Celebrate Ireland and all things luck with these St Patrick’s Day movies! There are over 30 films on this list found on various platforms.
St. Patrick’s Day is a fun time to celebrate Irish culture. This usually happens with food and alcohol! But there are so many St Patrick’s Day movies to enjoy for the holiday as well! These movies celebrate famous Irish people, are full of Irish lore, and some are a lot of fun! Many star beloved Irish actors, like Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, and Saoirse Ronan, have won Academy Awards. Snuggle up on the couch with your Irish soda bread, or a green beer, and enjoy a St Patrick’s Day movie night.
This list includes 40+ St Patrick’s Day movies available across multiple streaming platforms. It is divided into 4 categories: Family-Friendly, Romances, Mature Thriller/Dramas, and Comedies. There’s something for everyone on every streaming service!
Quintessentially Irish (NR)
A love letter to all things Irish and a lesson on what it means to be Irish. This documentary, featuring actors like Pierce Brosnan and Jeremy Irons, explores history, castles, and the influence of Ireland on the world. (Watch on AppleTV+)
St Patrick’s Day Movies for the Whole Family (Rated G-PG)
The Luck of the Irish (G)
A teen boy discovers his family are leprechauns while researching his heritage for school. The family’s luck is stolen by an evil leprechaun who wishes to be king of the leprechauns. The boy must compete to win back their luck and end their bad luck streak. This is one of my favorite St Patrick’s Day movies! (Watch on Disney Plus)
Wolfwalkers (PG)
In this animated movie, a young apprentice hunter travels with her father to Ireland to wipe out the last wolf pack. But after she saves a young girl, the hunter is introduced to the world of the Wolfwalkers. This leads her to question everything she knows. (Watch on AppleTV+)
Waking Ned Devine (PG)
Two best friends discover someone in their small Irish town won the lottery, so they travel home to see if the winner will share. Instead, they find him dead. The town decides to pull a “Weekend at Bernie’s” to see if they can claim the prize. (Rent on Prime Video)
The Secret of Kells (NR)
In the remote Irish woods a fortress prepares for a viking attack. A young boy is recruited to accomplish several dangerous magical tasks to help his people. (Rent on Prime Video)
Riverdance: An Animated Adventure (G)
An Irish boy and a Spanish girl travel to a mythical land where the inhabitants teach them to celebrate life through Riverdance. (Watch on Netflix)
Song of the Sea (PG)
A young Irish boy discovers that his mute sister is a selkie, a mythical creature that can change between human and seal form. He must help her find her voice and free all supernatural creatures from a Celtic goddess’ spell. The selkies pop up in several films because of their ties to Celtic mythology. (Rent on Prime Video)
A Shine of Rainbows (PG)
An extraordinary woman changes the life on an orphaned Irish boy by helping him conquer his grief. She shows him the magic within nature and in himself. (Watch on AppleTV+)
Finian’s Rainbow (G)
This 1968 musical was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and stars Fred Astaire as Finian, an Irishman that stole a pot of gold from an evil leprechaun. While fleeing the leprechaun, Finian and his daughter find themselves caught up in small town politics against a narrow-minded politician. (Rent on Prime Video)
The Secret of Roan Inish (PG)
A young Irish girl named Fiona has a secretive family history, including a missing baby brother. She hears tales about the mystical selkies and sets off for the family’s ancestral island of Roan Inish. There she finds a boy she believes to be her brother. (Watch on Starz)
The Legend of Longwood (PG)
An American girl from New York City finds herself in a mythical village in Ireland. There she must redeem a black knight to free the village and a herd of magical horses from a ruthless curse. (Watch on Prime Video)
Make a fun snack, like these Lucky Charms Bars, to enjoy while you watch your St Patrick’s Day movies!
Romantic Comedies and Romantic St Patrick’s Day Movies
Irish Wish (PG)
Maddie (Lindsay Lohan) travels to Ireland to be a bridesmaid for her friend in this romantic comedy. There she makes a wish and wakes up in an alternate reality where she is the bride. Watch on Netflix.
