List of The Troubles films

Below is an incomplete list of feature films, television films or TV series which include events of The Troubles and the Dissident Irish republican campaign. This list does not include documentaries, short films.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]

1960s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1968	United Kingdom	The Violent Enemy		Don Sharp	Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on a novel A Candle for the Dead.

1970s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Director	Subject
1974	Canada	A Quiet Day in Belfast	Milad Bessada	Drama. Based on the play A Quiet Day in Belfast.
1975	United Kingdom United States	Hennessy	Don Sharp	Action, Drama, Thriller.
1979	United States Netherlands	The Outsider	Tony Luraschi	Drama, History, Thriller. Based on a novel The Heritage of Michael Flaherty.

1980s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1980	United Kingdom	The Long Good Friday		John Mackenzie	Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller.
1981	United Kingdom	Looks and Smiles		Ken Loach	Drama.
1981	Ireland	Traveller		Joe Comerford	Drama.
1981	United Kingdom Ireland	Maeve		Pat Murphy	Drama.
1982	Ireland United Kingdom	Angel		Neil Jordan	Drama, Music, Thriller.
1983	United Kingdom	Acceptable Levels		John Davies	Drama.
1983	Belgium France	The Writing On The Wall	Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres	Armand Gatti	Drama.
1984	United Kingdom Ireland	Cal		Pat O'Connor	Drama, Thriller, Romance. Based on a novel Cal.
1985	United Kingdom	No Surrender		Peter Smith	Comedy.
1987	United Kingdom	Boy Soldier	Milwr Bychan	Karl Francis	Drama.
1987	United Kingdom	A Prayer for the Dying		Mike Hodges	Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on a novel A Prayer for the Dying.
1988	United Kingdom United States	For Queen and Country		Martin Stellman	Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller.
1989	United Kingdom United States	Elephant		Alan Clarke	Drama.

1990s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1990	United Kingdom	Hidden Agenda		Ken Loach	Drama, Thriller.
1992	United Kingdom	The Railway Station Man		Michael Whyte	Drama, Romance. Based on a novel The Railway Station Man.
1992	United States	Patriot Games		Phillip Noyce	Action, Thriller. Based on a novel Patriot Games.
1992	United Kingdom Japan	The Crying Game		Neil Jordan	Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller. Based on the short story Guests of the Nation.
1993	Ireland	High Boot Benny		Joe Comerford	Drama.
1993	Ireland United States	In the Name of the Father		Jim Sheridan	Biography, Crime, Drama. Based on an autobiography Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four. Guildford pub bombings, Guildford Four and Maguire Seven
1994	United States	Patriots		Frank Kerr	Thriller.
1994	United States	Blown Away		Stephen Hopkins	Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller.
1995	United Kingdom Ireland	Nothing Personal		Thaddeus O'Sullivan	Drama.
1996	Lebanon Germany Ireland	Warshots	Kriegsbilder	Heiner Stadler
1996	Ireland United States	Some Mother's Son		Terry George	Drama, History. 1981 Irish hunger strike
1997	Ireland	This Is the Sea		Mary McGuckian	Drama, Romance.
1997	United Kingdom	The Eliminator		Enda Hughes	Action, Comedy.
1997	United States	The Devil's Own		Alan J. Pakula	Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller.
1997	United Kingdom Spain Germany Ireland Japan	A Further Gesture		Robert Dornhelm	Drama, Romance, Thriller.
1997	Ireland United States	The Boxer		Jim Sheridan	Drama, Romance, Sport.
1997	United States United Kingdom France Germany Japan	The Jackal		Michael Caton-Jones	Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on a novel The Day of the Jackal.
1997	United States	My Brother's War		James Brolin	Action, Thriller.
1998	United Kingdom	Crossmaheart		Henry Herbert	Drama. Based on a novel Cycle of Violence.
1998	United States United Kingdom	Ronin		John Frankenheimer	Action, Crime, Thriller.
1998	United Kingdom Ireland	The General		John Boorman	Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on the book The General. Martin Cahill
1998	United Kingdom	Divorcing Jack		David Caffrey	Thriller, Comedy. Based on a novel Divorcing Jack.
1998	United Kingdom	Titanic Town		Roger Michell	Drama.
1998	United Kingdom	Resurrection Man		Marc Evans	Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on a novel Resurrection Man. Shankill Butchers
1999	Ireland	Sunset Heights		Colm Villa	Action, Thriller.
1999	United Kingdom United States	Shergar		Dennis Lewiston	Crime, Drama, Romance, Sport. Shergar

