Known for Art
Born
January 1, 1935
Died
January 1, 2025 (age 90)
Filmography
40 films


Laurence Anyways
2012 · 2h 48m
country: Canada
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.


Good Neighbours
2011 · 1h 39m
country: Canada
Neighbors Spencer and Louise have bonded over their fascination with a recent string of murders terrorizing their community. When a new tenant named Victor moves into the building, all three quickly hit it off. However, they soon discover each has his or her own dark secret. As the violence outside mounts, the city retreats indoors for safety. But the more time these three neighbors spend together in their apartment building, the clearer it becomes that what they once thought of as a safe haven is as dangerous as any outside terrors they could imagine.


The Trotsky
2010 · 1h 53m
country: Canada
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.


Adam's Wall
2008 · 1h 34m
country: Canada
As another Middle East crisis explodes, Adam, a Jewish teenager and Yasmine a Lebanese girl fall in love in Montreal. But the crisis overseas effects their relationship in ways they never expected.


Afterwards
2008 · 1h 47m
country: Canada
Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die. Though he doesn't believe the doctor, events in Nathan's life slowly make him think he's not long for this world.


The Covenant
2006 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.


Time Bomb
2006 · 1h 23m
country: Canada
The Department of Homeland Security receives a threat that a bomb has been set to explode during a sports event in Washington, D.C.


A Different Loyalty
2004 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
In January 1963, British journalist Leo Cauffield suddenly disappears from his home in Beirut. His wife Sally knew that he was working part-time for British intelligence, but was not prepared to be told by the British embassy that they suspect he has defected to Communist Russia. As his wife puts together the pieces of the mysterious jigsaw of the past, tracking her passionate relationship with her husband and his history as former head of MI6’s counter-espionage section, her relentless search for the truth takes her to London, New York and finally Moscow.


Femme Fatale
2002 · 1h 54m
country: Switzerland
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.


The Art of War
2000 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist. As an international security expert, he must uncover an international plot in which ruthless terrorists threatened to bring down the United Nations on the eve of an historic summit with China. A mysterious chain of events leads to the murder of the Chinese U.N. Ambassador, and the terrorists frame Neil Shaw, the one man they believe can stop them. Accused of the crime, Shaw goes underground — in effect, vanishing from his own life — as he tries to stop what could become World War III.


Snake Eyes
1998 · 1h 38m
country: United States
All bets are off when shady homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. Determined to solve the crime, he quickly learns that his search for answers will only uncover yet more questions in an ever-widening web of conspiracy, intrigue, and danger.


Affliction
1998 · 1h 54m
country: United States
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.


Everything to Gain
1996 · 1h 27m
country: United States
After losing her husband and two daughters in a robbery, Mallory must face up to her bereavement and ensuing depression.


For Love Alone: The Ivana Trump Story
1996 · 2h
country: Canada
Follows the triumphs and tragedies of Katrinka Kovár, a young Czechoslovakian ski prodigy who discovers high-society splendor in the arms of a wealthy American businessman. When lust turns to lies, Katrinka - long haunted by a burning secret from her past - sets out to find the love she left behind.


Vanished
1995 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
Vanished is the story of the mysterious abduction of the son of a man and woman - an almost unthinkable tragedy.


The Secret
1992 · 2h
country: Canada
Mostly on account of a pride struggle, Mike Dunmore has lived his whole life keeping a secret which he believed would only cause shame if it came to light. Personal relationships with his son Patrick have been strained as a result. The only ones who ever knew anything about it were his deceased wife and his best friend, Thurgood who he works with, who both agreed to help keep it covered up for him as long as they could. However, when his treasured grandson begins experiencing the same problems, Mike realizes that he can't hide his secret any longer, or if he tried to, it would be most difficult. Even more so when he is endorsed and volunteers to run as a candidate for local election.
Perfectly Normal
Perfectly Normal
1991 · 1h 47m
country: Canada
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.


Descending Angel
1990 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murderer.


Dead Man Out
1989 · 1h 27m
country: Canada
A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.


The Revolving Doors
1988 · 1h 41m
country: Canada
A quiet painter, separated from his wife for a year, receives a suitcase in the mail from his mother, whom he hasn't seen since infancy. He believes she abandoned him to his wealthy, paternal grandparents. The suitcase contains mementos and a diary, a long letter to him, written over the years, with details of her youth, her first job as a pianist at a cinema, the coming of talkies, her marriage, and how he came to live with his grandparents. As he reads through the materials and her story comes to life, his son Antoine, who's about 10 or 12, tries to break through his father's silence and sorrow by taking matters into his own hands.


Switching Channels
1988 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.


Unnatural Causes
1986 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a Veterans Administration benefits counselor who teams up with Coleman to fight a lopsided batted against the bureaucratic system for its cover up of the possible dangers of Agent Orange.


Miles to Go…
1986 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
After discovering that her cancer has returned, Moira Browning launches a quiet campaign to find a potential replacement for herself in her family's life.


Joshua Then and Now
1985 · 1h 59m
country: Canada
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.


Of Unknown Origin
1983 · 1h 28m
country: Canada
A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.


Sessions
1983 · 1h 36m
country: United States
High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.


Threshold
1981 · 1h 37m
country: Canada
Celebrated heart surgeon Thomas Vrain supports the research of an offbeat scientist who has invented an artificial heart. Against the advice of the Ethics Committee, Dr. Vrain decides to perform the first artificial heart transplant.


Hot Dogs
1980 · 1h 37m
country: Canada
Mr. Clean is a police detective who heads a special task force of the vice squad. Clean's by-the-book attitude makes him none too popular with his underlings, so they try to fake a sex scandal that will cause him to be fired from the force.


Atlantic City
1980 · 1h 44m
country: Canada
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.


A Man, a Woman and a Bank
1979 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief as he is carrying the bank building's blueprints. The would-be thief then begins a relationship with the photographer and attempts to retrieve the photos. Meanwhile, the thieves' plot consists of this: one man will enter the bank building after dark, while the other man sits in a van and uses a computer to unlock the building's doors. The final step involves transporting the cash to a freight ship waiting on the docks, for transportation to a money launderer in Macau.


Blood Relatives
1978 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.


The Disappearance
1977 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance.


The Far Shore
1976 · 1h 45m
country: Canada
A young woman marries a wealthy man she isn't in love with, but finds romance instead with the couples' painter friend.


The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
1974 · 2h
country: Canada
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.


Alien Thunder
1974 · 1h 29m
country: Canada
Saskatchewan, Canada, late 19th century. The negligence of Dan Candy, sergeant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, allows Almighty Voice, a young Cree warrior, to escape.