Released Date:
1993-09-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, China, France
Runtime:
115 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (268 Reviews)
Director:
Phillip BorsosTed Allan (novel)
Ted Allan (screenplay)
Bethune has long been a hero in China. Perhaps for reasons of politics and personality, however, his fame in North America lagged far behind. The film explores the complexity of a character who could be narcissistic, petty, and cruel with those who loved him, yet capable of heroic generosity and creativity for those whom he scarcely knew. It was a Canada-China-France co-production, which by the time of its release had become the most expensive movie ever made in Canada. The production had been dogged by controversy over funding, politics, location, revenue, and a dispute over the script between the author, who had been with Bethune in Spain, and the leading actor who had already played Bethune in other venues. Some scenes are tinged with humor and Bethune's speeches about universal access to humane medicine have an uncanny appeal more than half a century later. With its beautiful backdrop of Chinese landscapes, Montreal snow, and 1930s nostalgia, the film is an evocative memorial to a fascinating figure in surgery's past. Medical students love it. Director Philip Borsos Leading Actors Anouk Aimee, Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland Studio Telefilm Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, FR3 TV France, China Film Co-production Year 1990 Color/BW Color Running Time 116 minutes
Released Date:
1993-11-26
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland
Runtime:
98 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (2928 Reviews)
Director:
Franèois GirardFranèois Girard (screenplay)
Don McKellar (screenplay)
Glenn Gould (additional material)
As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations', the recording that Gould made famous), each giving us an insight into some aspect of Gould's life and career. Out of respect for the music lead actor Colm Feore is never seen playing the piano, merely reacting to Gould's own recordings, which are extensively featured
Released Date:
1998-05-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
240 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.9 (1858 Reviews)
Director:
Stuart GillardPeter Benchley (based on the novel by)
Rockne S. O'Bannon (teleplay)
An amphibious shark-like monster terrorizes an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the island it is located on. A marine biologist, as well as several other people, try to stop it before it is too late...
Released Date:
2001-09-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(5463 Reviews)
Director:
Kasi LemmonsGeorge Dawes Green (novel)
George Dawes Green (screenplay)
Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He's also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. On Valentine's Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. The police determine it's the accidental death of someone behaving bizarrely, but Romulus believes a friend of the dead youth who says that noted avant-garde photographer, David Leppenraub, murdered him. Romulus, urged on by hallucinations of his wife as a young woman, resolves to catch the killer and manages to be invited to Leppenraub's farm to play a new composition. Can Romulus hold it together long enough to get to the bottom of the death and also to make a breakthrough with his daughter?
Released Date:
2004-06-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (172942 Reviews)
Director:
David TwohyJim Wheat (characters)
Ken Wheat (characters)
David Twohy
Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. Colm Feore plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. Judi Dench is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.
Released Date:
2004-02-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (7076 Reviews)
Director:
Robert HarmonSince the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down '68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging '72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown.
Released Date:
2008-11-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
TV-14
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (19125 Reviews)
Director:
Jon CassarJoel Surnow (creator)
Robert Cochran (creator)
Howard Gordon
Set 18 months where Season 6 of '24' left off, former government agent Jack Bauer is in a self-imposed exile in the fictitious African country of Sangala where he hopes to escape from a U.S. investigation of him for his past methods, and to run from his past. Bauer works at a mission school for orphaned children run by his friend Carl Benton. The country is at the mercy of a rogue warlord general named Juma who is plotting a coup to overthrow the government and his right-hand man Colonel Dubaku, is abducting orphan boys and forcibly recruiting them into Juma's army. Bauer and Benton must work together to save the dozen or so boys and try to get them out of the country before Juma takes over. Meanwhile in Washington D.C., it is Inauguration Day where the outgoing President Noah Daniels is handing over the presidency to the first female president Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones). Hearing about the coup, Daniels wants to evacuate the country before it falls to the rogue general, while Taylor thinks otherwise. Elsewhere, Taylor's son Roger and his fiancèe Samantha get wind of information from a friend about suspicious money transactions where he works at a local brokerage firm. But neither he or Roger are aware that a corrupt corporate mogul, Jonas Hodges, is plotting with General Juma to overthrow the government for monetary purposes and will do anything to keep his nefarious plans under wraps.
Released Date:
2008-07-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
4.5 (3915 Reviews)
Director:
Stuart GillardRandall M. Badat (teleplay)
Rob Kerchner (story)
Randall M. Badat (story)
Lawrence Lasker (characters)
Walter F. Parkes (characters)
The United State's Department of Homeland Security is led to believe an American teen hacker playing a terrorist-attack simulator game online is a real terrorist out to destroy the U.S.
Released Date:
2008-11-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
TV-14
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (19505 Reviews)
Director:
Jon CassarJoel Surnow (creator)
Robert Cochran (creator)
Howard Gordon
Set 18 months where Season 6 of '24' left off, former government agent Jack Bauer is in a self-imposed exile in the fictitious African country of Sangala where he hopes to escape from a U.S. investigation of him for his past methods, and to run from his past. Bauer works at a mission school for orphaned children run by his friend Carl Benton. The country is at the mercy of a rogue warlord general named Juma who is plotting a coup to overthrow the government and his right-hand man Colonel Dubaku, is abducting orphan boys and forcibly recruiting them into Juma's army. Bauer and Benton must work together to save the dozen or so boys and try to get them out of the country before Juma takes over. Meanwhile in Washington D.C., it is Inauguration Day where the outgoing President Noah Daniels is handing over the presidency to the first female president Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones). Hearing about the coup, Daniels wants to evacuate the country before it falls to the rogue general, while Taylor thinks otherwise. Elsewhere, Taylor's son Roger and his fiancèe Samantha get wind of information from a friend about suspicious money transactions where he works at a local brokerage firm. But neither he or Roger are aware that a corrupt corporate mogul, Jonas Hodges, is plotting with General Juma to overthrow the government for monetary purposes and will do anything to keep his nefarious plans under wraps.
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