Robert Joy
Also Known As: Bob Joy, رابرت جوی
Biography: Robert Joy (born August 17, 1951) is a Canadian actor and producer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: St. Johns - Newfoundland - Canada
Birthday: August 17, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sweet November
Overview: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-16
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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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Don't Look Up
Overview: Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a distracted world: Meh.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-08
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Land of the Dead
Overview: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-18
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Atlantic City
Overview: In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-03
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Superhero Movie
Overview: Rick Riker is a nerdy teen imbued with superpowers by a radioactive dragonfly. And because every hero needs a nemesis, enter Lou Landers, aka the villainously goofy Hourglass.
Genres: Comedy Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-28
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Desperately Seeking Susan
Overview: A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and self-discovery.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Ragtime
Overview: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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The Hills Have Eyes
Overview: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-10
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Amityville 3-D
Overview: To debunk the Amityville house's infamous reputation and take advantage of a rock-bottom asking price, skeptical journalist John Baxter buys the place and settles in to write his first novel.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-18
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Archetype
Overview: Archetype tells the story about a robot RL7. After a defect in a chip; he begins to memorize and realises he could have been human once...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-03
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death
Overview: Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-14
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Whole New Thing
Overview: Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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It's a Boy Girl Thing
Overview: A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-15
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Harriet the Spy
Overview: When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her friends back?
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-10
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The Lazarus Child
Overview: A desperate couple uses a doctor's controversial method to revive their comatose daughter.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-13
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Longtime Companion
Overview: During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns into a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill, leaving the others to panic about who will be next. As death takes its toll, the lives of these friends are forever redefined by an unconditional display of love, hope and courage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-11
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Big Shots
Overview: Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler's estranged father.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-02
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Pharaoh's Army
Overview: Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one in their ranks' wounds have healed. While the war weary Union captain falls for the mother of the family - whose husband is off fighting for the rebels - her son plots revenge on the dirty, double-dealing Yankees.
Genres: Western Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-09
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The Suicide Club
Overview: A woman traumatized by her brother's suicide is inducted into a world of games involving murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-21
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A Modern Affair
Overview: A Modern Affair is an independent feature directed by Vern Oakley and produced by Tribe Pictures. Starring Stanley Tucci and Lisa Eichhorn, the film's plot reverses the conventions of romantic comedies: instead of man meet woman - fall in love, marry and have baby, in this film the woman gets pregnant, then meets the father, then falls in love. Grace Rhodes (Lisa Eichhorn) is a lonely, successful executive whose biological clock is loudly ticking.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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That Guy... Who Was in That Thing
Overview: Documentary about sixteen actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood. They've played cops, lawyers, bosses, best friends, psychopaths, politicians and everything in between. Now you'll know who they are.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candice DeLong
Overview: Based upon the book and real-life story of FBI profiler Candice DeLong, "Killer Instinct" chronicles DeLong's pursuit of a serial killer who, after attacking her close friend, chooses her as his next victim.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-06
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Dolly Cake
Overview: A Codco documentary turned improvised drama about a woman named Dolly who, fed up with taking care of a group of ungrateful layabouts, runs away. The story is intercut with footage from another Codco project called "Borkin the Spineless Servant."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-20
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Haven
Overview: Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-11
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The Divine Ryans
Overview: When Draper Doyle’s father drops dead two days after his birthday, Draper realises that he his memories of visiting his father two days previously have vanished. With the help of Uncle Reg, he attempts to piece his memory back together.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Moonlight Becomes You
Overview: At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway—one of the fashion world’s most successful photographers—is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and she invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar. Heartbroken, Maggie is stunned to learn she had inherited Nuala’s stunning Victorian home...and horrified when she begins to suspect that Nuala’s death was not random, but part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted mind.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-11
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Henry & Verlin
Overview: Verlin is 9 years old and does not talk, nor does he even seem to hear. Henry, a child-like adult, befriends Verlin and pulls him from his shell. Verlin's mother mistrusts Henry, who she feels is dangerous.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-07
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Gregory K
Overview: TV movie based on the the story of the kid who divorced his parents. Gregory has lived a rough life. His father abuses him and his two brothers. The boys are placed with the mother. Gregory is placed in a boys ranch after his mother can't take care of him and his two brothers. While at the ranch a lawyer visiting the facility meets him. He and his wife decide to adopt him and make him a part of the family. But Gregory can't be adopted until his biological parents lose custody. He divorces his parents from their rights to him.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-08
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Terminal Choice
Overview: A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-10
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Helter Skelter
Overview: The rise of Charles Manson and his "family," who are responsible for a series of famous murders in the late 1960s. Manson, a magnetic and mysterious man, attracts road-weary single mother Linda Kasabian to join his collection of outcasts on a ranch outside of Los Angeles. After murdering actress Sharon Tate, Manson and his followers are investigated by district attorney Vincent Bugliosi.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-23
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Just Ask My Children
Overview: Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
Overview: After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-25
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Fallen
Overview: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-16
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The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood
Overview: Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus' boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cult-like geometric theory known as Total Education, but Peddle may be foiled by the revelation of a secret from his past career.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story
