Liisa Repo-Martell
Biography: Liisa Repo-Martell is a Gemini award winning Canadian actress and artist. Her parents Satu Repo and George Martell were founding editors of This Magazine Is About Schools, an influential independent Canadian magazine now known as "This". Her Gemini award was for her 1998 performance in Nights Below Station Street. She has had two other Gemini nominations for appearances on This is Wonderland and Flashpoint.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1971
Deathday: N/A
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The English Patient
1996-11-14
The English Patient
Overview: In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-14
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006-01-15
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Overview: A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by a town council to become police chief of Paradise, MA, a small fishing town on Boston's North Shore. The board hopes his failed experience will keep him from digging too deep into the town's secrets. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of his predecessor whose death may be tied to a local domestic disturbance case, with connections to money laundering and murder involving some of the town's most affluent names as possible suspects.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-15
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Diverted
2009-03-08
Diverted
Overview: On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-08
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Scared Silent
2002-05-20
Scared Silent
Overview: When the newlywed wife of a Minnesota police chief accuses a new officer on his force of raping her several years earlier, it sets the stage for a tense confrontation in this riveting story. Penelope Ann Miller and Reed Diamond star as Kathy and Doug Clifson, a hard-working couple whose lives are torn apart when a new officer, John McCrane, joins the force. Kathy recognizes him as the man who raped her when she was a teenager, and while other women soon come forward saying that McCrane also raped them, the police force closes ranks to protect one of their own.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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Committed
2011-04-17
Committed
Overview: Dr. Dupont arrives at a mental facility to apply for a staff position. World famous Dr. Quilly interviews her, and has her sign papers. She is thrilled to get the job, and is shown her room. However, confusion with her room being on the same floor as the patients' soon turns to panic as she is told that she is a "guest"- not a doctor, and the papers she signed were not job forms, but commitment papers.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-17
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Forget Me Never
1999-10-03
Forget Me Never
Overview: Diane McGowin was employed as an administrative assistant for a group of attorneys in private practice. She found herself forgetting things, especially losing short term memory. She suspected that something was wrong and went to the doctor. After many tests, the diagnosis was Alzheimer's. Diana did not want to tell her husband, Jack McGowin because she thought her husband, Jack, would be worried about money since she made more money than he did.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-03
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Amy
2004-08-31
Amy
Overview: 'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face. Astonishing closing image is a tightly composed telephoto shot on the start of a marathon race among young schoolgirls, dashing toward and then across the screen in ultra-slo-mo, and accompanied by a girls’ chorus hauntingly singing Brian Wilson’s God Only Knows. Widely eclectic lensing and looks in various media and in color and black-and-white flow nicely from one section to the next, aided by gifted editor Mark Karbusicky.' ~ Robert Koehler, Variety - Part 7 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-31
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Thanks of a Grateful Nation
1998-05-31
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Overview: An examination of the aftermath of Desert Storm and how servicemen and women were affected by it medically.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-31
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Letters from Karelia
2004-09-26
Letters from Karelia
Overview: Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-26
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Critical Choices
1996-12-08
Critical Choices
Overview: A Milwaukee Women's Health Clinic becomes the battleground between pro-choice activists and right-to-life demonstrators over and Easter Sunday weekend and involves three different women, each representing different sides of the issue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-08
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Nights Below Station Street
1997-01-01
Nights Below Station Street
Overview: A pregnant teen has difficulty accepting her father and mother, yet longs to keep the family together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Diamonds in a Bucket
2007-09-11
Diamonds in a Bucket
Overview: A tale of two longtime losers looking for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-11
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Lives of Girls & Women
1996-02-11
Lives of Girls & Women
Overview: A coming of age story for Del Jordan, growing up first on the outskirts, and later in the centre, of the small, southern Ontario town of Jubilee. Del is portrayed as something of an outsider, unsatisfied with small-town life though unwilling to acknowledge the similarities between herself and her mother, who also seeks to expand her mind beyond the limited experiences of Jubilee.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-11
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Unforgiven
1992-08-07
Unforgiven
Overview: William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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Touch of Pink
2004-07-16
Touch of Pink
Overview: Alim is a gay man living in London to escape the domineering eye of his conservative Muslim mother, Nuru, back in Canada. Alim keeps his homosexuality secret from his mother, so when she comes for a surprise visit, he and his boyfriend, Giles, must put on a straight facade to hide the truth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-16
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American Boyfriends
1989-09-11
American Boyfriends
Overview: A Canadian college student learns about life and love during a trip to her cousin's wedding in California.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-11
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Christmas in Angel Falls
2017-12-02
Christmas in Angel Falls
Overview: Gabby Messinger, a Guardian Angel who has trouble following the rules and is known for meddling in the love live’s of others, is tasked by the Angel Michael to help the town of Angel Falls find its Christmas spirit again.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-02
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006-04-30
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Overview: When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled teens.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-30
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Cocktail
1988-07-29
Cocktail
Overview: After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-29
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Lars and the Real Girl
2007-10-12
Lars and the Real Girl
Overview: Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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100 Days In The Jungle
2002-12-04
100 Days In The Jungle
Overview: 100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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Camille
2008-04-13
Camille
Overview: A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-13
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Flashback
2020-10-08
Flashback
Overview: Frederick Fitzell is living his best life—until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury, Fredrick realizes the only way to stop the visions lies deep within his own memories, so he embarks on a terrifying mental odyssey to learn the truth.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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King Lear
2015-02-18
King Lear
Overview: Fathom Events and BY Experience bring the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear to cinemas for a memorable one-night event. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-18
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Happy Place
2020-09-27
Happy Place
Overview: "Welcome to the zoo," Samira is advised as she’s admitted to an in-patient care facility in the wake of a suicide attempt. As she slowly familiarizes herself with her fellow residents and their idiosyncratic traits, a makeshift community takes shape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-27
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Hidden in America
1996-12-01
Hidden in America
Overview: Story of a man whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will survive. After hitting brick wall after brick wall comes a glimmer of hope.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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