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51. The Hanging Garden (1997)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance
William, a once obese and depressed adolescent, is able to move past his teenage years when he moves to the city and comes out as being gay. When he returns home though, he can't cope with his memories.
Director: Thom Fitzgerald | Stars: Chris Leavins, Kerry Fox, Ian Parsons, Peter MacNeill
Votes: 3,086 | Gross: $0.93M
52. Ash Wednesday (2002)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama
Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers (Burns and Wood) who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Director: Edward Burns | Stars: Brian Burns, Vincent Rubino, James Michael Cummings, Elijah Wood
Votes: 3,162 | Gross: $0.00M
53. Studs Lonigan (1960)
95 min | Drama
A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.
Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Christopher Knight, Frank Gorshin, Venetia Stevenson, Carolyn Craig
Votes: 373
54. Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer (1993 TV Special)
R | 62 min | Documentary, Comedy
Ticked off comic Denis Leary talks honestly about subjects ranging from smoking, red meat, drugs, his family, rehab, and yes, cancer.
Director: Ted Demme | Stars: Denis Leary, Chris Phillips, Adam Roth
Votes: 2,787
55. American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
60 min | Documentary, History
Explore the Kennedy family's rise to power and how personal relationships within the Kennedy dynasty shaped national and global events from the Cold War to the Wall Street crash.
Stars: Martin Sheen, Evan Thomas, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Barbara Perry
Votes: 516
56. Lenny (1990–1991)
30 min | Comedy
Stand-up comedian Lenny Clarke plays Lenny Callahan, a working-class Bostonian holding down two jobs: construction worker by day and hotel doorman at night, while supporting his wife Shelley and three children.
Stars: Lenny Clarke, Lee Garlington, Peter Dobson, Alice Drummond
Votes: 23
57. If Dad Only Knew (2004)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy
Bobby, the youngest boy in an Irish Catholic family, is gay and his coming out to his brothers and the family's way of dealing with the news is the basis of this film.
Director: Pete Jones | Stars: Pete Jones, Nathan Fillion, Stoney Westmoreland, Dev Kennedy
Votes: 821
58. Frank Serpico (2017)
Unrated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography
In his own words, Frank Serpico tells the story of his one-man crusade for police reform in the NYPD during the early 1970s.
Director: Antonino D'Ambrosio | Stars: Frank Serpico, Stanislao Pugliese, Janet Panetta, John O'Connor
Votes: 390 | Gross: $0.01M
59. Mortal Sins (1992 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 93 min | Thriller
A serial killer confesses to a priest, who becomes a suspect and a sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Director: Bradford May | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Roxann Dawson, Francis Guinan, Weston McMillan
Votes: 260
60. Keeping Secrets (1991 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
The FILM Autobiography of actress and entrepreneur Suzanne Somers with all the trials and tribulations that made her who she is today.
Director: John Korty | Stars: Suzanne Somers, Ken Kercheval, Michael Learned, Kim Zimmer
Votes: 113
61. Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia (2023 TV Movie)
Documentary, Crime, History
With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a bitter end.
Director: David Harvey | Stars: Chuck Granata, Lenny Luizzi, Robert Foster, Robbyn Swan
Votes: 58
62. 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Thomas Mitchell, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Grey
Votes: 313
63. Fall to Grace (2013)
TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary
Emmy(R)-winning filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi ('Journeys With George') explores scandalized former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey's new life as a spiritual advisor to female prison inmates and a soon-to-be ordained Episcopalian priest.
Director: Alexandra Pelosi | Stars: Oscar Aviles, Geoff Curtiss, Stephen Haller, Dina Matos McGreevey
Votes: 144
64. Black Pool (2019)
85 min | Thriller
A gripping thriller about a revenge-fueled, cat-and-mouse game of imprisonment and interrogation between two Irish immigrants whose mysterious shared past sets them on a collision course with violence.
Director: Dustin Morrow | Stars: Tom Walton, Amber Stonebraker, Todd Van Voris, Kailey Rhodes
Votes: 26
65. The Signs of the Cross (2005)
90 min | Drama
The 3 stages in the tumultuous life of John Coyne. Born a poor Irish Catholic with an abusive alcoholic father, John finds no solace in the catholic school and church he attends.
