13 Best Movies To Watch On St Patrick's Day

5. Once

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John Carney's Oscar-winning musical is a perfect antidote to those fed up with overly frothy, campy musicals churned out on huge budgets.

Made for a mere $150,000 with two unknown leads, Once is a testament to the power of creativity over swathes of cash. It is an achingly human film about the power of love and of music, and smartly skirts around the romantic cliches you're probably expecting.

The Oscar-winning song "Falling Slowly" is a tenacious earworm you won't soon be forgetting after a viewing, even with the movie's low-fi, no-frills construction and totally ordinary-looking leads. What a refreshing movie this continues to be.

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