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• In the Land of Saints and Sinners

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  In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.

• The Miracle Club

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  Set in 1967, a heartwarming film that follows the story of three generations of close friends, Lily, Eileen, and Dolly of Ballygar, a hard-knocks community in Dublin, who have one tantalizing dream: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strange Occurences in a Small Irish Village

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  At first glance, Knock may appear to be little more than a relic of Irelands past, populated by dogmatic Catholics steadfastly clinging to the idea that the Virgin Mary once appeared in a backwater in the West of Ireland. However, Knock is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Quiet Girl = An Cailín Ciúin

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  Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

• Róise & Frank

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  Róise is still grieving the loss of her husband, Frank, when a mysterious dog shows up at her door. Mildly annoyed by the canine attempting to disrupt her mourning, she attempts to ignore him. But before long, a series of coincidences…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Banshees of Inisherin

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  Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

• Leap Year

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  When Anna's four-year anniversary to her boyfriend passes without an engagement ring, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by an Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on Leap Day, Anna follows Jeremy to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Calvary

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  Calvary's Father James is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish. Although he continues to comfort his own fragile daughter and reach out to help members of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ondine

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  Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kneecap

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  When fate brings Belfast schoolteacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed 'low life scum' Naoise & Liam Og, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish language, Kneecap fast become the unlikely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wind That Shakes the Barley

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  Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is leaving for London for an internship, until the dreaded Black and Tans attack his hurling mates, killing one for not speaking English. Thus sidetracked by the Irish War for Independence, Damien is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Left Foot

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  Born with cerebral palsy, the 10th of 22 children of a Dublin bricklayer and his wife, Christy Brown was doomed to life as a vegetable by physicians in 1932. His strong-willed mother's love and faith encouraged him to overcome this label.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Circle of Friends

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  Three girlhood friends reunite in college where they meet men and fall in love. Eve, an orphan, Benny, an over-loved only child, and Nan, sexually precocious.

• Albert Nobbs

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  Award winning actress Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) plays a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.

• The Crying Game

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  An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding You

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  Talented aspiring violinist, Finley, meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small village in Ireland. An unexpected romance develops as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black '47

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  It's the Great Famine in Ireland, and an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to reunite with his family. In spite of experiencing the terrors of war, he is stunned by the famine's devastation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life's a Breeze

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  A struggling family makes a well-intentioned attempt to clean out their mother's house, and accidentally trashes a mattress she has been stashing her life savings in, Nan, her unemployed slacker son Colm, and his niece Emma must overcome…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Big House Reborn

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  This six-part series follows the work of National Trust conservators as they embark on a three-year project to repair and restore Ireland's Mount Stewart House to its previous glory.

• Jimmy's Hall

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  In 1921 Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream; but above all to dance…Read moreRead more of this annotation