Movies tagged as "catholic school"

Breakfast on Pluto [2005, Ireland, UK ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Comedy, Drama Actors: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson, Mary Coughlan, Conor McEvoy, Ruth McCabe, Charlene McKenna, Seamus Reilly, Peter Owens, Emmet Lawlor McHugh, Bianca O'Connor, Paraic Breathnach, Pat McCabe, Owen Roe, Directors: Neil Jordan Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.

Evelyn [2002, Germany, Ireland, USA, UK ] starting from $1.99

The story of a father's love that changed a nation

Genres: Drama Actors: Sophie Vavasseur, Niall Beagan, Hugh McDonagh, Pierce Brosnan, Mairead Devlin, Frank Kelly, Claire Mullan, Alvaro Lucchesi, Garrett Keogh, Daithi O'Suilleabhain, Andrea Irvine, Marian Quinn, Karen Ardiff, Julianna Margulies, Bosco Hogan, Directors: Bruce Beresford Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

Freshman, The [1990, USA ] starting from $1.99

An innocent kid. An experienced mobster. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Jon Polito, Paul Benedict, Richard Gant, Kenneth Welsh, Pamela Payton-Wright, B.D. Wong, Maximilian Schell, Bert Parks, Tex Konig, Leonardo Cimino, Directors: Andrew Bergman Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.

Let's Go to Prison [2006, USA ] starting from $1.99

Welcome to the slammer

Genres: Comedy, Crime Actors: Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, David Koechner, Dylan Baker, Michael Shannon, Miguel Nino, Jay Whittaker, Amy Hill, David Darlow, Joseph Marcus, Nick Phalen, A.J. Balance, Jerry Minor, Mary Seibel, Directors: Bob Odenkirk Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   John Lyshitski is a car stealing slacker, with a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows it's entire population of both staff and cons by their fast names. Cursed with the old ill luck of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's been deemed a lost cause repeat offender in the eyes of everyone else. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides to ruin the man's legacy by having the judge's only offspring, Nelson Biederman IV, thrown in the slammer along with him. Here, the world-class selfish jerk learns a certain old lesson the hard way: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But has John somewhat gone too far in the payback department?