Shirley Douglas

The life of pop superstar Sarah McLachlan comes alive in this intimate documentary that has McLachlan talking about her fame, her loves, her family and her music. Learn about her relationship with her adoptive parents, when she first discovered her musical talent, and how she came up with the idea for the Lilith Fair music festival. The film also includes performances of hits "Building a Mystery," "Into the Fire" and "I Will Remember You."

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.

Story of the same couple, first in their teenage years and then in their twilight years, paradoxically set in the same time during the backdrop of the Gulf War in the Middle East.

In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.

Viúvo contrata jovem bonita e sedutora como governanta. Os problemas têm início quando ele e seu filho se apaixonam pela mulher, criando um impasse.

Esta é uma agitadíssima aventura para toda a família, com Barney estrelando seu primeiríssimo filme, As Aventuras de Barney. Um passeio à fazenda do vovô vira uma incrível jornada, quando Barney e a turma procuram um ovo mágico que está a ponto de chocar algo muito especial.

A father gives his daughter an unorthodox upbringing on the fringes of the Alaskan underworld in the 1960's and 70's.

Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn't know who she really is, and when her adopted father dies, she begins to search for her biological father.

Para alguns ele era um mago, um milagreiro; para outros era um charlatão, uma fraude. Suas teorias eram revolucionárias, mas ele foi rejeitado por seus contemporâneos e deportado de sua terra natal, Viena. Ele incendiou Paris, se tornou um renegado na medicina, um visionário, um vilão. Franz Anton Mesmer Nasceu em 23 de maio de 1734, em Iznang, aldeia próxima do lago de Constança, filho do casal Franciscus Antonius Mesmer e Maria Ursula Michel, membros de uma grande família católica da Suábia, região que hoje pertence à Alemanha. Mesmer desencarnou em 5 de março de 1815.

A client's claims of incest cause an attorney to remember the traumas she suffered when she was a sexually abused child. Instead of debilitating her, it only motivates the lawyer to fight harder to change California's inadequate child-molestation laws. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

A feminine take on a Cassavetes drama, the film focuses on a group of women who have gathered for a surprise baby shower. However, as the female guests arrive (the household males having adjourned to an afternoon football game), the off-screen mother-to-be goes into premature labour, leaving the bored invitees to sip spiked punch and discuss the dearth of available men until the drunken boys return home, thus setting the stage for male/female confrontations, confessions and clumsy acts of copulation-notably while standing under a shower. An exploration of the contemporary trappings of male/female sexual politics.

Jess, a struggling dancer, is trying out for a part in a musical about Medusa. As she practices, the director notices how much she resembles his former lover, a ballerina who died in a bizarre on-stage accident while performing the exact same dance that Jess is doing. As more unexplainable coincidences surround the production, someone or something must be behind them all. But who? Or what?

Os gêmeos idênticos Beverly e Elliot, brilhantes ginecologistas canadenses, pesquisam a fertilidade feminina em sua clínica particular. A atriz Claire Nivean, que não tem filhos, procura auxílio na famosa Clínica Mantle. Diagnosticada por Beverly como possuidora de um útero tricervical, Claire deve perder a esperança de engravidar. O arrogante Elliot fica fascinado pelo masoquismo da atriz e dorme com ela. Como é costume deles compartilharem as pacientes, encoraja o irmão a tomar seu lugar. Os dois passam a se revezar nas visitas a Claire, mas o tímido Beverly se apaixona pela atriz e, influenciado por ela, começa a usar drogas.

Alison Campbell was sentenced to seven years after trying to smuggle drugs into Canada. This hard-hitting film tells the story of how she survived the prison system,and sacrificed herself to protect her inmates and saved her own sanity.

Robert Ross (Brent Carver) lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena (Anne-Marie MacDonald) who is mentally disabled. He feels compassion for his weak and conventional father. He avoids any confrontation with his mother (Martha Henry), a dominating woman whose despondency at having given birth to a handicapped child has turned to bitterness. Rowena occupies a central position in Robert's existence of daydreams and make-believe. When she dies, Robert clashes openly with his family, and decides to take himself in hand. It's 1914. He enrolls in the Canadian army, and, after training in Alberta and Montreal, he finds himself in England and France. The war becomes another way for him to resolve his conflicts, his dramas, his passions--his wars.

Humbert é um professor europeu que muda para os Estados Unidos e aluga um quarto da viúva Charlotte, com quem acaba de casando. Porém, se apaixona pela filha sedutora de sua esposa, Lolita, de 12 anos, na esperança de tê-la só para si.