Closing the Ring (
2007) | IMDb:
6.5
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Starring:
Shirley MacLaine
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Martin McCann
,
Neve Campbell
,
Allan Hawco
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (
2006) | IMDb:
7.5
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Starring:
Cillian Murphy
,
Pádraic Delaney
,
Liam Cunningham
,
Orla Fitzgerald
,
Gerard Kearney
,
William Ruane
Man About Dog (
2004) | IMDb:
6.4
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads head south on a road trip in the hope of seeing a man about a dog. Foul-mouthed and funny, Man About Dog is full of great craic.
Directed by:
Paddy Breathnach
Conspiracy of Silence (
2003) | IMDb:
6.5
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Starring:
Jonathan Forbes
,
Hugh Bonneville
,
Brenda Fricker
,
Sean McGinley
,
Jason Barry
,
Hugh Quarshie
Directed by:
John Deery
Produced by:
Gangs of New York (
2002) | IMDb:
7.5
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Cameron Diaz
,
Jim Broadbent
,
John C. Reilly
,
Henry Thomas
The Claim (
2000) | IMDb:
6.3
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
Starring:
Peter Mullan
,
Milla Jovovich
,
Wes Bentley
,
Nastassja Kinski
,
Sarah Polley
,
Shirley Henderson
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
Circle of Friends (
1995) | IMDb:
6.6
Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?
Starring:
Chris O'Donnell
,
Minnie Driver
,
Geraldine O'Rawe
,
Saffron Burrows
,
Alan Cumming
,
Colin Firth