2000s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2000	Ireland United States	Moving Target		Paul Ziller	Action.
2000	United States	An Everlasting Piece		Barry Levinson	Comedy.
2001	United Kingdom Ireland	Mapmaker		Johnny Gogan	Thriller.
2001	Ireland	Silent Grace		Maeve Murphy	Drama. Based on the plays The Armagh Women, Now and at the hour of our Death. Dirty protest
2001	Ireland	H3		Les Blair	Drama. 1981 Irish hunger strike
2002	United Kingdom Ireland	Boxed		Marion Comer	Drama.
2004	United Kingdom France Ireland	Mickybo and Me		Terry Loane	Comedy, Drama. Based on the play Mojo Mickybo.
2005	Italy	The Silence of the Skylark	Il silenzio dell'allodola	David Ballerini	Drama.
2005	Ireland United Kingdom	The Mighty Celt		Pearse Elliot	Drama.
2005	Ireland United Kingdom	Breakfast on Pluto		Neil Jordan	Comedy, Drama. Based on a novel Breakfast on Pluto.
2006	United States Ireland	I.R.A.: King of Nothing		Damian Chapa	Action, Drama.
2006	United Kingdom Ireland	Johnny Was		Mark Hammond	Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller.
2007	United Kingdom Canada United States	Closing the Ring		Richard Attenborough	Drama, Romance.
2008	Ireland	Anton		Graham Cantwell	Action, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller.
2008	Ireland	Peacefire		Macdara Vallely	Drama.
2008	United Kingdom Ireland	Hunger		Steve McQueen	Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller. 1981 Irish hunger strike
2008	United Kingdom Canada	Fifty Dead Men Walking		Kari Skogland	Crime, Drama, Thriller. Based on Martin McGartland's autobiography.
2009	United States	Disappearing in America		Erik Rodgers	Drama.
2009	United Kingdom Ireland	Five Minutes of Heaven		Oliver Hirschbiegel	Drama, Thriller.

2010s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
2011	United States	No Saints for Sinners		Nathan Frankowski	Action, Crime.
2012	United Kingdom Ireland	Shadow Dancer		James Marsh	Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Based on a novel Shadow Dancer.
2013	United Kingdom Ireland	Good Vibrations		Lisa Barros D'Sa Glenn Leyburn	Biography, Drama, Music.
2013	United Kingdom	The Best Years		Danny Patrick	Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance.
2013	Ireland	A Belfast Story		Nathan Todd	Crime, Drama.
2014	United Kingdom	Shooting for Socrates		James Erskine	Comedy, Drama, Sport. 1986 FIFA World Cup
2014	United Kingdom	'71		Yann Demange	Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War.
2016	United Kingdom	The Truth Commissioner		Declan Recks	Crime, Drama, Thriller.
2016	United Kingdom	The Journey		Nick Hamm	Biography, Drama, History. Ian Paisley, Martin McGuinness, St Andrews Agreement.
2017	United Kingdom China United States India	The Foreigner		Martin Campbell	Action, Thriller. Based on a novel The Chinaman.
2017	United Kingdom Ireland Sweden Germany	Maze		Stephen Burke	Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller. Maze Prison escape
2018	Ireland United Kingdom	Penance	Aithrí	Tommy Collins	Action, Romance. Based on the story Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach.
2019	United Kingdom	Cyprus Avenue		Rhodri Huw Vicky Featherstone	Comedy, Drama, Thriller.

