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Forgotten Irish movies.

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    #452
    interlocked
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    Here's one for you, Del Monte,

    I'd never heard of this but this was an American made for TV movie based on a Barbara Cartland/Bubbles De Vere "novel". Filmed in Dublin and Wicklow in 1979.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079157/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

    Starred Timothy Dalton, but the interesting thing about this tosh is that they reused the train built for the Great Train Robbery, in Bray along with 184. Talk about getting your moneys worth. Those carriages were still dumped in Bray up to at least 1982.

    Bray station was recast as Le Harve, no less. And here it is. Go to 5.55 for Bray's moment of fame:D



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    #453
    John Doe1
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    Fatal Deviation, best Irish kung fu movie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPne3Wh0lqk


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    #454
    thejuggler
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    The most fertile man in Ireland

    About Adam

    Both early 00s.


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    #455
    Hangdogroad
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    To be filed alongside Biopsy Shake and Fatal Deviation. To give the leading man his dues he does show some nifty snooker skills.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmAAC0Rmm-c


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    #456
    Del.Monte
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    interlocked wrote: »
    Here's one for you, Del Monte,

    I'd never heard of this but this was an American made for TV movie based on a Barbara Cartland/Bubbles De Vere "novel". Filmed in Dublin and Wicklow in 1979.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079157/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

    Starred Timothy Dalton, but the interesting thing about this tosh is that they reused the train built for the Great Train Robbery, in Bray along with 184. Talk about getting your moneys worth. Those carriages were still dumped in Bray up to at least 1982.

    Bray station was recast as Le Harve, no less. And here it is. Go to 5.55 for Bray's moment of fame:D





    Beat you to it, I'm afraid. https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/f/


    Memorable for the double white lines beside a 19th century pavement in one scene. :D

    ****



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    Del.Monte
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    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Fatal Deviation, best Irish kung fu movie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPne3Wh0lqk


    Right up there amongst the worst movies of any genre, any time, in any country. :D

    ****



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    #458
    Hangdogroad
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    Lament For Arthur Leary (1975). An oddity starring Sean Ban Breathnach, dialogue in English and Irish. TG4 showed it about ten years ago.


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    #459
    Hangdogroad
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    thejuggler wrote: »
    The most fertile man in Ireland

    About Adam

    Both early 00s.

    About Adam was as early Celtic Tiger as you can get. It was really trying hard to depict Dublin as being hip and cutting edge. In some ways pre figuring that laughable RTE series the Big Bow Bow. Also notable for starring Tommy Tiernan in a small part as one of those socially awkward loser types that he played a few times in the late 90s/early 00s. A cameo in the Matchmaker as a yokel and the suicidal priest in Fr Ted.


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    #460
    vriesmays
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    In fairness, Dublin in 2000 was hip and cutting edge.


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    #461
    George White
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    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Beat you to it, I'm afraid. https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/f/


    Memorable for the double white lines beside a 19th century pavement in one scene. :D

    And Hammer's favourite twink Shane Briant and Paul Lavers, who began as a kind of Aldi Nigel Havers then became one of the stars of QVC...


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    #462
    Esho
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    cloudatlas wrote: »
    There was a recent Irish Times list https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/the-50-best-irish-films-ever-made-in-order-1.4238979 The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

    It left out the McDonagh brothers which I felt was extraordinary.

    They also left out Neil Jordan's 'The Miracle' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJrl2MajPy4

    It was very much a list made for the person who wrote the list but it shouldn't be titled 'best'.

    Intermission is 47!!!!!!!

    That is one of the best Irish movies ever.

    Mustn't like brown sauce


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    the purple tin
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    I remember seeing a film about a young rural Irish guy, maybe 90s or 00s.
    He was trying to decide throughout the film if he should emmigrate to England as there was no work at home. The last scene was him getting the bus out of town I think.
    One scene I remember was he playing a hurling mattch and the guy marking him was doing some off the ball stuff, the main guy eventually lost the rag and broke his hurl across your man's backside and got sent off.
    Sound familiar to anyone?


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    NewbridgeIR
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    I remember seeing a film about a young rural Irish guy, maybe 90s or 00s.
    He was trying to decide throughout the film if he should emmigrate to England as there was no work at home. The last scene was him getting the bus out of town I think.
    One scene I remember was he playing a hurling mattch and the guy marking him was doing some off the ball stuff, the main guy eventually lost the rag and broke his hurl across your man's backside and got sent off.
    Sound familiar to anyone?

