John Friesen

Sprawling tale spanning 50 years in the life of the fictional Linthorne family as seen through the eyes of the rugged head of the clan as he and his wife weather the years of hardship on the prairie after settling on a parcel of untilled Midwestern farmland in 1866 in hopes of living a prosperous life together.

Two small time hoods pretend to be serious henchmen in order to get to do a job in Toronto that they think will get them serious recognition in the mob. Things soon get out of control.

Frank, un ladrón de poca monta, recibe un día el encargo de robar una pintura de Matisse. Frank decide efectuar el robo tres días antes de lo previsto para, antes de entregar el cuadro a su comprador, poder pasar así unas pequeñas vacaciones en un remoto lugar de Nueva Inglaterra junto a su novia, Roz. Mientras, el detective del FBI que conduce la investigación está convencido que el robo es obra de un profesional.

John Wayne Gacy, un perfecto vecino que ayudaba en el barrio y hacia reir a los niños tenia engañado a todo el mundo ocultando su lado macabro, el de un asesino de chicos jóvenes, el de un sádico homosexual y el de un escurridizo psicópata que burlaba una y otra vez la ley.

Después del trágico accidente sufrido por su mujer, un escritor que cae en la adicción a ciertas drogas, empieza a sufrir horribles alucinaciones que lo transportan a un mundo de pesadilla absolutamente kafkiano.

In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.

Ginny Grainger, una joven madre, redescubre la alegría y la belleza de la Navidad, gracias a la fe inquebrantable de su hija de seis años, Abbie y Gideon, el ángel guardián de Ginny.

A Canadian artist turned diamond merchant in Vienna, Austria risks his life to smuggle Jews out of the Third Reich.

In this adaptation of the 1977 sci-fi novel, "The Adolescence of P-1," a high school whiz kid's computer program accidentally hooks into the mainframe computer of a nuclear power plant.

Michael Taylor, played by Michael Sarrazin, is tormented by his sheer lack of memory concerning the night his wife was found brutally killed.

Una ciudad americana de un millón de habitantes despierta de su sueño. Las chimeneas lanzan el humo al aire de la mañana, los trabajadores fichan en la refinería de petróleo Manson, las sillas de madera se preparan frente al escenario donde se va a emitir un programa de televisión. Parece que va a ser un día normal, pero una alarma suena en el parque de bomberos y éstos se dirigen rápidamente hacia Birchwood Avenue.

It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.

A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.