2020s

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Director	Subject
2020	United Kingdom Ireland	Wildfire	Cathy Brady	Drama.
2021	Ireland	A Bend in the River	Colin Broderick	Drama.
2021	United Kingdom	Belfast	Kenneth Branagh	Biography, Drama, Romance. 1969 Northern Ireland riots
2022	Ireland	The Troubles: A Dublin Story	Luke Hanlon	Crime, Drama.
2023	United Kingdom	Dead Shot	Tom Guard Charles Guard	Action, Thriller. Based on the book The Road to Balcombe Street.
2023	Ireland United Kingdom	Baltimore	Joe Lawlor Christine Molloy	Thriller. Rose Dugdale
2023	Ireland	In the Land of Saints and Sinners	Robert Lorenz	Action, Crime, Thriller.
2024	Ireland United Kingdom	Kneecap	Rich Peppiatt	Comedy, Drama. Kneecap

Upcoming films

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
202X	United Kingdom	The Sniper's Daughter (Stranger with a Camera)		Oorlagh George	Mystery.

Science fiction, fantasy, and horror films

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Original title (Original script)	Director	Subject
1975	Italy	Mondo candido		Gualtiero Jacopetti Franco E. Prosperi	Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy. Based on a novel Candide.
1976	France Italy West Germany Canada	Born for Hell	Die Hinrichtung	Denis Héroux	Drama, Horror, Thriller. Richard Speck

Television films

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Director	Subject
1972	United States United Kingdom	A War of Children	George Schaefer	Drama.
1980	United Kingdom	Murphy's Stroke	Frank Cvitanovich	Drama.
1980	United Kingdom	The Long March	Chris Parr	Drama.
1981	United Kingdom	Nailed	June Howson
1982	United Kingdom	Giro City	Karl Francis	Drama, Thriller.
1983	United Kingdom	Across the Water	Paul Seed	Drama.
1984	United Kingdom	Killer Waiting	Michael Ferguson	Thriller.
1984	United States Ireland	Children in the Crossfire	George Schaefer	Drama.
1984	United Kingdom	Four Days in July	Mike Leigh	Drama.
1985	United Kingdom	We'll Support You Evermore	Douglas Livingstone	Drama.
1986	Canada	In This Corner	Atom Egoyan	Drama.
1987	United Kingdom	Rat in the Skull	Glyn Edwards Max Stafford-Clark	Drama.
1988	New Zealand	The Grasscutter	Ian Mune	Crime.
1989	Ireland United Kingdom	Hush-a-Bye Baby	Margo Harkin	Romance.
1990	Ireland	Dear Sarah	Frank Cvitanovich	Drama. Guildford Four and Maguire Seven
1992	United Kingdom	You, Me and Marley	Richard Spence	Drama.
1995	Canada United Kingdom	Beyond Reason	Jim O'Brien	Drama.
1997	Ireland	Bogwoman	Tommy Collins	Drama.
1997	Ireland United States	The Informant	Jim McBride	Drama. Based on the book Field of Blood.
1999	United Kingdom	Vicious Circle	David Blair	Crime, Drama. Based on the book The General. Martin Cahill
2002	United Kingdom	As the Beast Sleeps	Harry Bradbeer	Drama. Ulster Defence Association
2002	United Kingdom Ireland	Sunday	Charles McDougall	Drama. Bloody Sunday
2002	United Kingdom Ireland United States	Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass	Drama, History, War. Based on the book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday. Ivan Cooper, Bloody Sunday
2003	United Kingdom Ireland	Holy Cross	Mark Brozel	Drama. Holy Cross dispute
2004	Ireland United Kingdom	Omagh	Pete Travis	Drama. Omagh bombing
2006	United Kingdom	Cracker	Antonia Bird	Crime, Drama.
2018	United Kingdom	Mother's Day	Fergus O'Brien	Drama. Warrington bombings

