
Saul Rubinek
Saul Rubinek is a German-born Canadian actor, director, producer, and playwright. He is widely known for his television roles, notably Artie Nielsen on Warehouse 13, Donny Douglas on Frasier, Lon Cohen on A Nero Wolfe Mystery, and Louis B. Mayer on The Last Tycoon. He also starred in the films Against All Odds (1984), Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Unforgiven (1992), Nixon (1995), True Romance (1993), The Express (2008), Barney's Version (2010), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018).
Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Germany, in 1948. His parents were Polish Jews who had been hidden by Polish farmers during World War II. They immigrated to Canada after the war.
Rubinek began his acting career in theater, appearing in several productions with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Passe Muraille. He made his television debut in 1977, with a guest appearance on the series Baretta.
In 1984, Rubinek starred in the film Against All Odds. He followed that up with roles in the films Wall Street (1987), The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), and Unforgiven (1992).
In 1995, Rubinek starred in the film Nixon. He received critical acclaim for his performance, and he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
In 1998, Rubinek directed his first feature film, Jerry and Tom. The film was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
From 2009 to 2014, Rubinek starred as Artie Nielsen on the Syfy series Warehouse 13. The series was a critical and commercial success, and it ran for five seasons.
In 2013, Rubinek starred as Louis B. Mayer on the Amazon Prime series The Last Tycoon. The series was based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Rubinek is a five-time Genie Award nominee, winning Best Supporting Actor for Ticket to Heaven (1981). He is also a two-time Gemini Award nominee.
Rubinek is married to Elinor Reid, a playwright and producer. They have two children.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.286 |
Birthday | 1948-07-02 |
Place of Birth | Wolfratshausen, Germany |
Also Known As | Saul Hersh Rubinek, Сол Рубинек, |

1992

Unforgiven
7.9/4477
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one las...
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Unforgiven

1993

True Romance
7.545/2766
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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True Romance

2007

War
6.4/1884
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up ye...
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War

1994

I Love Trouble
5.5/215
Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy.
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I Love Trouble

2000

The Family Man
6.8/2002
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning...
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The Family Man

1984

Against All Odds
5.711/216
She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love he...
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Against All Odds

2006

Jesse Stone: Night Passage
6.9/113
A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recr...
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage

2002

The Brady Bunch in the White House
4/44
Mike Brady becomes the President of the United States and names Carol as his V.P.!
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The Brady Bunch in the White House

2008

Julia
6.716/116
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
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Julia

2023

Clock
5.592/223
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
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Clock

2007

A Broken Life
3.3/3
Max Walker is a suicidal man who selects an aspiring young filmmaker to record the end of his life. On the agenda for his last day on Earth: telling o...
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A Broken Life

1980

Death Ship
5.176/142
Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is...
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Death Ship

2005

Santa's Slay
5.43/243
Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an angel, so he became the giver of toys and happiness. But this year the bet is off, and Santa is...
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Santa's Slay

1990

The Bonfire of the Vanities
5.6/483
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and...
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The Bonfire of the Vanities

1986

Half a Lifetime
0/0
A regular night of poker among four friends turns into a night full of conflict, recriminations and self-reflection.
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Grierson and Gouzenko
0/0
This rarely-screened teleplay written by Rick Salutin offers a dramatic glimpse into Canada’s Red Scare that pre-dated the rise of McCarthyism in the...
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Grierson and Gouzenko

1994

Death Wish V: The Face of Death
5.5/283
Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death

2004

Baadasssss!
6.5/50
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playin...
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Baadasssss!

1994

Getting Even with Dad
5.3/199
Ray, an ex-con and widower, is planning a coin heist with two accomplices to help him to buy his own bakery. However, he doesn't expect his son Timmy,...
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Getting Even with Dad

2021

I Am Normal
6/1
A sane woman fakes the symptoms of a mentally unstable patient to be admitted into a mental institution for a secret psychiatric experiment.
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I Am Normal

2010

Kill Me Please
6.6/42
Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, c...
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Kill Me Please

1999

Dick
5.9/268
Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nix...
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Dick

2010

The Trotsky
6.7/108
Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th...
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The Trotsky

1982

Young Doctors in Love
5.2/59
An 'Airplane!'-style spoof of hospital soap operas—a brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood; a doctor romances the head nurse in order...
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Young Doctors in Love

1986

Sweet Liberty
5.556/36
Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival...
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Sweet Liberty

1978

Seer Was Here
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Made for the landmark anthology series, For the Record, Seer Was Here is an example of the bold dramatic programming made at the CBC in the mid-70s, w...
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Seer Was Here