Director: John Reidy | Stars: Dan Lauria, Ilene Kristen, Chuck Zito, Eileen Fulton
Votes: 40
66. Letting Go of God (2008)
130 min | Documentary
Letting Go of God is a humorous monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. She begins in the Catholic church, the religion her family raised her in, and takes a Bible study ... See full summary »
Director: Julia Sweeney
Votes: 690
67. Out in the Silence (2009)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Comedy, Family
The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson's wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small hometown and a plea for help from the mother of a gay teen being tormented at school.
Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson | Stars: C.J. Bills, Diane Granley, Linda Henderson, Roxanne Hitchcock
Votes: 544
68. Rocky Road to Dublin (1968)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon exposed the truth of a repressed, suppressed and censored country, and the hypocrisy of church, politics and state, through a series of 'innocent' interviews.
Director: Peter Lennon | Stars: Sean O'Faoláin, Conor Cruise O'Brien, John Huston, Douglas Gageby
Votes: 176
69. Small, Far Away: The World of Father Ted (2011 TV Movie)
49 min | Documentary, Comedy
On the 15th anniversary of its launch, this documentary follows Father Ted creators Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews on a return trip to Craggy Island to take in its location and discuss how the series was made with cast and crew.
Director: Adrian McCarthy | Stars: Patrick Drury, Neil Hannon, Frank Kelly, Graham Linehan
Votes: 77
70. Shoots & Ladders (2007)
100 min | Comedy
No cow patty is too large an obstacle for Rex Wagner, the Jewish Cowboy, who recently moved to New York to become a movie star. He exudes a naive self confidence that actually enables him ... See full summary »
Directors: Lance Greene, Barry Wernick | Stars: Barry Wernick, Lance Greene, Brian Sullivan, Lance Irwin
71. Shamus O'Brien (1912)
Short, Drama
Shamus O'Brien was a patriot and in fighting for his country places himself in the position of a rebel with a price on his head. He is hiding in the hills, but anxious to attend a dance, at... See full summary »
Director: Otis Turner | Stars: King Baggot, Vivian Prescott, William Robert Daly, Augustus Balfour
72. Endgame in Ireland (2001 TV Movie)
240 min | Documentary
A comprehensive look at the Irish people's struggle for Civil rights and how it transpired into a military campaign for independence, before a political agreement was made for fair ... See full summary »
Directors: Mark Anderson, Mick Gold | Stars: Gerry Adams, Bertie Ahern, Tony Blair, Denis Bradley
Votes: 42
73. Beantown (2007)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A blood-soaked chronicle of the final desperate gang war between Boston's Irish and Italian mobs.
Director: Timothy Norman | Stars: Kristen Savage, Randy Paradis, Sean Fowler, Drew Paradis
Votes: 88
74. Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston (1978)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary
Traces the alteration, through economic and political influences, of the Parker Hill area of Roxbury in Boston. An ethnically mixed family neighborhood, at present largely Irish Catholic, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Broadman | Stars: William Leonard Geoghegan, Catherine Killilea, James Killilea
Votes: 11
75. The Miraculous Tales of Mickey McGuigan (2013)
60 min | Documentary
Do miracles exist? Mickey McGuigan, a 73-year-old Northern Irish farmer turned writer, is going to take us on a journey to find out. Miracles may defy logic, but millions around the world ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Vernon
Votes: 17
76. Milk & Moscone: Assassination at City Hall (2003 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary
The events surrounding the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by Dan White at San Francisco's City Hall, on November 27th 1978.
Director: Ken Swartz | Stars: Martin Binder, Willie Brown, Belva Davis, Frank Falzon
77. Savor the Insanity (2009)
PG | Short, Comedy
Kathleen Shaughnessy, Kat, a quirky, thirty three year old, Irish Catholic, single woman who after leaving her fiancé at the proverbial alter, is forced to move back with her parents and ... See full summary »
Director: Brad Bromelmeier | Stars: Renato Biribin Jr., David Anthony Buglione, Connie Monroe, Sandra Purpuro
78. The Sacred Heart (2012)
22 min | Short, Crime, Drama
When an unemployed young woman from Hell's Kitchen and her equally unemployed immigrant boyfriend are threatened with eviction, the couple resort to desperate measures and find themselves ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Serban | Stars: Sara K. Edwards, Alfred Cantilina, Julia O'Neill, Dory Manzour
Votes: 9
79. West Side Girl (2010)
15 min | Short, Crime, Drama
Patty Reilly, devout Catholic, up-and-coming female punk and lifelong resident of New York City's rapidly gentrifying Hell's Kitchen, decides to wreak revenge against her landlord for evicting her in the middle of winter.
