Michael J. Reynolds
Biography: Michael John Reynolds (15 August 1939 – 22 March 2018) was a Canadian actor who has featured in over one hundred films.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 15, 1939
Deathday: March 22, 2018
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Known For
Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
1981-05-17
Escape From Iran: The Canadian Caper
Overview: A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-17
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Blessed
2004-05-16
Blessed
Overview: Heather Graham and James Purefoy play a couple who desperately want to have a baby. Unfortunately, she has been diagnosed as infertile, and the couple can't afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive. Good fortune appears to be smiling on the couple when they are given an opportunity to receive free treatments at a mysterious fertility clinic.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-16
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Her Desperate Choice
1996-09-14
Her Desperate Choice
Overview: Despite allegations of child sexual abuse against Jody's ex-husband Marcus, the court orders joint custody of their daughter Samantha. Jody faces a choice of turning Samantha over to Marcus or taking her on the run and risk kidnapping charges. Pursued by both the FBI and a private detective, Jody and Samantha are hunted, fleeing from town to town with the help of an underground network set up to help women and children escape from abuse. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-14
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Leap Year
2010-01-08
Leap Year
Overview: When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-08
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Rolling Vengeance
1987-10-02
Rolling Vengeance
Overview: A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton monster truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-02
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The Descent: Part 2
2009-10-14
The Descent: Part 2
Overview: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her friends' blood - Sarah is forced back to the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing companions.
Genres: Adventure Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-14
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The Last Best Year
1990-11-04
The Last Best Year
Overview: Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and that she has no family to help her through this very trying time. He enlists the help of a therapist (Mary Tyler Moore) who is very hesitant to become involved in this case due to the loss she suffered as a young child. As her condition deteriorates, Jane learns how to come to terms with her past as does her therapist.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-04
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The Neptune Factor
1973-08-03
The Neptune Factor
Overview: When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-03
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Bear Island
1979-12-05
Bear Island
Overview: A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders take place, a whole lot of darker motives become apparent. Could the fortune in buried Nazi gold be the key to the mystery? Donald Sutherland and Vanessa Redgrave investigate
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-05
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Running Brave
1983-11-04
Running Brave
Overview: The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Too Outrageous!
1987-10-16
Too Outrageous!
Overview: A sequel to the 1977 film Outrageous! Too Outrageous! is about the further adventures of Robin Turner, a gay hairdresser-turned-drag queen nightclub performer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-16
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My Pet Monster
1986-01-01
My Pet Monster
Overview: Synder, the historian who has spent many years trying to unlock the powers of the statue, wishes to capture Max for validation of his life's work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Net Worth
1995-01-01
Net Worth
Overview: The story of the NHL's early years, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits, pensions and the like.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Ms. Scrooge
1997-12-10
Ms. Scrooge
Overview: Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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United 93
2006-04-28
United 93
Overview: A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Genres: Drama History Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Age of Innocence
1977-04-28
Age of Innocence
Overview: A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-28
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The Big Turnaround
1988-01-01
The Big Turnaround
Overview: Two trained men, one angry local woman and the local priest take on the local crime lord and his crew of narcotic smugglers and human traffickers in a small town next to the US-Mexico border.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Truth About Alex
1987-02-09
The Truth About Alex
Overview: Brad Stevens and Alex Prager are best friends. They are both popular high school students and key members of the football team. Brad is up for nomination to West Point, and Alex is a talented pianist who’s counting on his football skills to land him a university scholarship. But their lives are turned upside down when one day Alex admits that he is gay.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-09
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Flight to Holocaust
1977-03-26
Flight to Holocaust
Overview: A team of troubleshooters is called to a skyscraper where a plane has crashed into the 20th floor and is stuck in the side of the building.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-26
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The Curse of Edgar
2013-10-27
The Curse of Edgar
Overview: Based on the bestselling novel by Marc Dugain, this original docudrama weaves unique archival footage within a fictional story and sheds a new light on J. Edgar Hoover. This film reveals the FBI director's battle to retain power from the Kennedy clan. From 1960 and 1963, two ideals of America come face to face and two sets of morals clash. Clyde Tolson, Hoover's right-hand man and secret lover, is the last survivor of this psychological drama. He recounts this intense political period when America's destiny has never been as dependent on one of the most powerful and mysterious figures of the time.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-27
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Where the Truth Lies
2005-10-07
Where the Truth Lies
Overview: An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-07
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Visiting Hours
1982-05-21
Visiting Hours
Overview: A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-21
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A Matter of Sex
1984-01-01
A Matter of Sex
Overview: Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Special People
1984-09-11
Special People
Overview: Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group of developmentally-challenged young adults into the Famous People Players, a professional puppet troupe that has become world-renowned, having performed Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas (Liberace's opening act in 1975) to the People's Republic of China.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-11
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Wild Horse Hank
1979-01-01
Wild Horse Hank
Overview: A teenage girl tries to save a herd of wild horses from a local gang intending on capturing and selling them for dog meat. Unfortunately the nearest Federal land where the horses will be safe lies one hundred and fifty miles away, over badlands and a mountain range.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Reincarnate
1971-04-30
The Reincarnate
Overview: A dying lawyer belonging to a cult, seeks to be reincarnated through a young artist with the ritual involving the sacrifice of a virgin. With limited time, he searches for someone to pass on his accumulated memories. His path crosses with a struggling artist, raising questions of destiny and a mystic ritual that may alter their fates.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-04-30
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Dark Corners
2006-05-10
Dark Corners
Overview: A troubled young woman wakes up one day as a different person - someone who is stalked by creatures.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-10
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Day One
1989-05-12
Day One
Overview: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Fish Hawk
1980-01-25
Fish Hawk
Overview: A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze, Native American Fish Hawk (Will Sampson) changes his fate when he accepts a job hunting down a bear that's been killing local livestock. His temporary residence with the Boggs family brings young Corby (Charles Fields) into his life, and the boy's friendship gives Fish Hawk a new reason to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-25
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A Case of Libel
1983-10-17
A Case of Libel
Overview: Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he proclaimed him a communist in print.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-17
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The 51st State
2001-12-07
The 51st State
Overview: An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Why Shoot the Teacher?
