Movies With An Irish Or Irish American Crime Plot

ArthurGuinness

Hi all there may be already a thread dedicated to this but I couldnt be arsed looking for it. Does anyone out there have any suggestions to movies with an Irish interest either Irish-American, Irish, Irish-Australian, Troubles and so on. Ive listed all the ones I know of below but is there anymore that are worth a trip to extravision.

The General
Gangs Of New York
The Departed
Veronica Guerin ( Does anyone else think Cate Blanchett deserved an oscar for her perfomance in this cos I do)
Devils Own
Irish Eyes (Starring Danny Baldwin Its Crap)
Snatch (Kinda)

Anyways you get the point cheers

bullpost

State of Grace
Millers Crossing

rednik

Pride and Glory in the cinema now. State of grace from the early nineties with a stellar cast of Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, John Turturro. This is a very good film. The Boondock Saints which has become a cult classic.

Pigman II

Road to Perdition
Boondock Saints

ziedth

Pigman II wrote: »

Road to Perdition
Boondock Saints

I would thoughrly back these two films, RTP has an outstanding preformance from the late Paul Newman and a Stellar Cast. TBS is fairly unknown but I always try to reccomend it as I found it a classic.

Morlar

ArthurGuinness wrote: »

Does anyone out there have any suggestions to movies with an Irish interest either Irish-American, Irish, Irish-Australian, Troubles and so on. Ive listed all the ones I know of below but is there anymore that are worth a trip to extravision.

Troubles ones would include
'Resurrection Man', (shankill butchers)
Cal,
Name of the father,
A prayer for the dying,
Omagh,
Bloody sunday,
Nothing Personal,
Some mothers son,
The long good friday,
Harrys Game (TVM),
Angel,
Crying Game, + breakfast in Pluto' (or something)
there was also one about 2 barbers (loyalist and catholic selling hairpieces to the UVF & the 'ra name of which I cant remember.

Would agree that State of Grace is one of the best hells kitchen/Irish mob movies out there. Gary Oldman and Sean Penn/Ed Harris all at their best.

HalloweenJack

I Went Down and Intermission are both films about criminals, in a way.

Kingser

In Bruges was pretty much irish...Am i wrong?

Bottle_of_Smoke

Morlar wrote: »

Troubles ones would include
'Resurrection Man', (shankill butchers)
Cal,
Name of the father,
A prayer for the dying,
Omagh,
Bloody sunday,
Nothing Personal,
Some mothers son,
The long good friday,
Harrys Game (TVM),
Angel,
Crying Game, + breakfast in Pluto' (or something)
there was also one about 2 barbers (loyalist and catholic selling hairpieces to the UVF & the 'ra name of which I cant remember.

Would agree that State of Grace is one of the best hells kitchen/Irish mob movies out there. Gary Oldman and Sean Penn/Ed Harris all at their best.

Must check some of them out. What kind of slant does resurrection man take? Is it based on Lenny Murphy?

Patriot games is another good un, based on a Tom Clancy book about a fictitious republican group member(sean bean) who's plot to murder someone in the royal family gets ruined by an American ex cia agent(harrison ford) Interesting in that republicans don't get portayed as heroes for once.

skelliser

Ronin

Morlar

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »

Must check some of them out. What kind of slant does resurrection man take? Is it based on Lenny Murphy?

Yes - its one of those 'names have been changed' kind of deals.

If you ever read up on what it is based on you might agree it's fairly accurate for what it is. The closest to the central character would be lenny murphy (right to the end).

BlitzKrieg

TBS is fairly unknown but I always try to reccomend it as I found it a classic.

Heh

the documentary on its production (OVERNIGHT) is much better. Boondocks saints was a rollercoaster of a disaster.

JP Liz

Ash Wednesday

ghostdancer

Morlar wrote: »

there was also one about 2 barbers (loyalist and catholic selling hairpieces to the UVF & the 'ra name of which I cant remember.

it was called "An Everlasting Piece"

seanybiker

50 dead men walking

dennistuam

pierce brosnan was in a irish film called taggert before he when on to be bond

Pigman II

dennistuam wrote: »

pierce brosnan was in a irish film called taggert before he when on to be bond

It was actually called Taffin.

dlofnep

Boondock saints is solid. Part 2 is in the works.

