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- An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth with his lover when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist that comes with a large payout.
- John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.
- Isolated by his strange parents, Leon finds solace in an imaginary friend, which happens to be an anatomy doll from his father's doctor office. Unfortunately, the doll begins to take over Leon's life, and his sister's life as well.
- The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
- The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
- A bitter love story between a talented writer and a gentle nurse.
- A talking purple dinosaur leads a group of children on a hunt for a large missing egg.
- A Boston defense attorney gets his wealthy client off for murder, then suspects him of killing again.
- In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
- Two Vietnam vets search for the strength to face up to their horrific war experiences, but their friendship begins to splinter when one becomes romantically involved with the other's sister.
- After the death of her mother, a teenage girl is faced with bizarre supernatural occurrences when her mother's estranged sister arrives and begins to infiltrate her and her father's lives.
- A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
- A business man plans to dump toxic waste in a state park, but it doesn't go according to plan.
- On the morning of April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began with the "shot heard 'round the world".
- A group of cute, young women in USSR are trained to be spies in USA, using their bodies to seduce. Elena passes and is sent to Moscow, where she meets a single, American man.
- A scanner discovers a plot by renegade elements in the city government to take power with the help of evil scanners.
- The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as a tough loner, he returns to find the band of backwoods bad-guys who killed his parents and abducted his sister.
- A group of delinquents accidentally shoot a police officer. To avoid arrest, they hide out in an abandoned house, unaware it is haunted.
- A man travels to an island with his girlfriend in search of his relatives, but he finds maybe more than what he wanted to know.
- Five people spend the night in an abandoned house, an Amityville haunted house, and soon find themselves terrorized by assorted ghosts, venomous insects and ghostly apparitions.
- Jack London's classic story from 1903 about Buck, a dog kidnapped from his home in California and taken to the Yukon where he is mistreated until a prospector discovers him and relates to his situation. Although the two are bonded, Buck yearns to run free with the wild dogs in the wilderness.
- Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children. The former head of the orphanage, Peter Lavin, has been married for several years at this point, has two children, and is living in Montreal when he is placed under arrest and brought to stand trial. While he maintains his innocence, the boy he favoured durring those years, Kevin Reevey, as well as many others, are faced with revisiting the abuse and trauma they sustained as children.
- In Canada's North during the 1930s, a young Inuit kills a White trader and is pursued by the police but his father is determined to protect his fugitive son at any cost.
- In a future world where Earth's ozone layer has been completely destroyed, a brilliant but obsessed scientist, Hank Symes uses illegally obtained biological materials for an experiment that he hopes will save the world. In the course of his work, a terrible accident occurs, transforming him into a fantastic otherworldly lifeform and changing his house into a huge living entity which threatens all who enter.
- A ghetto priest has doubts about his calling and when he gives the last rites to a murder victim, he decides to help the man's girlfriend find his killers.
- The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
- Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune (Donald Sutherland) journeys 1,500 miles into China to reach Mao Zedong's eighth route Army in the Wu Tai mountains where he will build hospitals, provide care, and train medics. Flashbacks narrate the earlier events of his life: a bout with tuberculosis at the Trudeau sanatorium; the self-administration of an experimental pneumothorax; the invention of operative instruments; his fascination with Socialism; a journey into medical Russia; and the founding of a mobile plasma-transfusion unit in war-torn Spain. Bethune twice married and twice divorced his wife Frances (Dame Helen Mirren), who chooses abortion over child-rearing in her unstable marriage. By 1939, Bethune had been dismissed from his Montreal Hospital for taking unconventional risks, and from his volunteer position in Spain for his chronic problems of drinking and womanizing. As his friend states: "China was all that was left." Even there, Bethune confidently ignores the advice of Chinese officials until heavy casualties make him realize his mistake and lead him to a spectacular apology.
- A car and lorry collide, the woman in the back seat is probably dead, the driver is severely hurt. In flashbacks we see what led to the tragedy. He is David, a writer living in France, entering his novel anonymously in a contest. She is Annabelle, his lover, a fashion model on the brink of international success. Each keeps a secret from the other. David is a pawn of jealousy. He confronts a wealthy man he thinks is her lover; an accidental tragedy ensues that spirals out of control, resulting in the car crash. While David recovers from injuries, he finds out that another wealthy friend of Annabelle's has claimed the novel as his own. It's time for a final confrontation.
