Sarah Polley — Actor (21)
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Jerry and Tom (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jerry and Tom
director: Saul Rubinek actor: Joe Mantegna / Sam Rockwell …
other title: Jerry & Tom / Jerry & Tom - Killer unter sich …
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, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
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Guinevere (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Guinevere
director: Audrey Wells actor: Sarah Polley / Stephen Rea …
other title: Das Mädchen und der Fotograf / Une histoire d'initiation - Guinevere
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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Confidential (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Confidential
director: Bruce Pittman actor: Tom Butler / August Schellenberg …
The year is 1949 and reporter Hugh Jameson is looking for a story. He focuses on Emma Porter, a woman who was accused of the axe murder of her father thirty seven years earlier. Jameson disappears during his search and his wife hires Charles Ripley P.I. to find him. Ripley's search leads him to Emma's son who has his own nasty secrets to protect.
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Don't Come Knocking (2005) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Don't Come Knocking
director: Wim Wenders actor: Sam Shepard / Jessica Lange …
other title: Non bussare alla mia porta / Don't come knocking …
Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there...
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The Claim (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Claim
director: Michael Winterbottom actor: Peter Mullan / Milla Jovovich …
other title: Le bianche tracce della vita / Das Reich und die Herrlichkeit …
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and is evidently the man's daughter.
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB
The Sweet Hereafter
director: Atom Egoyan actor: Ian Holm / Sarah Polley …
other title: Il dolce domani / O Futuro Radioso …
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
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John Adams (2008) [TV] WikiData IMDb TMDB
John Adams
director: Kirk Ellis actor: Paul Giamatti / Laura Linney …
other title: John Adams - Freiheit für Amerika / John Adams – Freiheit für Amerika …
Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.
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Slings & Arrows (2003) [TV] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Slings & Arrows
director: Bob Martin / Susan Coyne … actor: Seán Cullen / Paul Gross …
other title: Slings and Arrows
This darkly comic Canadian series follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe at the fictional New Burbage Festival, exposing the high drama, scorching battles, and artistic miracles that happen behind the scenes.
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Stories We Tell (2012) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Skybridge
Stories We Tell
director: Sarah Polley actor: Michael Polley / Harry Gulkin …
other title: Storie di famiglia
Canadian actress and filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates certain secrets related to her mother, interviewing a group of family members and friends whose reliability varies depending of their implication in the events, which are remembered in different ways; so a trail of questions remains to be answered, because memory is always changing and the discovery of truth often depends on who is telling the tale.
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Exotica (1994) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Skybridge
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.
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Splice (2010) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Splice
director: Vincenzo Natali actor: Adrien Brody / Sarah Polley …
other title: Splice - Mutante / Splice - Das Genexperiment …
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.