Henry Ramer
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Island Observed
Overview: A film record of M.E.T.E.I. (Medical Expedition to Easter Island), one of the most unusual scientific enquiries ever launched, headed by a McGill University research team. While the film is concerned mainly with the physical condition of Easter Islanders, it also provides glimpses of island activities, a village wedding, and the famous long-faced stone sculptures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Noah's Animals
Overview: The first of a trilogy of animated specials about the animals of Noah's Ark.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Overview: The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Starship Invasions
Overview: Captain Rameses and his Legion of the Winged Serpent brigade are out to claim Earth for their dying race. Out to save Earth is an alien guard patrol located in the Bermuda Triangle, the League of Races. LOR leaders warn Rameses that he's breaking galactic treaty rules. The alien villain responds by launching an invasion which telepathically drives Earthlings to suicide. The LOR implore UFO expert Professor Duncan to help them. Eventually, the two alien forces battle. Will the Earth be saved?
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-14
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Robert Baldwin: A Matter Of Principle
Overview: This film is a reconstruction of Robert Baldwin’s involvement in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Though bound to the cause of constitutional reform by principle, Baldwin’s heart was with the rebels and in the midst of armed revolt, he withdrew to fight a lonely battle with himself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Spinnolio
Overview: A lonely woodcarver longs for a son, so he builds a wooden puppet and names it Spinnolio
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Welcome to Blood City
Overview: Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.
Genres: Science Fiction Western Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-08-23
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And Then There Was One
Overview: After struggling and finally conceiving a child, Roxy and Vinnie Ventola, a successful television writing couple, learns that their newborn has AIDS. Soon afterward, the two parents are also diagnosed with the fatal virus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-04
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Why Rock the Boat?
Overview: A young naive reporter romances a female reporter who is quietly organizing a journalist union and joins her cause.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-26
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My Pleasure Is My Business
Overview: This comedy chronicles the many crazy sexploits of Xaveria Hollander, the notorious "Happy Hooker."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-17
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It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Overview: Sweeney is a playwright on a career decline. He spends much of his time wheedling money and beer out of his artistic friend Moriarty. One of his few highlights is weekly sex with his ex-wife Georgia. She is remarried to a rich but vile construction developer, but Sweeney and Gorgina are still in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Loose Ends
Overview: When the zealous followers of the Church of the Divine Light collide with the heathen filmmakers heaven help those caught in the middle! Bishop Wally, the cult's corrupt founder, must liquidate his assets or face the wrath of the IRS, unaware that his too-slick tax advisor Lodz Kuckoff has unwittingly set the stage for calamity. Kuckoff promises a filmmaker, Liberty Jean, that he'll secure the million dollars she needs to make her dream project, an expose on sex in advertising. She reluctantly agrees, even though part of the deal includes having to cast the financier's curvaceous, but obnoxiously untalented girlfriend LIta as the star. Kuckoff, realizing the terrible mistake he's made, hires the neighborhood thugs to sabotage the picture. However, before they can hit full stride, the Bishop arrives and declares his own holy war. The movie's set, a gigantic birthday cake, becomes the battleground for one of the most uproarious brawls ever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-05
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Reno and the Doc
Overview: This heartwarming adventure deals with competition and friendship as it tells the story of two irascible old men who refuse to grow up.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Glooscap Country
Overview: The myths surrounding the Mi'kmaq god, Glooscap, are retold using the Cape Blomidon and Cape Split areas for the setting.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Fletcher Affair
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Genres: Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Passion and Paradise
Overview: Sir Harry Oakes, a wealthy British aristocrat is murdered by his son-in-law, revealing international intrigue and deception in the Bahamas before World War II.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-19
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B.C. A Special Christmas
Overview: Peter enlists his sarcastic one-legged friend Wiley to help conjure a myth based around the idea of giving. Seeing the chance to make a profit off the selflessness of others, the two caveman create a figure that develops into the first Santa Claus but are then baffled when the "myth" they've created apparently becomes real. Substituting gain for fulfillment, Peter and Wiley experience the true meaning of Christmas.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Big Slice
Overview: A pair of aspiring mystery novelists realize they know next to nothing about crime and decide to live their adventures venturing out into the big bad world. The boys pose as a cop and a criminal and quickly get in way over their heads.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-07
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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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Hockey Night
Overview: When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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The Write-Off
Overview: A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Clown White
Overview: The story of a rebellious deaf child who goes on a class outing to the city, where he runs away.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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In Praise of Older Women
Overview: Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-22
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Reckless Disregard
Overview: Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television news program as writing prescriptions for drugs in exchange for money. He says that he is innocent and asks Meredith to file a lawsuit against the program and its staff. Can a small lawyer beat a big television network?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-17
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Overview: The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Cordélia
Overview: In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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Final Offer
Overview: The filmmakers were given remarkable freedom to record the historic 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corporation. Bob White, labour leader of the Canadian branch of the UAW, must also confront his American counterpart from Detroit and succeeds in arriving at a contract that is significantly Canadian. His members had already given him a mandate to fight for independence from the American union. This is an invaluable document for anyone interested in the complexities of United States-Canada relations. It's an extraordinary film about revolutionary events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-26
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Screamers
Overview: SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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Terror on Track 9
Overview: A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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Shipwreck: The Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Overview: Chronicles the history of the legendary Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in a violent storm with the loss of the entire crew in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. In the summer of 1995, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, and Sony Corporation descended to the site of the wreck, more than 500 feet below the surface of the lake. This documentary takes a look at their expedition.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-01
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Hot Money
Overview: Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Overview: Veteran radio, theatre, television and film actor Christopher Plummer has played a thousand parts, but beneath that elegant stage presence lies the restless heart of a risk-taker. Don't miss this engaging biography.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-07
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