Tony Nardi
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Biography: Tony Nardi (born 1958 in Calabria, Italy) is a Canadian actor, playwright, director and producer.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Calabria, Italy
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Another Silence
Overview: Marie is a Toronto police officer. One evening, her husband Joshua and their son Nicky are brutally murdered in their car. Marie quickly links Pablo Molina, an Argentinian drug trafficker who she'd arrested a few months earlier, with the crime. In despair, Marie heads to Argentina on the tracks of the killer. A journey of revenge and a journey to come to terms with her loss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-19
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Rossini's Ghost
Overview: Nine-year old Reliana witnesses Rossini's efforts to salvage his seemingly cursed new opera, the Barber of Seville.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Havana 57
Overview: Havana 1957—sin capital of the world. Mafia nightclubs, sex, drugs and gambling. A young cop witnesses a murder and must decide if he wants to play the corrupt game or go against corrupt cops and the mob with the help of a beautiful Tropicana dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-06
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Kalamazoo
Overview: A Montreal man imagines a mermaid in place of the writer whose picture appears on a novel.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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The Adjuster
Overview: An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-27
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Speaking Parts
Overview: Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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Bonanno: A Godfather's Story
Overview: The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-25
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Operation Golden Phoenix
Overview: A kickboxer is hired to protect half of a valuable medallion, but an evil warlord and another kickboxer are determined to have it, no matter what it takes.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-28
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The Resurrection of Tony Gitone
Overview: A cross-section of Toronto's Italian population comes together at a party in Little Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-29
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Corbo
Overview: Montreal, spring 1966. Jean Corbo, 16 years old, born to a Quebec mother and an Italian father, is torn between his two affiliations. After befriending two young far-left activists, he joined the Front de Libération du Québec, an underground radical group. Jean, from then on, marches inexorably towards his destiny.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-02
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Born to Be Blue
Overview: Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-13
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Brown Bread Sandwiches
Overview: A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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Cruising Bar
Overview: Saturday, 12 p.m. The countdown has begun for four males on the hunt for women. Massage studio, last minute shopping, bodybuilding, our men each throw themselves ardently into the ritual of appearance. Impossible to resist the ferociously burlesque character and remarkably typical behavior of these characters. We will meet Gérard known as The Bull, Patrice known as The Lion, Jean-Jacques known as The Peacock and Serge known as The Earthworm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-07-14
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Undertaker
Overview: A penniless actor finds that you create your own luck when he travels to a small town and not only lands a job, but manages to attract the attention of not one, but SIX women. But all luck runs out and when Gino's cousin Fabrizio arrives unexpectedly and sets off a chain of events, Gino is left questioning why he wasn't more careful about what he wished for.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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Sicilian Vampire
Overview: Equal parts Goodfellas and Dusk till Dawn, Sicilian Vampire tells the story of reputed mobster Sonny Traficante who was hoping to get away to the family hunt lodge for a little rest and relaxation and create some memories. Instead, what he got was a night he will never forget. Once there, Sonny is bitten by a bat released from a container of bananas they brought up to the lodge. The bat takes a vicious bite of Sonny's neck and then flies off into the night. From that moment on Sonny is entrusted with powers beyond that of any mortal - supersonic hearing, enhanced sight, and superhuman strength - even the ability to speak to the dead. Because of these heightened senses Sonny now feels a responsibility to right the wrongs in his life, and protect those he loves. At first, he resists these new found powers but in the end he welcomes his fate.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-03
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The Big Fat Stone
Overview: Frank D'Angelo's drama about a homeless man's roller coaster ride of success and failure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Almost America
Overview: Antonia travels with her children and sister from Italy to Canada to reunite with her husband Vincenzo. But when Antonia discovers Vincenzo has been seeing another woman, she begins live as a signle mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-23
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Overview: Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-09
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Mr. Aiello
Overview: A father's love is not enough to keep his dreams and his family together in this drama. Joe Aiello (Tony Nardi) is an Italian immigrant who settled in Montreal and opened a construction firm in the early '60s. Thirty years later, Tony's business is a solid success, and Tony dreams of passing this legacy along to his family. But Tony's wife has passed on, his son Nuccio (Hugolin Chevrette Landesque) is developmentally disabled, and his daughter Bennie (Michele-Barbara Pelletier) can't decide what she wants to do with her life, dropping out of college against her father's wishes shortly before she is to graduate. Despite his disappointment with Nuccio and his exasperation with Bennie, Joe has a fierce love for his children, but Bennie feels that her father's affection is starting to crush her more than it nurtures her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-17
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Stray Dog
Overview: A money launderer finds himself in a bind on Christmas Eve when a case of mistaken identity leads to him spending the evening with an unpredictable runaway instead of his family.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-16
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The Saracen Woman
Overview: Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of his boarders, Giuseppe accidentally kills Theo, his French Canadian best friend’s son-in-law. This drama depicts the tensions between people from different ethnic backgrounds and their life-changing impact. Based on a true story, 'The Saracen Woman' paints a portrait of Italian immigration to Quebec and the affinities and conflicts that arose from the clash of two different cultures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-15
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Caffè Italia, Montréal
