Liane Balaban
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Liane Balaban (born June 24, 1980) is a Canadian actress. Her film debut was in New Waterford Girl (1999), playing Agnes-Marie "Moonie" Pottie, and has since appeared in the films Definitely, Maybe (2008), Last Chance Harvey (2009), and the independent drama One Week (2008). Description above from the Wikipedia article Liane Balaban, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: June 24, 1980
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Gender: Female
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Lullaby
Overview: A new mother discovers a lullaby in an ancient book and soon regards the song as a blessing. But her world transforms into a nightmare when the lullaby brings forth the ancient demon Lilith.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-16
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Woman in Car
Overview: When Anne's stepson returns home with a beautiful woman, she develops an obsession with the stranger whom she fears could destroy the privileged life she has built.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-21
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You Can Live Forever
Overview: When Jaime, a gay teenager, is sent to live in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses in small-town Quebec, she falls madly in love with a devout Witness girl. The two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-24
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Definitely, Maybe
Overview: When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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New Waterford Girl
Overview: A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-12
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Last Chance Harvey
Overview: In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British government worker stuck in an endless cycle of work, phone calls from her mother, and blind dates. A connection forms between the unhappy pair, who soon find themselves falling in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-25
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Coach
Overview: A slacker trust-fund type finds the motivation to pick up a job as the coach of middle school soccer team
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-13
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One Week
Overview: Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to British Columbia.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-08
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Midnight at the Paradise
Overview: Three couples at different stages of their relationships come to appreciate that any marriage requires equal doses of delusion, forgiveness, laughter, and sexual chemistry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-21
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7 Times Lucky
Overview: An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-17
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Rise of the Damned
Overview: Six years after a violent car crash claimed her parents' lives, Jesse is still trying to put her life back together. The situation is complicated by the fact that her parents virtually vanished, as did the accident wreckage, so there's no evidence for the police and certainly no closure for her. Jesse meets her fears head-on when she and a group of filmmakers break into an abandoned mental institution, she immediately experiences a visceral deja-vu. The asylum seems somehow connected to her missing parents and furthermore, the building is far from deserted. The group discovers that a sinister doctor has taken up residence in the building's vast underground and he is using extreme science trying to bring his wife back from the dead! The basement also contains the countless remains of the doctor's failed experiments, all of which are now slowly coming back to life when they make contact with a murky substance that has begun to leak out of several holding tanks!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-09
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The Wisher
Overview: Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape into her life and make her darkest desires come true.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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World Traveler
Overview: After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-19
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The Future Is Now!
Overview: A journalist meets “Man of Today” who, while a responsible citizen, is disengaged from greater society. He believes once he’s dead nothing more matters. As an experiment to see if she can turn his pessimistic view around, the journalist sends him on a journey of enlightenment to prove that the future does matter. Travelling the globe, he finds himself in surprising encounters with great minds in the arts and sciences. Starting with an unexpected poetry reading and conversation with experimental poet Christian Bök, Man of Today engages with architect Shigeru Ban, activist Francis Dupuis-Déri, philosopher Alain de Botton, artist Marlene Dumas, novelist Rivka Galchen, leading scientists and a ghost. Will the journalist succeed in turning a cynic into an optimist? Will it matter? What can one person do?
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-24
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Finding Joy
Overview: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. Life at home begins to show signs of improvement when Kyle meets the spunky, vivacious girl across the street who recruits Kyle to help her make the world a better place, making him feel alive for the first time in ages and inspiring his writing. But its short-lived. Joys been told shes going to die soon and wants Kyle to write her obituary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-07
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Saint Jude
Overview: Teen-aged sisters Jude and Maureen, living with their volatile father in Montréal, live a life of substance abuse, hustling and petty theft. After Jude's father kicks her out of the house for her abusive and thieving ways, Jude is forced to survive on the streets with the assistance of her odd assortment of friends, including middle aged pedophile Clarence, pre-teen male hustler Georgie, pimp Big Al, and Maureen's junkie boyfriend Gabe. Georgie has a crush on Jude, while Jude unrealistically fantasizes about a normal married life with Gabe. All the while, Jude is also trying to elude the sadistic Mink, who she inadvertently crossed
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Burnt Toast
Overview: An irreverent and hilarious spin on opera, domestic drama and the hallowed institutions of love and marriage, Burnt Toast is an hour-long television opera comprised of a series of eight comic operas each depicting a different stage of romantic love. The relationships depicted run the gamut: from the passionate to the fantasized, the bored and of course the dead relationship, each as recognizable as the last.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-01
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Maniac: The Making of Documentary
