Movies about Dublin

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There are many Dublin movies that tackle the Irish way of life or use the city as a backdrop that capture the sense of the place. It becomes velar from these movies that Dublin has many faces. So here are the films that reflect the many sides of the city.

Historical Dublin

The film that comes to mind when thinking of historical Dublin is The Dead, John Huston’s adaptation Joyce’s “Dubliners”. It presents a beautiful, haunting, and evocative snapshot of Dublin way of life. Another film worth mentioning is Michael Collins by Neil Jordan. The opening sequences of the 1916 Easter Rising show how relevant those events are. Other great Dublin film in this category is the Words upon the Window Pane by Mary McGuckian.

Working class Dublin

The Commitments by Alan Parker is a quintessential Dublin movie about the quintessential Dublin working class. A technically better movie about the lives of Dublin working class is My Left Foot, a Christy Brown biopic by Jim Sheridan. Honorable mentions are Evelyn by Bruce Beresford, The Halo Effect, by Lance Daly, and Pride and Joy by Nell Greenwood and Ronan Glennane.

Screwball Dublin

In many films, Dublin is a city of crazy characters caught in amusing and unlikely, sometimes romantic situations. The best in this area of this breed is When Brendan Met Trudy, a take on the usual story of madcap adventure when the cautious guy gets involved with a not-so-cautious woman. Honorable mentions: The Actors by Conor McPherson, Goldfish Memory by Liz Gill, and Spin the Bottle by Ian Fitzgibbon.

Criminal Dublin

Criminal activities in the city are also mirrored in a number of Dublin movies. The General by John Boorman is one of the better Dublin crime movies. It is the story of the notorious Martin Cahill. Runner-ups are Veronica Guerin by Joel Schumacher, Flick by Fintan Connolly, and Headrush by Shimmy Marcus.