01 An Irish immigrant in 1950s New York is torn between her new life and the one she left behind.
14 Best Irish Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 1, 2026
Ireland Drama thought provokingfeel good
Irish cinema keeps returning to the same tension between hard history and warm, plain-spoken humor, whether that’s a wrongful conviction case or a Dublin busker recording an album in one unexpectedly intimate week.
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02 Devastating in the first half, genuinely hopeful by the end.
03 An unorthodox rural Irish police officer teams up with an FBI agent on a drug-smuggling case.
04 A family's grinding poverty in 1930s Limerick is recalled through a son's eventual escape to America.
05 Two brothers end up on opposite sides of the Irish War of Independence and civil war.
06 A sudden, inexplicable friendship breakup escalates into something much darker on a remote Irish island.
07 A Dublin teenager starts a band purely to impress a girl, and it becomes much more than that.
08 A Dublin busker and a Czech immigrant record an album together over one unexpectedly intimate week.
09 A man with cerebral palsy learns to paint and write using only his left foot.
10 A wrongly convicted man fights to clear his name and his father's alongside him.
11 A revolutionary leader's fight for Irish independence collides with the compromises of the treaty that follows.
12 A group of working-class Dubliners form an unlikely soul band determined to bring real music to Ireland.
13 A good priest is given seven days to prepare for his own murder, promised by a parishioner he wronged long ago.
14 A neglected girl sent to live with distant relatives for a summer experiences real kindness for the first time.
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