Chuck Shamata

Chuck Shamata

Chuck Shamata's career spans four decades in film, television and theatre. Among his most recent credits are the feature films One Week, The Sentinal, Cinderella Man and War Games 2; the cable movies Tipping Point,The Engagement Ring and Kojak (and the ensuing series). Don Shebib's classic Between Friends - often recognized by critics as one of Canada's all time best - was the film for which Shamata received his first Genie Award nomination, and was presented with a Migliore Attore award by the legendary Vittorio De Sica at the Sorrento Film Festival. His other feature credits include The Spreading Ground with Dennis Hopper, Joshua Then and Now with James Woods, Power Play with Peter O'Toole, The Devil and Max Devlin with Bill Cosby and Night Friend with Art Carney. On the small screen, Shamata was nominated for a Gemini Award for his starring role as a family man facing his homosexuality in the network film The Running Man. Other network movie credits include A Father for Brittany, On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story, the Cable Ace Award-winning Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, Echoes in the Darkness and Between Friends alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett. He played Pierre Salinger in the mini-series Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis and for Showtime Networks he co-starred in the Tony Bill-directed cable feature Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story; as mafia boss Sam Giancana in The Family; The Thin Blue Lie with Rob Morrow; and Escape Clause with Paul Sorvino. On stage, Shamata played Dr. Astrov opposite Peter O'Toole in Uncle Vanya in Toronto and Chicago, Torvald in A Doll's House and leading roles in Doc, Good Woman of Setzuan, To Clothe The Naked, You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy, Battering Ram, My Fat Friend, Chapter Two, The Country Girl and The Indian Wants The Bronx in theaters from Halifax to Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography

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Chuck Shamata Movies

  • 2005
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    Cinderella Man

    Cinderella Man

    7.6 2005 HD

    The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

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  • 1996
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    Escape Clause

    Escape Clause

    4.6 1996 HD

    A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead ...

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  • 1981
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    Scanners

    Scanners

    6.726 1981 HD

    After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue...

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  • 1991
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    Princes In Exile

    Princes In Exile

    5.3 1991 HD

    Diagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that he may not live to see another year. With time...

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  • 1987
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    Nowhere to Hide

    Nowhere to Hide

    6.3 1987 HD

    Marine officer Rob Cutter and his wife Barbara have a son named Johnny. Rob discovers that two newly delivered helicopters in his squadron have...

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  • 1995
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    Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story

    Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story

    5.5 1995 HD

    The story of one of America's first female reporters.

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  • 1994
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    Death Wish V: The Face of Death

    Death Wish V: The Face of Death

    5.532 1994 HD

    Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.

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  • 1976
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    The House by the Lake

    The House by the Lake

    5.9 1976 HD

    Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the...

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  • 1981
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    The Devil and Max Devlin

    The Devil and Max Devlin

    5.8 1981 HD

    When Max dies in an accident, he goes straight to Hell. But the Devil Barney makes him an offer: if he manages to get three innocent youths to sell...

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  • 2004
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    Crimes of Fashion

    Crimes of Fashion

    4.4 2004 HD

    Brooke, a plain but creative and hard-working student at the top fashion school in the nation, who has come a long way from her tough childhood spent...

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  • 1979
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    Stone Cold Dead

    Stone Cold Dead

    6.4 1979 HD

    Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

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  • 1976
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    The Italian Machine

    The Italian Machine

    6 1976 HD

    This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike...

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  • 2008
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    The Two Mr. Kissels

    The Two Mr. Kissels

    5.3 2008 HD

    Drama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs...

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  • 2004
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    Saving Emily

    Saving Emily

    5 2004 HD

    After learning that their young daughter, Emily, is suffering from leukemia, Cheryl and Greg have no choice but to seek out Cheryl's violent...

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  • 2003
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    Behind the Red Door

    Behind the Red Door

    5.7 2003 HD

    Natalie, a gifted New York photographer, has a troubled past reflected in her art. When she struggles to make ends meet in the city, her agent,...

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  • 1977
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    Welcome to Blood City

    Welcome to Blood City

    4.857 1977 HD

    Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what...

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  • 2005
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    The Engagement Ring

    The Engagement Ring

    4.8 2005 HD

    A long-lost engagement ring still divides childhood sweethearts who are now in their golden years. Now, her daughter (Heaton) and his nephew meet and...

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  • 2000
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    The Thin Blue Lie

    The Thin Blue Lie

    6 2000 HD

    Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick...

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  • 1990
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    On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story

    On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story

    1 1990 HD

    The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace.

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  • 1986
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    Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star

    Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star

    4.5 1986 HD

    Three aliens from the planet Taros land on Earth and are befriended by a Wyoming rancher's son.

