Best Movies from Ireland by Rank
566
1
1989
Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker
Drama / Biography
Ireland / UK
English
819
2
1997
Neil Jordan
Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle II, Sean McGinley, Peter Gowen
Comedy / Drama
Ireland / USA
English
867
3
2023
Yorgos Lanthimos
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott
Romance / Sci-Fi / Comedy / Fantasy
Ireland / UK / USA
English
1087
4
2022
Martin McDonagh
Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan
Drama / Comedy
Ireland / UK / USA
English
1348
5
1993
Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite
Drama
Ireland / UK
English
1385
6
2018
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Emma Stone
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
1399
7
2015
Lenny Abrahamson
Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, Jacob Tremblay, Megan Park, Amanda Brugel
Drama
Ireland / Canada
English
1491
8
2006
John Carney
Alaistair Foley, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Geoff Minogue
Drama / Musical
Ireland
English
1544
9
2002
Peter Mullan
Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Geraldine McEwan, Dorothy Duffy
Drama / Religion / Period Film
UK / Ireland
English
1586
10
2015
John Crowley
Saoirse Ronan, Matt Glynn, Brid Brennan, Jim Broadbent, Maeve McGrath
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Ireland / UK / Canada
English
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1653
11
2002
Jim Sheridan
Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger
Drama / Romance / Comedy
Ireland / UK
English
1671
12
1998
John Boorman
Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight, Sean McGinley
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Biography / Gangster
UK / Ireland
English
1780
13
1997
John Madden
Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2053
14
1991
Alan Parker
Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Comedy / Drama / Music
Ireland / UK / USA
English
2072
15
2011
John Michael McDonagh
Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan
Comedy / Thriller / Detective
Ireland
English
2177
16
2002
Paul Greengrass
James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan
Drama
UK / Ireland
English
2186
17
2021
David Lowery
Anaïs Rizzo, Joe Anderson, Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Noelle Brown
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action
Ireland / Canada / USA / UK
English
2223
18
2016
John Carney
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor, Lucy Boynton
Drama / Musical / Comedy
Ireland / UK / USA
English
2227
19
1959
Michael Anderson
James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns, Michael Redgrave
Drama
Ireland / USA
English
2235
20
1998
Mike Hodges
Clive Owen, Nick Reding, Nicholas Ball, Alexander Morton
Crime / Drama / Caper
France / UK / Germany / Ireland
English
2265
21
2014
John Michael McDonagh
Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran
Comedy / Drama
Ireland / UK
English
2311
22
2015
Yorgos Lanthimos
Rachel Weisz, Colin Farrell, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly
Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Greece / UK / Ireland / Netherlands / France
English
2391
23
1972
Robert Altman
Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2394
24
2008
Steve McQueen
Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Liam Cunningham
Drama / History
UK / Ireland
English
2411
25
2002
Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
Hugo Chavez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms, Colin Powell, George Tenet
Documentary / History / War
Ireland / Netherlands / USA / Germany / Finland / UK
English
2414
26
2006
Ken Loach
Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney, William Ruane
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Ireland / UK
English
2421
27
2022
Colm Bairéad
Carrie Crowley, Andrew Bennett, Catherine Clinch, Michael Patric
Drama
Ireland
Irish
2458
28
2017
Yorgos Lanthimos
Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2458
28
2016
Whit Stillman
Kate Beckinsale, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Jenn Murray, Lochlann O'Mearáin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Ireland / Netherlands / France / USA
English
2469
29
2005
Neil Jordan
Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Laurence Kinlan, Stephen Rea
