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Criterion Channel
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7.5
/28960/
74
/798/
72
/404/
3.9
/38849/
97
/32/
89
/773/
82
/16/
cc age 17+

The Long Good Friday (1980)
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
poster
65
6.2
/1379/
64
/31/
60
/20/
3.3
/294/
92
/24/
53
/16/

The Playboys (1992)
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
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Amazon Prime Video
75
65
7.5
/5165/
75
/106/
73
/140/
3.7
/1761/
67
/6/
89
/134/

Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a school for wayward boys run by Brother John, who is a firm believer in strong discipline.
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Hoopla
75
64
7.3
/4900/
71
/85/
69
/112/
3.6
/3524/
92
/223/

War of the Buttons (1994)
War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.
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Starz
55
6.4
/115293/
68
/3635/
69
/2113/
3.0
/134186/
24
/141/
47
/3747/
33
/30/
cc age 11+

Leap Year (2010)
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
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52
6.3
/14737/
65
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61
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/2492/
14
/7/
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/208/

Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
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44
7.2
/1793/
72
/26/
63
/22/
3.5
/412/
88
/8/
78
/68/

Omagh (2005)
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
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41
6.2
/1975/
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/113/
3.1
/1234/
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/92/

Oliver Twist (1997)
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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6.0
/2070/
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/36/
52
/37/
3.0
/350/
42
/131/

Tara Road (2005)
A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
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21
6.3
/1049/
55
/15/
57
/19/
3.3
/733/
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Angel (1982)
Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader. So begins his quest to avenge her.
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15
5.4
/882/
63
/11/
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/11/
65
/12/

Resurrection Man (1998)
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
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Kanopy
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10
5.5
/424/
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46
/9/
3.2
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38
/17/

Bloom (2003)
Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom.
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10
/1/

Crossfire (1988)
A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.
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5.5
/51/
45
/2/

High Boot Benny (1993)
A police informant is found dead in a boarding-school situated near the border between Ulster and Eire. There are three suspects: the protestant school headmistress; Marley, an unfrocked missionary priest; and Benny, a seventeen-year-old criminal who has taken sanctuary in the school...
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4.7
/36/
10
/1/

Traveller (1981)
Reluctantly-married young Irish travellers Michael and Angela head north of the border at the behest of Angela’s father, to smuggle electrical equipment back to resell. Joining up with IRA man Clicky on the way, the ill-matched couple embark on an uneasy journey marked by blood and murder.
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10
/1/

Hostage (1985)
Against the backdrop of the bombing campaign in Britain and the Northern Ireland Hunger Strike, a young woman joins a terrorist operation which takes three people hostage. Over the days of their captivity, she questions her own involvement and the history of Ireland which has brought her to this point.
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7.6
/205/
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Sinners (2002)
Powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland about a young, unmarried mother-to-be whose family sends her to a convent. There, out of sight of society, her work in the laundry provides her with close friendships, which bring hope and relief from daily prayer and penance. (Radio Times)
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10
/1/

Nineteen96 (1989)
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
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6.9
/91/
100
/1/

The Wednesdays (2007)
Sometimes, when you're in the autumn of your days, you'll try anything just to put a smile on your face again. And so in this funny, sad (and sometimes wobbly) tale we meet two pensioners who manage to re-ignite the love they'd almost forgotten about. Unfortunately, soon the law comes knocking at their door
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10
/1/

Afternoon of War (1980)
Adapted from the short story "The Mouse and the Woman" by Dylan Thomas, it is a story set in the secluded valleys of Wales during the 1914-18 war. The story of a man who is as handy with his fists as with his poetic fantasy. His masculinity fascinates Gilda, the wife of the owner of the mine.
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5.2
/126/
20
/1/
10
/1/

Gold In The Streets (1997)
An Irish immigrant lands in the Bronx, working at an Italian-owned bar while living with fellow undocumented immigrants. Fears of deportation and uncertainty about their place haunt him and his cousin.
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6.5
/197/
10
/1/
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/1/

Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by The Whitman Turnpike Trust, headed by the drunken Lord Sarn. So Raine dons a mask and, calling himself Rebecca, instructs his followers to dress as women as they attack the tolls, leading the common people to victory over their masters.
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5.6
/332/
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/18/
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Three Wise Women (2010)
After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forced to abandon her. Later, when she grows to be a miserable woman, her angel is given a second chance to save her from a life of sadness. To accomplish his goal, he travels through time to recruit the woman's past and future selves to help her reconcile with her father and change her direction in life.
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6.6
/17/

Phoelix (1979)
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.
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Waterloo Dentures (2003)
A story of doomed love, the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and a gruesome tale from ancient history.
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The Englishman's Wife (1990)
A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.


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