Biography: Peter McDonald |

- Movies (10)
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Cast: Jim Broadbent Colm Meaney Timothy Spall Michael Sheen   
Tags: Period Film Drama Sports Drama 
Length: 98min
The creators of such docudramas as The Queen and Frost/Nixon re-team for this period sports chronicle set in 1974. In England, the Leeds United players retain a status as the preeminent champions of their football league. Unfortunately, the manager to...

Cast: Steven Berkoff   
Tags: Thriller Message Movie Period Film Escape Film 
Length: 108min
Also (and more pointedly) entitled The Headsman, Simon Aeby's scope period drama Shadow of the Sword uses its narrative to explore conflicts and tensions during the notorious 16th century Inquisition. Nikolaj Coster Waldau and Peter McDonald play...

Tags: Political Thriller Thriller 
Length: 99min
Historical fact melds with cinematic fiction in this political thriller detailing British plans to assassinate Adolph Hitler during the height of the Nazi leader's horrific reign. Dubbed Operation Foxley, the highly classified plan was hatched by...

Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance 
Length: 95min
Brendan (Peter McDonald) is an anal retentive teacher and film buff. One night he goes to a pub and meets Trudy (Flora Montgomery), an outgoing, lively woman who is his complete and utter opposite. Against all odds, Brendan asks her out, and although...

Cast: Ewan McGregor Susan Lynch   
Tags: Drama Romantic Drama 
Length: 106min
This period drama is based on the real-life relationship of the great Irish novelist James Joyce and his longtime lover, Nora Barnacle. Aspiring writer James (Ewan McGregor) meets Nora (Susan Lynch) in Dublin in 1904. While she lacks James' interest...

Cast: Christopher Walken Donal Logue Jonathan Demme Tom Noonan   
Tags: Crime Drama Caper Drama 
Length: 89min
In this downbeat drama, a reformed criminal finds himself led back to a life of crime. Fresh out of prison, former safecracker Victor Kelly (Christopher Walken) wants to support his daughter Miriam (Vera Farmiga) and Aunt Dierdre (Anne Pitoniak) with...

Cast: Brendan Gleeson Brian Cox   
Length: 95min
Trendy young playwright and screenwriter Conor McPherson (I Went Down, 1997) makes his directing debut with this understated comedy. Widowed fish-and-chips shop owner George Beneventi (Brian Cox) lives in a sleepy coastal town along with his three...

Cast: Atom Egoyan Bob Hoskins ArsinĂ©e Khanjian   
Tags: Psychological Thriller Crime Drama Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 116min
Directed by Atom Egoyan, Felicia's Journey is a low-key psychological thriller about the relationship between a lovesick young woman and an older man with an ugly secret. Felicia (Elaine Cassidy) has lived all of her life in a small village in rural...

Cast: Gemma Jones Robert Young   
Tags: Adventure Comedy Comedy 
Length: 90min
Robert Young directed this fact-based British comedy-adventure. In 1791, Captain Scoresby sailed from Whitby in northern England to the Arctic. Mariner Captain Jack (Bob Hoskins), obsessed with Scoresby, is troubled by the fact that Scoresby has not...

Tags: Road Movie Buddy Film Drama 
Length: 105min
This Irish-British road movie follows the misadventures of some Irish ex-cons. When Dublin hood Tom French (Tony Doyle) comes down hard on slow-witted Anto (David Wilmot), Git (Peter McDonald) intervenes and then is assigned a mission. He is ordered...

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