best irish and scottish movies

This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism and joins a football team.A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, Bend It Like Beckham explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to freekicks in the Final. I’m going to look into a few of the others that you mentioned.Whatcha talkning bout lassy, Brave hearts the biggest Scotish movie everThen there’s “Dear Frankie” – a, sweet little film about a single woman & her deaf/mute son and the man (“the stranger”) she invites into their lives to pretend to be his father.Great list – but Trainspotting is actually set in Edinburgh!! Ok, Scotland has Glasgow and Edinburgh, but also rural areas (just like Plockton in this movie) not less authentic than urban settings.

When lottery winner Ned Devine is found dead - lottery ticket in hand and all - the townsfolk band together to fool the authorities into thinking Ned is alive, so they can receive the cash and share it. 10/10

Mystics is one of those films.

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An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to 3 months in prison. Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. ” Filth” is another one, the brilliant James McAvoy as a disturbed drug taking Policeman trying to get his life back on track over the festive season. In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.Cillian Murphy excels as Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a Patrick Mc Cabe novel set in a border Irish town and London, directed by Neil Jordan.The acting of Murphy, Liam Nesson and Brendan Gleeson make you sympathetic towards the outrageous characters, while lending creedence to the sometimes surreal plot. A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.On January 30, 1972, the british paras murdered Irish men,women and children,unarmed protesters,for demanding equal rights, if you have Irish blood in your veins this film will make it boil.A true story filmed in the Bogside of Derry where the real massacre took place.Brutally realistic. When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, drawing in the entire London underworld into a feeding frenzy at a time when the old criminal regime is losing turf to a wealthy foreign mob.After some failures in his career as a director, Guy Ritchie is back with a fast paced, frenetic movie. Starring Ian Bannen and Fionnula Flanagan.A beautiful, romantic, original musical set in the streets of Dublin. 'Circle Of Friends' is set in 1950's Ireland. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war.

He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork. A quirky, charming film about a teacher who meets and subsequently falls for a woman in a pub who turns out to be a burglar. Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. A raw depiction of the Belfast, Northern Ireland "troubles" as savage tribal warfare.

There could've been some more new tunes instead of old ones, but it's amazing to discover the fictional band's lead singer pull them off out of his lungs. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. The movie focuses on Benny Hogan and her best friend, Eve Malone.

You never see films like this anymore since Cyril Cusack left the planet. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, to find a guy named Frank Grogan, and take him to a man with a friendly face at a shack across a bog. A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes. Are there any movies done in the Gàidhlig?