List of films set in Ireland

This is a list of films set in Ireland.

A

• 32A (2007)
• A taste of honey (1961)
• About Adam (2000)
• Accelerator (1999)
• The Actors (2003)
• Adam & Paul (2004)
• Agnes Browne (1999)
• Alarm (2008)
• Albert Nobbs (2011)
• American Women (2000) - also called The Closer You Get
• Angel (1982) - also called Danny Boy
• Angela's Ashes (1999)
• Another Shore (1948)
• Anton (2008)

B

• The Ballroom of Romance (1982)
• Barry Lyndon (1975)
• Beloved Enemy (1936)
• 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 (US) and The Great Ceili War (UK)
• Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
• Brooklyn (2015)
• The Brylcreem Boys (1998) - set in Ireland, filmed on the Isle of Man
• The Butcher Boy (1997)
• Braveheart (May 19, 1995)

C

• Cal (1984)
• Calvary (2014)
• 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)

D

• Da (1988)
• Dancing at Lughnasa (1990)
• Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
• A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
• The Dawn (1938) - also called Dawn Over Ireland
• Dead Bodies (2003)
• Dead Meat (2004)
• Disco Pigs (2001)
• Divorcing Jack (1998)
• Drinking Crude (1997)

E

• Eliot & Me (2012)
• Evelyn (2003)

F

• 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)
• The Fox of Glenarvon (1940)
• Frank (2014)
• Freeze Frame (2004)
• A Further Gesture (1997) - also called The Break

G

• Garage (2007)
• The General (1998)
• Ghostwood (2006)
• Giro City (1982)
• Goldfish Memory (2003)
• Grabbers (2012)
• The Guarantee (2014)
• The Guard (2011)

H

• The Hallow (2015) - originally titled The Woods
• Halo Effect (2004)
• Happy Ever Afters (2009)
• Headrush (2003)
• Hear My Song (1992)
• Helen (2008)
• High Spirits (1988)
• His & Hers (20
• Holy Water (2009)
• Honeymoon for One (2011)
• How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1998)

I

• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• The Informer (1935)
• Intermission (2003)
• Into the West (1992)
• Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
• I See a Dark Stranger (1946)

J

• Juno and the Paycock (1930)
• Jimmy's Hall (2014)

K

• Kisses (2008)
• Korea (1996)

L

• Langrishe, Go Down (1978)
• Light Years Away (1981)
• The Last of the High Kings (1996) - also called Summer Fling
• Laws of Attraction (2004)
• Leap Year (2010)
• Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
• The Lodgers (2017)
• The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
• Love and Rage (1998)
• A Love Divided (1999)
• Love, Rosie (2014)
• The Luck of the Irish (1948)

M

• 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)
• Michael Inside (2017)
• Mickybo and Me (2004)
• My Friend Joe (1995)
• My Left Foot (1989)
• My Life for Ireland (1941)

N

• The Nephew (1998)
• A Nightingale Falling (2014)
• Night Train (1998)
• Nora (2000)
• Nothing Personal (2009)

O

• Odd Man Out (1947)
• Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)
• On the Edge (2001)
• Once (2006)
• Ondine (2010)

P

• Parked (2011)
• Parnell (1937)
• Pete's Meteor (2002)
• The Playboys (1992)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1977)
• P.S. I Love You (2007)
• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
• The Purple Taxi (1977)

Q

• Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970)
• The Quiet Man (1952)

R

• Rawhead Rex (1986)
• Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
• Reefer and the Model (1988)
• Round Ireland with a Fridge (2010)
• Ryan's Daughter (1970)

S

• Saltwater (2000)
• Secret of the Cave (2006)
• The Secret of Kells (2009)
• The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
• Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
• 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)
• Steamin' + Dreamin': The Grandmaster Cash Story (2009)
• Studs (2006)
• Summer of the Flying Saucer (2008)

T

• Taffin (1988)
• Tara Road (2005)
• This Is My Father (1998)
• This Is The Sea (1997)
• This Is Us (2013)
• Three Wishes for Jamie (1987)
• The Tiger's Tail (2006)
• Tristan & Isolde (2006)
• Trojan Eddie (1996)
• Trouble with Sex (2005)
• Tyrone (2006)

U

• Ulysses (1967)

V

• The Van (1996)
• Veronica Guerin (2003)

W

• 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)

Y

• Yesterday's Children (2000)
• Young Cassidy (1965)
• The Young Offenders (2016)

List of films shot in Ireland

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

• A Dark Song (2016) - Horror Film set mostly in Wales. Movie shot in Ireland
• Henry V (1944)
• Moby Dick (1956) - filmed in Youghal, County Cork
• The siege of Sidney Street (1960)
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965) - Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie scenes were filmed at Smithfield, Dublin
• The Blue Max (1966) - set in WWI France
• The Italian Job (1969) - jail scenes filmed in Kilmainham Jail; funeral scene at Cruagh Cemetery, near Rockbrook in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains
• Sitting target (1972) - Kilmainham Jail
• The Mackintosh Man (1973) - includes scenes shot at Roundstone, County Galway
• Zardoz (1974)
• The last remake of beau geste (1977)
• The first great train robbery (1978)
• McVicar (1980) - Mountjoy Prison
• Excalibur (1981) - entire movie shot in Ireland, including a scene at Powerscourt Waterfall
• Educating Rita (1983;) - set in Liverpool; university scenes shot in Dublin's Trinity College
• The Princess Bride (1987) - the Cliffs of Insanity scenes filmed at the Cliffs of Moher, County Clare
• Braveheart (1995) - set in Scotland but almost entirely filmed in Ireland; Trim Castle used as Carlisle
• Moll Flanders (1996)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998) - beach scenes filmed on Curracloe beach, County Wexford
• David Copperfield (2000)
• Reign of Fire (2002) - entire movie, includes scenes shot at Wicklow Gap and Poolbeg Generating Station
• Ella Enchanted (2004)
• King Arthur (2004)
• Freeze Frame (2004)
• Sachein (2005) - Tamil film; a song was shot in Ireland
• The League Of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005) - almost entirely filmed in Northern Ireland
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) - filmed at the Cliffs of Moher
• Ek Tha Tiger (2012) - Bollywood movie; a song was shot in Dublin's Trinity College
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) - Skellig Michael County Kerry
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

Television mini-series set in Ireland

• Against the Wind (1978) - Irish and Australian settings
• Amongst Women (1998)
• Captains & Kings (1976) - story of an Irish immigrant family)
• Falling for a Dancer (1998)
• The Hanging Gale (1995)
• Kings in Grass Castles (1998)
• Scarlett (1994) - sequel to Gone with the Wind

See also

• Cinema of Ireland
• Category:Films shot in Ireland
• Cinema of Northern Ireland
• List of films set in Northern Ireland
• List of movies based on location