1979

The Wordsmith
0/0
Penned by Mordecai Richler and set in wartime Montreal, this touching telefilm stars Saul Rubinek as Mervyn Kaplansky, a young writer from Toronto who...
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The Wordsmith

2003

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
6.966/88
In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing gu...
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And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

2004

Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss
4.5/12
The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute f...
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Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss

2001

Laughter on the 23rd Floor
5.8/4
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Pri...
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor

2011

Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
6.5/72
Jesse investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the police force deals with the arrogant new police chief who is the son-in-law of a t...
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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost

2000

Lakeboat
5.1/10
A college student befriends various crew members while working a summer internship at sea.
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Lakeboat

2012

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
6.8/76
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze...
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

1996

Past Perfect
4.409/11
In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dealers to justice. He manages to capture one, but he...
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Past Perfect

1982

Soup for One
5.4/8
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.
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Soup for One

1985

Martin's Day
6.2/9
Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good littl...
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Martin's Day

1980

Agency
6.3/9
A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all...
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Agency

2002

Gleason
5.7/8
The story begins at the height of Gleason's career. He has it all: women, wealth, and extraordinary power. But he is haunted by memories of his childh...
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Gleason

1995

Memory Run
5.2/5
The year is 2015, and big brother is everywhere. The search for immortality is over. Science has finally achieved the impossible, undermining the most...
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Memory Run

1997

Hostile Intent
5.5/4
Paint-ball playing computer geeks who invent a computer chip which can keep the government or any agency from gaining access to computer files are tar...
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Hostile Intent

1980

Nothing Personal
5.8/10
Environmentally concerned lawyer Abigail Adams works with Professor Roger Keller in his effort to protect baby seals from slaughter.
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Nothing Personal

1991

The Quarrel
5.5/2
Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he's asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits i...
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The Quarrel

1987

Wall Street
7.166/2074
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthles...
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Wall Street

2023

BlackBerry
7.132/608
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to b...
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BlackBerry

2004

White Coats
5/48
Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with the pressures of school and love.
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White Coats

1982

Highpoint
4.8/6
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets ca...
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Highpoint

2000

The Contender
6.7/243
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. W...
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The Contender

1999

36 Hours to Die
4.3/10
Treat Williams stars in this drama as the owner of a brewing company who refuses to knuckle under when gangsters make threats against him, his busines...
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36 Hours to Die

1982

By Design
4.8/4
Angie and Helen are in love. They live and work together designing women's evening wear in Vancouver. When Helen decides she wants to have a baby, the...
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By Design

1981

Ticket to Heaven
7.2/10
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of...
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Ticket to Heaven

2023

SHTTL
7/7
June 1941. Preparations for the wedding of a butcher’s son and a rabbi’s daughter are in full swing in a Jewish shtetl in the Lviv Region. The intrigu...
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SHTTL

1997

Pale Saints
2/1
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 mo...
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Pale Saints

1995

The Android Affair
5/7
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his m...
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The Android Affair

1988

The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
5.5/6
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing fami...
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The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick

2003

The Singing Detective
5.1/127
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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The Singing Detective

2010

Knucklehead
5.65/60
A fight promoter deeply in debt to his crooked rival and desperate for a new fighter catches a break when a 450 pound church handyman who has spent hi...
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Knucklehead

2014

A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con
0/0
This fast-paced Documentary was filmed inside America's biggest Comics/Film Convention and includes informative and humorous interviews with Levar Bur...
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A Star Is Drawn: Rob Simone's Look Inside Comic-Con

1993

Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
6/1
The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.
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Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story


Redefining the Outsider: Saul Rubinek in Early Canadian Television
0/0
TJFF pays tribute to the beloved and influential actor/writer/director. In addition to the special in-person event, An Afternoon with Saul Rubinek, TJ...
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Redefining the Outsider: Saul Rubinek in Early Canadian Television

2019

The Song of Names
6.7/158
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his fi...
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The Song of Names

2007

Jesse Stone: Sea Change
7/100
Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse...
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change

2010

Jesse Stone: No Remorse
6.8/93
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, b...
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Jesse Stone: No Remorse

2004

Hollywood North
5.1/14
The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his...
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Hollywood North

1992

Man Trouble
4.9/59
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
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Man Trouble

2005

Trump Unauthorized
3.5/8
A look at the life of real estate king/media mogul/reality TV star, Donald Trump.
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Trump Unauthorized

2007

Blackout
6.1/8
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of m...
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Blackout

2000

The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
8.1/7
Interrupted at dinner by a street kid with a strange story, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin find themselves drawn into a strange case when their young i...
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The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery

2016

Gridlocked
5.9/167
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked...
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Gridlocked