Overview: Using archival documents, fictions, current accounts, and excerpts from a theatrical creation, Paul Tana paints a nuanced portrait of the Italians of Montreal. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the men and women taken to a prisoner of war camps during World War II, to the hardships and joys of building vibrant lives in Montréal. Caffè Italia Montréal chronicles a significant chapter in Canada’s history.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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Bye Bye Love
Overview: Two women, a friendship. Two parallel love stories. Marianne has a passionate affair with Nino while the relationship of Lea and David is falling apart. While a couple is forming, another's becoming undone. Yet, the choice of the two friends remains the same: break up with the past and plunge into the unknown.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-07-25
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The Joke Thief
Overview: The Joke Thief takes us on a journey of one man's last hurrah. Simon McCabe is a stand up comedian who has been making people laugh for 35 years. All his life he has been the life of the party, but now he is tired, miserable and almost washed up since he's never got a lucky break due to a reputation of joke stealing. One faithful night, his longtime friend and fellow comedian convinces a comedy club owner to give Simon some stage time and one last shot at redemption. On the ride down to his gig, Simon takes us on a whirlwind journey of his life, as he replays back special moments in an emotional series of flash backs that made him the sad, funny man that he is today.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-16
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Kiss Me With All Your Love
Overview: Montreal, 1940. The Second World War is raging in Europe. Pierre Sauvageau, 22, would like to enlist, but he has to take care of his twin sister, crippled from birth. This proximity awakens the sensuality of Berthe who tries to seduce her brother. Pierre rejects her advances, but when he falls in love with Marguerite, his best friend's girlfriend, he is haunted by the fantasy of his sister.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-08-25
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An Imaginary Tale
Overview: In this tragicomedy, Toni is the director of a staged rendition of Othello in Montreal. It is a pet project of his, financed by his loving mafia uncle. Unbeknownst to him, the audiences are also rounded up (and paid) by the same uncle. Some of them have seen every performance of this tragic play, and are understandably bored, so when the backstage romantic shenanigans of the actors result in absurd situations onstage, the audience is delighted. There are a huge number of romantic situations going on in this film at the same time. One of them involves Gaston a somewhat world-weary jazz musician, and Florence, a glamorous middle-aged woman who has been pining for him for years. Another involves to members of the musician's jazz trio. Yet another involves the play's Desdemona, Soledad, the girlfriend of the man playing Othello, who can't keep his hands off his (female) dresser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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Making a Deal with the Devil
Overview: A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime in USA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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The Last Big Save
Overview: A professional hockey player who is only happy when he is miserable signs a long-term contract that covers his entire career only to ruin it in his first year due to substance abuse and alcoholism. He rides his good luck in the final month of the final year of his contract when he gets a last chance at redemption in the seventh game of the finals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-18
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Bella Ciao!
Overview: Carmen Aguirre and Tony Nardi star in a remarkable story of friends, lovers, seekers and thieves. Set at the intersection of the Latin American, First Nations and Italian communities, "Bella Ciao!" captures a struggle towards solidarity in East Vancouver's urban mix.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-30
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Cold Blooded
Overview: A serial murderer of teenage girls is loose, and working the case are a possibly corrupt detective Lou Miles a probably corrupt chief inspector Brodsky and his "favorite snitch." Dark personal histories and current politics mix to get the ambitious DA and her investigator involved.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-17
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From the Vine
Overview: A downtrodden man experiences an ethical crisis and travels back to his hometown in rural Italy to recalibrate his moral compass. There he finds new purpose in reviving his grandfather's old vineyard, offering the small town of Acerenza a sustainable future, and reconnecting with his estranged family in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-27
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Mafia Inc.
Overview: The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn his stripes by impressing the godfather. Without the Paternò knowing, he stages a big operation and is promoted. Fuming with jealousy, Giaco discovers that Vince committed a monstrous act during his stroke. The Gamache disown Vince and war begins.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-14
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The Red Maple Leaf
Overview: A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determined to find the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Ambassador, no matter what the cost.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-24
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Overview: Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-09
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Galileo: On the Shoulders of Giants
Overview: Galileo is thwarted in his pursuit to uncover the universe's mysteries by a lack of money, a lazy brother and a jealous rival. Luckily, he finds support from his student, Prince Cosimo, son of the Medici family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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My Father's Angel
Overview: A Bosnian Muslim and a Bosnian Serb family have come to Vancouver to find peaceful new lives only to find themselves embroiled in the ethnic conflict they left behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-20
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Overview: In the Warsau ghetto of 1943, one man's struggle to keep his family together leads him to the ultimate crisis of faith and one final chance at redemption.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-04-20
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Concrete Angels
Overview: 1964. The Beatles are coming to Toronto. To win a music competition, a young man forms a rock group with his friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-01
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Embrasse-moi, c'est pour la vie
Overview: Denis comes out of a love affair that disturbs him a lot. One day he meets Simone in the university cafeteria and he immediately understands that she is the woman of his life. But Simone is not the type to fall into the arms of the first comer!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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The Rug
Overview: Edna, a senior aged woman, discovers that a discarded throw rug she has found will, for lack of a better word, digest anything left under it. The more it digests, the more it wants. After devouring her pesky landlord and a nosey cop, the rug has gotten so frisky that Edna finds herself trapped in her own home with no way out.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-20
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