Movies Like Foireann Codladh

If you liked Foireann Codladh (2008), a movie directed by Danann Breathnach, 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
The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
2
Nobody's Fool (1994)
★ 6.9/10
A rascally man nearing retirement juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family…
3
Tamara Drewe (2010)
★ 5.9/10
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
4
Sand Castle (2017)
★ 6.5/10
Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
5
Promised Land (2012)
★ 6.3/10
A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
6
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
★ 7/10
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a hardworking young sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William…
7
Safe Haven (2013)
★ 7.2/10
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
8
Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.5/10
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their…
9
Local Hero (1983)
★ 6.8/10
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
10
Holy Lands (2019)
★ 6.1/10
When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…
11
Walking Tall (2004)
★ 6.4/10
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
12
Odd Thomas (2013)
★ 7/10
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
13
Pale Rider (1985)
★ 7.2/10
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
14
Eden (2025)
★ 6.7/10
A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the…
15
Mexicali (2026)
★ 7.7/10
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
16
The Equalizer 3 (2023)
★ 7.3/10
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by…
17
The Quiet Man (1952)
★ 7.3/10
An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
18
The Specialist (1994)
★ 6/10
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. When Ned Trent…
19
Sexy Beast (2001)
★ 7/10
Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading…
20
The Best of Me (2014)
★ 7.5/10
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.