Michael Riley
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Biography: Michael Riley (born February 4, 1962) is a Canadian stage, film and television actor. He's a graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: February 04, 1962
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Gender: Male
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Cube Zero
Overview: A young programmer whose job is to watch over the reality-warping Cube defies orders to rescue an innocent mother trapped in one of its rooms.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-10
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Dogmatic
Overview: This spirited comedy poses the age old question: if dogs are man's best friends, what happens when a man trades places with one, and literally lives "a dog's life"?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-30
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The Making of '...And God Spoke'
Overview: A documentary on the making of a big budget Bible picture. This is a spoof that shows the inside action on a film set where everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Ice
Overview: After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the city's hostile conditions, in order to take a ship to a hotter place on Earth.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-21
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The Tenth Circle
Overview: A family's well-kept secrets are exposed when the daughter accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-28
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No Man's Land
Overview: A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Supervolcano
Overview: Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but they are ignored or dismissed as 'minor'. But when they learn an eruption will happen, panic breaks out through people of the USA and the world.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-13
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The Perfect Husband
Overview: A woman discovers her new husband wants to keep her all to himself.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-12
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story
Overview: Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-07
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To Catch a Killer
Overview: "To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Voice from the Grave
Overview: A segment from the 'Unsolved Mysteries' TV series inspired this story, in which a nurse (Megan Ward) claims that she's possessed by a murdered co-worker's spirit which identifies the killer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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Punch
Overview: Ariel is a troubled girl with more than the usual teenage problems. When her emotion and temper get the best of her, she is drawn into a world where she can take out her anger with her fists. In the tradition of 'Girlfight' comes a wildly original story of rage and redemption.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-10
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My Mother's Secret
Overview: When a woman becomes pregnant and tells the news to his mother is revealed to him that she is adopted. Then decides to search for his biological family and hired the services of a private detective.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Willed to Kill
Overview: A homicide detective is forced to work alongside her ex-fiancé to investigate a murder that bears all the hallmarks of an infamous serial killer.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-05
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Black Swan
Overview: Set against the majestic landscape of Canada’s Bay of Fundy and the highest tides in the world, Black Swan is a dark comedy that weaves the innocent world of childhood, against the adult world of love, betrayal and murder.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Perfectly Normal
Overview: A shy young man with a passion for opera has his world turned upside down by a con artist who really does have a heart of gold.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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French Kiss
Overview: After her fiancee admits to infidelity while on a business trip in France, a woman attempts to get her lover back and marry him by traveling to Paris despite her crippling fear of flying. On the way she unwittingly smuggles something of value that has a charming crook chasing her across France as she chases after her future husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-05
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Lifeline to Victory
Overview: Paul Devereaux is a second officer with lots of experience with merchant ships. But this is World War II and the Royal Canadian Navy desperately needs experienced officers. Paul is thus given command of his own ship. However, in early 1940's, Canadian Navy does not have the biggest budget nor the most qualified enlisted men. Paul's ship must escort merchant ship to Europe and back and take part in the longest naval battle in history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
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Every 9 Seconds
Overview: Domestic violence drama, with Gail O'Grady as a distraught young mother, finding herself stalked by her newly paroled ex and armed with a loaded gun, and Ami Pietz as a journalist volunteering at a crisis hotline to do an "inside" story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-12
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Normal
Overview: A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-10
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Heck's Way Home
Overview: After getting lost the day his family travels 2,000 miles in preparation for a move to Australia, this clever, loyal, 'map reading' dog begins an amazing cross-country journey to find them.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Heart of the Sun
Overview: Depression era drama set in Alberta finds a farmer's wife who swears that her inability to have a child is a punishment from God. In fact, it is slowly revealed that her inability to have a child stems from an illicit relationship that she had with a local priest and a subsequent operation forced on her in a cover-up by the church and her family which left her infertile
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-30
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Saving Emily
Overview: After learning that their young daughter, Emily, is suffering from leukemia, Cheryl and Greg have no choice but to seek out Cheryl's violent ex-husband, Kurt, to have him tested as a possible bone marrow donor. Cheryl is particularly disturbed about seeing Kurt again, since her testimony sent him to prison ten years earlier.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-11
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Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
Overview: A number of slaves risk their lives to escape their masters with their only help coming from the famous secret slave escape network.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-19
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Pale Saints
Overview: Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mob. Things soon get out of control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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St. Urbain's Horseman
Overview: Based on the novel by Mordechai Richler - Winner of the 1971 Governor General's Award - this is the story of Jake, a film director of modest success and a man in disgrace. His alter ego, his cousin Joey - Nazi-hunter, adventurer, hero of the Spanish Civil War - is the avenging horseman of Jake's impotent dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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The Prince
Overview: African-American drama about a toymaker
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-12
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Mustard Bath
Overview: Matthew, a young medical student from Toronto, Ontario, returns to his birthplace in Guyana on receiving a letter from his mother three months after her death. Prompted by his surroundings to sort through the idealized memories of his childhood, Matthew reaches the horrifying realization that he has returned to a world which he was never a part of. Contemporary Guyanese reality highlights the white colonialist privilege his family had enjoyed.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Because Why
Overview: After five years of travelling abroad, Alex arrives back in Montreal. All he has with him are a back-pack and a slip of paper with an ex-girlfriend's address scrawled on it.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-12
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Butterbox Babies
Overview: A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny
Overview: This is the epic story of the Battle of Gettysburg presented by the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee and filmed at the massive 140th Gettysburg Battle Reenactment. Additional locations include the White House of the Confederacy, the Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Cashtown Inn. The dramatic story unfolds through both Union and Confederate commanders dispatches, diaries and after-battle reports. The action is nonstop with some of the biggest and most exciting Civil War battle sequences ever filmed. Produced and directed by international award-winning filmmaker Robert Child, with a stirring original soundtrack by composer Nicholas Palmer, Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny is the compelling story of the commanders, decisions and pivotal moments of the battle that turned the tide of the Civil War.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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The Interrogation of Michael Crowe
Overview: When 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe is brutally murdered at her home in her small home town, the authorities foolishly jump to conclusions that her 14-year-old brother Michael must be responsible. They completely ignore strong evidence that suggests another suspect is the one. They work hard to force Michael to falsely confess to what he did not do, in order to avoid tougher investigation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-02
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100 Days In The Jungle
Overview: 100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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Amistad
Overview: In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Genres: Drama History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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The Possession of Michael D.
Overview: When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a demon.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-02
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Sugar
Overview: Cliff receives an unusual 18th birthday gift from his younger sister — marijuana, alcohol, a subway token and the mission to lose his virginity. This results in Cliff meeting a young street hustler named Butch. At first, as Butch introduces Cliff to gay street life in Toronto, Cliff is excited by his new relationship. But as the two grow closer, he finds that Butch has problems, including drug addiction, that are cause for serious concern.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-22
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Like a House on Fire
Overview: Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Diplomatic Immunity
Overview: A female Canadian diplomat goes on a mission to El Salvador to try smooth relations between their government and the people of a small town who risk the loss of their home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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