Comedy / Drama / Period Film
Ireland / UK
English
2511
30
2005
Richard Shepard
Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Arlin Miller, Azucena Medina
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA / Germany / Ireland
English
2554
31
1998
Pat O'Connor
Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Gerard McSorley, Catherine McCormack
Drama / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
2605
32
1970
Waris Hussein
Gene Wilder, Margot Kidder, Eileen Colgan, May Ollis, Seamus Forde, David Kelly
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Ireland
English
2633
33
2009
Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey
Brendan Gleeson, Mick Lally, Evan McGuire, Christen Mooney, Liam Hourican
Animation / Adventure / Fantasy / Family
France / Belgium / Ireland
English
2633
33
2014
Tomm Moore
David Rawle, Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan, Lucy O'Connell
Animation / Family / Fantasy
Ireland / Denmark / Belgium / Luxembourg / France
English
2645
34
2018
Julian Schnabel
Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric
Biography / Drama
Switzerland / UK / France / USA / Ireland
English
2645
34
1993
Stephen Frears
Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Eanna MacLiam, Peter Rowan
Comedy / Drama
UK / Ireland
English
2667
35
2001
Werner Herzog
Tim Roth, Jouko Ahola, Anna Gourari, Max Raabe, Jacob Wein
Drama / War / Biography
UK / Germany / Ireland / USA
English
2676
36
1991
Peter Chelsom
Brian Flanagan, Constance Cowley, Marie Mullen, Phil Kelly, Jean Blanchflower
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Ireland / UK
English
2676
36
2003
John Crowley
Colin Farrell, Kerry Condon, Johnny Thompson, Emma Bolger, Deirdre Molloy
Crime / Drama / Comedy / Detective / Caper
Ireland / UK
English
2688
37
2017
Nora Twomey
Saara Chaudry, Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Ali Badshah, Noorin Gulamgaus
Animation / Family / Drama
Ireland / Canada / Luxembourg
English
2705
38
2014
Lenny Abrahamson
Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy
Comedy / Drama / Mystery
UK / Ireland
English
2724
39
1996
Neil Jordan
Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Ian Hart, Richard Ingram, Aidan Quinn
Drama / History / Biography
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2740
40
1957
John Ford
Noel Purcell, Cyril Cusack, Jimmy O'Dea, Tyrone Power
Comedy / Drama
Ireland / USA
English
2763
41
1994
John Sayles
Jeni Courtney, Pat Slowey, Dave Duffy, Declan Hannigan
Family / Fantasy / Adventure / Drama
USA / Ireland
English
2775
42
2003
Joel Schumacher
Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Don Wycherley
Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA / Ireland / UK
English
2783
43
1991
Roman Kroitor, David Douglas, Christine Strand, Julien Temple, Noel Archambault
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman, Chuck Leavell
Documentary / Music
Ireland / Canada / USA
English
2788
44
2001
Goran Paskaljevic
Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Cillian Murphy, Kerry Condon, Pat Laffan
Drama
Italy / France / UK / Ireland
English
2788
44
2015
Jerzy Skolimowski
Richard Dormer, Paulina Chapko, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Dawid Ogrodnik
Drama / Thriller
Poland / Ireland
Polish
2788
44
2010
Jerzy Skolimowski
Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Nicolai Cleve Broch
Thriller / War
Poland / Norway / Ireland / Hungary
English
2788
44
1997
Jim McBride, Nicholas Meyer
Anthony Brophy, Cary Elwes, Timothy Dalton, Maria Lennon
Drama
Ireland / USA
English
2788
44
1995
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Ian Hart, John Lynch, James Frain, Michael Gambon, Gary Lydon
Drama
UK / Ireland
English
2789
45
1997
Jim Sheridan
Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Ken Stott
Drama / Romance
USA / Ireland
English
2793
46
2011
Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Catherine Hansard, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová
Documentary / Music / Romance / Biography
USA / Czech Republic / Ireland
English
2794
47
2023
John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Caper
USA / Canada / UK / Iceland / Ireland / Australia
English
2801
48
1995
Pat O'Connor
Chris O'Donnell, Minnie Driver, Geraldine O'Rawe, Saffron Burrows, Alan Cumming
Drama / Romance
Ireland / USA / UK
English
2801
48
2004
Tommy O'Haver
Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Aidan McArdle, Joanna Lumley
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance / Adventure / Family
USA / Ireland / UK
English
2801
48
2002
Neil Jordan
Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui
Crime / Drama / Caper / Thriller
France / UK / Ireland / Canada
English
2801
48
1992
Mike Newell
Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ciarán Fitzgerald
Family / Adventure / Fantasy
Ireland / UK
English
2801
48
2001
John Boorman
Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis, Leonor Varela, Brendan Gleeson
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Comedy
USA / Ireland
English
2801
48
2011
Paolo Sorrentino
Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Kerry Condon
Comedy / Drama
Italy / France / Ireland
English
2801
48
1996
Trevor Nunn
Helena Bonham Carter, Nigel Hawthorne, Imogen Stubbs, Sid Livingstone
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2801
48
1994
John Irvin
Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, Natasha Richardson, Adrian Dunbar, Jim Broadbent
Thriller / Comedy / Romance / Mystery
UK / Ireland
English
2807
49
2011
Rodrigo García
Glenn Close, Mia Wasikowska, Janet McTeer, Brendan Gleeson, Aaron Johnson
Drama / Period Film
UK / Ireland
English
2807
49
2016
Brett Berns, Bob Sarles
Bert Berns, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Carmine DeNoia, Solomon Burke
Documentary / Music
Ireland / UK / USA
English
2807
49
2018
Carmel Winters
Hazel Doupe, Dara Devaney, Johnny Collins
Drama
Ireland
English
2807
49
1999
Justin Kerrigan
John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes, Danny Dyer, Nicola Reynolds
Comedy / Drama
UK / Ireland
English
2807
49
2010
Sé Merry Doyle
Maureen O'Hara, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Jim Sheridan, Gabriel Byrne
Documentary
Ireland
English
2807
49
2008
Lance Daly
Kelly O'Neill, Shane Curry, Paul Roe, Neilí Conroy, David Bendito, Elizabeth Fuh
Drama
Ireland
English
2807
49
2005
Charles Sturridge
Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton, John Lynch, Peter Dinklage, Steve Pemberton
Adventure / Family / Period Film
France / UK / USA / Ireland
English
2807
49
2017
Bharat Nalluri
Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Miriam Margolyes
Biography / Comedy / Drama
Ireland / Canada
English
2807
49
2004
Pete Travis
Gerard McSorley, Michele Forbes, Brenda Fricker, Stuart Graham, Peter Ballance
Drama
Ireland / UK
English
2807
49
2012
James Marsh
Andrea Riseborough, Clive Owen, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Gillian Anderson
Drama / Thriller
UK / Ireland
English
2810
50
2009
Urszula Antoniak
Lotte Verbeek, Stephen Rea, Tom Charlfa, Ann Marie Horan, Fintan Halpenny
Drama / Romance
Ireland / Netherlands
English
2815
51
2015
Paddy Breathnach
Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García
Drama
Cuba / Ireland
Spanish
2816
52
2017
Sebastián Lelio
Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola, Anton Lesser, Cara Horgan
Drama / Romance
Ireland / UK / USA
English
2816
52
2023
John Carney
Eve Hewson, Marcella Plunkett, Paul Reid, Orén Kinlan, Don Wycherley
Comedy / Music / Romance / Drama
USA / Ireland
English
2816
52
2018
Neil Jordan
Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Jane Perry, Jeff Hiller
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
Ireland / USA
English
2816
52
2011
Steven Soderbergh
Gina Carano, Michael Angarano, Channing Tatum, Debby Lynn Ross, Michael Douglas
Action / Thriller / Spy
USA / Ireland
English
2816
52
2018
Lenny Abrahamson
Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Ruth Wilson, Liv Hill, Charlotte Rampling
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK / Ireland / France
English
2816
52
2013
Michael Dowse
Daniel Radcliffe, Zoe Kazan, Megan Park, Adam Driver, Mackenzie Davis
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Ireland / Canada
English
2852
53
1999
Alan Parker
Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge
Drama / Period Film
USA / Ireland
English
2852
53
1996
Terry George
Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara, John Lynch
Drama
Ireland / USA
English
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2012
Neil Jordan
Saoirse Ronan, Barry Cassin, Gemma Arterton, David Heap, Warren Brown
Drama / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror
UK / USA / Ireland
English
