Don McKellar
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-too-distant future, humankind is adapting to its toxic environment via mutation or surgery. Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux) present his mutations as performance artists, while Timlin (Kristen Stewart), a government investigator, tracks their movements. Saul's notoriety incites a mysterious group to unveil the next phase of human evolution.
3) I was a rat
Publisher
Distributed by Feature Films For Families
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"On a dark, rainy night, an elderly couple finds a shivering little boy on their doorstep who proclaims "I was a rat." They take the boy in, but because of his odd rat-like behavior, people in the town declare the boy a monster. To save him, the couple must discover the truth of who he is, before it's too late.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Now ensconced as artistic director of the New Burbage theatre festival, Geoffrey Tennant must stage the cursed play Macbeth to fulfill the vision of his deceased predecessor Oliver Welles. The actor cast in the lead engages in a titanic clash of egos with Geoffrey, while Oliver weighs in confrontationally from the grave. The festival faces a financial crisis that forces its CEO to engage in some risky business, while leading lady Ellen Fanshaw endures...
5) Waydowntown
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Tom, Sandra, Randy and Curt are office co-workers who live in a city's downtown where virtually all the office buildings and malls are connected by a maze of glassed-in bridges. They have all staked a month's salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Geoffrey, the emotionally fragile artistic director to a very dysfunctional Canadian theatre troupe puts on King Lear (casting a storied and ailing actor as Lear), while eager young performers throw themselves into a musical about a junkie prostitute.
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Clean
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Emily Wang is a woman whose past is riddled with drugs and regrets. As a result, her husband, Lee, is found dead in a desolate motel room in Hamilton, Ontario, and landed Emily with a six-month jail sentence. The only thing that she desires for the future is a loving relationship with her son Jay, who is being cared for by Lee's parents, Albrecht and Rosemary. While Rosemary blames Emily for Lee's death, Albrecht recognizes the importance of the bond...
11) Blindness
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
12) Existenz
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
A designer of a virtual reality game is hunted by an assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation.
14) Childstar
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Taylor Burns is the world's most famous child actor, thanks to his work on a popular sitcom. Life is perfect in a sitcom world, but in the real world, his parents are divorcing, and his 13th birthday approaches along with pimples and voice changes.
17) Black spruce
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a young Cree woman in Toronto traumatizes her Northern Ontario family, and sends her twin sister on a journey south to find her.
18) Blindness
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
19) Zoom
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist, and a film director. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.