004)[1]
- Excalibur (1981; entire movie shot in Ireland, including scene at Powerscourt Waterfall)
- Freeze Frame (2004)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009); filmed at the Cliffs of Moher
- Henry V (1944)
- The Italian Job (1969; jail scenes filmed in Kilmainham Jail; funeral scene at Cruagh Cemetery, near Rockbrook in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains)
- King Arthur (2004)
- The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005; almost entirely filmed in Northern Ireland)
- Moby Dick (1956; filmed in Youghal, County Cork)
- Moll Flanders (1996)
- The Princess Bride (1987; the Cliffs of Insanity scenes filmed at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare)
- Reign of Fire (2002; entire movie, includes scenes shot at Wicklow Gap and Poolbeg Generating Station)
- Sachein (2005 Tamil film); a song shot in Ireland
- Saving Private Ryan (1998; beach scenes filmed on Curracloe beach, County Wexford)
- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965; Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie scenes filmed at Smithfield, Dublin)
- Zardoz (1974)
Television mini-series set in Ireland
- Against the Wind (1978) (Irish and Australian settings)
- Amongst Women (1998)
- Captains & Kings (1976) (story of Irish Immigrant family)
- Falling for a Dancer (1998)
- The Hanging Gale (1995)
- Kings in Grass Castles (1998)
- Scarlett (1994) (continuation of Gone with the Wind)