Based on one of novelist Roddy Doyle’s trilogy about life in working-class Dublin, The Commitments is one of my favorite Irish movies. Simple premise: A group of Dubliners form an R & B band. The music that results in this 1991 film is divine.


Sample one (my favorite):

And then there’s this:

And just one more:


Okay, just one more. The image of the little girls in their First Communion dresses is So Irish.