Forgotten Irish movies.

interlocked · 15-01-2021 11:27pm

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

John Doe1 · 15-01-2021 11:29pm

Fatal Deviation, best Irish kung fu movie

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

thejuggler · 16-01-2021 10:20am

The most fertile man in Ireland

About Adam

Both early 00s.

Hangdogroad · 16-01-2021 10:47am

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

Del.Monte · 16-01-2021 12:34pm

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.

Del.Monte · 16-01-2021 12:37pm

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.

Hangdogroad · 16-01-2021 1:19pm

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

Hangdogroad · 16-01-2021 1:43pm

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.

vriesmays · 16-01-2021 1:59pm

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

George White · 16-01-2021 9:54pm

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.

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...

Esho · 16-01-2021 10:13pm

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

the purple tin · 17-01-2021 1:06am

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?

NewbridgeIR · 17-01-2021 1:10am

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

the purple tin · 17-01-2021 1:16am

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.

vriesmays · 17-01-2021 1:56pm

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

ohnonotgmail · 17-01-2021 3:52pm

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.

TheW1zard · 18-01-2021 6:22pm

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

GORGO

Coliemore Harbour and Dalkey Sound

Esho · 18-01-2021 7:18pm

Fuascailteoir wrote: »

Song of granite was another good Irish film that went under the radar.

That was an excellent movie.

NewbridgeIR · 18-01-2021 7:40pm

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/

pappyodaniel · 18-01-2021 8:51pm

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?

Thelonious Monk · 18-01-2021 8:59pm

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.

the purple tin · 18-01-2021 9:08pm

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?

the purple tin · 18-01-2021 9:10pm

50 dead men walking is a good troubles film about an informer. Stars Ben Kingsley.

RandomViewer · 18-01-2021 9:13pm

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

the purple tin · 18-01-2021 9:19pm

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.

George White · 18-01-2021 9:27pm

Patriots?

RandomViewer · 18-01-2021 9:33pm

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,

the purple tin · 18-01-2021 9:35pm

George White wrote: »

Patriots?

That is it thanks

Based on a true story it says

rossie1977 · 18-01-2021 9:37pm

Some mothers son

Thelonious Monk · 18-01-2021 9:44pm

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)

machiavellianme · 18-01-2021 10:26pm

del_c wrote: »

Dead Meat- saw it in a film festival in Stuttgart, never heard of it since. Pretty funny!

Dead Meat is hilarious. Ed and Conor have a lot of talent. Pity they didn't get as much of a reception as they deserved. Knocking the heads off zombies with a hurl has to be the most quintessentially Irish thing ever committed to film.
They still show it at the IFC horrorthon every now and then. I guess they have to since Ed King started the whole thing.

Hangdogroad · 20-02-2021 9:15am

A fun Nationwide clip from when Roger Corman set up his studio in Connemara.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0vNQGaE-c

branie2 · 20-02-2021 1:21pm

Philadelphia, Here I Come

fryup · 20-02-2021 2:29pm

machiavellianme wrote: »

Dead Meat is hilarious. Ed and Conor have a lot of talent. Pity they didn't get as much of a reception as they deserved. Knocking the heads off zombies with a hurl has to be the most quintessentially Irish thing ever committed to film.

looks gas:pac:

is it it available to view online?? please say yes

saabsaab · 20-02-2021 2:33pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

A fun Nationwide clip from when Roger Corman set up his studio in Connemara.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0vNQGaE-c

Came under fire at the time.

See 'Criminal Affairs' 1997 movie.

vriesmays · 20-02-2021 2:48pm

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Undercurrent. Early Liam Cunningham role. I know I saw it on RTE at some point , online details of are very sketchy but it was a crime thriller.

Saw it in the cinema and the small audience enjoyed it.

Samsonsmasher · 20-02-2021 3:13pm

F*cked In Ireland

Tanya Tate's Irish Sex Tour

New Home · 21-02-2021 1:18am

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Then that also includes all the Don Bluth studio as well,
Fielefel Mouse
Fielefel goes west
A Mouses Tale etc etc

Patser wrote: »

No, I checked on this beforehand.

Spielberg was involved in the American Tail movies, and insisted they be made in America, so Bluth opened a studio in Arizona.

All Dogs go to Heaven was his big Dublin based movie, some staff did transfer over to help in America - but later Dublin based movies flopped (they did do some of A land before time) and Bluth studios closed, but left a legacy in Ireland of animation and also computer game animation, that still exists today.

Don Bluth had his studios in Conyngham Road, in the building that was then taken over by Ryanair for their ground operations before they moved to the airport. I was pretty sure Don Bluth moved out after the success of the first Fievel movie (An American Tail), but perhaps I'm mis-remembering. I know it says US on IMDB, but I'm unconvinced.

RandomViewer wrote: »

RTE regularly show it on Sunday afternoons, doesn't seem to know what era it's supposed to be based in, has a green post van which would indicate late 80's but a lot of the rest seems earlier

It was filmed much later than when it was set, 1994, I think.

Anyway, I don't think these have been mentioned, yet:

Swansong: The story of Occi Byrne (2009, IIRC)

The Eclipse - by Conor McPherson, starring Ciarán Hinds

Zaph · 21-02-2021 1:25am

Zonad. Shockingly bad film where Simon Delaney's escaped convict character somehow convinces the residents of a small village that he's an alien. Got free tickets to it and still came out of it feeling ripped off. Plus my wife still hasn't forgiven me for accidentally spilling my drink all over her, but even that was more entertaining than the film.

r93kaey5p2izun · 21-02-2021 7:03am

Disco Pigs.

