War Horse (
2011) | IMDb:
7.2
On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.
Starring:
Jeremy Irvine
,
Peter Mullan
,
Emily Watson
,
Niels Arestrup
,
David Thewlis
,
Tom Hiddleston
Robin Hood (
2010) | IMDb:
6.6
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
The Constant Gardener (
2005) | IMDb:
7.4
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Rachel Weisz
,
Danny Huston
,
Bill Nighy
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Richard McCabe
Veronica Guerin (
2003) | IMDb:
6.8
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Starring:
Cate Blanchett
,
Colin Farrell
,
Gerard McSorley
,
Ciarán Hinds
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Don Wycherley
Angela's Ashes (
1999) | IMDb:
7.3
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Starring:
Emily Watson
,
Robert Carlyle
,
Joe Breen
,
Michael Legge
,
Ciarán Owens
,
Ronnie Masterson
Directed by:
Alan Parker
The Deep End of the Ocean (
1999) | IMDb:
6.3
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
Starring:
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Treat Williams
,
Jonathan Jackson
,
Ryan Merriman
,
Alexa PenaVega
,
Whoopi Goldberg
Directed by:
Ulu Grosbard
Michael Collins (
1996) | IMDb:
7.1
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Directed by:
Neil Jordan
Braveheart (
1995) | IMDb:
8.3
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Catherine McCormack
,
Sophie Marceau
,
Patrick McGoohan
,
Angus Macfadyen
,
Brendan Gleeson
An Awfully Big Adventure (
1995) | IMDb:
5.8
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Starring:
Alan Rickman
,
Hugh Grant
,
Georgina Cates
,
Alun Armstrong
,
Peter Firth
,
Prunella Scales
In the Name of the Father (
1993) | IMDb:
8.1
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Emma Thompson
,
John Lynch
,
Corin Redgrave
,
Beatie Edney
S.O.S. Titanic (
1980) | IMDb:
6.2
The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Starring:
David Janssen
,
Cloris Leachman
,
Susan Saint James
,
David Warner
,
Ian Holm
,
Helen Mirren
Directed by:
William Hale