Much like the offerings from Netflix, you can available of a massive range of Irish film over at Volta, the Irish on-line streaming video service. Their Irish film collection consists of 71 titles, listed below.
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day they have created a selection of their favourites, available to rent for between €3.99 and €13.99. The collection includes past favourites such as Dancing at Lughnasa, and The Wind That Shakes The Barley, to touching documentaries like His & Hers and One Million Dubliners, right up to the latest releases like Calvary and Donal Foreman’s must-see Out of Here.
Here’s the full collection:
32A
This story is set in the “in-between” time of a girl’s life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. Tiernan McBride Award for Scriptwriting in 2002.
8.5 Hours
A drama about one extraordinary day in the lives of four Dublin office workers during the final months of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger years.
Adam & Paul
Think Laurel and Hardy on smack and you’ll get a feel for the strange, unforgettable world of this unique film.
A Film With Me In It
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is the mantra for failed actor Mark as he finds himself having to deal with random, accidental deaths.
Aidan Walsh: Master of The Universe
A documentary that delves into the life of one of Ireland’s most eccentric and mesmerizing characters, self-invented pop star Aidan Walsh.
Ailsa
Miles Butler lives an uneventful life with his girlfriend until he discovers the body of his landlord in a neighbouring apartment.
All Good Children
All Good Children hypnotically plays out in the gap between childhood and adulthood, between childish fantasy and adult reality.
Barbaric Genius
The remarkable story of a street mugger and wino who became a chess champion and an award-winning author – and how it all came crashing down again.
Borstal Boy
A sixteen year-old republican is thwarted during a bombing mission to Liverpool and and becomes imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders.
The Boy From Mercury
After a young boy loses his father, he escapes into his own fantasy world and soon convinces himself he’s actually from the planet Mercury.
Breakfast On Pluto
Patrick is a transgender foundling growing up in 1970s Ireland who ventures over to London in a bid to find his birth mother…and have some fun along the way.
Build Something Modern
The peculiar history of Irish architects designing hundreds of ground breaking modernist buildings in Africa without ever getting to see them built.
Calvary
When his life is threatened and the forces of darkness close in around him, Father James must find the courage to face his own personal Calvary.
The Craic
Two lads make a getaway to Australia after getting on the wrong side of a local gangster, only to find that more hassle is about to come their way.
Crushproof
Just hours after his release from prison Neal ends up on the run with his old gang. But their days as urban cowboys riding the wild horses are numbered.
Dancing at Lughnasa
Michael, the illegitimate son of the youngest sister, feels the joy and security of his family. But when his father comes home, the cracks begin to show.
Dark Touch
Neve the only survivor of a massacre that left her orphaned, is taken in by friends of her parents who try to ease her trauma. But Neve doesn’t find peace.
Dead Long Enough
Ben is a worn out, depressed, Welsh Lawyer who lives in the shadow of his larger than life, promiscuous, TV celebrity brother Harry Jones.
Death of a Superhero
Fifteen-year-old Donald Clarke, after several cycles of chemotherapy, feels he has little left to hope for. Worst of all, he might die a virgin!
Dollhouse
A group of Dublin street teens break into a posh seaside mansion in an upper-class suburb. Their boozy rampage leads to an unexpected and shocking discovery.
Eamon
A family holiday brings to a head the destructive love between Eamon, a little boy with behaviour problems, his selfish mother & his sexually frustrated father.
Eat The Peach
Eat The Peach is the compelling story of two ordinary men who set out to do something quite extraordinary.
Eden
In a modern middle-class town in Ireland, Billy and Breda Farrell reflect on their lives together on the eve of their tenth wedding anniversary.
Evelyn
Based on true events, Evelyn tells the inspiring story of real-life hero Desmond Doyle who fought the Irish legal system to keep custody of his three children.
The Fading Light
An emotionally intense drama about the disintegration of a loving familyand how we can never really escape the past.
Felicia’s Journey
A seemingly harmless friendship between an eccentric chef and a young girl who has just come to town takes a sinister turn.
Flick
Jack Flinter is skating on thin ice. Twenty-something and middle class, he’s drifting through life and his girlfriend Alice has had enough.
Garage
An over-diligent employee of a crumbling garage on the outskirts of a rural Irish village searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Girls On Film – The First Date
Girls On Film is set to feature some of the most provocative, engaging and beautiful filmmaking from around the world.
Goldfish Memory
Exploring the comical nature of love – staright, gay and in-between, Goldfish Memory brings to life the saying: what goes around comes around…
The Good Man
Michael is a young Irish banker, whose life begins to unravel after causing a stranger’s death in an accident.
The Guard
Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with no interest whatsoever in the drug-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Guiltrip
Army corporal Liam becomes entangled in a bitter argument with his wife, which results in a series of flashbacks from which secrets emerge.
H3
Based on the true events of the 1981 Hunger Stike, 400 young men must make a choice between life or justice…and time is running out.
