Gordon Pinsent

An animated reimaging of the largest wildfire evacuation in Alberta's history, with upwards of 88,000 people forced from their homes.

A young woman tracks down an elderly man in order to make amends for the tragedy that devastated his life.

Director Brigitte Berman profiles Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent, who left Newfoundland in the late 1940s to launch a storied, seven-decade career as one of the leading actors and most beloved figures in Canadian film and television.

Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.

A small town journalist's fabricated stories attracts unwanted attention when one of them turns out to be true.

Na década de 1950, o misterioso marinheiro chamado Charles Johnson chega no porto de Grey Rocks, na Nova Escócia, e decide se acomodar na estalagem de Kerstin Hawkins e do seu filho, Jim. Prestativo, Charles oferece ajuda aos dois, mas tem seus próprios motivos para fazer isso, principalmente os ligados ao passado.

Tickel Head é um pequeno povoado na costa canadense cujos habitantes são obrigados a viver de irrisórios subsídios do governo. Um dia, politicos chegam ao local com a proposta de instalar ali uma pequena fábrica. A ideia parece boa, mas a população só irá aceitar com uma condição: é necessário que a cidade tenha pelo menos um médico residente. Percebendo que não vão chegar a lugar algum, contentam-se com a promessa de que um médico ficará na cidade por apenas um mês. Assim o povo se une para tornar aquele o local mais agradável do mundo a fim de seduzir o médico a permanecer ali para sempre.

A disparate variety of couples from all walks of life strive to maintain active sex lives despite the notable distraction of having kids.

It takes two or three generations for the monarch butterfly to reach the Canadian breeding grounds, but it is one "supergeneration" that makes the 2,000 mile return trip back south into central Mexico. The documentary film covers Dr Fred Urquhart's interest in monarch butterflies, with perspectives of Urquhart as a child wondering where the butterflies went, his years of research and study into their life and migration, to his time decades-later as a senior scientist looking back at his investigations and discoveries about the insect's life pattern.

Insecure thirteen year-old Esther Weary is on the brink of puberty and must come to terms with the realities of becoming a woman with her well-meaning grandpa and his pet pug.

Stephen Leacock recounts his growing up period in the small town of Mariposa, Ontario, located on the shores of Lake Wissanotti with its notoriously leaky holiday steamer. It is a town similar to many other small towns in Canada with its odd assortment of residents.

A poignant story of redemption that takes us into the relationship between a man and a woman trapped in a spiral of mutual destruction after 26 years of marriage, the Spine continues Landreth's pursuit of a twisted, beautiful and highly original visual aesthetic, using digital imagery to create characters whose physical appearances are metaphors for their unique souls.

This behind-the-scenes special features cast members musing over public television's beloved "The Red Green Show," the wacky sketch series revolving around the wit and wisdom of outdoors-man, handyman and populist philosopher Red Green (Steve Smith). Backstage anecdotes, rare outtakes and cast commentary shed light on the smart writing and spot-on acting that helped make this unlikely show such a long-running success.

Through several interlocking stories, including the story of maritime commerce and the ships that move cargo through the inland waterway, Mysteries of the Great Lakes will take you on a journey through the greatest lake system in the world, and showcase the amazing geography, ecology, science, and history of the region.

Fiona e Grant estão casados há 50 anos e precisam enfrentar o fato de que a distração constante de Fiona é um sintoma do mal de Alzheimer. Ela precisa ser internada em uma casa de repouso especializada, onde se esquece lentamente de Grant e passa a dedicar seu afeto a outro paciente.

During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater. Teenager Terry Fleming, who lives just outside of Gander, is feeling conflicted. He wants to work in Gander so that he can have access to the plethora of movie stars and GIs flying though the area.

During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater. Teenager Terry Fleming, who lives just outside of Gander, is feeling conflicted. He wants to work in Gander so that he can have access to the plethora of movie stars and GIs flying though the area.

During World War II, the usually sleepy town of Gander, Newfoundland is abuzz with activity as the stopover point for many flights between North America and the European Theater. Teenager Terry Fleming, who lives just outside of Gander, is feeling conflicted. He wants to work in Gander so that he can have access to the plethora of movie stars and GIs flying though the area.

The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.

Nos anos 50, garoto de 14 anos enfrenta problemas pela rebeldia no colégio católico e é inscrito no time de corrida como punição. Quando a mãe entra em coma, ele acredita que se conseguir o milagre de vencer a maratona, sua mãe vai se recuperar.

Andrews um prestigiado Padre é encontrado com as mãos sujas de sangue ao lado do corpo de um jovem garoto de programa. Para a polícia o caso é simples e claro: Pe. Andrews é o assassino. Ele insiste que é inocente, mas no entanto se recusa a revelar o assassino pois é impedido pelos votos de silêncio da confissão. Seus superiores enviam Pe. Daniel Clemens para minimizar os danos a imagem de Pe. Andrew. Mas quando Pe. Andrew é encontrado morto e Daniel decide a qualquer custo limpar o nome do colega morto - mesmo que para isso ele próprio se torne o alvo do assassino.

The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew, an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave, a loser who works in an office where he is treated with contempt. Just when it seems things can't get any worse for the two, the entire world outside of their house disappears and is replaced with an endless white void.

'Hemingway vs. Callaghan' is based on the true story of the friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Morley Callaghan in Toronto and Paris between 1923 and 1929.

When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.

When American citizens were stranded in Canada on 9/11, their northern neighbors opened their doors.

Um jornalista volta com a filha à sua cidadezinha natal depois de viver uma experiência traumática no casamento, descobre segredos da sua família e se envolve com uma mãe solteira que também tem o próprio segredo a guardar.

After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.

Sem conseguir fisgar um peixe há quase três meses, o velho Santiago resolve enfrentar o alto-mar sozinho para provar aos outros e a si mesmo que ainda é um bom pescador. Quando se depara com um marlim gigante, ele vê sua má sorte mudar, imergindo numa jornada de lutas e sonhos para pescá-lo.

Prepare-se para se divertir valer em uma super aventura com Pippi Meia-longa. Você nunca conheceu uma garotinha tão levada como ela. Pippi Meia-Longa adora usar seus super poderes para pregar peças no pessoal da vila. Por isso, a rabugenta Sra. Prysselius resolveu colocar um fim nas brincadeiras de Pippi. Nossa amiguinha precisará contar com todos os seus poderes, além de uma ajuda muito especial. Inspirada no famoso livro de Astrid Lindgren, sua família se encantará com Pippi Meia-Longa e toda a alegria e músicas desta inesquecível aventura.

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.

A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.

Rachel is the daughter of a wealthy media tycoon. Her husband dies in a car crash. Years later she meets Eric a photographer for New Woman magazine. They fall in love and quickly marry. On honeymoon in a remote cottage we discover that Eric's plan all along has been to get some of her father's money and sets in motion a faked kidnap of himself and Rachel. Rachel is unaware of his plan but begins to suspect something due to his suspicious behaviour. As her father hires a investigator to catch the kidnappers, Rachel begins to fear for her safety as Eric's plan becomes clearer.

The movie that the TV series was spun off from. When a legendary Canadian Mountie is murdered, his son (and fellow RCMP) Constable Benton Fraser follows the trail of his killers to Chicago, where he teams up with a local cop to bring them to justice. However, he soon finds that the trail leads closer to home than he ever imagined.

A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.

An overworked woman encounters a pair of armed robbers on the subway home. When one of them is killed, apparently as he divulges the location of some stashed money to her- police place her in protective custody, only she is uncertain what the man told her prior to being shot as she was wearing a pair of headphone as the time. She meets up with a disgruntled cop (Richard Dean Anderson) who decides to join her in searching for the money. A strange twist makes their hunt possible.

A Scottish girl is being adopted by the judge who has condemned all the members of her family to death. But as she remembers all of this she commits a lot of atrocities.

Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious rhinoceroses that have come to raid it.

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.

Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he proclaimed him a communist in print.

Based on fact, this is the story of a notorious Canadian bank-robbery gang.

Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Canadian wilderness.

A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution.

Devil at Your Heels, traces the trials of stuntman Ken Carter who attempts a death defying aerial jump in a car. Not content with a normal jump, Ken Carter attempts a jump from Canada to the USA.

This movie chronicles Jack London's epic journey from San Francisco to the Klondike gold fields in 1898.

An unsuccessful middle-aged college professor commits suicide, leaving his wife to cope with guilt, shame, and an angry teenage son who blames her for his father's death.