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary on the 2012 film MANIAC directed by Franck Khalfoun.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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The Grand Seduction
Overview: A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-30
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Above and Beyond
Overview: True Story about the Atlantic Ferry Operation during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-29
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Maniac
Overview: As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-26
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Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas
Overview: When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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Abroad
Overview: A young Canadian girl struggles to decipher the ways of the English especially the men when she comes to London to take up a junior position at the London Post.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-14
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The People Garden
Overview: Sweetpea searches for her missing rock star boyfriend Jamie in a forest in Japan.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-05-10
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The New Tenants
Overview: A prying neighbor, a glassy-eyed drug dealer, and a husband brandishing both a weapon and a vendetta make up the welcome wagon. Set amidst the as-yet-unopened boxes and the hopes for a fresh start of two men on what might just be the worst moving day ever. Their new apartment reveals its terrifying history in a film that is by turns funny, frightening, and unexpectedly romantic.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-30
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Full
Overview: Jamie is a young man who suffers from both anorexia and bulimia. His memories of being teased for being over-weight coupled with people's treatment of his sudden weight loss lead him to question his decisions for the first time. We are allowed into his reality and given insight into his perspective as he holds everyone at a distance while he examines the details of his disillusioned world. And this allows him to see just how paper thin the reality he has been living in truly is. "Full" is not about overcoming an eating disorder; it is about understanding an eating disorder, and how a young man comes to understand it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Bickford Park
Overview: A woman secretly starts taking skateboarding lessons from a handsome teenager to avoid dealing with the problems in her marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-07
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Meditation Park
Overview: A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s thong in his laundry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-08
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You Might As Well Live
Overview: On the advice of his childhood hero, Robert R. Mutt embarks on a madcap adventure to attain the three keys to being a "somebody" - a girl, some money and a championship ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-19
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Happy Here and Now
Overview: When her sister suddenly vanishes, a young girl sets out to find her, desperately searching the internet for clues. Joining her is an ex-CIA agent, who uncovers fragments of online chats the missing girl had with a softcore pornographer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-08
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Boys On Film 7: Bad Romance
Overview: Experience an alternative take on attraction with Boys On Film. Bad Romance explores the darker side with a collection of edgy and sexy short films, including: Alain Hain's "Curious Thing" starring Danny Bernardy and Matthew Wilkas; Christoph Scheermann's "Cake and Sand" starring Bartholomew Sammut and Jan Andreesen; Michael Rozanov's "Watch Over Me" starring Guy Kapulnik and Davidi Hoffman; Joachim Back's "The New Tenants" starring David Rakoff and Jamie Harrold; Kim Jho Gwang-soo's "Just Friends?" starring Lee Je-hoon and Yeon Woo-jin; Étienne Desrosiers's "Mirrors" starring Xavier Dolan, Stéphane Demers, and Julie Beauchemin; Christopher Banks's "Communication" starring Rudi Vodanovich and Alexander Campbell; Tomer Velkoff's "The Traitor" co-starring Shmulik Goldstein; Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein's "The Strange Ones" starring David Call, Tobias Campbell, and Merritt Wever; and Tamer Ruggli's "Cappuccino" starring Benjamin Décosterd and Manuela Biedermann.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-26
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Eternal
Overview: Detective Raymond Pope is a detective of questionable morals, searching for his missing wife. His investigation leads him to the wealthy estate of the enigmatic Elizabeth Kane and her young maid Irina. Under Elizabeth's fascinating looks and aristocratic manners hides a terrifying secret,shared by her companion Irina. As Detective Pope finds himself perversely drawn to the powerful Elizabeth, bodies begin to surface, his inquiries only deepening the mystery surrounding Elizabeth's past. Pope's obsession grows so intense that he completely fails to anticipate Elizabeth's reaction to his intrusion into her dark world, a fatal mistake that might cost him his life and the lives of those close to him.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Not Since You
Overview: A romantic drama about a tight-knit group of college friends who graduated from NYU the year of 9/11 and reunite years later for a weekend wedding in Georgia. Unresolved conflicts and love affairs spark again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-25
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After the Harvest
Overview: Caleb Gare (Sam Shepard) is a farmer obsessed with owning as much land as he can and controlling his entire family. This becomes more complicated when a beautiful visiting teacher moves into the Gare home and she becomes involved in a battle of wills. To complicate matters more, a deep secret held by Caleb's wife will have to come to the surface. With the family at the breaking point, they must put aside their differences to bring in the year's harvest, after which they celebrate at the town's annual festival. Little does Caleb suspect that the one night of celebration will end in disaster, turmoil, and forever change the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-29
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The Trotsky
Overview: Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-05
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A Small Fortune
Overview: Kevin is an Irish Moss farmer committed to his traditional way of doing things at the expense of a more lucrative life for himself and his pregnant wife. When he finds a bag of money washed up on the shores of Prince Edward Island, his decision to keep it secret turns his quaint fishing village into a growing crime scene as the money’s owners come calling. Adapted from Adam Perry's award-winning short film A Blessing from the Sea.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-16
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