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The Cinema of Northern Ireland is small. Traditionally the majority of films made in or about Northern Ireland had focused almost entirely on the Troubles;^[1] however, with the advent of peace since 1998, a certain evolution can be witnessed.

This list covers films shot and set in Northern Ireland either in part or in whole^[2]

• '71 (2013)
• An Everlasting Piece (2000)
• The Best Years (2013)
• Bloody Sunday (TV film; 2002)
• Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016)
• The Boxer (1997)
• Cal (1984)
• Cherrybomb (2009)
• Closing the Ring (2007)
• The Crying Game (1992)
• Dear Sarah (TV film; 1990)
• Divorcing Jack (1998)
• Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009)
• Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
• Four Days in July (TV film; 1985)
• Ghost Machine (2009)
• Good Vibrations (2013)
• Grabbers (2012)
• H3 (2001)
• Hidden Agenda (1990)
• How About You (2007)
• Hunger (2008)
• The Informant (TV film; 1997)
• In the Name of the Father (1993)
• Jacqueline (1956)
• Johnny Was (2006)
• Jump (2012)
• Killing Bono (2011)
• Man About Dog (2004)
• Mickybo and Me (2004)
• The Mighty Celt (2005)
• Middletown (2006)
• Miss Conception (2008)
• The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (2000)
• Odd Man Out (1947)
• Resurrection Man (1998)
• Shadow Dancer (2012)
• Shoot to Kill (TV film; 1990)
• Some Mother's Son (1996)
• This is the Sea (1997)
• Titanic Town (1998)
• Whole Lotta Sole (aka Stand Off; 2012)

This list covers films shot, or partly shot, in Northern Ireland but not set there

• A Prayer for the Dying (1987)
• Christopher and His Kind (TV film; 2011)
• City of Ember (2008)
• Your Highness (2011)

This list covers films that deal or make allusion to Northern Irish issues but were neither shot nor set there

• The Craic (1999)
• The Devil's Own (1997)
• Hennessy (1975)
• Patriot Games (1992)

• List of films set in Northern Ireland
• Cinema of Europe
• Cinema of Ireland
• Cinema of Scotland
• Cinema of the United Kingdom
• Cinema of Wales

• CAIN Guide to Movies about the Troubles

• Hill, John, Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics (BFI Publishing; 2006)
• McIlroy, Brian, Shooting to Kill: Filmmaking and the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland (Steveston Press; 2001)