Last Updated on 10 March 2024
The following list is the Official Definitive List of the 120 best St. Patrick’s Day movies of all time.
I averaged 32 different ranked lists of “Best St Patrick’s Day movies of all time” to get this definitive compilation. Most were of Irish-themed movies that were deemed appropriate to watch on St. Patrick’s Day. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including all 32 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you’re welcome to print, followed by the full list with links to IMDb.
- Once (2007)
- Brooklyn (2015)
- The Commitments (1991)
- The Secret of Kells (2009)
- In the Name of the Father (1993)
- The Quiet Man (1952)
- The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
- Sing Street (2016)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
- The Luck of the Irish (2001)
- Leprechaun (1992)
- Belfast (2021)
- Michael Collins (1996)
- P.S. I Love You (2007)
- The Guard (2011)
- Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
- Leap Year (2010)
- Far and Away (1992)
- The Crying Game (1992)
- Hunger (2008)
- My Left Foot (1989)
- Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)
- Waking Ned Devine (1998)
- Song of the Sea (2014)
- The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
- In Bruges (2008)
- Calvary (2014)
- St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000)
- The Departed (2006)
- Philomena (2013)
- Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
- Ondine (2009)
- The Boondock Saints (1999)
- Angela’s Ashes (1999)
- Grabbers (2012)
- Intermission (2003)
- Gangs of New York (2002)
- The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
- In America (2002)
- Flora and Son (2023)
- Wolfwalkers (2020)
- The Snapper (1993)
- The Fugitive (1993)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- The Irish Pub (2013)
- Circle of Friends (1995)
- ’71 (2014)
- Holidate (2020)
- Older Than Ireland (2015)
- Cardboard Gangsters (2017)
- Bloody Sunday (2002)
- The Boxer (1997)
- Black ’47 (2018)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- I Am Patrick (2020)
- Leprechaun Returns (2018)
- Song of Granite (2017)
- The Field (1990)
- Evelyn (2002)
- The Van (1996)
- Leapin’ Leprechauns! (1995)
- The Quiet Girl (2022)
- Veronica Guerin (2003)
- Frank (2014)
- The Devil’s Own (1997)
- The Last Leprechaun (1998)
- The Wonder (2022)
- Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971)
- Ordinary Love (2019)
- Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
- Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
- The Last Right (2019)
- Finian’s Rainbow (1968)
- The Hole in the Ground (2019)
- As Luck Would Have It (2021)
- State of Grace (1990)
- The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
- Waiting for Dublin (2007)
- Shadow Dancer (2012)
- Extra Ordinary (2019)
- Into the West (1992)
- The Bachelor Weekend (2013)
- The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
- Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
- Kisses (2008)
- Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
- The O’Briens (2013)
- Wild (2014)
- The Secret Scripture (2016)
- Fourteen Hours (1951)
- Perrier’s Bounty (2009)
- Snatch (2000)
- Some Mother’s Son (1996)
- Red Dawn (1984)
- Black Mass (2015)
- Ladder 49 (2004)
- Riverdance: The Animated Adventure (2021)
- ExTerminators (2009)
- Miss Julie (2014)
- Holidays (2016)
- Nocebo (2022)
- Leprechaun 2 (1994)
- Muck (2015)
- What Richard Did (2012)
- Pot o’ Gold (1941)
- Here Are the Young Men (2020)
- Cherrybomb (2009)
- Calm with Horses (2019)
- Glassland (2014)
- The Town (2010)
- Gold (2014)
- A Date for Mad Mary (2016)
- Animals (2019)
- High Spirits (1988)
- Rosie (2018)
- Bobby Sands: 66 Days (2016)
- Tara Road (2005)
- The MatchMaker (1997)
- Albert Nobbs (2011)
- Laws of Attraction (2004)