Leap Year (PG)
Anna (Amy Adams) follows her boyfriend on a trip to Ireland where she plans to propose to him. Fate intervenes and she finds herself on the other side of the country where she meets a handsome Irish man who sweeps her off her feet. Rent on Amazon Prime Video)
PS I Love You (PG-13)
Following the death of her husband, Holly (Hilary Swank) receives posthumous letters from him. These letters encourage her to move on with her life, and take a trip to his hometown in Ireland. Have the tissues ready for this St Patrick’s Day movie! (Rent on Prime Video)
Brooklyn (PG-13)
A young woman named Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) immigrates from Ireland to the United States where she falls in love with Brooklyn. However, her past threatens her new life and she must choose between her two countries and her lives in each. (Rent on AppleTV)
Love of the Irish (G)
Fiona and her mother travel to Ireland where she meets a charming single father. Her luck in love seems to turn around here. This is a Hallmark romance movie with the typical cheesy movie formula. (Watch on Hallmark+)
Wild Mountain Thyme (PG-13)
Rosemary (Emily Blunt) is a headstrong farmer in love with her neighbor Anthony (Jamie Dornan). However, Anthony is oblivious to her affection. When his father threatens to sell the family’s land in Ireland to an American relative, the two must work together to stop him. (Watch on Cinemax on Hulu)
Ondine (PG-13)
A fisherman (Colin Farrell) lives on the coast of an Irish town with his daughter. One day he captures a beautiful woman in his fishing nets. She seems to bring him good luck and attracts the fish. The fisherman wonders if the woman may actual be a mystical being. (Rent on AppleTV)
Dancing at Lughnasa (PG)
Kate (Meryl Streep) is the eldest of 5 sisters. They all live together in a small house in rural Ireland in 1936. The sisters are all unmarried, but live well together, until their estranged brother comes back to town. (Rent on Prime Video)
Thriller, Drama, and Mature Movies for St Patrick’s Day (Mostly Rated R)
The Quiet Man (NR)
A former boxer (John Wayne) returns to Ireland to purchase his family’s home. However, an old neighbor also wants the property. Things become more muddied when the boxer and his rival’s sister fall in love. This is an old Western-style movie set in Ireland. (Watch on MGM+)
The Banshees of Inisherin (R)
Pádraic (Colin Farrell) is devastated when his best friend Colm (Brendan Gleeson) decides he no longer wants to speak with him. He begs and pleads with his former friend to reconsider, which results in several dark, but sometimes funny, turn of events. (Rent on Prime Video)
The Wonder (R)
A young Irish girl stops eating, but manages to survive without food. The family hires a nurse (Florence Pugh) to care for her and study her. Tourists and religious pilgrims flock to Irish town to see the girl that can live without food. (Watch on Netflix)
Crawlers (R)
On St Patrick’s Day, three unlikely friends must work together to save their college town from body-switching aliens. If you want a St Patrick’s Day horror movie, you’ve found it. (Watch on Hulu)
The Boondock Saints (R)
Two Irish Catholic twin brothers decide to take on the crime in Boston. The religious vigilantes become folk heroes to their town, but an FBI agent is hot on their trail. (Watch on PeacockTV)
Black ’47 (R)
The film is set in Ireland in 1847 during the Great Famine. A former Irish Ranger seeks revenge on the soldiers who murdered his family. This film stars Hugo Weaving and Barry Keoghan. (Watch on Roku)
The Guard (R)
A crass Irish policeman (Brendan Gleeson) and a rule following FBI agent (Don Cheadle) must team up to uncover police corruption. This movie is like Rush Hour with an Irish man. (Rent on Prime Video)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (TV-MA)
Damien (Cillian Murphy) is an Irish medical student bound for London to complete his training. However, he gets swept up in the Irish War for Independence. He enlists in the Irish Republican Army with his brother, but when the war ends the two brothers find themselves on opposing sides. (Watch on AMC+)
Evelyn (PG, but I wouldn’t consider it family friendly)
After his wife abandons their family, the Irish courts seize custody of Desmond Doyle’s (Pierce Brosnan) two children. His daughter, Evelyn, and son are sent to separate orphanages and Desmond must fight the courts to win them back. (Rent on Prime Video)
Jimmy’s Hall (PG-13)
Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after living in exile in America for 10 years for running a dance hall. Ireland is in the midst of the Depression. After witnessing the downcast spirits and poverty of the people, Jimmy decides to break the law and reopen the dance hall. (Rent on Prime Video)
Albert Nobbs (R)
Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) is a woman posing as a man to secure employment and independence. He works as a butler in an elegant hotel. When he meets a handsome painter, he yearns to live a life without the loneliness of his secret. (Rent on Prime Video)
Pilgrimage (R)
In the 13th century, three Irish monks set out to escort their monastery’s holiest relic to Rome. Their mission turns dangerous as they encounter tribal warfare along the way. This movie stars Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, and Jon Bernthal. (Rent on Prime Video)
The Last of the High Kings (R)
After finishing high school Frankie Griffin (Jared Leto) awaits news of his college acceptance. He spends the summer trying to live up to his mother (Catherine O’Hara) and father’s expectations, while pursuing crushes, and avoiding an American tourist (Christina Ricci). (Rent on Prime Video)
Movies about Real Irish People
Kill the Irishman (R)
In Cleveland in the 1970’s Irish-American gangster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) starts a turf war that results in the collapse of the Mafia in major cities across the U.S. This Crime/Thriller has a stacked cast including Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer, Linda Cardellini, and Vincent D’Onofrio. (Watch on Prime Video)
My Left Foot (R)
Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) is a boy from a middle-class Irish family born with cerebral palsy. He is essential paralyzed, except for the use of his left foot. With the help of his mother Christy learns to write with his left foot and goes on to become a poet, painter, and author. (Rent on Prime Video)
Angela’s Ashes (R)
Following the death of their infant daughter, Angela, her husband, and their 4 children leave New York and return to Ireland. Their home country is in the throws of a great famine and their life there in poverty is worse than New York. (Rent on Prime Video)
Michael Collins (R)
Michael Collins (Liam Neeson) leads the Irish Republican Army with his two closest friends. When it looks like the defeat of the revolution is unavoidable he negotiates a peace treaty with the British. He is deemed a traitor of the IRA, but the British want him to kill his friends. Collins must decide where his loyalties truly lie. (Watch on Prime Video)
The General (R)
This film is based on the real story of Dublin folk hero and Irish legend Martin Cahill (Brendan Gleeson). He pulls of two valiant robberies but attracts the unwanted attention of the police, the IRA, and more. (Watch on Tubi)
St Patty’s Day Comedies
Stella Days (TV-14)
Martin Sheen portrays a priest with a love for film. He tries to convince his parish to open a cinema in their small Irish town, but is met with resistance. (Watch on Tubi)
The Runway (PG-13)
A South American pilot crash lands in a small village in Ireland. While translating the pilot’s story to the townspeople, a young boy mixes up a few key details. This mix up turns the pilot into a local celebrity. (Watch on Prime Video)
Widow’s Peak (PG)
An elegant woman moves to a small Irish town where she clashes with the local matriarchs. As the women verbally spar and scheme against each other secrets come to light. (Rent on Prime Video)
The Miracle Club (PG-13)
Three women win the trip of a lifetime to the sacred French town of Lourdes with some help from their local priest. This film stars legends like Dame Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates, and Laura Linney. (Rent on Prime Video)
Sing Street (PG-13)
A young man leaves his private school to move to Dublin in the 1980’s amidst a recession. He struggles to adapt to his new life and decides to start a band. (Watch on Netflix)
Shows to Enjoy on St Patrick’s Day
Derry Girls (TV-MA)
The comedy and coming-of-age series follows a group of teenage girls and their lives in Northern Ireland. The girls worry about boys and high school drama while their town is patrolled by armored vehicles and British Army check points. Nicola Coughlan of Bridgerton fame got her start on this show. (Watch on Netflix)
Bodkin (TV-MA)
Podcasters travel to Ireland to investigate the mysterious disappearances of three individuals. (Watch on Netflix)
Rebellion (TV-MA)
“Three women discover where their true loyalties lie when an armed revolt breaks out, aiming to gain Ireland’s independence from Britain.” (Watch on Netflix)
Peaky Blinders (TV-MA)
Following World War I, the Peaky Blinders gang, led by the Irish-Romani Shelby family, seeks to gain a foothold in the business world. Cillian Murphy plays Thomas Shelby, the leader of the Peaky Blinders. (Watch on Netflix)
Normal People (TV-MA)
Marianne and Connell live in the same Irish town, but they are very different. Connell (Paul Mescal) is the attractive athlete and Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is the unpopular loner girl. The series follows their romantic relationship ebbs and flows as they graduate, finish college, and become adults. (Watch on Hulu)