- 4 people eating and talking.
- In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan's old college buddy, Freddie. But before "Freddie" can finger the real hired-gun-a cold-hearted killer with a penchant for using kitchen tools to do the deed-he, Alan, and Beverly must first rule out some strange and unusual suspects!
- 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.
- Patrick O'Reilly is a handsome police officer living in Montreal where he is engaged to a pretty young doctor. Messua has a secret. She has led Patrick to believe she is the daughter of a poor farmer. Little does he know she is the Maharaja's daughter! Messua returns to India to visit her father, the Maharaja of Lahore. Upon her stay, an evil prince asks for her hand in marriage as he sees it as an opportunity to take the throne. When she refuses he kidnaps her, and when her plane back to Canada crashes everyone assumes that she is dead ... everyone except Patrick! Patrick and his friend decide to search for the woman of his dreams in an oriental world full of secrets.
- Ten women, most of them in Vancouver or Toronto, talk about being lesbian in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s: discovering the pulp fiction of the day about women in love, their own first affairs, the pain of breaking up, frequenting gay bars, facing police raids, men's responses, and the etiquette of butch and femme roles. Interspersed among the interviews and archival footage are four dramatized chapters from a pulp novel, "Forbidden Love": Laura leaves her hick town and heads for the city, where she meets Mitch in a bar. Sparks fly, and so do laughter and joy. Ann Bannon, one of the writers of those paperback novels about forbidden love, talks about the genre.
- Toby is a teenager who doesn't care much about school. In fact, he has his eyes on the title of a prestigious dog-sleigh race. He will have to undergo extensive training in order to win it.
- A director of TV commercials learns about astral projection. He has out of body experiences during his sleep and his dad in law and doctor die mysteriously.
- The CIA, KGB and RCMP are after an honest lady banker and her crusading journalist friend after the two come into the possession of a superchip that could start WWIII, if it walls into the wrong hands.
- Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
- Based on Victor Malarek's best-selling autobiography, this is the true story of a streetwise kid who emerges from a violent and unjust background to become one of journalism's top reporters.
- After a plutonium bust, The C.A.T squad traces the smuggling operation to South-African radicals.
- A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children may be in danger because of her insanely jealous new husband.
- Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds Judy, an angel that epitomizes the woman of his dreams at the System Theatre where he is about to open his new show. For Michael it is just another show along the road but once inside something happens. The night is full of possibilities- full of love and romance, jealousy and infidelity, music and dance, even good and evil. Most of all it is full of magic.
- A dark, investigative exploration of the obsessive gambling psyche.
- A school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings fear and violence into the game.
- Alone, unarmed, and blind, a beautiful young woman awakes to a deadly terror. The abandoned country inn where she is spending the night has become a way station for three psychopathic killers.
- After committing 22 armed robberies Paul is caught and sent to prison. He soon get a job as the host of the prison radio. Longing for freedom Paul escapes and get's a job at a local radio station where he becomes "The morning man"
- Follow in the footsteps of Jim Corbett, the famed English hunter-naturalist, as he races to save an Indian village from the terror of a man-eating tiger. Along his journey he expresses his passion for tigers and explores the issues of tiger conservation. The film is also a historical epic depicting India from 1910 to the modern era.
- Amy Donaldson, a successful fashion editor of City Magazine, is married to Carl, an accountant, and they have one young son, Brian. Amy is pregnant and she finds that she tests positive for HIV. The films traces the effect of this on her, her family, and her best friend Suzanne.
- A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
- Tori Spelling stars in this suspense comedy about three college students who find themselves in need of some fast money. With more ambition than experience in criminal enterprise, they decide to kidnap a young woman from a wealthy family. Along the way, they make practically every mistake imaginable, and just when they think they've finally worked the bugs out of their plan and have the girl in their clutches, they discover that they've kidnapped the wrong woman, who proves to be a lot more trouble than they expected. Sean Devine, Danny Strong, and Mark Burgess co-star as the hapless would-be criminals.
- A crime novelist finds herself unwittingly involved in a major conspiracy.