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- DirectorYann DemangeStarsJack O'ConnellSam ReidSean HarrisIn 1971, a young and disoriented British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.
- StarsRay LonnenBenjamin WhitrowNicholas DayA British agent infiltrates the IRA to find an assassin. His wife is unhappy with his work. He befriends an Irish woman while searching for the killer.
- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsBruce WillisRichard GereSidney PoitierAn imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
- DirectorRoger MichellStarsJulie WaltersCiarán HindsNuala O'NeillA Belfast, Northern Ireland housewife takes up the peace cause, which causes her family trouble with I.R.A. sympathizers.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsBarry McEvoyBrían F. O'ByrneAnna FrielColm is a Catholic, and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast, Northern Ireland in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead, they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman known as the Scalper to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls, always in neighborhoods that are dangerous for one or the other partner. Then they find out they might lose their exclusive wig distributorship to competitors. Through a series of comic twists, the pair are given large orders for wigs by both sides of the Protestant and Catholic conflict. Should they compromise their principles in order to keep their business? Will it destroy their friendship? Could one of their wigs in the hands of the I.R.A. actually put one or both of them in jail, or even get them killed?
- DirectorKari SkoglandStarsBen KingsleyJim SturgessKevin ZegersMartin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus.
- DirectorPat MurphyStarsMary JacksonMark MulhollandBrid BrennanMaeve (Mary Jackson) returns to Belfast after being away for several years, and she stays in the family home with her sister and father.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsStephen ReaJaye DavidsonForest WhitakerA British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsJames NesbittTim Pigott-SmithNicholas FarrellA dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsMichael FassbenderLiam CunninghamStuart GrahamIrish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
- DirectorJames MarshStarsClive OwenAndrea RiseboroughGillian AndersonSet in 1990s Belfast, an active member of the IRA becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son's welfare.
- DirectorMike HodgesStarsMickey RourkeBob HoskinsAlan BatesMartin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsFrances McDormandMaurice RoëvesRobert PattersonWhen an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.
- DirectorMark CousinsStarsMark CousinsRosie McKeeMaud BellA visual, poetic depiction of Belfast and its citizens, told with love and passion of someone, who has left the city many years ago but is still fascinated by it. Themes brought up in the film range from the landscapes surrounding the city, its changing architecture and social structure to the political and personal repercussions of the Northern Irish conflict.
- DirectorKonrad JayStarsPeter HanlyJames NesbittGeorge ShaneIt's Christmas, and in a Belfast toyshop, three despairing people are forced to contemplate suicide on a dangerous window ledge; a recently fired dad who has only enough money to buy his daughter a giant teddy bear, an alcoholic Santa who's fed up with kids, and the bankrupted store owner. When two security guards attempt to talk them down, they end up on the ledge as well...
- DirectorMike LeighStarsBrid BrennanDes McAleerPaula HamiltonA Catholic and a Protestant couple in Northern Ireland have amazing parallels in their lives, despite being either side of the divide.
- DirectorTerry GeorgeStarsHelen MirrenFionnula FlanaganAidan GillenThe 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
- DirectorJim SheridanStarsPaddy ConsidineSamantha MortonDjimon HounsouA family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
- DirectorPete TravisStarsGerard McSorleyMichèle ForbesBrenda FrickerAn examination of the aftermath of the 1998 Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsLiam NeesonAidan QuinnJulia RobertsNeil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.
- DirectorMarc EvansStarsDavid WilliamsonStuart TownsendBrenda FrickerBelfast, 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.
- DirectorPat O'ConnorStarsHelen MirrenJohn LynchDonal McCannA young man fraught with guilt longs to defect from the Irish Republican Army (IRA). He is drawn to the widow of a slain Protestant policeman but must hide his secret that he was involved in her husband's murder and evade the authorities.
- DirectorDeclan LowneyStarsBrendan GleesonAmanda DonohoeJames NesbittA sleazy chef is forced to face the truth about the man he has become and realizes that he has the chance to begin again.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsJames MasonRobert NewtonCyril CusackA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsJohn GregsonKathleen RyanJacqueline RyanCaptivating drama of a lovable little Irish girl and how she helps her tippler father find work.
- DirectorLisa Barros D'SaGlenn LeyburnStarsRupert GrintRobert SheehanJames NesbittThree teenagers go on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars that quickly spins beyond their control.
- DirectorMacdara VallelyStarsJohn TraversGerard JordanSean RobertsA gritty, urban drama, laced with car-crime, political intrigue and a savagely dark sense of humour.
- DirectorOliver HirschbiegelStarsLiam NeesonJames NesbittAnamaria MarincaThe story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.