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  • 2012
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    Still Mine

    Still Mine

    6.8 2012 HD

    Craig, a fiercely determined New Brunswick farmer, sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene, despite their children's...

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  • 1999
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    When Justice Fails

    When Justice Fails

    4.2 1999 HD

    A detective (Jeff Fahey) investigating the murders of two sex offenders gets involved with a beautiful district attorney (Marlee Matlin) who becomes...

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  • 1996
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    Virus

    Virus

    2.7 1996 HD

    A United States Presidential bodyguard risks everything to save the day when a truck chock full of biological weapons contrives to crash in a...

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  • 1998
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    A Father for Brittany

    A Father for Brittany

    6.7 1998 HD

    Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of...

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  • 2007
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    Tipping Point

    Tipping Point

    6.4 2007 HD

    A medical student is desperate to solve a murder to prove that she's not having a psychological breakdown, as her family and friends believe her to...

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  • 1995
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    Sugartime

    Sugartime

    5.9 1995 HD

    Sam Giancana is a ruthless mob boss from Chicago. During a trip to Las Vegas, he sees a performance by the McGuire Sisters, a popular singing group...

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  • 2008
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    Flash of Genius

    Flash of Genius

    6.509 2008 HD

    In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail...

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  • 2006
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    The Sentinel

    The Sentinel

    6 2006 HD

    A secret service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the president. He must clear his name and foil another assassination...

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  • 1978
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    I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

    I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

    4.6 1978 HD

    Successful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his beautiful but manipulative model wife Magdalene (Elke...

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  • 1984
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    Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business

    7 1984 HD

    Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don...

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  • 1999
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    Bonanno: A Godfather's Story

    Bonanno: A Godfather's Story

    3.8 1999 HD

    The true life story of mafia boss Joesph Bonanno. The story spans from Bonanno's early beginings in Italy, to his conquests in America.

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  • 2008
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    One Week

    One Week

    6.8 2008 HD

    Ben Tyler has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he...

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  • 2014
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    Clown

    Clown

    5.779 2014 HD

    A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a...

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  • 1978
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    Power Play

    Power Play

    6.7 1978 HD

    A thriller, released 1st November 1978, based on the non-fiction book Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook by Edward N. Luttwak.

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  • 1985
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    Starcrossed

    Starcrossed

    5.1 1985 HD

    An alien woman is running from a deadly enemy and tries to hide on Earth where she meets a young mechanic, who helps her to get back home and to...

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  • 1985
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    In Like Flynn

    In Like Flynn

    1 1985 HD

    Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they...

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  • 2008
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    WarGames: The Dead Code

    WarGames: The Dead Code

    5.1 2008 HD

    Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know...

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  • 2002
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    Guilty Hearts

    Guilty Hearts

    4.3 2002 HD

    Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the...

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  • 2002
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    Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

    Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

    1 2002 HD

    Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl...

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  • 2000
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    Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

    Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

    1 2000 HD

    Told in flashbacks as Jackie reflects on her life, mini is divided in two parts: Life as a Kennedy and life after Camelot.

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  • 1973
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    Between Friends

    Between Friends

    1 1973 HD

    An ex-con, his daughter and her two friends plan the elaborate heist of a nickel mine in Northern Ontario.

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  • 1985
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    A Time to Live

    A Time to Live

    8.5 1985 HD

    The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.

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  • 1986
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    Mafia Princess

    Mafia Princess

    10 1986 HD

    Looks at the life of mafia boss Salvatore Giancana. Especially his troubled relationship with his family.

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  • 2016
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    Miss Sloane

    Miss Sloane

    7.4 2016 HD

    An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

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  • 1983
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    Between Friends

    Between Friends

    6 1983 HD

    Two middle-aged women with nothing in common meet by accident and develop a close friendship while continuing to deal with their own lives.

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  • 1979
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    Running

    Running

    6.8 1979 HD

    An Olympic hopeful marathon runner hopes his success will be the answer to his marriage woes and other personal problems.

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  • 1986
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    Act of Vengeance

    Act of Vengeance

    5.906 1986 HD

    In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

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  • 2001
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    Snap Decision

    Snap Decision

    6.1 2001 HD

    Inspired by a true story, a young widowed mother finds herself on trial for child pornography and abuse after allowing her best friend to photograph...

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  • 2015
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    Gone Tomorrow

    Gone Tomorrow

    6.4 2015 HD

    Five years after taking the fall for his younger brother, a tormented ex-con flees parole to find his kidnapped baby niece. One step ahead of the...