His & Hers
An enchanting portrait of Irish women as they share in a frank, funny and gracious story of their relationships with men from childhood to old age.
The Irish Pub
THE IRISH PUB is a tribute to the greatest institution in Irish society, the pub or more specifically the traditional Irish publican.
Jimmy’s Hall
In 1921 Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War.
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
A revealing portrait of the man that fronted The Clash from 1977 onwards and changed the lives of so many people the world over.
John Ford: Dreaming The Quiet Man
A look at one of the biggest cinematic milestones in Ireland’s history and the impact it left on those who worked on it and those who became inspired by it.
Kisses
Two young kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Knuckle
12 years in the making, Knuckle is an outsiders rare and candid journey into the world of the Irish Traveller community and its bare-knuckle fighting culture.
Korea
Based on a short story by John McGahern, it is set in rural Ireland during the 50’s, a period of mass emigration and social change.
Middletown
A dark and compelling gothic drama, starring Matthew Macfadyen as Gabriel, a preacher who returns to his home town of Middletown after a long absence.
Once
ONCE is the inspirational tale of two kindred spirits who find each other on the bustling streets of Dublin. ONCE is their inspiring story.
One Hundred Mornings
A handful of people are left struggling to survive in a remote village in rural Ireland following a global catastrophic event.
One Million Dubliners
One Million Dubliners reveals the often unspoken stories of ritual, loss, love, redemption, emotion, history – and the business of death.
Out of Here
After a year travelling the world, twenty something Ciaran reluctantly returns to his hometown of Dublin, broke and stuck living with his parents.
Parked
A man trying to cope with his homeless situation is befriended by a dope-smoking 21-year-old who’s determined to help him sort his life out.
Pigs
Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area.
Pilgrim Hill
Jimmy, a middle-aged farmer living in rural Ireland, takes care of his father and a family land. He’s not prepared for the turn his life it is about to take.
Pyjama Girls
Pyjama Girls presents the chaotic friendship of teenagers Lauren and Tara as they life, dressed all the while in their uniform of rebellion: pyjamas.
Rewind
Karen, a recovering addict, has forged a new life for herself in a rural town, which becomes compromised when an old boyfriend returns with a disturbing agenda.
The Runway
When a South American pilot crash lands in Co.Cork, the locals of a nearby village rally together to build a runway that will help get him back in the air.
Savage
Paul is the victim of a vicious late night attack. struggling to come to terms with it he slowly changes from victim to avenger.
Seaview
An hour north of Dublin is a place called Mosney, a former Butlin’s Holiday Camp built in 1948 that now serves as a holding centre for asylum seekers.
The Secret of Kells
The future of the precious Book is in jeopardy and it falls to Brendan, young nephew of the abbot Cellach, to save the day.
Sensation
After the death of his father, socially awkward Donal decides to put his inheritance into a brothel business venture with a Kiwi call-girl.
Silence
A man returns home after 15 years to accept a job of finding and recording places free from man-made sound, a task which reawakens memories from his past.
Snap
The past comes back to haunt a mother and her son as a malicious act that tainted their family becomes the subject of a documentary.
Spin The Bottle
Rats Doyle, out to impress his Ma and earn money to send his obese aunty to Lourdes reforms his band Spermdotcom to enter an X-Factor style talent show.
Stella Days
Daniel Barry is a parish priest living in the rural community of 1950s Ireland who tries to reconcile his passion for film with duty to the church.
Stitches
Richard, the sleaziest clown working the children, falls on a kitchen knife during the birthday party. Years later he comes back to take revenge.
Tim Robinson: Connemara
Tim Robinson is a writer and map-maker whose main preoccupation is the island of Connemara. The film is an exploration of its landscape, history and mythology.
Trapped
When Anton returns to Ireland after time spent at sea, he sees a country full of change, change that he becomes compelled to fight against.
Trouble With Sex
A chance encounter between a woman on the run from a messy relationship and a man on the run from himself.
Waveriders
WAVERIDERS centres on the little-known history of an Irish/Hawaiian man, who was responsible for the rebirth of surfing that has now become a global phenomenon.
What Richard Did
One summer night Richard Karlsen, golden-boy of his privileged set of Dublin teens, does something that shatters the lives of the people closest to him.
Wide Open Spaces
Wide Open Spaces channels classic double act dramas, from Laurel & Hardy to Withnail and I, combined with a thematic sensibility, to create a comedic escapade.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Two brothers become drawn into the fight for Ireland’s freedom and find their loyalties to their country and to each other dangerously tested.
The Yellow Bittern -The Life and Times of Liam Clancy
A portrait of Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers, a man Bob Dylan called “the best ballad singer I ever heard in my life”…
Zonad
From beyond the very limits of our imagination comes a stranger. Who is he? Where is he from? And why is he so fond of our black beer?
Volta is an Irish video on demand service for Irish and international independent film. Films can be rented or bought, streamed or downloaded. Many of their titles are exclusive to Volta.