# The best films about the Troubles in Northern Ireland

Bloody Sunday, hunger strikes, wrongful convictions, a lost soldier in Belfast and the long road to peace: The Movie Gourmet's list of the best films about the Troubles.

- 99 votes · 11 items
- Mar 4, 2021 · Kirsty Cox
- https://even.best/en/l/4561/the-best-films-about-the-troubles-in-northern-ireland

## Top 11

1. **In the Name of the Father (1993)** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — Jim Sheridan. Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing.
2. **Bloody Sunday (2002)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Paul Greengrass. The 1972 shootings of civil rights marchers in Derry.
3. **Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)** (9 · ▲10 ▼1) — Oliver Hirschbiegel. A loyalist killer and his victim's brother meet decades later.
4. **The Journey (2016)** (7 · ▲9 ▼2) — Nick Hamm. An imagined car ride between Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness before the 2006 peace deal.
5. **'71 (2014)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Yann Demange. A young British soldier left behind by his unit during a Belfast riot.
6. **The General (1998)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — John Boorman. Brendan Gleeson as Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, at odds with the IRA.
7. **The Crying Game (1992)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Neil Jordan. An IRA volunteer and the girlfriend of the soldier he guarded. Oscar for best screenplay.
8. **Omagh (2004)** (5 · ▲8 ▼3) — Pete Travis. The 1998 Real IRA car bombing and the families' fight for justice.
9. **Cal (1984)** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Pat O'Connor. A young getaway driver falls for the widow of a policeman killed by the IRA.
10. **The Boxer (1997)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Jim Sheridan. A former IRA man leaves prison and opens a mixed boxing gym in Belfast.
11. **Shadow Dancer (2012)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — James Marsh. An IRA member turned informer by MI5 in 1990s Belfast.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.