Holsten

"Accelerator", 100% Irish.

Dublin scummers and Belfast knacks joyriding.

Decuc500

King of New York.

It has a bunch of Irish American cops led by David Caruso going 'rogue' to take out Christopher Walkens gang and contains one of the greatest shoot-outs ever.

kraggy

Some of the characters in Sleepers were Irish.

SpitfireIV

The Proposition

The brothers are Irish, right? The 'Burns' brothers, outlaws, set in Australia in the late 1800's.

Did anyone mention 'Ned Kelly'?

sprinklesspanky

there was also one about 2 barbers (loyalist and catholic selling hairpieces to the UVF & the 'ra name of which I cant remember.

I think it was called "A Separate Piece" but I can't find an IMDB link... Billy Connolly had a cameo in it.

sprinklesspanky

sprinklesspanky wrote: »

I think it was called "A Separate Piece" but I can't find an IMDB link... Billy Connolly had a cameo in it.

Wait no, it was called "An Everlasting Piece" here is the IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218182/

Morlar

'Silent Grace' - another I just remembered. About the womens blanket protest in armagh prison in the 80's. Its a bit slow but good imo. From what I remember there was a shoplifter in with them so the story is structured around how the republicans got along with the run of the mill crims.

Featherfoot

History of Violence
Ned Kelly
LA Confedential (alot of the cops were Irish )
My Kingdom (Richard Harris play an Irish Godfather in Liverpool's underworld)

Auvers

how about the much forgotten but excellent Murphys Stroke which details a "true" story about a betting coup in the 70s

D.S.

- Any of the Roddy Doyle adaptations (The Commitments, The Snapper, THe Van)
- In America
- Angela's Ashes
- Michael Collins
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley
- The Quiet Man
- Waking Ned
- Evelyn
- The Crying Game
- The Magdalen Sisters
- Circle of Friends
- My Left Foot
- About Adam
- Agnus Brown
- The Boxer
- Breakfast on Pluto
- Titanic
- Withnail and I (pub scene!)
- Goodwill Hunting
- Devil's Own
- Departed
- War of the Buttons
- Into the West
- The Butcher Boy
- The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
- Borstal Boy
- Dancing at Lunaghasa (spelling)
- The Matchmaker
- Intermission
- How Harry Became A Tree (Disliked this movie ALOT)
- Darby O'Gill & the Little People (Can't believe this not listed already)
- The Field


Presume there is a lot more...but that's most of my collection

EDIT: Before anyone asks - yes i know there is some suspect titles in there (i.e. Titanic etc) so I'll head this one off at the pass by saying that's OUR collection

kraggy

Long list but the OP was looking for films with a crime plot. Hope you weren't up all night making it out!

Bottle_of_Smoke

Morlar wrote: »

Yes - its one of those 'names have been changed' kind of deals.

If you ever read up on what it is based on you might agree it's fairly accurate for what it is. The closest to the central character would be lenny murphy (right to the end).

Just watched it, yeah def based heavily on murphy. Liked it overall but thought it ended a bit too abruptly. Could have added a fair bit more, like the survival of Gerard McLaverty. Perhaps giving more time to Sean McGinley's character, even show him talking to the IRA. I think the ending might of been fairly confusing if you didn't know the background.

kraggy

Had a quick look through. Don't think it was mentioned.

Mystic River. Overated but decent film.

Nolanger

Pope of Greenwich Village.

gillyfromlyre

Myself n the hubby saw this when we were in Leeds years ago, around 1995, its an independent film, I don't know anyone who acted in it but it was a great Irish/American film. Its a thriller set in 1950's New York as well as a good half hour set in Sligo. The gist of the tale revolves around 2 Irish men in a race for some gold left behind in the old country by a common ancestor who emigrated during the famine.It kept us enthralled for 2 hours, and despite the appearance of a stereotypical leprechaun towards the end it is well worth watching