Harry Hill
Biography: Harry Hill was a Scottish theatre, film and television actor. He was a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada for thirty years.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 17, 1940
Deathday: August 18, 2005
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Crazy Moon
1987-12-11
Crazy Moon
Overview: Brooks is an eccentric rich kid, with a fondness for big band music, bow ties taking strange photographs who one day whilst stealing a mannequin from a clothes store, meets Anne, a free-spirited, young deaf girl who works in the shop. It's a meeting that will transform his life. As their friendship blossoms he starts to learn sign-language and she helps him to conquer his fear of water but with a bullying brother, insensitive overbearing father and his father's peculiar new girlfriend all pressurising him to be 'normal' will Brooks be able to break free from their boundaries and his own fears and limitations to find the meaning of true and selfless love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Heritage Minutes: Responsible Government
1991-03-31
Heritage Minutes: Responsible Government
Overview: Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-31
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Heritage Minutes: Midwife
1992-06-28
Heritage Minutes: Midwife
Overview: A look at the importance of midwives in early Canada.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-28
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The Moderns
1988-04-15
The Moderns
Overview: Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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Rabid
1977-04-08
Rabid
Overview: After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood—the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-08
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Map of the Human Heart
1993-04-22
Map of the Human Heart
Overview: In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his guide. When the boy contracts tuberculosis, Walter flies him to a Montreal hospital, where Avik meets Albertine and is infatuated. A decade later, a grown Avik encounters Albertine again in London, where he's serving as a British combat pilot. Despite her relationship with Walter, she and Avik begin an affair.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-22
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The Peanut Butter Solution
1985-12-06
The Peanut Butter Solution
Overview: Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two friendly ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael loses all of his hair when he gets a fright and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit hairy.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-06
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Scanners III: The Takeover
1992-01-31
Scanners III: The Takeover
Overview: A young scanner with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father's experimental drugs.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-31
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Shades of Love: Echoes in Crimson
1987-12-17
Shades of Love: Echoes in Crimson
Overview: Anne, an art historian, takes a job in a prestigious big-city gallery. Soon Grant, a former lover, turns up and tries to win her back. But Anne still harbors a strong distrust of him and decides to devote herself totally to her work. At the gallery, she manages to uncover the mystery behind a murder and a smuggling plot by her boss. Grant appears in the nick of time to save her from harm's way. He also becomes her latest find and a celebrated new artist. At a showing of his work at the gallery, Grant surprises Anne with his latest work...a neon sculpture of Grouch Marx saying "I Love You". Anne gets the love she lost so many years ago and a new career as gallery manager. Stars Greg Evigan and Patty Talbot. Directed by Caryl J. Wickman.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-17
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15 Février 1839
2001-01-26
15 Février 1839
Overview: In 1839, months after the British army has repressed the insurrection of the Patriots, hundreds of rebels are still in prison. The morning of February 14, Marie-Thomas Chevalier De Lorimier and Charles Hindelang learn that they will be hung in 24 hours, with three others. While they await their death the condemned spend time and consult with companions and loved ones as well as entrust to those their last wills. At dawn, the five Patriots will walk to the scaffold, knowing will they die.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-26
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994-09-07
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Overview: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-07
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P.T. Barnum
1999-09-12
P.T. Barnum
Overview: This series illustrates the life and career of P.T. Barnum, America's greatest showman and promoter. Starting as a young man who managed an old woman who was supposedly George Washington's nursemaid, we see his career as he finds success promoting curiosities and attractions with panache and a judicious mix of truth and creativity, whether it be promoting his museum or characters like the midget General Tom Thumb. Yet because the demands of his businesses, his family life is troubled and marred by tragedy. All the while, events lead to his greatest creation, the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-12
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