18 Must-Watch Films Set in Ireland in Honor of St. Patrick's Day

If you want a good cry (or five) and want to know what life was like for women in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is definitely a movie that will stay with you for weeks. The story follows a group of young girls who are sent to live and work in Magdalene asylums, or homes for "fallen women," though their crimes aren't criminal. The girls, all of whom were deemed too promiscuous or had gotten pregnant and were forced to give up their children for adoption, were under the abusive eye of nuns and priests and tried to be redeemed before being released back into society.