
Frank Adamson
Actor
Frank Adamson is a Canadian actor, director, writer, and casting director born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His career spans from 1972 to the present with over 60 credited roles. He worked at CBC in the 1960s before transitioning into full-time acting, directing, and producing. His film credits include Mrs. Soffel (1984), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Big White (2005), Something Beneath (2007), and Wait Till Helen Comes (2016). On television he has appeared in Friday the 13th: The Series, Cashing In (2010–2014), and Sunnyside (2015). He also directed a short film and served as casting director on Nostradamus (1994). His date of birth is unconfirmed. No major awards are on record.
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Movie6.6DramaThrillerA Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless predator responsible for several abductions and murders.
Night Hunter
2019 · 1.1K votes
Movie6.2ComedyFamilyRobot Johnny 5 moves to the city to help his friend Ben Jahrvi with his toy manufacturing enterprise, only to be manipulated by criminals who want to use him for their own nefarious purposes.
Short Circuit 2
1988 · 689 votes
Movie7.3CrimeDramaDolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
Dolores Claiborne
1995 · 908 votes
Movie6.0DramaThrillerAfter Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.
The Lazarus Project
2008 · 407 votes
Movie6.2ComedyCrimeTo remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
The Big White
2005 · 336 votes
Movie5.8ThrillerDramaTired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
Perfect Sisters
2014 · 262 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceKate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
Mrs. Soffel
1984 · 59 votes
Movie5.8HorrorThrillerA census-taker is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Population 436
2006 · 305 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceSuccesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin. Eight years later, she must contend with the boy's father who was unaware of his son's existence. Prompted by a wise judge, they decide to enter into a marriage of convenience in order to not upset the child, though they soon find that they may just be in love after all.
A Marriage of Convenience
1998 · 9 votes
Movie6.2DramaTV MovieThe true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero, who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
The Terry Fox Story
1983 · 18 votes
Movie5.8DramaThrillerWhen his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident, Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
Fear X
2003 · 208 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
Movie4.7TV MovieCrimeWhen a defense lawyer's adulterous husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder of the woman he was cheating with, his wife chooses to defend him. Can she overcome his betrayal while searching for the truth?
In Defense of a Married Man
1990 · 15 votes
Movie8.0CrimeTV MovieDetective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder with the help of the son.
The Return of Eliot Ness
1991 · 2 votes
Movie6.6ComedyWesternIn the final days of the Old West, a former desperado faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff, who was his long time nemesis.
Draw!
1984 · 18 votes
Movie5.4ThrillerFantasyAfter a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary Downing Hahn.
Wait Till Helen Comes
2016 · 28 votes
Movie7.2CrimeDramaWhen his former secretary is accused of a murder, Perry Mason gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Perry Mason Returns
1985 · 23 votes
Movie4.9DramaTV MoviePatsy McCartle is a widow with two sons trying to gather all the money she has to pay for her car, bills, and her son's medication, all of which she can barely afford. She turns to dealing drugs and becomes addicted to crystal meth.
On Thin Ice
2003 · 12 votes
Movie5.0DramaTV MovieESPN original movie, based on the best-selling book by John Feinstein, which chronicles Indiana's 1985-86 season, when controversial basketball coach Bobby Knight granted Feinstein unprecedented access to his team and its practices, meetings, and huddles. We see dramatizations of some of Knight's infamous tantrums and the team's inter-personal struggles.
A Season on the Brink
2002 · 4 votes
Movie7.5DramaTV MovieTwenty years after walking out on his family and bride on his wedding day, Jacob Hansen returns to the family farm and must accept the changes that happened after his departure.
Harvest for the Heart
1994 · 2 votes
Movie3.5TV MovieHorrorWhen a mysterious black slime oozes up from the plumbing to infiltrate a new conference center, it causes attendees at an environmental convention who come in contact with it to have horrific hallucinations and nightmarish visions of past tragedies. Environmentalist priest Father Douglas Middleton must team up with conference coordinator Khali Spence to stop the slime -- or die trying.
Something Beneath
2007 · 35 votes
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieThe story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the project was dropped due to political pressure from the United States.
The Arrow
1997 · 14 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
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TV7.2DramaMysteryThe New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985 · 64 votes
TV7.3DocumentaryHeritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.
Heritage Minutes
1991 · 3 votes
TV8.0ComedyFollowing the adventures of a bunch of nobodies who get up to a whole lot of nothing in the fictional prairie town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of Brent LeRoy, proprietor of a gas station that is the only stop for miles around and a hub of action on the Prairies.
Corner Gas
2004 · 62 votes
TV7.5DramaDocumentaryThe story of the people building the AVRO Arrow, an advanced jet fighter-interceptor designed to defend Canada's vast territory during the Cold War. Though the jet was an engineering marvel, cost over-runs, U.S. government pressure from the military industrial complex, and the election of the Progressive Conservative Diefenbaker government, stopped the jet just as it was getting off the ground.
The Arrow
1997 · 2 votes