Irish American Movies

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of...

Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen....

An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.

Bobby Riley is an affable Irish-American guy-next-door, gay and still in the closet. Bobby's discomfort with being openly gay is a source of friction...

Thornton Wilder's tale of a matchmaker who desires the man she's supposed to be pairing with another woman.

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth....

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain's daughter.

This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen...

A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.

A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert...

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media...

A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families,...

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.

The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout...

Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.

Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for America's shores. In just one horrifying decade,...