Wild Goose Lodge.

One I saw not that long ago on telly, that pops into my head randomly for no apparent reason. It's a meandering thing with different stories that involves a fella getting a job in a train station lost property office, there's something about him being engaged but not wanting to get married. His granny dies and he ends up going to Poland (I think) where she came from and camping on a farm to dig up a necklace she had buried as a child.

Del.Monte · 21-02-2021 9:44am

Zaph wrote: »

Zonad. Shockingly bad film where Simon Delaney's escaped convict character somehow convinces the residents of a small village that he's an alien. Got free tickets to it and still came out of it feeling ripped off. Plus my wife still hasn't forgiven me for accidentally spilling my drink all over her, but even that was more entertaining than the film.

Truly awful muck, I awarded it three turkeys myself https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/z/ and would have given it four but that's not on my scale.

Hangdogroad · 21-02-2021 11:26am

Zaph wrote: »

Zonad. Shockingly bad film where Simon Delaney's escaped convict character somehow convinces the residents of a small village that he's an alien. Got free tickets to it and still came out of it feeling ripped off. Plus my wife still hasn't forgiven me for accidentally spilling my drink all over her, but even that was more entertaining than the film.

I forgot about that one, awful unfunny shyte altogether.

21-02-2021 11:29am

I'm assuming Flight of the Doves was mentioned at this stage? Repeated every year at Christmas time on RTE, or is it Easter, I can't remember but probably never watched by those under 35.

21-02-2021 11:32am

Just putting "Waking Ned" in here if some have forgotten or others haven't seen it- a gentle sort of film but a great laugh

David Kelly and James Nesbitt star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Ned

Hangdogroad · 21-02-2021 12:25pm

New Home wrote: »

Don Bluth had his studios in Conyngham Road, in the building that was then taken over by Ryanair for their ground operations before they moved to the airport. I was pretty sure Don Bluth moved out after the success of the first Fievel movie (An American Tail), but perhaps I'm mis-remembering. I know it says US on IMDB, but I'm unconvinced.

It was filmed much later than when it was set, 1994, I think.

Anyway, I don't think these have been mentioned, yet:

Swansong: The story of Occi Byrne (2009, IIRC)

The Eclipse - by Conor McPherson, starring Ciarán Hinds

Re: War Of The Buttons, it was released 1994 but it did have an odd kind of identity crisis over when exactly it was supposed to be set. It was clear that it was supposed to be a period setting but the kids in it all were dressed like it was the 50s/early 60s but then you had vehicles from the 70s/early 80s like the Renault 4 post van and then modern looking rescue helicopter. Another thing I found odd was the amount of adult characters played by Dubs speaking in their native accents despite being it set in West Cork(Jim Bartley, Liam Cunningham, Joey The Lips guy from the Commitments). Other than that it's not a bad film.

fryup · 21-02-2021 12:36pm

Excalibur, pre-dated Braveheart by 15 years but had better battle scenes in it imo

starred Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne amongst other irish actors

British production company but filmed entirely in Co Wicklow

griffin100 · 21-02-2021 2:23pm

Pilgrim Hill - 2013.

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

Made using a €4,500 loan from the credit union.

It’s about a bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland watching his life pass by. Nothing dramatic happens, but it’s engrossing. Probably because many of us know someone like the main character.

odyssey06 · 21-02-2021 2:27pm

fryup wrote: »

Excalibur, pre-dated Braveheart by 15 years but had better battle scenes in it imo
starred Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne amongst other irish actors
British production company but filmed entirely in Co Wicklow

Director John Boorman wanted to adapt Lord of the Rings but with the effects of the time it wasnt practical.
He tried to bring some Tolkien influences into Excalibur.
Great film and use of the song O Fortuna.

OU812 · 21-02-2021 2:34pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm assuming Flight of the Doves was mentioned at this stage? Repeated every year at Christmas time on RTE, or is it Easter, I can't remember but probably never watched by those under 35.

World's smallest St. Patrick's Day parade (until last year).

I wish there was a streaming service with all Irish productions on it (TV & Film). Sure, a lot of it is questionable due to production budgets etc, but there's some gold in this thread. I'd subscribe in a heartbeat.

21-02-2021 2:48pm

OU812 wrote: »

World's smallest St. Patrick's Day parade (until last year).

I wish there was a streaming service with all Irish productions on it (TV & Film). Sure, a lot of it is questionable due to production budgets etc, but there's some gold in this thread. I'd subscribe in a heartbeat.

There were a lot of small movies people just have never heard of, that either went straight to TV/Tape or were shown in small independent cinemas at the time.
I'm liking this thread a lot
If you just pick Tommy Tiernan alone, who wouldn't strike many as being an actor- he's been in a whole heap of films.

Film[edit]
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Angela Mooney Dies Again Timmy Debut
1997 The Very Stuff Damien Short film
The Matchmaker Vince
1999 Hold Back the Night John
2000 About Adam Simon
2001 The Riblok Foundation Ernest
2005 Bumble's Burden Bumble Short film
2018 An Béal Bocht - The Poor Mouth Martin O'Bannasa Short film
2019 Dark Lies the Island Richie
2020 Wolfwalkers Seán Óg Woodcutter Voice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tiernan

Forgotten Irish movies.

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