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Movies Like A Sense of Poetry

If you liked A Sense of Poetry (1975), a movie directed by Paul Quigley, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Miracle Club

    The Miracle Club (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.

  2. 2Albert Nobbs

    Albert Nobbs (2011)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter…

  3. 3Adam & Paul

    Adam & Paul (2004)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Adam and Paul are two young junkies living in Dublin and perpetually on the lookout for their next fix. During their search, they encounter various unsavoury characters and make some futile attempts at petty theft. As…

  4. 4My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

    ★ 7.5/10

    No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age…

  5. 5Angela's Ashes

    Angela's Ashes (1999)

    ★ 7.3/10

    An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

  6. 6Spartacus

    Spartacus (2004)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved…

  7. 7Hokum

    Hokum (2026)

    ★ 6.8/10

    When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront…

  8. 8Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt (1972)

    ★ 6.8/10

    When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired…

  9. 9Darby O'Gill and the Little People

    Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.

  10. 10The Secret of Kells

    The Secret of Kells (2009)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Adventure awaits 12 year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells. In order to finish Brother Aiden's book, Brendan must overcome his deepest fears…

  11. 11Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York (2002)

    ★ 7.3/10

    In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He…

  12. 12Harry and Tonto

    Harry and Tonto (1974)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Harry Coombes is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a…

  13. 13Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage (2017)

    ★ 6/10

    In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

  14. 14Shadow Dancer

    Shadow Dancer (2012)

    ★ 6/10

    In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

  15. 15Irish Wish

    Irish Wish (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Maddie's dream guy is days away from marrying her best friend when a wish for true love made on an ancient stone in Ireland magically alters her fate.

  16. 16Nanny McPhee

    Nanny McPhee (2005)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill…

  17. 17Asylum

    Asylum (1972)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.

  18. 18Spartacus

    Spartacus (1960)

    ★ 7.5/10

    The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in…

  19. 19The Professor and the Madman

    The Professor and the Madman (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum…

  20. 20Stealing Beauty

    Stealing Beauty (1996)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian…

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