Doreen Brownstone
Actor · 1922 – 2022 · Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
British born Canadian actress more popular in theatre.
Movies13
Movie5.2ComedyHorrorAs their small Midwestern town prepares for its annual Christmas Eve parade, a sheriff and his deputy discover that a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering those he judges as naughty.
Silent Night
2012 · 339 votes
Movie5.4DramaThe feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In both the past and the present, she is forced to come to terms with the pain and pleasure, the disappointments and the exhilarations of her life.
The Stone Angel
2007 · 35 votes
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieA grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
What If God Were the Sun?
2007 · 6 votes
Movie7.2DramaTV MovieBased on the true story of a beloved teacher for the blind who discovers she herself is losing her eyesight.
More Than Meets the Eye: The Joan Brock Story
2003 · 4 votes
- Movie6.5DramaRomance
A runaway boy goes to live with his uncle, in a small village, trying to escape his parents' religious fanaticism. There, he finds love, but with the wrong girl. And his parents come after him.
Gentle Sinners
1985 · 2 votes
Movie8.0TV MovieDramaMorag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence with Jules. While she and Jules have known each other since childhood, he is no rock of stability. In addition, he is white, while she is part Native American, so the teenage Morag experienced racism he can only imagine. Even after they have a daughter, she struggles against the emptiness within her.
The Diviners
1993 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeIt's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense money. The latter development gives Dick an idea.
High Life
2009 · 58 votes
Movie3.0TV MovieCrimeA proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
Heads
1994 · 6 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryThis short documentary profiles cartoonist, painter, humorist, publisher, iconographer, and teacher Jacob Maydanyk. Part of the first wave of Ukrainian immigrants who arrived in Canada between 1896-1914, Maydanyk was an imaginative artist who created the beloved comic strip character Shteef Tabachniuk, a hapless and endearing galoot who became a folk hero to Ukrainian immigrants. Laughter in My Soul is a tribute to the dignity and heroism of those early pioneers and to those whose spirit lives on, to those who had laughter in their souls.
Laughter in My Soul
1983 · 1 votes
Movie2.0DramaEuphoria brings together two intersecting road stories about the same person - a little girl called Lily who is taken away from home by her mother Celeste, and a young woman, Michelle, who journeys home to unravel the truth about her mysterious past.
Euphoria
2013 · 1 votes
MovieDramaFamilyDaniel moves into a Seniors' residence because he is lonely. There he meets Violet and they fall in love. However, Violet's daughter-in-law does not approve of her starting a new relationship and does everything in her power to keep them apart. How much autonomy are seniors given to make their own decisions? At what point do they cease to be capable of making personal choices?
- Movie9.0
The Wake
1986 · 1 votes
Movie9.0DramaThe Pedlar is a dramatic film based on the short story by W.D. Valgardson, A Place of One's Own. Tired of the rootless, lonely existence of a travelling merchant, a man searches for a place to settle down, and someone to share his life.
The Pedlar
1982 · 1 votes
Series1
TV7.0DramaA horror anthology series inspired by “Creepypasta” online tales.
Channel Zero
2016 · 325 votes