Director: Andrew Serban | Stars: Shannon Lower, Eric Kappenberg, Roland Uruci, Eric H. Roffman
80.
Screen Two (1984–1998)
Episode:
The Snapper
(1993)
R | 91 min | Drama
20 year old Irish girl Sharon Curly lives at home with her large family. But notoriety in her neighbourhood suddenly arrives when, after a night out on the town, she becomes pregnant and refuses to divulge the identity of the baby's father.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Colm Meaney, Tina Kellegher, Ruth McCabe, Eanna MacLiam
Votes: 6,133 | Gross: $3.32M
81.
Australian Theatre Festival (1980–1981)
Episode:
A Hard God
(1981)
80 min | Drama
A 16 year old falls in love with his best mate in this drama set in a working class Irish Family in 1940's Australia.
Director: William Fitzwater | Stars: Philippa Baker, Simon Burke, Peter Gwynne, Dawn Lake
82.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
RFK
(2004)
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Part One: The Garish Sun: Robert F. Kennedy devotes himself to his brother John, then deals with the pain of the assassination.
Director: David Grubin | Stars: Blair Brown, Roy M. Cohn, Robert Dallek, Peter Edelman
Votes: 78
83.
Touched by an Angel (1994–2003)
Episode:
Life Before Death
(2000)
TV-G | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Monica works with a group of teenagers from Ireland--some Catholic, some Protestant, all scarred in different ways from the Troubles--for a missionary program in the United States. They are to restore an old house and must work in harmony.
Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Roma Downey, John Dye, Della Reese, Lesley Ann Shaw
Votes: 52
84.
The Irish Mob (2008–2016)
Episode:
Brian O'Dea/Pat Nee
(2008)
46 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Pat Nee started out together with James 'Whitey' Bulger in the Winter Hill gang in South Boston but as Whitey started to introduce drugs to the community Nee tried to stop it and eventually... See full summary »
Director: Dathaí Keane | Stars: Brian O'Dea, John Wareham, Pat Nee, T.J. English
85.
Kennedy (2023)
Episode:
The Kennedy Machine (1956-1960)
(2023)
Documentary, Biography, History
Kennedy sets into motion an unprecedented 5-year campaign for the Presidency, revolutionizing modern campaigning and the use of television.
Director: Ashton Gleckman | Stars: John F. Kennedy, Julian Zelizer, Curtis Wilkie, Martin W. Sandler
Votes: 31
86.
Titanic (2012)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2012)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama, History
Jim Maloney is in charge of completing the electrics on the Titanic. He is offered free passage on the ship's maiden voyage, for himself and his family, if he can get the work completed on time. He accepts but the ship strikes an iceberg.
Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Peter McDonald, Timothy West, Stephen Campbell Moore, James Wilby
Votes: 121
87.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Back and to the Left
(2012)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Murdoch must tread carefully when he pursues a Catholic suspect in the murder of an Alderman, killed during the attempted assassination of the city's Protestant Mayor.
Director: Don McCutcheon | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Thomas Craig, Helene Joy, Georgina Reilly
Votes: 327
88.
This World (2004– )
Episode:
The Shame of the Catholic Church
(2012)
Documentary
Director: Alison Millar | Stars: Darragh MacIntyre, Colm Tóibín
Votes: 5
89.
Curse of the Kennedys (2018)
Episode:
The Kennedys: A Fatal Ambition
(2018)
60 min | Documentary, History
Explores some of the tragedies and scandals that have struck the Kennedy clan from the lobotomy of daughter Rosemary, the death in war of Joe Jr, the fatal plane crash of Kathleen, and the assassination of JFK.
Director: Steve Webb | Stars: Colin Tierney, John R. Bohrer, Patrick Joseph Kennedy II, Larry Sabato
Votes: 9