The best Pat Shortt’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Pat Shortt’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Pat Shortt.
The Guard
7.3/10
When a small-town Irish cop with a crass personality is partnered with a straight-laced FBI agent to bust an international drug-trafficking ring, they must settle their differences in order to take down a dangerous gang.
Song of the Sea
8/10
The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.
Pixie
5.9/10
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.
Calvary
7.4/10
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Queen & Country
6.2/10
An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
Animals
6/10
Laura and Tyler are best friends and drinking buddies whose hedonistic existence falls under the creeping horror of adulthood when Laura gets engaged to Jim – an ambitious pianist who surprisingly decides to go teetotal.
Garage
7.1/10
A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Breakfast Wine
6.7/10
In Ireland they say it takes just three alcoholics to keep a small bar running in a country town. But what if you’ve only got two?
Man About Dog
6.4/10
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads head south on a road trip in the hope of seeing a man about a dog. Foul-mouthed and funny, Man About Dog is full of great craic.
Life's a Breeze
6.3/10
An unemployed slacker, his aged mother and his niece must overcome their many differences to find a lost fortune.
The Flag
6.1/10
Builder Harry Hambridge is a down-on-his-luck paddy living in London. In one day he loses his job, father and beloved pet hamster, Mouse. On returning home to bury his father, he finds a statement from his Grandfather, claiming that it was he who raised the flag over the GPO during the 1916 Rising, which now hangs upside-down in an army barracks in England. Too long used to the mockery of his life, he sets out with his motley crew to find that “fecking flag” and maybe his passion for life along the way.
SoulBoy
5.9/10
1974. Amidst power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the football terraces, Joe McCain is bored of a life that's going nowhere. Enter hair-dresser Jane: blonde, beautiful, and moving to the beat of a whole new world of sound, movement and all-nighter dancing at The Wigan Casino - the home of Northern Soul. Swept along on this tide of pulsating dance and lust, Joe becomes embroiled in the darker side of soul scene that will put his friendship to the test.
The Closer You Get
6.2/10
Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
Twice Shy
6.4/10
Andy and Maggie, a young Irish couple, travel to England as the result of an unplanned pregnancy, where Maggie will face the biggest decision of her life.
Dark Lies the Island
4.9/10
Dark Lies the Island is a dark drama, with comedic undertones, based on the stories of Kevin Barry.
The Belly of the Whale
5/10
Two down-and-outs bonded together in misfortune devise a plan to rob a small town amusement arcade.
D'Unbelievables D'Telly
8.6/10
Irish Comedy Starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt
