
Nancy Beatty
Actor
Nancy Beatty is a Canadian actress with a long career in stage, film, and television. She is known for her dramatic range and has won several Canadian awards, including the Gemini, Genie and Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Beatty is well-regarded in the Canadian theater community, particularly for her work with playwright George F. Walker.
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Movie7.2DramaRomanceExtremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
Lars and the Real Girl
2007 · 2.2K votes
Movie8.1FamilyDramaAt the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley.
Anne of Green Gables
1985 · 261 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaSeen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.
Sea of Love
1989 · 708 votes
Movie6.0DramaThrillerGuy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger from people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.
Extreme Measures
1996 · 362 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaHarriet may only be in the sixth grade, but she's already found her calling: to be a spy. In a private journal she takes everywhere, Harriet records suspicious activity and keeps a running list of observations on virtually everyone she knows. It seems harmless enough until, one day, someone finds the journal and exposes Harriet's critical thoughts about her classmates. Suddenly, even her best friends are against her, and Harriet resolves to take revenge.
Harriet the Spy
1996 · 207 votes
Movie5.4ActionComedyA woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She's aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love.
Avenging Angelo
2002 · 273 votes
Movie5.7DramaRomanceAfter finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
The Good Mother
1988 · 32 votes
Movie5.9ComedyCrimeBased on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Casino Jack
2010 · 333 votes
Movie5.1ActionAn ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
City on Fire
1979 · 41 votes
Movie6.1ThrillerHorrorSuzanne, a single parent and succesful lawyer, returns home to find her daughter missing. About to call the police, she is confronted by a disembodied voice warning her that if she attempts to leave or seek help, her daughter will die. Suzanne discovers she is being monitored through surveillance cameras operated by the tyrannical voice. The voice informs her that in order for her daughter to live, Suzanne must commit suicide. In a race against time Suzanne must think of a scheme to get a message to the outside world...
Dead Innocent
1997 · 7 votes
Movie5.3DramaThrillerWhen a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.
The Good Shepherd
2004 · 33 votes
Movie5.6CrimeMysteryTo cover up his infidelities and protect his upcoming marriage, a star advertiser helps free an accused rapist by giving a false alibi and suffers the brutal revenge of the victim.
One Way
2006 · 66 votes
Movie5.4ActionComedyWhen Todd takes his girlfriend Cammie up to the family cottage for a reclusive proposal, the last thing he expected to be doing was dealing with was his slacker brother and his hippie girlfriend. But in this comedy of errors, Todd and Cammie, have to deal with his accidentally murdered brother in order to live happily ever after.
Cottage Country
2013 · 174 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceAn intimate and turbulent relationship develops between Chase, a woman recovering from a nervous breakdown, and Elizabeth, the caretaker employed to look after her.
Losing Chase
1996 · 27 votes
Movie8.6DramaTV MovieInterrupted 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 informant is found murdered. The victim's mother soon appears with his life savings totally $4.30, Wolfe's fee for taking the case! Archie's fancy legwork brings Wolfe to a mysterious woman with golden spider earrings. And when everyone else investigating the matter hits a dead end, only the inimitable Wolfe can get to the bottom of the crime.
The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2000 · 11 votes
Movie8.5DramaHistoryFirst in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, "Mamusha," as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997 · 2 votes
Movie7.3DramaTV MovieDramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.
A Matter of Sex
1984 · 3 votes
Movie4.7CrimeDramaOn December 7, 1993, a gunman opened fire in a crowded commuter train on Long Island. This fact-based story focuses on the events that swell around Carolyn McCarthy, a woman whose husband is killed and her 26 year old son is severely wounded in the massacre. The result is she is forced out of her comfortable suburban existence and she becomes an out-spoken crusader against assault weapons. The film shifts from her perspective to the mind of the killer and finally to the media frenzy that surrounds both.
The Long Island Incident
1998 · 3 votes
Movie7.4DramaTV MovieFact-based drama about the life of Marie Balter, who spent most of her young life in mental institutions. At age 16, she first attempted suicide and the next 20 years she spent in and out of the institutions. At last, a caring doctor started treating her for extreme depression and panic disorder. Weened from strong medications she had taken all her life, at age 36, she emerged for the last time and started a rehabilitation program in the home of a volunteer married couple. There she met a fellow patient with whom she developed a romantic relationship. She also started a college degree. This followed with a long-term professional success in the field of mental health.
Nobody's Child
1986 · 4 votes
MovieDramaFantasyA trip to the past helps a teenager learn to appreciate her mother
Movie6.6TV MovieDramaWhen a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears.
Evidence of Blood
1998 · 16 votes
Movie6.1DramaTV MovieA Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Dirty Pictures
2000 · 14 votes
Movie5.3DramaTV MovieHands-on healer Dean Kraft struggles for many years to come to terms with his abilities and deal with the skepticism of the medical profession.
A Touch of Hope
1999 · 3 votes
Movie9.0TV MovieThrillerJerry Bines is trying to live down a past that includes killing a man (in self-defence), theft and an alcoholic, abusive father. He sees hope for redemption by providing life-giving bone marrow to his leukemia-stricken son. But time is running out because an escaped killer (Gary Percy Rils) is coming to town to exact revenge for ancient sins. And like the old buck in a backwoods tale he spins for his kid, Bines must stop running and turn to face his hunter.
For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
1996 · 1 votes
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TV8.4DramaCrimeDetective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off. Based on the Austrian–Italian series, Kommissar Rex.
Hudson & Rex
2019 · 125 votes
TV7.0ComedyDramaJake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.
Republic of Doyle
2010 · 38 votes
TV7.4Action & AdventureDramaNikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.
La Femme Nikita
1997 · 279 votes
TV8.0DramaComedyAlice De Raey is a newly minted attorney who joins the chaotic world of criminal justice in Toronto. She's exposed to the seamier side of life, the backroom deals that make the system work accompanied by the usual eccentric characters.
This Is Wonderland
2004 · 2 votes
TV8.0DramaComedyGenius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.
A Nero Wolfe Mystery
2001 · 28 votes
TV7.0Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaWhen a blizzard hits an isolated island town it brings with it a mysterious stranger intent on terrorizing the people for a sinister purpose.
Storm of the Century
1999 · 350 votes
TV3.0DramaSalem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.
Salem Witch Trials
2003 · 2 votes