Atom Egoyan — Director (14)
Where the Truth Lies (2005) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Where the Truth Lies
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Kevin Bacon / Colin Firth
other title: False verità / Den nøgne sandhed
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Chloe (2010) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Chloe
6.2 (5 ratings) director: Atom Egoyan actor: Amanda Seyfried / Julianne Moore
other title: Chloe - Tra seduzione e inganno / O Preço da Traição
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
To Each His Own Cinema (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Chacun son cinema ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumiere s'eteint et que le film commence
director: Theo Angelopoulos / Olivier Assayas actor: Golshifteh Farahani / Taraneh Alidoosti
other title: A ciascuno il suo cinema / Cada um o seu Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
The Captive (2014) [Movie] TMDB
The Captive
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Ryan Reynolds / Scott Speedman
other title: The Captive: Scomparsa / Prisioneira
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
Exotica (1994) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB
Exotica
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Bruce Greenwood / Mia Kirshner
other title: Exótica
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
The Adjuster (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Adjuster
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Elias Koteas / Arsinée Khanjian
other title: Il perito / Trøsteren
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Seven Veils (2023) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB
Seven Veils
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Amanda Seyfried / Douglas Smith
other title: L'ultima danza di Salomè / 七层纱
In the film, Seyfried plays Jeanine, an earnest theater director who’s been given the daunting task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera “Salome.”
Haunted by dark memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after many years.
Calendar (1993) [Movie] TMDB
Calendar
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Arsinée Khanjian / Ashot Adamyan
A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013) [Movie] TMDB
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
director: Júlio Bressane / Antonio Capuano actor: Bernardo Bertolucci / Haile Gerima
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Felicia's Journey (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Felicia's Journey
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Bob Hoskins / Elaine Cassidy
other title: Il viaggio di Felicia / Felicia, mein Engel
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks unsettling secret.
Krapp's Last Tape (2000) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Krapp's Last Tape
director: Atom Egoyan actor: John Hurt
other title: Krapp’s Last Tape / La última cinta
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the 'awful occasion' of his birthday, Krapp was then and is now in the habit of reviewing the past year and 'separating the grain from the husks'. He isolates memories of value, fertility and nourishment to set against creeping death 'when all my dust has settled'.
Family Viewing (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Family Viewing
director: Atom Egoyan actor: David Hemblen / Aidan Tierney
other title: Black Comedy... / La vida en video
An emotionally constrained view of the displacement of human feelings in our video saturated society. Van regularly visits his grandmother in a run-down nursing home. His father depends on phone sex for guidance meanwhile erasing family homevideos of happier times with homemade pornography. Will Van rescue his grandmother and memories of his mother in time?
Speaking Parts (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Speaking Parts
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Michael McManus / Arsinée Khanjian
other title: Guiones cambiados / Traumrollen
Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.