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Forgotten Irish movies.

Hangdogroad

I was just thinking about how in the 90s there were an awful lot of Irish movies released that would be in the cinema for a week and then disappear. Sweety Barrett was one. Brendan Gleeson as the title character, it came right after the General. Odd film, he played a guy with learning difficulties who runs away from the circus (Brendan O Carroll has a cameo as the bullying ringmaster). A very young Andrew Scott plays a barman and Andy Serkis was in it looking like Rory from Glenroe sporting a curly mullet and denim jacket. Never see it shown on telly. Can anyone think of any other examples?

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Tuco88

Rawhead Rex... Irelands greatest horror film.

E mac

Skill Magill wrote: »

I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
Love to see it again

Reminds me of Adam and Paul kinda forgotten by me anyway...

Hangdogroad

Skill Magill wrote: »

I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
Love to see it again

Was that in black and white? I seem to remember Colin Murphy ripping the p!ss out of it in the Blizzard Of Odd in that weekly section that focused on bad Irish movies

E mac

E mac wrote: »

Reminds me of Adam and Paul kinda forgotten by me anyway...

Which reminds me ...'inside I'm dancing'

IAMAMORON

Disco Pigs

E mac

The Disappearance of Finbar

Skill Magill

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Was that in black and white? I seem to remember Colin Murphy ripping the p!ss out of it in the Blizzard Of Odd in that weekly section that focused on bad Irish movies

It was indeed, the off license in Ranalagh was in it, and Nell McCafferty. Defo had an Adam and Paul vibe to it. Thought it was hilarious, and not in a rippin the píss out of it kind of way

IAMAMORON

Cal - with Helen Mirren and John Lynch

Also heavily features the music " The Long Road " made by Mark Knopfler.

Pocaide

Man about dog

Hangdogroad

E mac wrote: »

The Disappearance of Finbar

Johnathan Rhys Myers just before his Michael Collins moment. All I remember was his character was extremely unlikeable and there was this really weird musical segment with a guy who looked like Bono in his mid early 90s white makeup period singing a song about Finbar going missing.

odyssey06

The Last of the High Kings... Jared Leto with a spot on Irish accent.

Covidhaveago

Crush Proof

E mac

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Johnathan Rhys Myers just before his Michael Collins moment. All I remember was his character was extremely unlikeable and there was this really weird musical segment with a guy who looked like Bono in his mid early 90s white makeup period singing a song about Finbar going missing.

Funnily enough I had to Google Michael Collins (film) to remember JRM the actor whom I knew was in that film in order to remember the name of it....and yes crappy film.

For Forks Sake

That's f*cking delish man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-TiCyJpdhQ

Dyr

E mac wrote: »

There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)

And all the way through the 90s and 00s onwards, every second Irish film is about some salt of the earth oddball written by some gob****e that went to UCD

Seamai

E mac wrote: »

There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)

It doesn't get much bleaker than The Outcasts from 1982, I must have walked out before the end because apparently there was a scene in it with a woman having sex with a goat which I definitely don't remember.

iamstop

The Butcher Boy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butcher_Boy_(1997_film)

Hangdogroad

Covidhaveago wrote: »

Crush Proof

That was an attempt to make a gritty film about Dublin skangers but the script and storyline was laughable. I think it was written and directed by an American.

Seamai

iamstop wrote: »

The Butcher Boy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butcher_Boy_(1997_film)

I really like The Butcher Boy, Irish humour at it blackest and most warped.

odyssey06

I only remember these as they filmed around D3...
The Courier - Gabriel Byrne
A Man of No Importance - Albert Finney

iamstop

A Graham Jones production:

How To Cheat the Leaving Cert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Od5clyN0M

If you look really carefully you'll spot me as an extra in it

drake70

Tuco88 wrote: »

Rawhead Rex... Irelands greatest horror film.

Beat me to it

Hangdogroad

odyssey06 wrote: »

I only remember these as they filmed around D3...
The Courier - Gabriel Byrne
A Man of No Importance - Albert Finney

The Courier had a cameo by Toni The Exotic Dancer.

EmmetSpiceland

Rooney.
Young Cassidy.
Grabbers.
Handsome Devil.
The Closer You Get.

Muppet Man

Not a movie, a mini series, but anyone remember "the price"....

Rich guys wife and daughter kidnapped by the ira

Suffer Stockholm syndrome... gets pregnant.

Very excellent show

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0198209/

MM

Gregor Samsa

Tuco88 wrote: »

Rawhead Rex... Irelands greatest horror film.

“Get up them stairs, fückface!” That line was a staple catchphrase among my mates in the 90s. I still have the VHS. There was a Swiss industrial band called Swamp Terrorists that sampled the movie too. A classic.

Hangdogroad

The Eliminator, zero budget horror/comedy. Great fun to watch with a few cans.

padd b1975

Divorcing Jack.

Panthro

Into the West

Jimbob1977

Possibly financed abroad, but about Ireland

War of the Buttons

Divorce Jack