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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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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I remember vaguely a movie about two Dublin flatmates, early 20s and a covered-up murder. No idea what it was called.

Also, Cowboys and Angels. Frank Kelly had a supporting role in it.

Seve OB

KaneToad wrote: »

I went Down

“I always go down”
Class movie, one of my favourites. Was very hard to find a DVD copy of it, but I go one somewhere....... then some bastard borrowed it and never gave it back, but I can’t remember who.
Love the scenes with the gun, that’s a six shooter that, 50 pound a bullet. And the balaclava....... sorry, I could only get one cool one!

E mac wrote: »

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

agh me hand, agh me face, agh me foot!

iamstop wrote: »

The Butcher Boy

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

Francie Brady, the Butcher Boy! Taking a sh1t on Mrs Nugents good carpet!

hynesie08

JasonStatham wrote: »

I remember a film when I was finishing up school. It's called Accelerator. It's about a race between Dublin and Belfast.

Takes them a week and a half and two of them ride by a bonfire? The border patrol shoot one and another gets a punishment beating? Terrible terrible movie.

skooterblue2

A Disney Production, The Fighting Prince of Donegal

Hangdogroad

Strength And Honour. So bad it's nearly good. Vinnie Jones traveller accent has to be heard to be believed.

Samsgirl

Circle of Friends
Tara Road
Echoes

All based on Maeve Binchy books

For Forks Sake

JasonStatham wrote: »

I remember a film when I was finishing up school. It's called Accelerator. It's about a race between Dublin and Belfast.

I think I was actually an extra in that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-rYar4PqDk

Hangdogroad

Moondance, one of the young lads from Into The West trying to get his end away with a German hippy girl in Connemara. Awful shyte.

JasonStatham

I remember a film when I was finishing up school. It's called Accelerator. It's about a race between Dublin and Belfast.

bcklschaps

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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One I think may be called About My Father were James Caan comes back to Ireland to learn about his father, flashback and its Aidan Quinn.

There was another pretty entertaining one where an assistant to an American presidential candidate is sent back to Ireland to trace his roots. She's played by an annoying American comedian lady with black hair, it's set in a seaside town and there's a love interest that's played by the Irish fella from braveheart.

Jesus Christ, what a post, I sound like my mother...

Its called the Matchmaker.

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

Terrible phish.

SEPT 23 1989

Into the West

A Harvey Weinstein production

Tír na nÓg was never the same after it

Jimbob1977

Possibly financed abroad, but about Ireland

War of the Buttons

Divorce Jack

Panthro

Into the West

padd b1975

Divorcing Jack.

Hangdogroad

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

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.

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

EmmetSpiceland

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

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.

drake70

Tuco88 wrote: »

Rawhead Rex... Irelands greatest horror film.

Beat me to it

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

odyssey06

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

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.

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.

iamstop

The Butcher Boy

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

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.

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

For Forks Sake

That's f*cking delish man

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

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.

Covidhaveago

Crush Proof