Margaret Anne MacLeod

Movies6

• Movie5.9

  ComedyHorror

  While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

  Tales from the Gimli Hospital

  1988 · 33 votes

• Movie5.5

  WarRomance

  At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.

  Archangel

  1990 · 53 votes

• Movie7.5

  Comedy

  The further adventure of Nick, Paizs' silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka Rocky Roletti). Unwittingly, Nick becomes involved in attempts to restore old campus hangout and the dirty political tricks swirling a hard fought student election. The film successfully weaves the tone of 40s college hijinx movies through the clever spoof of current electoral trends, suggesting how easily old fashioned ethics can turn into fashion.

  Oak, Ivy, and Other Dead Elms

  1982 · 2 votes

• Movie6.3

  ComedyDrama

  The patriarch of a troubled clan dies, but the resentment and yearning of the eldest son conspire to bring the errant father back for periodic visits in an only partially living state.

  The Dead Father

  1985 · 8 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  A recently-deposed Central American dictator re-locates to a small town in Northern Manitoba and starts a new repressive regime.

  Smoked Lizard Lips

  1991 · 2 votes

• Movie7.1

  Springtime in Greenland uses '50s cinematic conventions and attitudes to tell a story about the sophomoric inhabitants of a fictional utopia.

  Springtime in Greenland

  1981 · 9 votes