Allegra Fulton
Also Known As: Alegra Fulton
Biography: Allegra Fulton is one of Canada’s most celebrated actors. Born to two writers, her childhood years were shared between her birthplace, Toronto, Barcelona and Sydney. She began working professionally at 11 years old and her career has included Europe, the US and Canada, garnering numerous awards and extensive critical praise.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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Too Close to Home
Overview: A mother is so consumed with a possessive love for her son that she may have committed murder in order to keep him by her side. When the son's new wife is found murdered, the mother is arrested for the crime. In denial about his mother's guilt, the son, a successful lawyer, agrees to defend her. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-29
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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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Celeste in the City
Overview: Small town girl Celeste Blodgett moves from Bangor, Maine to Manhattan when she gets a job with the New York Examiner, but hears there it's only fact checking, with little prospects for real journalism. Her welcoming young flat neighbor Kyle Halley in an interior designer, who helps her to give her apartment a make-over. At a party she learns her cousin is gay and goes by the new name Dana Harrison; he promises to teach her the city way with a fashionable image transformation, which succeeds with the help of various gay friends. Now she's ready for social life, hoping to impress her boss, reputedly womanizing magazine section editor Mitch Tanzer. He accepts to read her work, but says he can't use it because it's unethical given their personal relationship- then she finds reality is different.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-07
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Cascade
Overview: A teenage girl's wilderness hike with friends spirals after they stumble upon a crashed drug plane, forcing her to outwit a ruthless gang and face an enemy far worse than drug smugglers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-06
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Jack Reed: Death and Vengeance
Overview: Jack Reed is investigating a mass murder that occurred in a cemetery in broad daylight. Most individuals at the cemetery and the victims are Russian immigrants and they either fear or don't trust the police, because they have complaining about other problems to the police but they don't care or think it warrants investigating. Reed still investigates and it leads to a devious Russian who has turned some young Russians into his private army. Reed's friend, Charles Silvera, also has a problem. The son of an old friend and mayoral candidate, Gordon Thomas, has been arrested for killing someone while driving under the influence. Some of the people on Thomas' staff are afraid that this might jeopardize Thomas' bid for mayor, so they are pressuring Silvera to make it go away but Silvera relents so they threaten him to.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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Show Me
Overview: When two squeegee kids descend upon Sarah and her luxury sedan, the fuse is lit on a tense cat and mouse tale of captors and captives. Sarah is forced to continue her trip to an isolated cottage where the twisted trio bait and entice one another in a reckless search for truth.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-23
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Childstar
Overview: An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
Overview: A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-26
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Photo Booth
Overview: Outraged by the latest bombing of Gaza, Palestinian queer activists Hamza and Walid recruit queer novelist Jean Genet to help them sabotage the Eurovision song contest in Jericho. Their method? Secure the collaboration of Buddy and Pedro, Toronto's famous gay penguins... The emergence of queer BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) as a dynamic Palestinian-led global movement is brought to vivid life through interviews and actions, opera and agitprop, protests and pranks. Recounting fifteen years of passionate activism in Toronto and worldwide, Photo Booth juxtaposes a surreal operatic narrative with documentary scenes that explore pride and pink-washing, gay soldiers and homo-nationalism, Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, and the accelerating weaponization of anti-Semitism.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-09-23
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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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Balls Up
Overview: Jenny, a clever script assistant, lives with Geoff, recently returned to Toronto from Hollywood to direct a televised lottery show. Jenny comes up with a scheme for beating the lottery, which involves the seduction of Byron, an accountant who was hired to keep the lottery honest after the previous accountant dropped dead during the show. As the scheme proceeds, difficulties arise. A cleaning man, originally from India, is suspicious when he sees the lottery - supposedly live - being pre-taped; and the person chosen to buy the winning ticket is pursued by a loan shark. As the scheme unwinds, more and more people in Toronto - and India - learn the winning numbers of the upcoming draw. Meanwhile, Jenny and the accountant start falling in love. Her determined efforts ultimately turn an imminent disaster into a financial and romantic success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-31
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My Uncle Navy and Other Inherited Disorders
Overview: A family cursed with an odd history of misfortune must come to terms with the fact that history is about to repeat itself again with the impending birth of a baby boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-01
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Iris
Overview: Devoted teenage boyfriend Marshall worries his girlfriend Iris, who has Asperger's Syndrome, might be losing her grip on reality when she tells him she sees another world.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-09
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Holiday Affair
Overview: "Meeting cute" while Jodie's son Timmy enthuses over a model train set, Jodie and the raffish but likeable Steve immediately hit it off, but she is already engaged to conservative lawyer Paul Davis. The days between Christmas and New Year's Eve, Jodie finds herself in the unenviable position of choosing between two men whom she adores equally--a job not made easier by the well-meaning interference of son Timmy.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-15
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Riding the Bus with My Sister
Overview: A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-01
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Two Against Time
Overview: This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-21
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Maps to the Stars
Overview: Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-21
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The Shape of Water
Overview: An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Hellmington
Overview: A detective investigates her father's dying words; the name of a girl who has been missing for 9 years.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-27
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Strange but True
Overview: A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Montreal Stories
Overview: Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-08
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The Hangman's Bride
Overview: Jean Corolère and Françoise Laurent were prisoners in New France. They escaped the death penalty as Corolère accepted the executioner's job and married Laurent.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-01
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Unfinished Business
Overview: Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" looks at life two decades later for Peter and Julie's (Peter Kastner and Julie Biggs) daughter Isabelle "Izzy" Marks (Isabelle Mejias). Curious, funny and intelligent, 17 year old Izzy feels the frustrations of her limiting environment and the pull of a more exciting, larger world. She meets passionate anarchist wannabe Jessie 'Fixit' (Peter Spence) and is quickly drawn into his free living alternative lifestyle. Much to the displeasure of her once free-thinking parents and friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-11
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John Q
Overview: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Woman Wanted
Overview: After the death of his wife, Richard hires a recently divorced housekeeper, Emma. Soon finding himself falling for her, his emotionally destructive son, Wendell, also grows attached to Emma, threatening to tear apart the family's already hostile relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-14
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Murder on Maple Drive
Overview: In an effort to "keep up with the Joneses", a couple stretches their finances to purchase a home in an upper-class neighborhood. Due to a murder/suicide by the previous owners, the house is deeply discounted. After they move in, they form a quick friendship with a neighbor. But strange things begin to happen, and they soon suspect the neighbor may have played a part in the murders.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-25
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Dirty Pictures
Overview: A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-27
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Monica's News
Overview: Set in 1974 in the fictional village of Millman, Monica's News follows a nine-year-old girl who finds independence in her paper route, but ends up witnessing a tragic event.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-13
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A Kidnapping in Amish Country
Overview: When an Amish woman's daughter is kidnapped, she seeks help from her estranged friend who left the Amish community and found social media stardom.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-02
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