Films like Angela's Ashes
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
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Black '47
Film · 2018 · also dramaIn 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the Br...
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25th Hour
Film · 2002 · also dramaOn the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to hi...
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Gangs of New York
Film · 2002 · also dramaIn early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cut...
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The Wonder
Film · 2022 · also dramaHaunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
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In the Name of the Father
Film · 1993 · also dramaA small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to p...
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Ironweed
Film · 1987 · also dramaAn alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Film · 2013 · also dramaComing of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
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Topside
Film · 2022 · also dramaDeep in the underbelly of New York City, a five year-old girl and her mother live among a community that has claimed the abandoned subway tunnels as their home. After a s...
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Film · 2006 · also dramaDito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growi...
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GoodFellas
Film · 1990 · also dramaThe true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family un...
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