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Alar Kivilo (born 17 February 1953 in Montréal, Canada) is a Canadian-Estonian cinematographer.
Born
February 17, 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Filmography
34 films, 1 show


Space Oddity
2023 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but finds his plans compromised by his feelings for a woman who brings him down to Earth.


The Broken Hearts Gallery
2020 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and comes up with a lovely, artistic way to help herself and others who have suffered heartbreak.


Nappily Ever After
2018 · 1h 40m
country: United States
After an accident at the hair salon, Violet realizes she's not living life to the fullest. A soulful barber helps her put the pieces back together.


The Wedding Singer's Daughter
2018 · 8m
country: United States
It's nighttime in 1980s Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Glittery and glamorous heels climb out of cars. Women shrouded in traditional black abayas make their way into a wedding hall. There, they reveal what's underneath: dazzling dresses and wild hair. Their true selves set free, unseen by male gaze. There are strict segregation rules in Saudi weddings. All eyes and ears are on the wedding singer, until the electricity cuts out suddenly. "This is the worst wedding singer ever," guests mutter, condescendingly. Will the young daughter manage to save her mother's dignity?


The Land of Steady Habits
2018 · 1h 38m
country: United States
After leaving his wife and his job to find happiness, Anders begins a clumsy, heartbreaking quest to reassemble the pieces of his fractured life.


Story of a Girl
2017 · 1h 29m
country: United States
When a compromising video of sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert hits social media, her teenage life is changed forever. Overcoming bullies, hurtful school-yard taunts and the enduring rage and disappointment of her father, Deanna longs to escape a life defined by her past.


Fallen
2016 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Lucinda Price is sent to a reform academy under the assumption that she has killed a boy. There, she meets two mysterious boys, Cam and Daniel, to whom she feels drawn to both. But as the love triangle unfurls, it is Daniel that Luce cannot keep herself away from, and things begin to take a darker turn when she finds out his true identity.


The Choice
2016 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.


The Lucky One
2012 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.


Bad Teacher
2011 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to her job to make enough money for a boob job after her rich fiancé dumps her.


The Blind Side
2009 · 2h 9m
country: United States
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.


Taking Chance
2009 · 1h 17m
country: United States
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.


Year One
2009 · 1h 37m
country: United States
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.


The Lookout
2007 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.


The Lake House
2006 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for years. He replies and soon discovers that he's corresponding with a doctor named Kate Forster. Their correspondence, only through the 'magical' mailbox, turns romantic and their paths cross in unexpected ways, but when they try to truly connect, danger looms. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.


The Ice Harvest
2005 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.


Normal
2003 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.


Hart's War
2002 · 2h 5m
country: United States
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.


The Glass House
2001 · 1h 47m
country: United States
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.


Frequency
2000 · 1h 58m
country: United States
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.


Deep in My Heart
1999 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A black woman is reunited with her white birth mother after being given up for adoption.


A Simple Plan
1998 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.


Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996 · 2h
country: United States
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.


Gotti
1996 · 1h 57m
country: United States
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.


Friends at Last
1995 · 1h 31m
country: Canada
Some time after her messy divorce, Fanny Connelyn realises her ex-husband is becoming her best friend.


Young at Heart
1995 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
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.


Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
1995 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.


Avalanche
1994 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
Duncan is a murderous thief. When he jumps out of his plane, it crashes into the Rockies and produces an avalanche. A quiet family trapped inside their house will rescue him. They will have to survive the disaster and the madman.


Heads
1994 · 1h 30m
country: Canada
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.


Vincent Price's Dracula
1986 · 52m
country: United States
Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.


984: Prisoner of the Future
1982 · 1h 16m
country: Canada
A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.