The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonald, and who tries to catch gophers with his friends, Artie and Forbsie. His best friend and protector is slightly older Jonathan Ben, better known as The Young Ben (as his father is referred to as The Ben), who is highly regarded as a problem by those in town who see themselves as the moral authority if only because of The Young Ben's association to The Ben, the town still keeper and drunk. Brian's life takes a turn when his parents have to leave town temporarily, while Brian stays on his Uncle Sean's farm. That stint leads to a series of events which make Brian see life around him through slightly older and wiser eyes.

This short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself guides viewers through a step-by-step explanation of the etching process. Scenes of his hometown, examples of his own work and vivid tales of an old mariner recall the tragic seal hunts and a way of life that has now vanished.

A promotional video produced by the Alberta government in 1975, "The time of the tar sands", featuring Gordon Pinsent. credit: Archives of Alberta.

A TV news cameraman's appetite for fine wine, fast cars and beautiful women draws him into the grip of a heroin smuggler.

The sponsors of a drug-rehabilitation center stage a robbery to maintain funding of the facility, but the loot turns out to be syndicate-owned.

Um detetive honesto é acusado de corrupção.

A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

An 18th century African prince is turned into a vampire while visiting Transylvania. Two centuries later, he rises from his coffin attacking various residents of Los Angeles and meets Tina, a woman who he believes is the reincarnation of his deceased wife.

Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, womanizing and drinking and rejecting responsibility because he sees no reason to take life seriously. Surprisingly enough, despite his devil-may-care attitude, he has several important people in his life. He maintains a special relationship with Stan, an old mentor who lives in a nursing home, and Ruth, the only woman he truly cares about. Andrew is his best friend but grows tired of Will's antics, and he is soon to be married and moving on. Will constantly has something up his sleeve but his pranks inevitably bring pain and tragedy to those closest to him, forcing him to reevaluate his life and make some difficult decisions. (IMDb)

Will Cole is a charismatic 35 year old paper mill laborer who seems to celebrate a life of bad choices. He lives and behaves as if he was still 18, womanizing and drinking and rejecting responsibility because he sees no reason to take life seriously. Surprisingly enough, despite his devil-may-care attitude, he has several important people in his life. He maintains a special relationship with Stan, an old mentor who lives in a nursing home, and Ruth, the only woman he truly cares about. Andrew is his best friend but grows tired of Will's antics, and he is soon to be married and moving on. Will constantly has something up his sleeve but his pranks inevitably bring pain and tragedy to those closest to him, forcing him to reevaluate his life and make some difficult decisions. (IMDb)

Em um retrocesso deliberado para 1940 filmes noir , um ex-detetive particular a partir desse período, Chandler, ocupa seu antigo trabalho de novo, e encontra-se constantemente dirigindo carros velhos. Ele é ostensivamente contratado pelo governo para proteger uma testemunha, Katherine Creighton, de um líder do submundo do crime, John Melchior, que quer matá-la. Mas Chandler é na verdade trabalhando para um agente do governo corrupto, Ross J. Carmady, que está usando-o como um joguete para que Carmady pode assassinar Melchior e colocar seu próprio agente duplo na parte superior da raquete.

Forbin é o projetista de um computador incrivelmente sofisticado que executará todas as defesas nucleares dos EUA. Pouco depois de ser ligado, ele detecta a existência de Guardian, a contraparte soviética, anteriormente desconhecido pelos estrategistas dos EUA. Ambos os computadores insistem em que eles estejam ligados, e depois de implantarem salvaguardas para preservar material confidencial, cada lado concorda em permitir que sejam ligados. Assim que o link for estabelecido, os dois se tornam um novo Super Computador e ameaçam o mundo com o lançamento imediato de armas nucleares se forem desligados. Colossus começa a criar seus planos para a gestão do mundo sob sua orientação. Forbin e os outros cientistas formam uma resistência tecnológica ao Colossus, e devem operar escondidos. Na era de Colossus a paz é obrigatória, a liberdade é proibida, e a maior invenção do homem pode ser o maior erro do homem.

A family of doctors that runs a medical clinic finds itself up against a sudden cholera epidemic and other difficulties like a movie star who refuses to cooperate with her treatment.

McQueen é o personagem título, Crown, um milionário mas também especialista ladrão de bancos. Num de seus assaltos leva três milhões de dólares. Até que é apanhado de surpresa quando uma agente de seguros (Dunaway) aproxima-se dele, simulando um romance, para tentar reaver o dinheiro. O final guarda surpresas.

A portrait of Newfoundland that records a way of life that has all but disappeared.