Carlo Rota
Also Known As: Carlo D. Rota, Carlos Rota, Carlo Dante Rota
Biography: Carlo Dante Rota (born April 17, 1961) is a British-Canadian-American actor, best known for his roles as construction contractor Yasir Hamoudi on Little Mosque on the Prairie, systems analyst Morris O'Brian on the FOX series 24, Emilio Solano on Jane the Virgin, informant Mick Schtoppel on La Femme Nikita (1997-2001) He has guest starred on TV series including AMC's Breaking Bad, NCIS: LA, CSI: NY, Castle, The Mentalist, Bones, Grimm, 24, White Collar, Queer as Folk (US), Human Target, Relic Hunter, Adventure Inc, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, The Gospel of John, and Traders. Because of his experience prior to acting, he also hosted the Great Canadian Food Show for CBC television in Canada. In 2008, Rota portrayed Charles, who was a journalist for The Herald, in Saw V.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Birthday: April 17, 1961
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Male
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Young at Heart
Overview: A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a gambling debt.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-12
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The Boondock Saints
Overview: Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kill one notorious gangster after another, they become controversial folk heroes in the community. But Paul Smecker, an eccentric FBI agent, is fast closing in on their blood-soaked trail.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-22
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Cliffs of Freedom
Overview: The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-01
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Trigger Point
Overview: Nicolas Shaw is a retired U.S. special operative who becomes part of an elite 'invisible' team that quietly takes out the worst villains around the world.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-23
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Ecstasy
Overview: A small-time drug smuggler from Scotland, is trying to figure out his way through life until he meets a beautiful girl from Canada, who seeks a change after a bad relationship she just got out of.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Mission to Mars
Overview: When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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On Their Knees
Overview: Willie and Mo are half sisters who have never seen eye to eye. A cross-country road trip in an ice cream truck carrying their dead grandmother may not change that, but it will give them the opportunity to laugh and learn.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-25
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Recipe for Murder
Overview: A medical examiner investigates his friend's mysterious death in a car accident.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-04
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Me Time
Overview: With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-08-26
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Time Bomb
Overview: The Department of Homeland Security receives a threat that a bomb has been set to explode during a sports event in Washington, D.C.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-19
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Brick Mansions
Overview: In a dystopian Detroit, grand houses that once housed the wealthy are now homes of the city's most-dangerous criminals. Surrounding the area is a giant wall to keep the rest of Detroit safe. For undercover cop Damien Collier, every day is a battle against corruption as he struggles to bring his father's killer, Tremaine, to justice. Meanwhile, Damien and an ex-con named Lino work together to save the city from a plot to destroy it.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-22
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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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Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
Overview: A pair of taxi-driving NYC detectives take up the case of tourists who are robbed of their money and luggage by a shady limo driver. Things get dicey when the tourists accidentally get mixed up in a drug dealer's murder and money heist, while the detectives go after a hit man posing as a friend from the `hood'.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-04
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Saw V
Overview: Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Trapped in a Purple Haze
Overview: When a charismatic teenager falters under constant pressure from his parents and school, he makes a potentially deadly mistake.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-17
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After the Ball
Overview: After the Ball, a retail fairy tale set in the world of fashion. Kate's dream is to design for couturier houses. Although she is a bright new talent, Kate can't get a job. No one trusts the daughter of Lee Kassell, a retail guru who markets clothes "inspired" by the very designers Kate wants to work for. Who wants a spy among the sequins and stilettos? Reluctantly, Kate joins the family business where she must navigate around her duplicitous stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. But with the help of a prince of a guy in the shoe department her godmother's vintage clothes and a shocking switch of identities, Kate exposes the evil trio, saves her father's company -- and proves that everyone can wear a fabulous dress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-27
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Welcome to Nowhere
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-17
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Cake
Overview: A travel writer improves her love life when she becomes an editor for her father's wedding magazine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-12
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Shark City
Overview: Dagen and Kenny are two best friends in their early thirties living in New York who are looking for love in all the wrong places. One of them finds his dream girl, who just happens to be the daughter of the biggest mobster in town, and the other friend swindles her mob boss Dad out of a million dollars.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-01
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Horsie's Retreat
Overview: Horsie, a reformed drug addict, is thrown into his old world to help a friend get clean, only to find himself enmeshed in a phantasmagoria of lust & paranoia, at the core of which lurks a disturbing mystery.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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State Like Sleep
Overview: Following the death of her husband, Katherine travels to Brussels, where a few loose ends become a whole web of secrets as she untangles her late spouse’s mysterious last days alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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Friends at Last
Overview: Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-02
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Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534
Overview: Having taken the blame for an accident beyond his control, pilot Mike Hogan has been on administrative leave indefinitely; however when the airline is desperately short of staff, he is offered to be first officer and accepts, without enthusiasm, received with disdain by the well-connected commander. Surprisingly his come-back proves less then routine, as the captain gets knocked out and a collision as well as a murderer being transported by police require courageous action from Mike, his crew and several passengers, including soccer star Ty Conner.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Maximum Risk
Overview: Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Spinning Man
Overview: Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-06
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The Wandering Soul Murders
Overview: Haunted by the murder of her politician husband 6 years ago, former police detective Joanne Kilbourn keeps looking for clues, with the help of her old partner. When a prime suspect is caught, it looks as if the killer may finally be brought to justice … but in a shocking turn of events, the suspect is gunned down as he's brought to the police station. Is there more to her husband's death than Joanne realized?
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-09
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City of Dark
Overview: A computer scientist scans dreams with a computer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-17
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Trespassers
Overview: Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbor turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. But soon they discover the person they let into their home may have nefarious intents.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-12
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Salma's Big Wish
Overview: In the Mexican town of Santa Clara, Salma, a 16 year-old orphan who never got to meet her biological parents, has spent most of her life searching for clues of their identities and whereabouts, that is until she discovers a special book that is filled with stories of the town's past and the history of it's people.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2019-10-24
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The Diggers
Overview: After a heist gone wrong Tom, a low rent criminal is forced by the local crime boss to kill his partner and best friend. Setting off into the Mojave desert under the guise of moving a body they buried two years ago, Tom delays the deed just long enough for a cadre of colorful characters to descend.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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Cold Play
Overview: Suspecting his wife, Indigo (Vanessa Branch), has been sleeping around, multimillionaire Winston Thorpe (D. David Morin) pays a private detective (Geno Andrews) to spy on her. But he never expected his hired man to climb into Indigo's bed and plot to steal his most prized possession. Now, he's got two problems: an unfaithful wife who despises him and a skilled investigator who's willing to take him for everything he's ever loved.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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The Gospel of John
Overview: A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-11
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A Perfect Plan
Overview: Four notorious thieves wake up in a fortified warehouse and are forced by a cunning master thief to plan and commit an extraordinary diamond heist.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-01
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People You May Know
Overview: An introvert realizes he can be whomever he wants to be on the Internet.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-07
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Global Heresy
Overview: A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-03
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Phantom of the Megaplex
Overview: Pete Riley is a 17-year-old who lands a part-time job at a multiplex in his neighbourhood. He and his friends are excited when it's announced that the theatre will play host to the premier of a major motion picture, with a number of Hollywood celebrities in attendance. However, when the big night comes, Pete has to contend with disappearing staff, malfunctioning equipment, and a broken popcorn machine.
Genres: Action Comedy Family Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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First Degree
Overview: A homicide detective falls for a murder victim's wife, who is also the prime suspect.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-03
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