Overview: Marlene Moore has spent most of her life in prison, and is considered so dangerous that the authorities want her locked up indefinitely — though she has never committed a serious crime.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-06
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Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
Overview: The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-16
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Shadows and Fog
Overview: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-05
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The Dark Half
Overview: Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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She's Back
Overview: A henpecked electrician is nagged by his recently deceased wife into taking revenge on the gang responsible for her death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-07
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Judgment
Overview: Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-13
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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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Ticket to Heaven
Overview: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-09
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Joe Somebody
Overview: When underappreciated video specialist Joe Scheffer is brutally humiliated by office bully Mark McKinney in front of his daughter, Joe begins a quest for personal redemption. He proceeds by enduring a personal makeover and takes martial arts lessons from a B-action star. As news spreads of his rematch with Mark, Joe suddenly finds himself the center of attention, ascending the corporate ladder and growing in popularity.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-21
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Advice From a Caterpillar
Overview: When it comes to romance, Missy's attitude has always been whatever. After all, her artistic career is flourishing, her spacious New York City loft is fabulous and her relationship with a married man is totally uncomplicated. But then Missy meets Brat, who's sweet, genuine and shares her fondness for 70's sitcoms. Unfortunately, he's also dating her pal Spaz. When Missy and Brat unexpectedly fall for each other, will she lose her identity... and her best friend?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-15
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The Story of Faustus Bidgood
Overview: This is the story of The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, a surreal comedy about a lowly bureaucrat and his fantasies of becoming president of an independent Newfoundland, that was released in 1986. A cult classic in Canadian cinema, the film is well known for the marathon it took to even get made. Principal photography on the film began eight years earlier, in 1978. Written and directed by comedy legend Andy Jones and his brother, Mike Jones, the movie was made on a shoestring budget, is packed with familiar faces and helped pave the way for Newfoundland and Labrador's vibrant film industry. And it was the first film ever both filmed and produced, from start to finish, in Newfoundland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-24
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Joshua Then and Now
Overview: Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-17
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The Goldfinch
Overview: A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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Cheaters
Overview: In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-20
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I'll Do Anything
Overview: Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy Breslow is made complicated, while the precocious child is overly accustomed to getting her own way. Matt eventually faces the choice of family vs career in a particularly difficult way.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-04
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Miracle at Moreaux
Overview: Drama - On a December night in 1943, three Jewish children escape from Nazi-occupied France and are given refuge by Sister Gabrielle at a Catholic school in which the gentile students must face their fears about harboring Jews from the Nazis. As the students become acquainted with their Jewish peers, they grow more sympathetic to their situation and eventually go to great lengths -- and take serious risks -- to save the lives of their newfound friends. - Loretta Swit, Geneviève Appleton, Milan Cheylov
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Hyde in Hollywood
Overview: A closeted gay movie director/actor in 1939 finds himself the target of the vicious and unscrupulous attacks by a gossip columnist reporter who goes by the name of Hollywood Confidential.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-05
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Crown and Anchor
Overview: When James Downey returns home to Newfoundland for his mother’s funeral, he is faced with all the haunting family issues he thought he had left behind. He channeled his own inner demons from an abusive father into being a police officer but his cousin Danny’s childhood trauma has exploded into a cycle of drugs, crime and violence. James must confront his tortured past, decide who he really is, and deal with his cousin before it’s too late.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Threshold
Overview: Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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61*
Overview: In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with a bang, and both were nearing Babe Ruth's 60 home run record. Which man would reach it?
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-28
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Waterworld
Overview: In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-28
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Pretty Persuasion
Overview: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Down to the Dirt
Overview: Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret... as secret as his regret for the shattered relationship with his father. When Keith meets the darkly exotic Natasha (Mylène Savoie), his life is changed forever.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Resurrection
Overview: A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.
Genres: Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-05
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Dieppe
Overview: A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-30
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Radio Days
Overview: The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Between Strangers
Overview: Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-30
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Sword of Gideon
Overview: Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-01
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The 70s
Overview: Four friends, fresh from tragedy at Kent Sate, graduate from college and begin their adult lives during the turbulent 1970s. But Dexter (Guy Torry), Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), Byron (Brad Rowe) and Christie (Amy Smart) find their paths are heading in different directions. Namely, toward the Black Panthers, the feminist movement, the Watergate Scandal and the Hustle. Peter Werner directs this poignant television miniseries originally aired on NBC.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-30
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Perfume
Overview: A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-08
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The Sparrows Are Flying Again! - The Making of the Dark Half
Overview: Documentary covering the making of The Dark Half.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-18
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Girl From the North Country
Overview: Written and directed by celebrated playwright Conor McPherson and featuring Tony Award-winning orchestrations by Simon Hale, Girl From The North Country reimagines 20 legendary songs of Bob Dylan as they've never been heard before, including: 'Forever Young', 'All Along The Watchtower', 'Hurricane', and 'Like A Rolling Stone'. It's 1934 in Duluth, Minnesota. We meet a group of wayward travellers whose lives intersect in a guesthouse filled with music, life and hope. Experience this "profoundly beautiful" Broadway production (The New York Times) brought to vivid life by an extraordinary company of actors and musicians.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-21
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In for a Penny
Overview: Prominent people from Newfoundland and Labrador discuss the province's history and their expectations for the future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-19
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Candy Mountain
Overview: A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-20
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Sisters of the Silver Scalpel
Overview: A nature documentary about the wild Nuns of Newfoundland-- Originated as a "filmeo" to be performed live by Codco, but eventually overdubbed with audio and released as a short film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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