    Clash Of The Ash

    I uploaded it to YouTube some years ago. Wrote this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1biWm0lqnQ


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    #465
    the purple tin
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Clash Of The Ash

    I uploaded it to YouTube some years ago. Wrote this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1biWm0lqnQ
    That's it ,thanks.
    I thought the actor might have been that little cockney guy who was in lots of films in the 80s. he is the head cut of him.


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    #466
    vriesmays
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    Death game - sci-fi with Tommy the taxi driver and Jason from Titanic. All bikes and chainsaws.


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    ohnonotgmail
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    Esho wrote: »
    Intermission is 47!!!!!!!

    That is one of the best Irish movies ever.

    Mustn't like brown sauce

    Intermission should probably be higher up the list. Hard to argue with number 1 though.


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    TheW1zard
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYsr3-PRse8&t=647s&has_verified=1

    GORGO

    Coliemore Harbour and Dalkey Sound


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    #469
    Esho
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    Fuascailteoir wrote: »
    Song of granite was another good Irish film that went under the radar.


    That was an excellent movie.


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    #470
    NewbridgeIR
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    TheW1zard wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYsr3-PRse8&t=647s&has_verified=1

    GORGO

    Coliemore Harbour and Dalkey Sound

    JB did a good piece on this for Where's Grandad
    https://wheresgrandad.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/cad-a-dheanfaimid-anois-when-gorgo-destroyed-dalkey-kind-of/


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    #471
    pappyodaniel
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    That's it ,thanks.
    I thought the actor might have been that little cockney guy who was in lots of films in the 80s. he is the head cut of him.

    Who? Blackie Connors?


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    Thelonious Monk
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    Has anyone mentioned Shadow Dancer? About MI6 and IRA, came out in about 2012, it was really good, and I've always thought most Irish films are terrible.


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    #473
    the purple tin
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned Shadow Dancer? About MI6 and IRA, came out in about 2012, it was really good, and I've always thought most Irish films are terrible.
    I saw one a bit older than that, 90s maybe.

    It was about a female American journalist with long red hair who comes to Belfast to report on the troubles. She meets the IRA and when they find out she will be doing an interview with a loyalist leader they plant a bomb in her camera to assasinate him.
    She is captured by the British Army and tortured at one stage.
    Saw it on video, never heard of it again. What was it called?


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    #474
    the purple tin
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    50 dead men walking is a good troubles film about an informer. Stars Ben Kingsley.


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    #475
    RandomViewer
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    I saw one a bit older than that, 90s maybe.

    It was about a female American journalist with long red hair who comes to Belfast to report on the troubles. She meets the IRA and when they find out she will be doing an interview with a loyalist leader they plant a bomb in her camera to assasinate him.
    She is captured by the British Army and tortured at one stage.
    Saw it on video, never heard of it again. What was it called?

    A man you dont meet everyday? Maybe


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    the purple tin
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    RandomViewer wrote: »
    A man you dont meet everyday? Maybe
    No it was set in Belfast. Another scene I remembered, the IRA men were taking her somewhere in a taxi. they come to an army checkpoint and shoot the soldiers and drive on.
    Also I might be mistaken but I think she is being chased around a building site and scaffolding by a psycho at the end.


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    #477
    George White
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    Patriots?


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    #478
    RandomViewer
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    George White wrote: »
    Patriots?

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots_(1994_film)
    Never heard of it till I saw Wikipedia have a list of films featuring th he IRA,


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    the purple tin
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    George White wrote: »
    Patriots?
    That is it thanks :)

    Based on a true story it says :confused:


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    #480
    rossie1977
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    Some mothers son


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    Thelonious Monk
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    I saw one a bit older than that, 90s maybe.

    It was about a female American journalist with long red hair who comes to Belfast to report on the troubles. She meets the IRA and when they find out she will be doing an interview with a loyalist leader they plant a bomb in her camera to assasinate him.
    She is captured by the British Army and tortured at one stage.
    Saw it on video, never heard of it again. What was it called?

    No, dis

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Dancer_(film)


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