This is a list of films in which the Irish Republican Army, a faction thereof or a break away organisation (whether real or fictional) is portrayed either through its plot or by a main character.
| Title | Director | Notable cast | Summary | Released | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Informer | John Ford | 1935 | ||||
| Beloved Enemy | H.C. Potter | 1936 | ||||
| I See a Dark Stranger | Frank Launder | A young Irish woman becomes a Nazi spy. | 1946 | |||
| Odd Man Out | Carol Reed | A wounded Irish nationalist leader in Belfast attempts to evade police following a failed robbery. | 1947 | |||
| The Quiet Man | John Ford | 1952 | ||||
| Shake Hands with the Devil | Michael Anderson | 1959 | ||||
| A Terrible Beauty | Tay Garnett | Robert Mitchum | 1960 | |||
| Ryan's Daughter | David Lean | 1970 | ||||
| Duck, You Sucker! | Sergio Leone | James Coburn, Rod Steiger | An Irish explosives expert on the run and a Mexican bandit unintentionally get involved in the Mexican Revolution. | 1971 | ||
| Hennessy | Don Sharp | 1975 | ||||
| The Eagle Has Landed | John Sturges | 1976 | ||||
| The Outsider | Tony Luraschi | 1980 | ||||
| The Long Good Friday | John Mackenzie | 1980 | ||||
| Guests of the Nation | John J. Desmond | 1981 | Television movie | |||
| Harry's Game | Lawrence Gordon Clark | 1982 | Television movie | |||
| Giro City | Karl Francis | 1982 | ||||
| Cal | Pat O'Connor | 1984 | ||||
| The Glory Boys | Michael Ferguson | 1984 | Television movie | |||
| In This Corner | Atom Egoyan | 1985 | Television movie | |||
| A Prayer for the Dying | Mike Hodges | 1987 | ||||
| A Casualty of War | Tom Clegg | 1989 | Television movie | |||
| The Dawning | Robert Knights | 1988 | ||||
| Behind the Mask | Frank Martin | 1991 | Documentary film | |||
| The Treaty | Jonathan Lewis | 1991 | Television movie | |||
| Force of Duty | Pat O'Connor | 1992 | Television movie | |||
| Patriot Games | Phillip Noyce | Harrison Ford | 1992 | |||
| The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | 1992 | ||||
| Circle of Deceit | Geoffrey Sax | 1993 | Television film | |||
| In the Name of the Father | Jim Sheridan | Based on the real life Guildford Four, father and son are falsely imprisoned as IRA members accused of committing the Guildford pub bombing. | 1993 | |||
| Blown Away | Stephen Hopkins | 1994 | ||||
| Patriot | Frank Kerr | 1994 | ||||
| More Than a Sacrifice | Tom Collins | 1995 | Documentary film | |||
| The Boys of Barr na Sráide | Conor O'Carroll | 1996 | Short film | |||
| Michael Collins | Neil Jordan | Liam Neeson | 1996 | |||
| Some Mother's Son | Terry George | 1996 | ||||
| The Eliminator | Enda Hughes | 1996 | ||||
| The Devil's Own | Alan J. Pakula | Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford | 1997 | |||
| Midnight Man | Lawrence Gordon Clark | 1995 | Television movie | |||
| A Further Gesture | Robert Dornhelm | 1997 | ||||
| The Informant | Jim McBride | 1997 | ||||
| The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | An ex-IRA gunman is recruited to assist the CIA in tracking down a suspected presidential assassin. | 1997 | |||
| The Boxer | Jim Sheridan | 1997 | ||||
| The General | John Boorman | Details the life of Dublin underworld figure Martin Cahill. | 1998 | |||
| Titanic Town | Roger Michell | 1998 | ||||
| Divorcing Jack | David Caffrey | 1998 | ||||
| Ronin | John Frankenheimer | Robert De Niro | 1998 | |||
| The Craic | Ted Emery | 1999 | ||||
| Exiled | Bill Muir | 1999 | ||||
| Brits | 2000 | Documentary television series | ||||
| Moving Target | Paul Ziller | 2000 | ||||
| Borstal Boy | Peter Sheridan | 2000 | ||||
| An Everlasting Piece | Barry Levinson | 2000 | ||||
| The Bombmaker | Graham Theakston | 2001 | Television movie | |||
| Shamrock and Swastika | Brendan Culleton Irina Maldea |
Examination of the Irish Republican Army's collaboration with the Abwehr during World War II. | 2001 | Television documentary | ||
| H3 | Les Blair | Depiction of the 1981 Irish hunger strike. | 2001 | |||
| Bloody Sunday | Paul Greengrass | Depiction of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. | 2002 | |||
| The Rising of the Moon | Deborah Baxtrom | 2002 | Short film | |||
| The Maze | 2002 | Television documentary | ||||
| Omagh | Pete Travis | 2004 | Television movie | |||
| Breakfast on Pluto | Neil Jordan | 2005 | ||||
| Johnny Was | Mark Hammond | 2006 | ||||
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Ken Loach | 2006 | ||||
| Fifty Dead Men Walking | Kari Skogland | Ben Kingsley Rose McGowan Jim Sturgess |
A loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name. | 2008 | ||
| Hunger | Steve McQueen | Depiction of the Bobby Sands during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. | 2008 | |||
| Five Minutes of Heaven | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Liam Neeson | A reconciliation is attempted after 33 years | 2009 |