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  • 2005
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    The Perfect Neighbor

    The Perfect Neighbor

    5.9 2005 HD

    A disturbed new neighbor fixates on another woman's husband.

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  • 2000
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    Spreading Ground

    Spreading Ground

    3.5 2000 HD

    Veteran Detective Ed Delopre and partner Mike McGivern have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five...

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  • 2009
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    Break a Leg

    Break a Leg

    2 2009 HD

    A hit-man meets his mark for breakfast to discuss his assassination.

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  • 1988
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    Night Friend

    Night Friend

    2 1988 HD

    A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.

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  • 1990
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    Uncut Gem

    Uncut Gem

    1 1990 HD

    A robber falls for the girl his gang kidnaps during a jewelry store robbery.

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  • 2019
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    Breakthrough

    Breakthrough

    7.629 2019 HD

    Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being...

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  • 2003
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    DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

    DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

    7.1 2003 HD

    This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the...

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  • 1985
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    The Suicide Murders

    The Suicide Murders

    1 1985 HD

    The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses...

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  • 1985
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    Joshua Then and Now

    Joshua Then and Now

    5.25 1985 HD

    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...

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  • 2020
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    A Simple Fucking Gesture

    A Simple Fucking Gesture

    6.667 2020 HD

    A couple in traffic doesn’t get the “thank you” wave they deserve after another driver cuts in. According to its director,...

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  • 1999
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    Alegría: An Enchanting Fable

    Alegría: An Enchanting Fable

    6.8 1999 HD

    Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with...

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  • 1981
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    The Running Man

    The Running Man

    5 1981 HD

    A middle-aged family man and high school teacher struggles in silence as he accepts the fact that he is gay.

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  • 1993
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    Family of Strangers

    Family of Strangers

    5.8 1993 HD

    Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted...

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  • 1983
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    The Terry Fox Story

    The Terry Fox Story

    6.1 1983 HD

    The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.

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  • 1996
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    FX: The Series

    FX: The Series

    6.2 1996 HD

    Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and...

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  • 1998
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    Highlander: The Raven

    Highlander: The Raven

    5.1 1998 HD

    Highlander: The Raven was a short-lived spin-off from the television series Highlander, continuing the saga of a female Immortal. The series followed...

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  • 1997
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    La Femme Nikita

    La Femme Nikita

    7.4 1997 HD

    La Femme Nikita was a Canadian action/drama television series based on the French film Nikita by Luc Besson. The series was co-produced by Jay...

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  • 1976
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    Teleplay

    Teleplay

    7 1976 HD

    Premiering in 1976, Teleplay was a Canadian anthology series designed to spotlight emerging writing talent. The show presented a diverse range of...

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  • 1999
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    Twice in a Lifetime

    Twice in a Lifetime

    5.5 1999 HD

    Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.

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  • 1975
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    Sidestreet

    Sidestreet

    5 1975 HD

    Sidestreet was a Canadian television drama, which aired Sundays on CBC from 1975 to 1978. It starred Sean McCann and Donnelly Rhodes as police...

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  • 1977
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    For The Record

    For The Record

    1 1977 HD

    For The Record, a series of one-hour and ninety-minute film dramas, started on the series, Performance, as a subseries called Camera ’76. Aired...

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  • 1988
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    War of the Worlds

    War of the Worlds

    6.2 1988 HD

    Humanity must resume its war against the Martians when they revive after decades of hibernation following their defeat in the 1950s. The fate of...

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  • 2019
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    Blood & Treasure

    Blood & Treasure

    6.613 2019 HD

    An antiquities expert teams up with an art thief to catch a terrorist who funds his attacks using stolen artifacts.

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  • 2005
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    Kojak

    Kojak

    4.4 2005 HD

    Kojak is an American television series starring Ving Rhames, airing on the USA Network cable channel, and on ITV4 in the United Kingdom. It was a...

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  • 2010
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    Republic of Doyle

    Republic of Doyle

    7 2010 HD

    Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the...

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  • 1987
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    Echoes in the Darkness

    Echoes in the Darkness

    1 1987 HD

    This mini-series is a critically acclaimed drama of psychological intrigue, conspiracy and murder. It began in 1979 with the grisly discovery of...

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  • 2009
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    The Listener

    The Listener

    6.9 2009 HD

    Toby Logan is a highly skilled paramedic with a secret – he can read minds. Toby never really knew his parents and grew up in foster care, this...

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  • 2004
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    ReGenesis

    ReGenesis

    7.4 2004 HD

    ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which...

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  • 2004
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    This Is Wonderland

    This Is Wonderland

    9 2004 HD

    Alice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the...

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  • 1985
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    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.3 1985 HD

    The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The...

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