Penelope Buitenhuis
Nascimento : , Toronto, Canada
História
Penelope Buitenhuis is a Canadian director and screenwriter.
Director
While trying to save up for nursing school, Ana takes a remote post as a personal care worker for a wealthy woman with early onset dementia. But as she grows close to her new client, Joan, Ana becomes concerned that Joan's spoiled daughter, Carla, is trying to murder her to get her hands on her inheritance. Ana strikes up a romance with Joan's other adult child, Jason, who assures her Carla doesn't mean any harm, but Ana comes to realize he's deceiving her as well. Can Ana protect Joan, or will she get caught in the crossfire?
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Leah is an accomplished therapist who published a memoir about overcoming an abusive relationship. But she finds she's the subject of new threats...
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A teenage girl visits her mom on death row and gets lured into a dangerous trap to take the fall for her mother's crimes.
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Uma esposa contrata uma caçadora de infiéis para pegar o marido em flagrante e garantir a custódia de sua filha. Mas quando ele e a amante aparecem mortos e a caçadora desaparece, a esposa ressentida torna-se a principal suspeita.
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Quando Sonya Daniels acha a certidão de nascimento de um bebê desconhecido escondido na casa de sua recém-falecida mãe, fica chocada. Qual seria a ligação de sua família com essa criança misteriosa? O que teria acontecido com a menina, desaparecida há mais de duas décadas? Sonya contrata o detetive Brandon Hayes para ajudá-la a desvendar o mistério, mas alguém não quer que a verdade apareça e vai fazer de tudo para parar a investigação. Sonya sabe que o detetive não vai descansar até descobrir a verdade, mas esta pode ser muito mais do que ela pode suportar.
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Debbie sonha em ser uma estrela em Las Vegas, mas um dia desaparece. Aa investigação leva a Jason e a seu atribulado relacionamento.
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Kristen acaba de se casar com Jay, mas seu sonho se torna um pesadelo quando a tia de seu marido é assassinada, e, ao investigar o obscuro passado de Jay, ela se torna sua próxima vítima.
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Quando o cafetão de Brittany mata sua amiga Chelsea, ela retorna anos depois para assumir o resto que sobrou da família de Chelsea. Ela tenta esconder sua identidade, mas a verdade logo começa a aparecer.
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Alto perfil advogado de defesa Melissa Eco está determinada a mudar sua imagem do "advogado para ir para quando você é rico e culpado e quer vencer o sistema." Então, ela assume o caso de caridade de um cliente que é um sem-teto, adolescente de pouca sorte e, acredita ela, inocente de assassinato. Quando Melissa descobre que seu réu pode ser de fato culpado, ela também descobre que ele está seduzido sua filha e está usando-a como uma manobra para salvar a si mesmo.
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Em uma noite de autógrafos, Reggie Howarth encontra Teresa, uma ex-aluna do presídio feminino, que afirma que Reggie roubou sua história para escrever seus livros. Agora, Teresa quer que Reggie lhe devolva sua vida e ameaça destruir a dele.
Writer
A group of family and friends on a camping trip through the Texas badlands are taken on a on-way ride to Hell after they inadvertently witness a ritual sacrifice at a deserted campsite. Pursued by the devil worshiping biker gang responsible, they hole up in an abandoned church near the border, only to discover that they are pawns in a decades-old battle between good and evil.
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A group of family and friends on a camping trip through the Texas badlands are taken on a on-way ride to Hell after they inadvertently witness a ritual sacrifice at a deserted campsite. Pursued by the devil worshiping biker gang responsible, they hole up in an abandoned church near the border, only to discover that they are pawns in a decades-old battle between good and evil.
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Ellie Carter is recently graduated and has it all. While celebrating with friend and boyfriend, she comes across a milk carton with a picture of a missing child that looks a lot like her. As a prank, they call the toll free number and she realizes that this person could be her. The more she finds out, the closer she gets to getting herself and beloved ones killed.