1977-06-23
Why Shoot the Teacher?
Overview: It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-23
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F.D.R.: The Last Year
1980-05-15
F.D.R.: The Last Year
Overview: Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-15
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Millennium
1989-08-25
Millennium
Overview: An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-25
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Blue Monkey
1987-09-25
Blue Monkey
Overview: While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency room where the doctors diagnose him as suffering from an unknown bacteria, and a strange parasite which emerges from his mouth as a large slimy wormlike creature. Soon, there are more cases of bacterial infection, but the more immediate problem for the hospital is the wormlike creature which after accidental exposure to a genetic growth stimulant grows to monstrous proportions and starts a reign of terror and bloodshed in the hospitals abandoned wing.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-25
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Walking on Air
1987-01-17
Walking on Air
Overview: A young paraplegic wants to escape the bonds of gravity by going into outer space.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-17
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The Walker
2007-02-13
The Walker
Overview: An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-13
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Red Mist
2008-08-22
Red Mist
Overview: A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Extreme Measures
1996-09-27
Extreme Measures
Overview: Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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Plague
1979-01-26
Plague
Overview: An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She has no idea however that she is a carrier, and as such may carry a cure.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-26
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Gorillas in the Mist
1988-09-23
Gorillas in the Mist
Overview: The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Between Friends
1983-09-11
Between Friends
Overview: Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-11
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A Secret Affair
1999-10-27
A Secret Affair
Overview: Vanessa Stewart is a beautiful American woman engaged to be married. Vanessa is an artist and is also a buyer for her father's company. She goes to Venice on a business trip and meets television reporter Bill Fitzgerald from Ireland. They fall madly in love in the four days they are in Venice.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-27
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Betrayal of Silence
1988-01-01
Betrayal of Silence
Overview: A new lawyer investigates the abuse case of a young orphan girl and begins to believe that the orphanage priests have something to hide.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Fly Away Home
1996-09-13
Fly Away Home
Overview: Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Out for a Kill
2003-08-14
Out for a Kill
Overview: An unsuspecting university professor is an unwitting accomplice in a foiled Chinese cocaine deal. Wrongly imprisoned, he escapes to take his revenge and prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-14
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Deep Sea Conspiracy
1987-10-22
Deep Sea Conspiracy
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Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-22
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Police Academy
1984-03-22
Police Academy
Overview: New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-22
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The Lifeforce Experiment
1994-04-16
The Lifeforce Experiment
Overview: A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-16
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The Kidnapping of the President
1980-08-15
The Kidnapping of the President
Overview: A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-15
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Deadly Matrimony
1992-11-22
Deadly Matrimony
Overview: Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her viciously. Sergeant John Reed has had enough of his city's organized crime and, against the wishes of his dirty-cop superiors, tries to get evidence against Alan Masters. After Alan finds out that Diane has been helping Reed, he beats her to death...and its up to John Reed to put him away for it, and clean up the dirty cops that want to stop him. Part I starts with Diane's death and then, in a flashback, details her struggles against abuse and Reed's struggles as he coaches her to gather evidence against Alan. Part II deals with Reed's struggles with intimidating cops.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-22
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Strike!
1998-08-21
Strike!
Overview: In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-21
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That Old Feeling
1997-04-04
That Old Feeling
Overview: A bride's divorced parents find their old feelings for each other during the wedding reception and over the course of the next few days upsetting the newlywed's honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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Clearcut
1991-09-10
Clearcut
Overview: A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
Genres: Thriller Horror Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Trial & Error
1993-02-24
Trial & Error
Overview: The young and ambitious district attorney Peter Hudson is convinced that the defendant Andrew Barnes in his current case is guilty, and that winning the case could help him much on his way to become vice-governour of Philadelphia. So he doesn't think twice about influencing witnesses. Only five years later - now head of the Department of Public Prosecution - when he receives a pledge for retrial, he gets doubts and starts investigating again... even risking his career.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-24
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Heartsounds
1984-09-30
Heartsounds
Overview: New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compassion. Ultimately the greatest battle is not waged against the medical profession, however, but against Lear's own failing body and his own mortal fears.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-30
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Street Smart
1987-03-20
Street Smart
Overview: A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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The Relationship
1988-09-15
The Relationship
Overview: This film explores how Canada wavers between rejection and acceptance of closer ties with the United States, tracing the historical precedents of current issues between the two nations. Canada continues to question her identity despite the influence of a powerful neighbour.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-15
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