List of films featuring the Irish Republican Army

This is a list of films in which the Irish Republican Army, a faction thereof or a break away organisation (whether real or fictional) is portrayed either through its plot or by a main character.

Title	Director	Notable cast	Summary	Released	Notes
The Informer	John Ford			1935
Beloved Enemy	H.C. Potter			1936
I See a Dark Stranger	Frank Launder		A young Irish woman becomes a Nazi spy.	1946
Odd Man Out	Carol Reed		A wounded Irish nationalist leader in Belfast attempts to evade police following a failed robbery.	1947
The Quiet Man	John Ford	John Wayne		1952
The Gentle Gunman	Basil Dearden	John Mills, Dirk Bogarde	IRA Volunteer Terry Sullivan (Mills) become disillusioned with a bombing campaign of London during the Second World War.	1952
Shake Hands with the Devil	Michael Anderson			1959
A Terrible Beauty	Tay Garnett	Robert Mitchum		1960
Ryan's Daughter	David Lean	Sarah Miles, Robert Mitchum, Sir John Mills, Leo McKern, Trevor Howard,	IRA men transporting a wagon load of rifles are forced to dump the rifles, along with the body of a policeman they shot on being recognised by him, into a well. Subsequently, they arrive in the village in which the main characters live to prepare to receive a delivery of German rifles from a ship offshore. Although the villagers help them to heroically recover the weapons during a storm, they are captured by the local British Army detachment on leaving the beach.	1970
Duck, You Sucker!	Sergio Leone	James Coburn, Rod Steiger	An Irish explosives expert on the run and a Mexican bandit unintentionally get involved in the Mexican Revolution.	1971
Hennessy	Don Sharp			1975
The Eagle Has Landed	John Sturges	Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland	A former IRA man sheltering in Nazi Germany, where he works as a lecturer, is parachuted into England to make preparations for a Luftwaffe parachute unit, disguised as Polish soldiers, tasked with capturing or killing Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.	1976
The Outsider	Tony Luraschi			1980
The Long Good Friday	John Mackenzie	Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren	A London crime boss is beset by problems which prove to be caused by the IRA, targeting his organisation as a result of the misdealings of one of his lackeys with them.	1980
Guests of the Nation	John J. Desmond			1981	Television film
Harry's Game	Lawrence Gordon Clark	Ray Lonnen, Derek Thompson	An IRA rifleman who assassinated a British minister in front of his family in London is tracked down by an undercover British Army officer.	1982	Television serial
Giro City	Karl Francis			1982
Cal	Pat O'Connor			1984
The Glory Boys	Michael Ferguson	Anthony Perkins	The IRA assigns one of its members to aid a Palestinian assassin in his attempt to kill an Israeli scientist in London, while British Intelligence officers attempt to prevent and capture them	1984	Television serial
In This Corner	Atom Egoyan			1985	Television film
Contact	Alan Clarke	Sean Chapman	Film based on A.F.N. Clarke's experiences as a Parachute Regiment officer in 1970s Northern Ireland	1984	Television film
A Prayer for the Dying	Mike Hodges			1987
Act of Betrayal	Lawrence Gordon Clark	Elliott Gould, Patrick Bergin	An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.	1988	TV Movie
The Dawning	Robert Knights			1988
A Casualty of War	Tom Clegg			1989	Television film
Elephant	Alan Clarke			1989	Television film
Behind the Mask	Frank Martin			1991	Documentary film
The Treaty	Jonathan Lewis			1991	Television film
Force of Duty	Pat O'Connor			1992	Television film
Patriot Games	Phillip Noyce	Harrison Ford		1992
The Crying Game	Neil Jordan			1992
Circles of Deceit	Geoffrey Sax			1993	Television film
In the Name of the Father	Jim Sheridan	Daniel Day Lewis Pete Postlethwaite	Based on the real life Guildford Four, father and son are falsely imprisoned as IRA members accused of committing the Guildford pub bombing.	1993
Blown Away	Stephen Hopkins	Jeff Bridges Lloyd Bridges		1994
Patriots	Frank Kerr			1994
More Than a Sacrifice	Tom Collins			1995	Documentary film
The Boys of Barr na Sráide	Conor O'Carroll			1996	Short film
Michael Collins	Neil Jordan	Liam Neeson		1996
Some Mother's Son	Terry George	Helen Mirren		1996
The Eliminator	Enda Hughes			1996
The Devil's Own	Alan J. Pakula	Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford		1997
Midnight Man	Lawrence Gordon Clark			1995	Television film
A Further Gesture	Robert Dornhelm			1997
The Informant	Jim McBride			1997
The Jackal	Michael Caton-Jones		An ex-IRA gunman is recruited to assist the CIA in tracking down a suspected presidential assassin.	1997
The Boxer	Jim Sheridan	Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson		1997
The General	John Boorman	Brendan Gleeson	Details the life of Dublin underworld figure Martin Cahill.	1998
Titanic Town	Roger Michell			1998
Divorcing Jack	David Caffrey			1998
Ronin	John Frankenheimer	Robert De Niro	IRA operatives hire mercenaries to retrieve a mysterious briefcase.	1998
The Craic	Ted Emery			1999
Exiled	Bill Muir			1999
Brits				2000	Documentary television series
Borstal Boy	Peter Sheridan			2000
An Everlasting Piece	Barry Levinson			2000
The Bombmaker	Graham Theakston			2001	Television film
Shamrock and Swastika	Brendan Culleton Irina Maldea		Examination of the Irish Republican Army's collaboration with the Abwehr during World War II.	2001	Television documentary
H3	Les Blair		Depiction of the 1981 Irish hunger strike.	2001
Bloody Sunday	Paul Greengrass	James Nesbit	Depiction of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.	2002	Television film
Sunday	Charles McDougall	Ciarán McMenamin, Christopher Eccleston	Depiction of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.	2002	Television film
The Rising of the Moon	Deborah Baxtrom			2002	Short film
The Maze				2002	Television documentary
Omagh	Pete Travis			2004	Television film
Breakfast on Pluto	Neil Jordan			2005
The Year London Blew Up	Edmund Coulthard		Dramadoc about the 1974-75 Provisional IRA campaign in London, which culminated in the Balcombe Street siege.	2005	Television film
Johnny Was	Mark Hammond			2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Ken Loach	Cillian Murphy		2006
I.R.A. King of Nothing	Damian Chapa			2006
Fifty Dead Men Walking	Kari Skogland	Ben Kingsley Rose McGowan Jim Sturgess	A loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name.	2008
Hunger	Steve McQueen		Depiction of the Bobby Sands during the 1981 Irish hunger strike.	2008
Sons of Anarchy				2008	TV Series
Five Minutes of Heaven	Oliver Hirschbiegel	Liam Neeson	A reconciliation is attempted after 33 years	2009
Shadow Dancer	James Marsh		An IRA member is turned into an informer for the British, to protect her son	2012
Peaky Blinders				2013	TV Series
'71	Yann Demange	Jack O'Connell	A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned, following a riot in Belfast, in 1971.	2014

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• Movies with 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland as a theme (1968 - Present)