Drama movies about Ireland

List of the best drama movies about Ireland, selected by visitors to our site: The Butler, On the Basis of Sex, Togo, Dallas Buyers Club, Me Before You, Warrior, The Social Network, Gold, Boyhood, Call Me by Your Name.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA, China, Canada
Duration01:55

Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, adventure, family, biography, history
CountryUSA

The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

    Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:25

    A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine with a tragic past.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

      On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:31

      Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:46

        The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
        Duration02:09

        Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

          Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA, India
          Duration01:43

          A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genredrama, family
          CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Canada
          Duration02:15

          The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genredrama, musical, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:25

          The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:00

            A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
            Duration01:41

              Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA, Germany

              The quirky staff of an American magazine based in 1970s France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genremelodrama, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration02:00

              After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

              Markimdb: 6.2
              Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:41

                A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.

                Markimdb: 7.9
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

                A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genredrama, biography
                CountryUSA

                Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on true events, "Richard Jewell" is a story of what happens when what is reported as fact obscures the truth. "There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes." The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing-his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI's number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, his life ripped apart. Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genredrama, crime
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                Duration02:35

                After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration02:32

                After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

                Markimdb: 7.8
                Genredrama, biography, sport
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:54

                  The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

                  Markimdb: 7.8
                  Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:24

                    The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

                    Markimdb: 7
                    Genremelodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                    Duration01:43

                    A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.

                    Markimdb: 7
                    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA
                    Duration01:54

                    Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genredrama, biography
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

                    A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

                    Markimdb: 8
                    Genredrama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:26

                    Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:30

                    A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

                    Markimdb: 7.2
                    Genrecomedy, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:01

                    A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

                    Markimdb: 7.4
                    Genredrama, sport
                    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
                    Duration02:27

                    Billy "The Great" Hope, the reigning junior middleweight boxing champion, has an impressive career, a loving wife and daughter, and a lavish lifestyle. However, when tragedy strikes, Billy hits rock bottom, losing his family, his house and his manager. He soon finds an unlikely savior in Tick Willis, a former fighter who trains the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future on the line, Hope fights to reclaim the trust of those he loves the most.

                    Markimdb: 8
                    Genredrama
                    CountryIndia, USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
                    Duration02:35

                      Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

                      Markimdb: 7.1
                      Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:41

                      A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

                      Markimdb: 7.5
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA, France
                      Duration01:30

                      An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

                      Markimdb: 7.5
                      Genredrama, music, biography, history
                      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
                      Duration02:05

                      Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

                      Markimdb: 7.3
                      Genrecomedy, drama, family
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:53

                      When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

                      Markimdb: 7.6
                      Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                      CountryUSA

                      A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

                      Markimdb: 8.2
                      Genredrama, crime
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:57

                      The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

                      Markimdb: 7
                      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
                      CountryUSA, Canada
                      Duration01:46

                        The story of the awakening of the painter, Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

                        Markimdb: 6.5
                        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:55

                        After a distastrous first date for caterer Holly and network sports director Messer, all they have is common is a dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling careers and social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof.

                        Markimdb: 6.7
                        Genremelodrama, drama
                        CountryRepublic of Ireland
                        Duration02:30

                        The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.

                        Markimdb: 7
                        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:06

                        A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

                        Markimdb: 7.6
                        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:40

                        Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

                        Markimdb: 7.6
                        Genredrama
                        CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
                        Duration01:49

                          In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

                          Markimdb: 8.1
                          Genredrama, crime, biography
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:33

                            In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters Michael Rezendes, Matt Carroll and Sacha Pfeiffer interview victims and try to unseal sensitive documents. The reporters make it their mission to provide proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

                            Markimdb: 6.8
                            Genremelodrama, drama
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration02:23

                            Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

                            Markimdb: 7.9
                            Genrecomedy, drama
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration02:29

                            A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

                            Markimdb: 7.1
                            Genremelodrama, drama
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration01:52

                            Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.




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