1998

Bad Manners
5/4
Wes and Nancy are a married academics couple. One day they host Nancy's long-ago lover Matt and his current sexy girlfriend Kim. Matt is a musician an...
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Bad Manners

1996

Toe Tags
0/0
The Valley Creek Apartments seem to be a magnet for rich, beautiful people. But the rent has just gone up and it is costing residents their lives. Det...
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Toe Tags

2000

The Bookfair Murders
6/2
Mystery starring Samantha Bond, Linda Kash, Bernd Michael Lade
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The Bookfair Murders

1995

Nixon
6.9/369
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spa...
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Nixon

2004

Camp Hollywood
0/0
A porn star, a bank robber and a Shakespearean actor are some of the subjects of Camp Hollywood, a feature documentary about the residents of a legend...
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Camp Hollywood

1996

Rainbow
4.2/4
Four kids and a dog embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- the search for the end of the Rainbow. With the aid of computers and an irrepressible bel...
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Rainbow

2006

Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes'
6/2
As NBC's hit sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" proves a long-running hit for a network desperately in need of one, its young stars: Gary Coleman, Todd Bridge...
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Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Diff'rent Strokes'

1988

Liberace: Behind the Music
4.3/3
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17....
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Liberace: Behind the Music

2002

Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story
6/2
A revealing look at the great Quebecois director who gave us such classic films as Mon Oncle Antoine, A toute prendre and Kamouraska: Power of Passion...
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Claude Jutra: An Unfinished Story

1976

Friday Night Adventure
0/0
A young homosexual's encounter with a gay salesman leads the youth to a crucial decision about his own carefully concealed secret.
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Friday Night Adventure

2019

A Magical Journey
3.2/8
11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and wicked cousin. They secretly plan to get rid of the...
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A Magical Journey

1988

Hitting Home
4/3
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...
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Hitting Home

1990

Falling Over Backwards
5.5/2
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women...
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Falling Over Backwards

2010

Barney's Version
7/457
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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Barney's Version

2018

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7.135/4069
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songste...
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

1981

Clown White
0/0
The story of a rebellious deaf child who goes on a class outing to the city, where he runs away.
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Clown White

1979

Sanctuary of Fear
6/1
A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents sh...
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Sanctuary of Fear

2019

The Song of Names
6.7/158
A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his fi...
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The Song of Names

1998

Jerry and Tom
6.1/33
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business,...
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Jerry and Tom

1998

Blackjack
5.3/87
After saving Casey, a daughter of his friend, from hired assassins, Jack Devlin is hit with a strange phobia - fear of white color. But when his other...
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Blackjack

2005

Partner(s)
6.2/7
An enterprising lawyer, acting on a report that a female colleague is up to make partner, plays up the established rumor that he's gay in order to bet...
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Partner(s)

2001

Rush Hour 2
6.743/4176
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the lad...
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Rush Hour 2

2010

Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!
5.2/28
Nelson and Angelo, a gay couple, decide to come out to their parents. However, when they do so, their parents find it difficult to cope with the news
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Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!

1968

Slow Run
0/0
After 14 months of living a Bohemian life in New York City, a young Canadian becomes anxious that he is "settling down." To quell this fear, he impuls...
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Slow Run

1987

Taking Care
0/0
A Canadian nurse (Kate Lynch) investigates hospital-patient deaths for which another nurse (Janet Amos) seems the scapegoat.
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Taking Care

2008

The Express
7.1/270
Follow the inspirational life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
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The Express

1985

The Suicide Murders
0/0
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and...
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The Suicide Murders

1986

Murder Sees the Light
0/0
Private detective Benny Cooperman is hired to keep an eye on a controversial preacher who is in hiding in a picturesque lake resort, but once he gets...
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Murder Sees the Light

1993

Undercover Blues
6/156
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...
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Undercover Blues

1983

The Terry Fox Story
6.1/15
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
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The Terry Fox Story

1987

So Many Miracles
0/0
A documentary that follows Israel and Frania Rubinek on their emotional return journey to Poland to reunite with the woman who saved their lives 40 ye...
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So Many Miracles

1995

Open Season
4.667/3
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
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Open Season

1993

And the Band Played On
6.5/100
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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And the Band Played On

2002

Triggermen
4.9/15
Two British conmen in Chicago are mistaken for hired hitmen by mobsters wanting to rub out a rival gangster. Keen to make a fast buck, they pretend th...
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Triggermen

2004

Coast to Coast
7/4
Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and the...
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Coast to Coast

2001

Bleacher Bums
6.5/5
They're known as the Bleacher Bums, a loud and proud group of fans who watch their team's games from the stadium's cheap seats. Most of them have been...
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