TV series

Year	Country	Main title (Alternative title)	Director	Subject
1982	United Kingdom	Harry's Game	Lawrence Gordon Clark	Thriller. Based on a novel Harry's Game.
1985	United Kingdom	Confessional	Gordon Flemyng	Thriller. Based on a novel Confessional.
1985	United Kingdom Ireland	The Price	Peter Smith	Drama, Thriller.
1988	United Kingdom	Crossfire	Ken Hannam	Thriller.
1988	Ireland Australia	Act of Betrayal	Lawrence Gordon Clark	Drama, Thriller.
1989-90	United Kingdom	Frederick Forsyth Presents	Tom Clegg Lawrence Gordon Clark Ian Sharp James Cellan Jones	Action, Thriller. Based on a novel The Deceiver.
1991	United Kingdom	Children of the North	David Drury	Thriller. Based on a novels The Killing of Yesterday's Children, Lonely the Man Without Heroes and A Darkness in the Eye.
1992	United Kingdom	Civvies	Karl Francis	Drama.
1993-96	United Kingdom	Circles of Deceit	Geoffrey Sax Nicholas Laughland Alan Grint Peter Barber-Fleming
1995 1998-2007 2016 2018-2023	United Kingdom Ireland	Give My Head Peace		Comedy.
2001	United Kingdom	The Bombmaker	Graham Theakston	Action. Based on a novel The Bombmaker.
2005	United Kingdom	The Rotters' Club	Tony Dean Smith	Drama. Based on a novel The Rotters' Club.
2012	United Kingdom	White Heat	John Alexander	Drama.
2014	United Kingdom	From There to Here	James Strong	Drama. 1996 Manchester bombing
2018-22	United Kingdom	Derry Girls	Michael Lennox	Comedy.
2022	Netherlands	The Spectacular	Pieter Kuijpers Willem Bosch	Crime, Drama, Thriller. Donna Maguire

References

^ Gallagher, Richard (2023). Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Springer Nature. ISBN 9783031234361.
^ Gallagher, Richard (2021). "The Troubles Crime Thriller and the Future of Films about Northern Ireland" (PDF). Queen's University Belfast.
^ Brereton, Pat (2022). "Troubles and Northern Ireland: Representations in Film of Belfast as a Site of Conflict". Project MUSE.
^ McLoone, Martin (2009). "Film, Television and the Troubles" (PDF). Troubles Archive.
^ Gillespie, Gordon (3 October 2020). "Films". Shared Future News.
^ McKittrick, David (30 October 2008). "Why are all the Troubles' films about republicans?". Belfast Telegraph.
^ "Classic films with the Troubles in mind". The Independent.
^ "The Top 10 Films of the Troubles (1969-1998)". Top 10 Film Lists. 27 May 2021.
^ Clarke, Donald (31 August 2019). "The Troubles on film: 'Hollywood has done everywhere and it's always wrong'". The Irish Times.

[1] Gallagher, Richard (2023). Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Springer Nature. ISBN 9783031234361.

[2] Gallagher, Richard (2021). "The Troubles Crime Thriller and the Future of Films about Northern Ireland" (PDF). Queen's University Belfast.

[3] Brereton, Pat (2022). "Troubles and Northern Ireland: Representations in Film of Belfast as a Site of Conflict". Project MUSE.

[4] McLoone, Martin (2009). "Film, Television and the Troubles" (PDF). Troubles Archive.

[5] Gillespie, Gordon (3 October 2020). "Films". Shared Future News.

[6] McKittrick, David (30 October 2008). "Why are all the Troubles' films about republicans?". Belfast Telegraph.

[7] "Classic films with the Troubles in mind". The Independent.

[8] "The Top 10 Films of the Troubles (1969-1998)". Top 10 Film Lists. 27 May 2021.

[9] Clarke, Donald (31 August 2019). "The Troubles on film: 'Hollywood has done everywhere and it's always wrong'". The Irish Times.

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