
Daniel MacIvor
Actor · b. 1962 · Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Daniel MacIvor (born 23 July 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario. MacIvor started the theatre company da da kamera in Toronto - in residence at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - for whom he has written, directed, and acted. He is now one of Canada's best known playwrights. His plays include Never Swim Alone, This is a Play, Monster, Marion Bridge, You are Here, Cul-de-sac, and A Beautiful View. Five of MacIvor's plays were published as I Still Love You in 2006, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera, (Never Swim Alone, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, In on It, and A Beautiful View), and won MacIvor a coveted Governor General's Award for Drama. Recently, MacIvor has written, co-written and directed several independent films, which are usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia. They include Past Perfect, Marion Bridge, Whole New Thing and Wilby Wonderful. His appearances include The Five Senses. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel MacIvor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies24
Movie5.4DramaHistoryA look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.
Beefcake
1998 · 27 votes
Movie5.1DramaTV MovieA look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's violent life both before and after his death.
Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer
1993 · 10 votes
Movie5.7ComedyDramaInterconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
The Five Senses
1999 · 29 votes
Movie6.4DramaThrillerHenry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.
I Love a Man in Uniform
1993 · 17 votes
Movie4.8DramaMusicTen years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
Trigger
2010 · 25 votes
Movie5.6ComedyDramaA day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
Wilby Wonderful
2004 · 38 votes
Movie5.0DramaThrillerSamantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.
Hunting Season
2013 · 4 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaThe story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world which surrounds him.
Growing Op
2008 · 30 votes
Movie3.0ComedyA bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.
Bubbles Galore
1996 · 9 votes
Movie4.7ComedyDramaFresh from group therapy, a man shares odd anecdotes with ten others inside a church.
House
1995 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaComedyThe long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down [En malas compañías] (2000); Chicken (2001); Back Room (1999); Breakfast [Frühstück] (2002); Touch (2001); and Take-Out (2000)
Boys Briefs 2
2002 · 12 votes
Movie5.2The film is the coming-of-age story of the child in the opening sequence, now a chicken delivery boy (although he hates chicken). Alienated from his father, and with an uneasy relationship with his (not gay-friendly) best friend, he meets a new customer. A lawyer going through a divorce, the customer is also alienated and lonely.
Take-out
2000 · 5 votes
Movie3.7DramaA priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
Night Friend
1988 · 3 votes
Movie3.9ComedyDramaCircumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a surreal jail stay.
Uncut
1997 · 8 votes
Movie5.8ComedyDramaSocially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
Whole New Thing
2005 · 26 votes
Movie5.9DramaA boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.
Touch
2002 · 8 votes
Movie6.2DramaA glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
Eisenstein
2000 · 5 votes
Movie9.0DramaRomanceRebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving lessons from driving instructor Judy because of the town's much more car-oriented lifestyle, only to find Judy becoming a love interest.
Wasaga
1994 · 1 votes
Movie4.0DramaChris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the assistance of his lover Val and his doctor, he surrounds himself in his last hours with everything that made his life special and creates his ultimate work of art by choreographing his own death.
The Last Supper
1996 · 3 votes
Movie4.7ComedyDramaJoe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.
My Summer Vacation
1996 · 3 votes
- Movie3.8Comedy
Matt, although married, is completely in love with a hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his wife and goes to Dick’s apartment where he waits for his loved one. But Dick’s roommate tells Matt that if Dick catches him there he will kill him.
My Addiction
1994 · 4 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaDonald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.
Justice Denied
1989 · 1 votes
- Movie4.3DramaRomance
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
Eclipse
1995 · 8 votes
Movie3.7In this Canadian Candide update, orphan Gordie (Jamie Shannon) lives with his hippie aunts at a quiet Porridge Glenn farm. When his beagle Speedoh is lost, a call from a psychic suggests a search in Toronto, where hayseed meets hooker wannabe Heidi (Sarain Boylan). She introduces him to two past-porn performers (Shelly Mars, Scott Thompson), the former stars of "Who's Afraid of Vagina Woolf?" Hick Gordie seems destined for street hustling and boogie nights after encountering a gay band that raises AIDS-research money by selling Gordie off to a sleazeball pimp (Alex Karzis). At this juncture, however, Heidi hatches a plan to reunite Gordie and Speedoh.
Hayseed
1997 · 3 votes
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TV7.5CrimeDramaAn elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent
2024 · 44 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
TV6.8DramaMysteryForever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on May 17, 1996.
Forever Knight
1992 · 34 votes
TV8.5ComedyTwitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.
Twitch City
1998 · 6 votes