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Stories Set in Belfast — top stories

Shipyard cranes, peace walls, linen mills and 1969 childhoods — Belfast's stories carry the Troubles' weight and the Titanic's shadow. These ten span Branagh to serial killers; also explore The Troubles in Belfast (1958–2000).

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10 famous stories set in Belfast

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Browse 18 books, 41 movies and 1 TV show set in Belfast.

In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

Universal Pictures-Hell's Kitchen Films
movie

A small time thief from Belfast Gerry Conlon is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their…

Setting: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; London, England, UKTime Period: 1970s
Belfast

Belfast

Northern Ireland Screen-TKBC-Focus Features
movie

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence whose life is filled with familial love childhood hijinks and a blossoming romance. Yet with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil his family faces a…

Setting: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UKTime Period: 1960s
Hunger

Hunger

Blast! Films
movie

The story of Bobby Sands the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

Setting: Northern IrelandTime Period: 1981
Chelsea FC - Season Review 2021/22

Chelsea FC - Season Review 2021/22

PDI Media
movie

In Thomas Tuchel's first full year in charge the European champions became champions of the world adding two more trophies to the collection and were sudden-death spot-kicks away from celebrating twice more. Bolstered…

Setting: London, England; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Abu Dhabi, UAETime Period: 2021-2022 Football Season
'71

'71

Screen Yorkshire-Film4 Productions-BFI-Creative Scotland-Warp Films-Crab Apple Films
movie

A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.

Setting: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UKTime Period: 1971
Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

Game of Thrones: The Last Watch

HBO-Glimmer Films
movie

For a year acclaimed British filmmaker Jeanie Finlay was embedded on the set of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” chronicling the creation of the show’s most ambitious and complicated season. Debuting one week after…

Setting: Northern IrelandTime Period: 2010s
The Fall

The Fall

tvshow

When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership,…

Setting: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UKTime Period: Contemporary 2010s
Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out

Two Cities Films-J. Arthur Rank Organisation
movie

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Setting: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UKTime Period: Post-WWII
The Boxer

The Boxer

Universal Pictures-Hell's Kitchen Films
movie

Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later Danny is released from…

Setting: Belfast, Northern Ireland, UKTime Period: 1990s
Nowhere Special

Nowhere Special

Eurimages-Redwave Films-Northern Ireland Screen-Digital Cube-Beta Cinema-CNC-Picomedia-RAI Cinema
movie

John a 35-year-old window cleaner has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son Michael after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live he…

Setting: Northern Ireland, UKTime Period: 2020s

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