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Two cousins, Jill and Patti, visit a quaint little town on a perfect little island.Patti came to visit a man she had met and brought her cousin Jill to tag along.The two meet some local men and seem to spark relationships with them. Patti seeks to impress the new mystery man she has met. Patti puts all things aside and goes running off with the man she has recently met.Eventually Patti disappears.Jill looks everywhere for her cousin. Strange things start to happen and finding Patti becomes quite challenging with missed phone calls and ferries that have left. Jill seeks for more answers and continues to push to locate her missing cousin. Jill will stop at nothing to uncover where Patti is.Jill starts to uncover the deep dark secrets of this perfect little island. No one has died on this island in centuries and Jill soon discovers why. It is a secret Jill must expose.
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Cassie has no problem falling asleep -- it's staying awake that's the hard part, because she's narcoleptic. Fortunately for Cassie, she works in a lab that has just created a serum to treat this disruptive condition. However, when subjects in the trial for this new drug start dropping dead, she uncovers a conspiracy that sends her on a dangerous pursuit of the truth. Will she fall asleep on the job? Let's hope not -- she's got a lot of bullets (and sleep-deprived hallucinations) to dodge along her road to justice.
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When Anna Malone finds an old music box hidden in a house she is renovating, she has no idea the joys, sorrows, and hidden dangers it will bring.
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After her dad is critically injured in a so-called hunting accident, Maggie returns to her hometown in the mountains of Colorado to be by his side. But during her stay, this devoted daughter learns that the shooting was no mistake. As Maggie attempts to unravel the mystery of what really happened, secrets start to surface that put her life in grave danger! Grab some popcorn and kick back for this thrill ride.
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Trying to prove to her daughter that her nightmares aren't real, widowed mother Kim Shay 'investigates,' unwittingly bringing danger into their lives. Kim follows a trail that not only leads to the killer of a past victim, but also of her own husband.
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Filme que conta o que acontece em uma pequena cidade norte-americana depois que um acidente de caminhão liberta algumas abelhas assassinas. Elas estão soltas por todo o local e começam a fazer suas vitimas. O xerife da cidade percebe o que está acontecendo e tenta evitar, porém ninguém o leva a sério, exceto um especialista em criação de abelhas. Agora, eles devem convencer a população da gravidade da situação, ao mesmo tempo em que tentam descobrir uma forma de acabar com a ameaça e devolver o sossego ao local.
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Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed by an unknown assailant. Though discouraged from doing so by investigating detective Marinello, Nora insists upon trying to solve Bill's murder herself.
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A successful ad agency woman finds herself in a dangerous power struggle, back-dropped by murder, when she begins to uncover the true identity of the two men she is dating.
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Tokyo Girls is a candid journey into the world of four young Canadian women who work as well-paid hostesses in exclusive Japanese nightclubs. Lured by adventure and easy money, these modern-day geisha find themselves caught up in the mizu shobai - the complex "floating water world" of Tokyo clubs and bars. Drawn by fast money, some women become consumed by the lavish lifestyle and forget why they came. One hostess calls it "losing the plot." With a pulsating visual style, Tokyo Girls captures the raw energy of urban Japan and its fascination with the new. Shot in Canada, Osaka and Tokyo, this is a riveting inside look at the impact of the "economy geisha." Desired mainly for her looks, the hostess is rapidly replacing the cultural institution of geisha - women trained in the ancient art of traditional entertainment.
Herself
A political and poetic wondering/wandering about the relevance and context of re-reading Marx 150 years after the publication of The Communist Manifesto
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CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed during a bitter labour dispute.
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A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
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A young Canadian woman who sings in Kreuzberg in a rock band, and her boyfriend, who lives in a politically active flat-sharing community. Due to the new capital situation, demolished buildings suddenly become sought-after buildings. The living and working situation of the musicians and other scene-people deteriorates massively.
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A young Canadian woman who sings in Kreuzberg in a rock band, and her boyfriend, who lives in a politically active flat-sharing community. Due to the new capital situation, demolished buildings suddenly become sought-after buildings. The living and working situation of the musicians and other scene-people deteriorates massively.
